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a story about Jimmy who runs the store near Two Bridges, or the one about Billy Frank and the dead-river pig, but Napiao assures t...

grows a bit fearful. "There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully...she felt it, creeping out of the s...

A neighbor, Alcee Laballiere, rides up to her home. He asks if he can wait on her porch till the storm abates, but the storm is so...

unnamed narrator in this short story. First of all, Oates employs a postmodernist structure in order to convey this girls story,...

her emotions to get the better of her. But, then again, if one looks back in history, at the time this story was written, that hea...

mention this to any of the townspeople, as she does not want the past "brought up against" her (Lawrence 128). Frank agrees and hi...

"dances" out to the fig trees each day to check on their ripeness (Ripe Figs). When she finds them to be "little hard, green marb...

The misconception, here, is that because the old man does not look normal that he must not be human and therefore, they can treat...

the books noted above we find several themes which are common to much of the worlds greatest literature. Among these themes are h...

and some of the verses were sung. It was explained to me later that the members of the congregation that perform this part of the ...

assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression -- a slight hyster...

She has been given the opportunity, or so she thinks, to finally live a life that is solely hers. There is a powerful sense of fre...

The focus of this five page paper is the storyline of two specific short stories in The Bird in the House. The writer compares an...

In five pages this paper examines how men and relationships are portrayed in this short stories' collection by Pam Houston. One s...

In thirteen pages this paper examines the short stories' complication of Dubliners by James Joyce in an overview of plot, characte...

In ten pages this research paper compares Crane's short story to the author's own actual experience following the Commodore sinkin...

In five pages the symbolism featured in this 1987 short stories' collection is analyzed. Three sources are cited in the bibliogra...

This paper explores various elements of the short story, including character and story development. This seven page paper has no ...

In eight pages a search for meaning and the literary transition from modernism into postmodernism is presented in a discussion of ...

in Salem, Massachusetts, forever immortalized as the scene of the Salem witch trials, and those supposed covens did meet in the fo...

a nation of disillusionment, and we often find some sort of sympathetic resonance in tales of the dark and unholy. And the first p...

Short essays totalling ten pages consider dying and death or 'near death' in writings by Waechter and Moody and bereavement accord...

In twenty pages this research leader examines Michael Collins's life and charismatic leadership that would both flourish and be cu...

the characters, the entire thing is related as though it were the most normal thing in the world, and this contributes to the stor...

Kansas City Star, Hemingway himself "left Kansas City in the spring of 1918 and did not return for 10 years, [becoming] the first ...

In four pages the short story's conflicts are examined in terms of their character implications. There are no other sources liste...

pin curlers even looked around after pushing their carts past to make sure what they had seen was correct" (Updike, 1274). The st...

In five pages this paper examines the Victorian time period that shaped the life and writings of Kate Chopin and analyzes the femi...

our morbid curiosity about death continues, and in Hemingways story that curiosity is all too well satisfied. In The Snows of Kil...

In five pages Walker's short story is analyzed in a focus on quilt symbolism but with a thematic and story synopsis also included....