The Symbolism and Irony that Livens the Danger and Death in "A Good Man is Hard to Find" In "A Good Man is Hard to Find," by Flannery O'Connor, a southern family, consisting of a grandmother, two parents, and three children, embark on a vacation to Florida. Bailey and h...

When reading A Good Man Is Hard to Find, by Flannery O'Connor most recreational readers believe the short story to be gothic and even grotesque. However, when the story is read from the view point of O'Connor it takes on a different tone and meaning all together. Much of what at first g...

In the poem "My Papa's Waltz," written by Theodore Roethke, the narrator has views on family that is untold by the author. Roethke allows the reader to see from the narrator's eyes. The author uses great imagery to set a firm picture in the reader's mind. The reader then d...

Our heritage consists of a set of learned traditions that we possess. As we grow up, they become more important to us. Our values and upbringing depends on these traditions, and they are passed down through generations. When material objects are passed down to us from loved ones, they are symbol...

Writers often find significance in their work that others might not see. One can explore the same account written in different forms of literature. Often, there will be similarities found in the comparison of both works. The significance of the mother\'s painting, \"Lot\'s Wife,\" in Amy Bloom\'s \"...

Symbolism and irony are extremely present in The Lottery. This story represents the importance of social standards and classes in a society. Although the story takes place in what appears to be the 1950's time period, the prevalence of social status is still an important part of society toda...

THE SANDBOX The sandbox by Edward Albee is a play that conveys an underlying message of elderly care, senility and death. The characters of the play each take on a personal outlook and each with a roll in life. The play is hard to understand. Each person has to pull...

In Shirley Jackson's, The Lottery, the people are preparing themselves for a "lottery." This is not the kind of lottery that one usually thinks of, where there is a great prize to be won, but the lottery of death; one where everyone in the town has an equal opportunity of being sacri...

In life there are many truths know one can deny or these proofs such as everyone must die someday or human needs oxygen to survive. However, there are some things in life that we as human try to deny or runaway from. In Sophocles "Oedipus the King" Oedipus tries to change his destiny and...

Women's rights have been an issue and the author Angela Carter is a strong feminist who writes stories that depict feminist point of views. A story she wrote, "The Company of Wolves," was published first in 1977 and represents the change in the roles of women in western society. Thro...

Writer Alice Walker uses various symbols to help support the theme of heritage in " Everyday Use". Narrated by Mama, ancestral differences are revealed between herself, Maggie, and Dee/Wangero. Dee puts a historical value upon items she finds that Mama and Maggie would put to "Everyday Use". Thi...

Gabriel Garcia Márquez writes in the tradition of Realismo Magico along with other famous Latin American authors such as Luís Borges. Garcia Márquez\'s work discusses social issues, which affect his region, Argentina. Usually, his writing protests against the injustices the people of his country ...

Throughout history, men and women have relied on each other, especially when it comes to having a family. Although nowadays it is much more common to have a single parent family, when we think of a family, we think of a mother and a father. One play where the relationship between a man and a woma...

The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), written and directed by Wes Anderson, is a wry comedy about a father, Royal Tenenbaum, who leaves his three precocious child geniuses (Chas, Richie, and Margot) and their mother, only to return twenty-two years later. However, his abrupt absence was the beginning of two ...

Love, to most people means the showing of affection to someone or something. In the instance of my first piece of text, which is my literary text called "daddy's love" it is about a girl who lost her father whilst he was trying to rescue people during the terror strike on the twin to...

The Grandfather's Dream in Ralph Ellison's "Battle Royal" Symbolism is used throughout Ralph Ellison's "Battle Royal". Symbols have more than one meaning than what appears to be the central idea. Symbols in this story are very contradictory. The main c...

In the story, Norma Jean, the wife, is the superior character of the household leaving Leroy, the husband, with the inferior role, usually portrayed by the wife. The usual role of the husband being superior was reversed in this story to symbolize drastic changes are being made. In the story "Shilo...

Textual integrity requires a composer to be constantly aware of all the elements of a work, especially the writers values. Discuss the relationship, textual integrity and values in your understanding and interpretation of Cloudstreet. Textual integrity is important in the construction ...

In Flannery O\'Connor\'s short story \"A Good Man Is Hard To Find,\" the gruesome ending comes as somewhat of a shock. Through the use of foreshadowing, there are signs of an ominous end pervading the work. This story contains pervasive images of death to give hints and clues that lead up to the ult...

"Blood Is Thicker Than Water" The short story "Barn Burning," by William Faulkner, is a stark look at the struggle of a boy torn between trying to do what is morally right and trying to be loyal to his family during the post Civil War era. Faulkner illustrates the theme of justice versus...

In Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" many symbols are used to describe the characters in the story. The names indirectly give us hints about their nature. The symbols of the characters are used to reinforce the theme: Those in power wanting to keep the tradition versus the ones with no...

"Everyday Use" is set in the late 60's or early 70's. During a time which African Americans were struggling to define their personal identities in cultural terms. Alice Walker's "Everyday Use," Dee/Wangero and Maggie's differences are emphasized by their v...

Lucy Stowe's Journey When Lucy Stowe boards a ship to travel to Villette, she is asked "Are you fond of a sea-voyage" by (the yet to be known) Ms. Fanshaw. Since this was Lucy's first trip abroad, she answers that her fondness is yet to be experienced. Nonetheless, Lucy's partiality for the...

The Daughter of Invention, a short story by Julia Alvarrez, chronicles a daughter's struggles to adapt to mainstream America in New York as an immigrant from the Dominican Republic. Her family is fleeing from the dictatorial regime of Trujillo. Julia's father, who apparently is an important figure i...

1. The Good Earth 2. Pearl S. Buck 1931 3. ChinaUSA 4. Characters: Wang Lung: Wang Lung is a farmer who is at first very humble and content in his home then later becomes a proud, wealthy man who is always troubled in his home. In the beginning of the story he seems happy living...