Until Death Do Us Part Everybody has a time in their life when they just need to be alone. Whether it's to think about life, or free themselves from their daily stress, isolation from the world may well be a necessary thing. In To Room Nineteen by Doris Lessing, the character Susan craves f...

How much do you really love something? In the story "Flight," by Doris Lessing, we see how much Grandad loves his granddaughter, and how he doesn't want to give her up to someone else. The grandfather has to learn to let his granddaughter go. Alice, the granddaughter, has fallen in ...

Conflict is an integral part of a literary work. Many authors use conflict as a technique to help the reader feel exactly what the character is going through in he/she's internal battles and struggles. Both of the fictional pieces, "The Fifth Child" by Doris Lessing and "'...