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It is clear early-on that it was common knowledge in the town that Emilys father was abusive -- if not physically, then certain m...

he urges Faith to deny the Devil and look to Heaven, he suddenly finds himself alone in the forest. Although Brown has escaped the...

her to take. It is interesting to note that the onlookers do not realize that they might have driven Emily to insanity. Wallace ...

It took place in the south, as did most of OConnors stories, and showed the ignorance of southern whites by using a certain predil...

when they enter it. Fortunato has a bad cough and so, on their way to the wine cellar, Montressor keeps giving Fortunato more wine...

History of a Campaign That Failed" with a recounting of his interactions with another young man that was about the same age that h...

of the boys life are not filled in , the reader is left to surmise the basic facts from what he says. For example, the boy mention...

unfortunate accident, and they do run into the notorious Misfit. Both the grandmother and the Misfit are concerned with the quest...

says she is experiencing anything but sorrow and despair. During the times that this story takes place, a woman was not expected...

two share. They are obviously not really enjoying this moment, or life, for some reason. And, the reason is never clearly spelled ...

criminal is so small, few would talk about it. Another way to look at the situation is that the author hones in on one story in ...

Western States Book Award for Fiction and the Walt Whitman Award (The Iguana Killer [Review]). Interestingly enough, Rios spoke Sp...

types of decaying vegetation. The vegetation even permeates the external nooks and crannies of the house itself in the form of a ...

his mother. Sheppard fails to see the depth of the boys grief, and Norton hangs himself in despair. His suicide is an attempt to b...

really did what he wanted to do. As one critic notes, he is "a disillusioned writer" (Arthur). But, in reality he is far more than...

he likes the fact that his wife is confused and thinking he is a homosexual. Frank takes advantage of her confusion and...

and we do see a wonderful complexity that is both subtle and descriptive. We see this in the opening sentence, which is seems to b...

he would not be getting any scholarships for furthering his education, he "joined the Indian Imperial Police Burma" (George Orwell...

right in their eyes for one who has died. They paint his face, sprinkle corn meal and pollen, and thus give him a very fitting wra...

down, pistol in hand, and he had cried out in time to save himself, and his father had been horrified to think how nearly he had k...

to pay her for her sexual favors. They are, however, friends it seems. He tells her, "Stephanie, its very simple. I have a lot of ...

hands of male heads of families and households. Women are disenfranchised" (Kosenko 27). It is the men who are essentially in cha...

such. We had long thought of them as a tableau, Miss Emily a slender figure in white in the background, her father a spraddled sil...

against Mrs. Hutchinson, and they only wanted to get through quickly so they could go home for lunch" (The Lottery: Shirley Jackso...

we use our life experiences to decide what wee believe otherwise to be. In Young Goodman Brown we are faced with a...

that this woman has a great power over her and over the rest of the class. She begins to look around her at the reservation and re...

My tenderness of heart was even so conspicuous as to make me the jest of my companions. I was especially fond of animals, and was ...

speaking with the man directly, or setting about to use his mind to figure out a logical answer, he resorts to unethical behavior....

of death, while the Mourning Dove reminds one of the mourners at ones funeral. This also sets the tone for the frame of mind that ...

as devoted as Ms. Emily thinks, goes out with another woman. When he returns, Emily poisons him with arsenic. Finally, she closes ...