The Similarities Between the Narrator in Araby and I At some point in ones life, one must come to a crossing ground where one must choose to grow up and become an adult. All have either experienced this or will experience this later on in the future. In the story Araby, the narrator is going alo...

Francis Bacon once said, "Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses." Well, I must say, it's nice to know that I, as a woman, am existing with the sole purpose to please men. But am I not a person? Do I not have goals and aspir...

The scream of a wild hyena woke Margot as if it was laughing at Francis. A cold morning draft sent chills down her body as she remembered her mission for the day. She wipes the sleep out of her eyes and finally realizes it is time to get up. The morning temperature was chilly and Margot knew she...

During a story, an author sometimes chooses to include his opinions on certain important issues, such as aging. This applies to Samuel Beckett's short story, Krapp's Last Tape. In this story an old man named Mr. Krapp, relives his life through a sort of audio journal that he has kept through the y...

Maria after the death of Gino and the birth of her baby Gino, sitting outside on the veranda of her parents house nursing her baby Gino. (Quiet Voice) Oh why Gino? Why did they have to kill my baby brother? He never did anything wrong!! I just don't understand!! All because of his name, Gino...

I have read the short story Rules of the Game from The Joy Luck Club written by Amy Tan. It is a story about a young girl born in 1951. She had been spending a Christmas with her family at the church with many other families exchanging gifts. Her brother had been given a gift of a chess board tha...

"The Pit and the Pendulum" is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe and uses themes such as the conflict between physical and mental aspects of the human body. Poe also uses religion as a major theme in this story. This story is perhaps one of Poe's more popular works. Poe uses e...

I enjoy stories that are long and involved. However, the short story "A & P" by John Updike is a wonderful exception to this rule. Updike writes the story from a viewpoint of what I believe to be a younger, more contemporary person. The story contains many other enjoyable attributes, such ...

In the short story, "Salem", by Robert Olen Butler, the main character changes from being indifferent to becoming sympathetic. In the beginning, the man, who participates in the Vietnam War, is listless to the people he kills. The narrator thinks about one of the American soldiers, "A...

\"Shadows on the Beach\" is a short play that has a man talking about the insecurities he has concerning his wife\'s faithfulness toward him. He is talking to a girl about them and the audience can tell that he is in pain over the fact that he believes his wife is having an affair. In the end, we se...

I: Organizational Pattern: Rogerian Christa Porter examines what a true friend is. She does this by establishing a presentation with a Rogerian pattern as it's basis. This pattern is seen in several aspects mentioned by Porter, the more obvious aspect is when she invites the audience...

When I first started to read the short story "The story of an Hour", by Kate Chopin, I had the impression that it was a story of a poor widow whom life is ruined by the tragic death of her husband. After the class discussion and the revising I have done on the story, I must come to the conclusion t...

In the End It All Becomes True In the short story, The Masque of the Red Death, by Edgar Allen Poe was very dark and mysterious. Through the descriptions the characters were faced to deal with death even against their own will.Throughout the story the characters ran from the thoughts of death. F...

"Fortune Favors the Brave", a quote from the book The Aeneid, by Virgil. This quote means that good will come to the people who put others in front of themselves. This quote relates to many charters in a book called Sudden Twists.In the short story, "the Getaway", the counter man is crafty. When to ...

For this book review I decided to write about The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen. I picked this section of the book, because over all I feel it is a very important subject. Which I'm sure that Lynn Hunt did to, otherwise she would have not gave it a whole section. In this secti...

There is Beauty All Around Anne Frank was a girl of strength and spirit. Reading her diary has lifted the days in my life where it seemed I would never rise again. Anne Frank was born into a Jewish family in Frankfurt, Germany the year of 1929. This was around the time when Hitler had come in...

Hemingway described his style of writing as showing one eighth of the 'iceberg" and concealing the remaining seven eighths. In this metaphorical statement, Hemingway reveals that his style of writing was intended personally to unravel a story that "shows" only its outer appearan...

In the short story, Where Are You Going Where Have You Been? by Joyce Carol Oats, Connie has one foot in the adult world and one foot still in childhood. Connie wants to be treated like an adult and have the privileges of an adult, but she still wants the benefits of being able to be carefree. Conn...

In many works of literature irony plays and important roll in the story. In the short story "Battle Royal" written by Ralph Ellison irony is a key factor on the story. The narrator who is nameless is a young black male in the time slavery recently had been abolished. A time where blacks were free...

The green party is split in decision on what to do about the Laguna land and the project to build housing that is affordable. The major objective here is to preserve the Laguna area. The issue here is that Sebastopol needs to build more housing that is affordable and the only way Spooner sees that h...

NEW SIMPLISTIC LIFEDuring the war the harshest acts can be witnessed, some of which can seem unfathomable, causing changes in those people exposed to them. Hemingway\'s short story, \"Soldier\'s Home,\" includes many examples of what war can do to a young person exposed to the harshest of e...

Interpreting the Poem, The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost "The Road Not Taken" written by Robert Lee Frost, is a poem that consists of four five-line stanzas with only two end rhymes in each stanza (abaab). "The Road Not Taken" can be interpreted in many different ways. The poem deals w...

Holding a conversation is so pedestrian, everyone anyone can master it. People all around the world use it daily to gossip, explain, teach, or simply to exchange ideas. Yet looking deeper into the how these ideas come up, it becomes evident that conversation is an intricate process. The ideas tha...

Tell-Tale Heart"TRUE!--nervous - very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?" Edgar Allen Poe shows us the dark part of human kind. Conflict with in ones self, state of madness, and emotional break down all occur within this short story. The narrator of the...

Tell-Tale Heart"TRUE!--nervous - very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?" Edgar Allen Poe shows us the dark part of human kind. Conflict with in ones self, state of madness, and emotional break down all occur within this short story. The narrator of the...