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a shelf, he decides to seek the counsel of the Skin Horse. He inquires what it means to be REAL, and the Horse answers, "Real isn...

swayed by the setting to which he is born. In fact, it seems that Emma and Huck learn those lessons too. The self-reliance they ea...

metaphorically complex narrative that has been interpreted in a variety of ways. The story itself is deceptively simple. The narra...

grassy hollow to be found in the frozen woods to the north. Here, he was told, he and his men would encounter the undead legions o...

are giving in to another, and also demonstrating how they are not necessarily self confident or overly concerned about themselves ...

more than the all-too common story of a girl seduced and abandoned by a worthless man, it is a lecture that runs nearly 150 pages ...

one of the most frequently anthologized stories in English, and one of the most popular. Its blend of horror, mystery and irony ar...

story is a folktale, and begins with a farmer who promises his employee he will give him a heifer in exchange for his work, then t...

is a classic "quest" tale; the description of a mans journey through a strange new world, in this case, Detroit, Michigan. This pa...

Necklace" is present the narrative within the context of the readers understanding of Mathilde Loisels character, who is described...

breathing hard and fast now but he wasnt really breathing because there wasnt any air passing through his nose. He didnt have a n...

make rash judgments. Also, there could very well be exceptions to this happiness rule. Why did Aristotle believe that reason is eq...

verse is the Vow of Praise: "I will sacrifice a freewill offering to you; I will praise your name, O LORD, for it is good" (v 6). ...

love for their children. However, it quickly becomes evident that there is trouble in this paradise, as Alice has a problem, as sh...

cell research. Federal legislation passed in December, 2002 placed significant boundaries upon how and when stem cells can be inc...

brother. As with all female orphans, she becomes a "servant" in her uncles household (Emecheta, 1983, p. 17). Her uncles family co...

But the community corporate sector, represented by Peter; Hovstad, who is editor of the Peoples Messenger newspaper that is intere...

require him to act as an arrow in the bow of his God. Unlike his contemporaries, Ezeulu exercises great compassion and demonstra...

to be happening is that he feels he is risking his soul. If this is the case then a hero would emerge victorious in some way, havi...

and transform his blood into a river, which flows down the sides of the volcano, Mt. Aetna, into the sea at Catana. De la Cruzs T...

true Huck; de ony white genlman dat ever kep his promise to ole Jim" (Twain 119). Twain shows us an America with two faces; a cou...

she is essentially immersed in her role. But, as the story develops we begin to wonder if all of these characteristics of being ch...

provide Janie with financial security. Many women, less independent than Janie, would suffer and endure. Janie leaves with another...

so strongly rooted in the collective consciousness that respect for a lady takes precedence over legality, common sense and ethica...

the work is the subject, while the insights that occur as a result of the interactions of characters represents the theme. For ex...

remarried-his fathers brother, no less. Then, to his horror, he finds out that his fathers death was no accident, but fratricide: ...

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

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 ...

she retreated into security of the family homestead, which like the lady of the house, was also dying a slow death. Before the Ci...

the late nineteenth century (the same time the story was written). This setting is of vital importance because at that time, weal...