YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Themes of Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
Essays 781 - 810
as having "fungi" overspreading "the whole exterior," hanging "in a fine tangled web-work from the eaves" (Poe "Fall"). As this su...
life as a background that makes it possible to discuss the personal characteristics that enabled African Americans growing up in t...
She was viciously attacked for her frank depiction of a woman who broke her marriage vows, despite the fact that the book is a psy...
all of his previously held values as vulgar absurdities, incompatible with the reality of his experiences. The existentialist them...
the laws regarding the firstborn, substituting something for an animal or a person (New International Version, Exod. 113:13; 34:20...
be courteous, friendly and helpful (Naversen, n.d.). This may seem extreme but it is all part of the hospitality philosophy of exc...
manages to resurrect herself momentarily from her entombment before falling dead upon her brother, causing his death also. The hou...
region. The peoples lives are on the line. A student writing on this subject provides an example of a young cadre who is killed b...
father, who dismisses them as "trash" with no further explanation (Shelley 51). Frankenstein says that if his father had bothered ...
lightness of being, equating it with lovelessness and primal terror" (Swindell, 05E). Human existence, or "being", is unbearable i...
in this instance French Dakar-Niger railroad owners (toubabs) versus impoverished workers in pre-Independence era Senegal who soug...
Graham is having an affair with his partner, Ria, who is of Latin American descent; however, Graham cannot seem to remember that ...
they sneak away; here the reference is to an angry and implacable god who is ready to strike down those who disobey. The second r...
she retreated into security of the family homestead, which like the lady of the house, was also dying a slow death. Before the Ci...
run away, thus setting up the main action of the plot, because the man she loves, Lysander, agrees to run away with her. They end ...
down, there was no living thing in sight" indicates a sort of foreboding as well, an indication that life ended here, in the water...
his dashboard. There is a common thread between the two men, but Hanson reacts to the fantasy he has constructed, not the reality,...
strong man to dominate his wife. There were few constraints placed upon male behavior whereas for women it was quite the opposite...
son, S.J., talking to him outside of school. S.J., which is short for "Sean Jr.," is a talkative youngster who is irrepressibly f...
with a wretched climate where theyre always hot and miserable, where they cant tell friend from foe, and where half their battles ...
of love that can so easily change course; it seems frivolous and rather shabby, after all Orsinos protestations of love to Olivia,...
so closely related is dangerous for the reader. Its tempting to think that this is nothing more than Hemingway retelling events in...
more day and this is granted. Jason lamely agues that his abandonment of her and their children is for the best. After formulating...
He is shot and wakes to find himself in another body, a person in the past. Zits has access to the persons memories and knows the ...
the world during the time when Revelation was written. In a serious attempt to educate her readership to the evils forever lurkin...
but in actuality, its how to preserve beauty, which is still another favorite of his. The Poet is actually saying that comparing h...
the juxtaposition of the two worlds: that of humanity and that of the fairies. They exist side by side by do not interact; in fact...
young blacks and how they were "growing up with a rush...their heads bumped abruptly against the low ceiling of their actual possi...
really betrayed Othello. Iago is determined to manipulate Othello to his own desires, which are many. Throughout the play the re...
and even tells her grandfather that "I never dreamed [your beard] was a birds nest" (Welty, 47). Stella-Rondo had accused Sister o...