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Catholic Church Short Fiction
936 wordsWilliam Trevor, Of the Cloth, New York, New York, The New Yorker, March 09, Of the Cloth is a contemporary work of short fiction set in the remote Irish community of Ennismolach County during the early summer of the year, nineteen hundred and ninety seven. The greater part of the story takes place in a small, stone rectory nestled among the green valleys and pastureland's that lie below the Irish mountain slopes. The author describes solitary hillsides, peaks and valleys, and a remnant of what o...
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John Updike Ap And James Araby
1,372 wordsJOHN UPDIKE'S A & P AND JAMES JOYCE'S ARABY John Updike's A & P and James Joyce's Araby share many of the same literary traits. The primary focus of the two stories revolves around a young man who is compelled to decipher the different between cruel reality and the fantasies of romance that play in his head. That the man does, indeed, discover the difference is what sets him off into emotional collapse. One of the main similarities between the two stories is the fact that the main character, who...
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Ernest Hemingway Hemingway Ernest
1,107 words... Also Rises, Brett Ashley speaks of her inner torment -- "I don't want to go through that hell again" (SAR 26) -- in language that echoes Krebs'. Brett rebuffs Jake. Because of his impotence, Jake and Brett can never fully satisfy each other. "That hell again" suggests both their unconsummated love affair and their suffering from the hesitant and inconsequential encounters they have already experienced. Both Krebs and Brett decline to repeat such experiences. When we consider the intentionali...
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman Yellow Wallpaper
1,028 words... xing her nerves already frazzled from an admixture of hysteria and postpartum depression (39). Medicine, in Johns eyes, will help his wife regain the focus to maintain a healthy life. Again, the narrator refers back to the medication and confinement- But the effort is getting to be greater than the relief (409). At this point the narrator realizes that not only do the drugs exhaust her, but also concealing her thoughts from others is paying a toll on her strength. With such disregard for the...
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A Good Man Is Hard To Find
1,335 words"A Good Man Is Hard To Find" by Flannery O'Connor "A Good Man Is Hard To Find, " by Flannery O'Connor, presents many topics that can be discussed and debated. Christianity is one of the main topics that influence this paper and its meaning. The exploration for the meaning of the Christian faith is continuous throughout O'Connor's paper. Christianity is filled with sin and punishment, good and evil, belief and unbelief, but grandmother fully tells her opinion as she tries to convince "The Misfit"...
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman Kate Chopin
1,213 words... of notion in her head concerning the eternal rights of women. " While Edna seeks romance as a source of happiness, she experiments with art, and as she awakens personally, she develops a deeper commitment to it. Art plays a very important role in the life on the narrator in The Yellow Wallpaper too. For Kate Chopin and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, art is work because it is both difficult labor and "one's true vocation", the idea that wasn't very common among nineteenth century women. Adele play...
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Kate Chopin Chopin
3,296 wordsThesis: In Kate Chopin? s novel, The Awakening the characters of the Creole men are diverse and different as the character Edna. Most of Kate Chopin? s stories center around a Woman unsatisfied with her position in life, while living in a man dominated society. The three main characters are typical men of that era. Chopin shows the diversity in each of those three characters. Roberts awakening, and the struggle to do what is the right thing. Alcee and how he is carefree and not concerned with so...
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman Narrator
2,208 wordsDoctor Knows Best Often human illness calls for medical attention to acquire both soundness of body and mind. Opinions from medical professionals are sought after by those individuals seeking reassurance and peace of mind in knowing they will receive the best possible treatment. In her short story? The Yellow Wallpaper, ? Charlotte Perkins Gilman presents a situation where a respected professional, medical opinion contradicts those thoughts and desires of the patient. The? wife, ? and narrator, ...
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Studies In Short Fiction James Joyce
1,376 wordsJohn Updike's A &# 038; P and James Joyce's Araby share many of the same literary traits. The primary focus of the two stories revolves around a young man who is compelled to decipher the different between cruel reality and the fantasies of romance that play in his head. That the man does, indeed, discover the difference is what sets him off into emotional collapse. One of the main similarities between the two stories is the fact that the main character, who is also the protagonist, has built up...
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Edgar Allan Poe Cask Of Amontillado
1,498 wordsWhen picking a topic for my research paper. I thought of many different ideas. I started to think about my interests is reading literature, and I decided to write about my favorite author Edgar Allan Poe. This paper is going to look at Poe from a psychological perspective. There seems to be few attempts to look at the psychological causes of humor in Poe's work, and how his personal life may have had an impact on his writings. Many of Poe's tales are distinguished by the authors unique grotesque...
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Lady Brett Ashley Sun Also Rises
3,195 wordsIn this paper, I will describe what critics have to say about Ernest Hemingway^s novel The Sun Also Rises and his short story A clean well-Light Place. First I will describe the basic plot of the story, then go one to describe each of the characters by what the critics have to say about them. I will start off with the main character and narrator Jake Barnes. Then go to Lady Brett Ashley, Robert Cohn, Pedro Romero, and finally I will fish off that section with a little about Bill Gordon. Then I w...
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Rises Must Converge Good Country People
1,453 wordsFlannery O? Connor? s Themes: Alienation, True Country, and the Demonic O? Connor uses many themes throughout all of her works. Her most criticized themes are alienation, true country life, and the demonic. Throughout the short stories of? A Good Man is Hard to Find? , ? Everything That Rises Must Converge? , ? Good Country People? , ? The Life you Save Might be your Own? , ? The Geranium? , ? A Circle in the Fire? , and? The River? O? Connor speaks of her heritage and her religious faults. ? Mi...
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Boston G K Hall Sun Also Rises
2,243 wordsSOLDIERS HOME': ANOTHER STORY OF A BROKEN HEART He knew he could never get through it all again. Soldiers Home dont want to go through that hell again. The Sun Also Rises In the works of Ernest Hemingway, that which is excluded is often as significant as that which is included; a hint is often as important and thought-provoking as an explicit statement. This is why we read and reread him. Soldiers Homes a prime example of this art of echo and indirection. Harold Krebs, the protagonist of Soldier...
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Katherine Anne Porter Leaning Tower
1,041 wordsRejection in Life Katherine Anne Porter is regarded as one of the leading modern writers of short stories. Born on May 5, 1890 in Indian Creek, Texas as the great-great-great- granddaughter of the famous American frontiersman Daniel Boone, Porter was educated at various schools. In the 1920 s and 1930 s, she contributed articles to several newspapers while living in New York City, Louisiana, California, and Washington D. C. , as well as Mexico and Western Europe. Miss Porters first collection of...
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Outlook On Life Verbal Communication
2,419 wordsAll literary works are written from a specific standpoint. This standpoint originates from the mind of the author. The author, when creating his literary work, has a specific diagram / plan and vision of what the story is supposed to convey. However, not all readers will interpret the literary work in the way that the author him / herself has presented it. Many times, in fact, the audience will perceive the literary work as having an entirely different meaning than what it was meant to have. The...
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Margaret Atwood Handmaids Tale
1,393 words" There is so much silence between the words" SOCI 4019 September 29, 1999. An Overview of Works, Styles, and Themes Margaret Atwood has written a great number of novels and other forms of literature. The major press editions are as follows: ~ WORKS~ Poetry? 1964, The Care Game? 1968, The Animals in That Country? 1970, The Journals of Susanna Moodie? 1970, Procedures for Underground? 1971, Power Politics? 1974, You are Happy? 1978, Selected Poems? 1978, Two-Headed Poems? 1981, True Sto...
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