Snow Falling on Cedars, David Guterson's mystery-suspense novel, provides an immaculate interpretation of a small American coastal island's trial to conquer and expel the ongoing dogmatic narrow-mindedness synonymous with its inhabitants. A novel of love and destruction, Snow Falling on...

Tobias Wolff is a great short fiction writer. One of the best story's he wrote is Hunters in the Snow, in this story Wolff shows how one man (Kenny) childish play, selfishness and cruelty causes him lots of pain and a slow death. Kenny loves playing around and making fun of his friends. At t...

The novel, Snow Falling on Cedars, by David Guterson, gives some examples on how past events can effect a community. In 1954 on an island near Seattle, this novel describes the trail of a Japanese American fisherman accused of murdering a white colleague. The only one wh...

Anne Sexton Anne Sexton became one of the best known of the often-controversial Confessional poets. Anne Sexton wrote openly about menstruation, incest, adultery, and drug addiction at a time when these topics were forbidden in poetry. There's possibly no other American in our time that ha...

Beauty can be found in any story or situation. Even in Popular Mechanics, despite the very dark, morbid tone there are several examples of beauty. The story begins by describing a setting which is actually very beautiful. Recently it has snowed, so it must be winter, which is a very beautiful season...

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"She toyed, sometimes with her unsucked breasts, but at some point her lethargy has dissipated of its own accord and in its place was wilderness, the focused meanness of a flood or an avalanche of snow which only observers, flying in a rescue helicopter, believed to be an indifferent natural ph...

Love in Fairy Tales One of the main purposes of fairy tales is to help children deal with the issues of growing up. While children are growing, fairy tales' exaggerations are said to be truer to a child's perception of life than realistic stories. Fairy tales teach children many esse...

My Sixteenth Birthday It was late January, 2000, a memorable time of my life. It was Super Bowl Sunday and one of the coldest days we had in a while. The ice and snow in the trees made is look like a winter wonderland outside. My family and I were settled in the den, feeling the warmth of t...

When you think of William Shakespeare and love, sonnet 18, "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day" (890) is most likely the first poem to enter your mind. It is considered such a romantic sonnet even though most people tend to ignore line seven in which he mentions "his go...

Growing up, just like any other little girl in America, I loved to play with all my toys, clothes, and stuffed animals. Day in and day out that is all I used to do. I had no responsibilities, so all I would worry about was just playing. Growing up, My Uncle Smokey played a major role in my life a...

The majority of the poem gives negative connotations. The sun, red coral, snow, roses, perfumes, music, and a goddess all bring to mind beautiful images, but the speaker's mistress' eyes, lips, breasts, cheeks, breath, voice, and walk are all contrasted with the descriptions of loveliness. Her eyes ...

The novel, Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte is a thought provoking book that deals with the heroine, Jane, trying to break free of the social orders of the nineteenth century, in order to free herself from the restraints of the "class" system of the time and to free her heart from her moral self. Cha...

Youth loves life yet \"nobody loves life like him that\'s growing old.\" These wise words spoken by Sophocles helps to convey the idea that aging brings forth an appreciation of youth while containing a realistic view on man\'s inescapable journey to death. Aging affects relationships in various way...

For most of my life I have been on my own. My father passed away when I was very young. My mother remarried, and I never got along with her husband. I then decided things would be better for everyone if I left. It was very difficult being raised without my parents. Having to move from place to plac...

Story Mole, Rat, Badger and Toad of the Toad Hall are four good friends, living in the countryside. At the very beginning, Mole and Rat doesn¡¯t know each other. One spring morning, the Mole and Rat meet near the riverbank, and soon they become good friends and start to live together. The Rat is...

Comparison and contraction of two Sonnets Edmund and Shakespeare both contemplate the summer days and the memories made with one's love by thou side. When love turns against them, the weather of their emotions turns to thunder and snow, like a tiger eyeing his prey is t...

Buck is a huge four years old Scottish Sheppard-Saint Bernard cross breed who protected the household of Judge Miller's estate. His strength and intelligence made him leader of all the family dogs. At this time, the gold rush had started and big, strong dogs like Buck were high in demand. Ma...

Hamlet Role of Women For many years in the past women played a small role socially, economically, and politically. As a result of this many works in literature were reflective of this diminutive role of women. In Elizabethan theatres small boys dressed and played the roles of women. In contrast to ...

I'm really not sure how a lot of things I took away from Cheryl Brown's Lecture related to the Canterbury Tales, but they are worthy of reaction nonetheless. I wonder really if we are limited in the English Language with a word like "love" that can mean so many different things. We have to take th...

In the film E.S symbollism lets people view E.S on a deeper level and helps them understand the message of the movie more clearly . It is symbolism that makes the film E.S so interesting .A number of symbols remain through out the whole movie . Hands are used to show the difference between E.S and...

Love's Affect "Heathcliff shall never know how I love him... he's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same," Catherine Earnshaw says as she pours her heart out to her servant Nelly Dean. Catherine loves Heathcliff more than she can underst...

As an enjoyable play, \"Dinner With Friends\" delivers to audiences a very prevalent situation in relationships during this decade - divorce. Set in an area of New England, \"Dinner With Friends\" shows a difficult period in two fourty-year-old married couples and long-time friends\' lives. The ch...

Atticus, a deeply moving novel by Ron Hansen, opens in winter on the high plains of Colorado to the tropics of Mexico, as well as from the realm of whodunit detective mystery to the larger realm of the Mystery, which has its own heartbreaking, calming, and redemptive logic. Misunderstanding, dissol...

According to a Midsummer Night's Dream, love is something that can transform. It is not visible, and it is hidden. True love becomes questioned after you read this play: What does true love really mean? Is there more than one person that is your true love? If not or even if there is, w...