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the bank while there is a line of people waiting for service, but rather than agree with a fellow human being, he is caustic and s...

charming and funny and sad, all at the same time. This paper explains the significance of the title by examining it using the diff...

about, but as the tension rises, a perspective that is discussed in the section on tone within the story, the reader senses that t...

circle. It soon becomes apparent that everyone with whom Sharon and Frank come into contact know the rumor and believe it. This cr...

amount of money (Erdrich). Fleur won, and refused to play any longer; in retaliation, the men got drunk and raped her; that same n...

know the child is there, because each of them is taken to see it when they are quite young, perhaps 8-12 years of age. They cannot...

1997). She attributes the warnings to some sort of liberal conspiracy: "I believe those Republicans who think that theres been a c...

she sits she possesses "a dull stare" possessed of a gaze that "was fixed away off yonder on one of those patches of blue sky. It ...

ship dropped anchor "at 3 a.m. July 5, 1975" and passengers began to disembark (Phien). The first thing that greeted them was a ho...

white masters raped their black female slaves and as such many of those females gave birth to interracial children who were slaves...

a woman, not a man. In addition, much of the information in the book, while involving the social history of the Italians and the n...

Before he begins the tale, he explains that he is a greedy devil, and it is through his physicality and his voice that they are di...

to see if they had a certain picture book, the librarian informed her that the book was in their collection, but was not suitable ...

one last time. As this indicates, the love of Tristans parents is similar in intensity to that of Tristan and Isolde. As with the ...

his otherwise dull life. When we meet the woman with the dog we begin to see that she is young and innocent and lonely. She als...

sets out to illustrate how Grace was "a onetime protege of Huey P. Long and virtually the only woman in Louisiana politics" and ho...

not aware enough to have often remembered it. Later she illustrates that when she first had sex she was told, by her friend, to si...

youngest, wants a toy train. The two remaining brothers, Jewel and Darl, want nothing for themselves, but the journey brings to it...

by some mysterious external power, capable of turning a man into a giant insect, is virtually ignored by the characters: their foc...

Such a setting, she points out, simply added to the fear and accusations of witchcraft against innocent people (Jacobs). I...

makes the story powerful is that hour where the woman sits alone. And watching her character develop and learn is what makes the t...

We are expanding it (51:47)," is often contended by many scholars in light of the fact that it was not until fairly recently that ...

this situation held certain peril for these men. Second, the omniscient view has allowed Crane to describe, in a birds eye...

that respect for a lady takes precedence over legality, common sense and ethical values. It is the sheer weight of her social stat...

find and rescue her. Early on, the reader is also introduced to Cap Huff, an adult friend of the Nason family, and Phoebe Marvin, ...

marriage" distorts the meaning of the sentence "John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that [in marriage]" (Seshachari 115)...

33). This quotation indicates the precision with which Poe crafted his stories. Each word and image is chosen with care and, coll...

being owned by "Her Jim" (Porter). As Della contemplates her options, she considers her reflection and O. Henry introduces the f...