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Three American Short Stories

Sammys gift is his "assertion of principle": "His Queenie has been wronged, and he will stand by her" (Wells). Wells points out th...

Living by Stories: Modern and Aboriginal

difficult time creating a cohesive worldview. Because of this the aboriginal people often had to struggle with ways in which to un...

Franklin’s Inner Conflict and Resolution in Judy Troy’s Short Story, “Ten Miles West of Venus”

May, Rev. Sanders decides to take a drive to her house to check on her. Mrs. Lyle has been keeping a very low profile since the s...

“The Garden of Forking Paths”

of the unsolvable interlinked labyrinth through the pursuits of Yu Tsun, the great grandchild of the philosopher Tsui Pen who quit...

The Death of Samuel

boy fell from the car platform, and two years prior to that, a youngster lost his life when he slipped while walking the tracks an...

A Short Story by Ford

home. That ended their affair and the couple saw each other only one more time, for "one sorrowful and bitter drink" (Ford, 2009)....

The Story of Sonny’s Blues

problem is, he and Sonny have never really understood one another; or rather, his brother has never truly understood Sonny. For So...

Short Stories

friend have many things they are experiencing, one of the most important being the changes they are facing in junior high school w...

Italo Calvino/"The Adventure of a Reader"

rather read about romance and adventure, read the work of Stendhal, Dostoevsky, Balzac, Tolstoy, Flaubert and Proust, rather than ...

Writing a Fantasy Story

parents simply abandoned the children. There are many directions such a story could take. In this case one could claim that the pa...

Comparing the Real Story of Pocahontas to the Disney Cartoon Interpretation

was not until 1624 and the publication of Smiths The Generall Historie of Virginia...&c., that Smith told the story that "as man...

Through The Gates Of Splendor

four Aucas showed up at the camp to visit them. The missionaries gave each of the visitors more gifts to demonstrate their intenti...

Critique on the Variations of the Rapunzel Folk/Fairy Tale

Maiden in the Tower, more commonly known to contemporary readers as Rapunzel, is indicative of this traditional fairytale structur...

Louise Erdrich: “The Red Convertible”

the stop by a river and it seems everything is fine, but Henry is too far gone to be helped. He jumps into the river and drowns; L...

Detailed Analysis of Kate Chopin’s Short Story, ‘Desiree’s Baby’

of "Desirees Baby," Teresa Gibert observed, "The number and the intensity of the surprises that provoke astonishment in the highly...

A Clean Well-Lighted Place by Hemingway

conversation between the bartenders as they speak of how he had tried to commit suicide. The older bartender indicates that it mus...

Literary Themes

a stuff house in total darkness; these help to create an atmosphere of unrelieved terror. The murderer, of course, is so unhinged ...

Literary Analysis: “Dubliners” by James Joyce

Each morning he waits for her to leave for school, then follows her, passing her at the point where their paths diverge, where the...

Willa Cather's Paul's Case (Analysis)

this right away. The author begins by writing: "At first, it appears that Paul is, perhaps, simply filled with the arrogance that ...

The Heart in The Story of an Hour

the end, of her heart and a possible "condition" and so the reader may well dismiss this fact in a first reading. But, at the same...

Melville's "Bartleby, The Scrivener" - 'Eminently Safe'

them, much of which is brought about by Bartlebys unusual behavior (Dickstein, 2005). The method by which Melville (2004) address...

Flood Stories Among the Toltec, Maya, and Navajo

(variously called Teocipactli) and Xochiquetzal survived to repopulate the earth (Leon-Portilla). In the Toltec version of ...

“A Rose By Any Other Name”: The Story of Lynnell Stephani Long

Once Lynnell reached puberty she didnt mature like normal boys were. Instead, her voice only grew higher and she even began growi...

A Kind Gesture

I smiled and nodded, but I wasnt sure if he was offering me his seat or just making a general observation. "Come on," he said. "...

Humans and Nature

essay that illustrates her story about being African American is not every African Americans story and in truth it is quite differ...

Parable Of The Sadhu And Lifeboat Ethics

but they carried him 1,000 feet and not the remaining 500 feet. The Japanese gave the man food and water and reported he was "list...

Coming of Age: Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?

revolved around her. She was, in many ways, experimenting with her sexuality as well, a very significant part in coming of age. Sh...

Reflections on Homer’s Odyssey

he rolls a huge boulder across the opening to the cave. Polyphemus eats two of Odysseuss men and it is clear that he plans to make...

Role of the Feminine in Ancient Creation Myth

males. In both "Enuma Elish" and in Hesiods mythology, the Earth goddess is described in terms of motherhood. Tiamet first rages a...

The Miraculous Mass of Saint Gregory

he holds the cloth and in his right, the knife; there is blood on the cloth, the red making a contrast to the snowy white. The mes...