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The source is effective such that it helps to extract the language used in Munro's story and establish how the language is expressively used based on the contexts.

However, in my opinion, "The Gift of the Magi" is one of the most powerful pieces of writing I have encountered.

Since Baglioni is perceived as a positive character throughout history, his deception and belief that he can decide other people's fate make the story even more sinister.

Later, the entire family's death was caused because of the cat's sing following the car accident, which derived into the encounter of the Misfit.

Published one month before the death of the writer, The Bell Jar is the novel that depicts the main struggles experienced by Plath during her lifetime by highlighting the impact of societal norms and stereotypes.

While the nature of the phenomenon will be described in detail on the following pages, the abstract under analysis states a number of reasons as to why the author decided to address the issue in [...]

Thus, Ernest Hemingway makes extensive use of symbolism in order to convey nihilistic themes, because the main hero of The Sun Also Rises is a symbol of nihilism, the main heroine of The Sun Also [...]

As a result of working continuously in the steamboat on someone's payroll, the author is astonished at his failure to appreciate the marvelous qualities of the great river since he was being desensitized to its [...]

Even though the story is in second person, we understand that this is actually the feelings and thoughts of the narrator.

Kino plans to travel to another city to sell this pearl, but his brother warns that the pearl is evil and he should just sell it.

In "Secret Life of Bees", the references to bees serve as "conceptual cement", because it is namely these references that entitle Kidd's novel with moral wholesomeness.

Many of the works of Aiken have a reflection on his interests about the psychoanalysis and the progress of identity. However, what the main character did is a mere expression of what he feels at [...]

However, as to the second point concerning the value of poverty, I have this to show."Beyond the value of poverty as a context for the development of humility and piety, I believe that Ignatius saw [...]

In defining the goals for the Dakotas in keeping the kinship rules, as stated by the author herself, "to keep the rules imposed by kinship for achieving civility, good manners, and a sense of responsibility [...]

To emphasize the difference between the characters' political views the author chooses the country's portrayal through insider and outsider perspectives, on the one hand, showing the evocations of those who remained in Cuba and, on [...]

She had to prove the right of a woman to decide something in the society contemporary to her and, besides, was influenced by her parents.

Despite the presence of many opportunities and positive dreams and goals, most of them fail to be realized due to misleading values and aims set by surrounding society; this idea is present in almost all [...]

The reader, who gets deeply engaged in the narrative, feels a kind of false hope that Cameron is going to get better when he leaves for California with his family and starts to undergo treatment [...]

The paper is a critical analysis of one of the most famous books of John Irving that is called The World According to Garp.

This is a clear indication of the great distinction that exists between the higher animals and man. Despite the negative attributes of a man, he is also religious.

In this chapter, the Abbey's goal is not to clarify the reasons of death, but to explain that death is something all people have to accept one day, and the way the tourist at Grandview [...]

The vignettes presented in The House on Mango Street describe the daily experiences of Esperanza, and they demonstrate the particular features of the Mexican Americans' life in a low-income neighborhood.

The argument is that the author attempts to describe her as a pure and innocent female to ensure that the reader understands the perspective of Jay, but particular aspects of her true identity are revealed [...]

Although it is clear that he is suffering from a psychological problem, Bartleby is actually not willing to take his responsibilities at the narrator's office. He seems to believe that it is the right of [...]

Bissinger then flashes back on the tribulation and trials of the team throughout that season combined with its football saga in the history of West Texas and Odessa.

But when simplified even further the movie version differs from the book because the author wanted to show the evolution of how American football is played and conducted using the story of Michael Oher the [...]

The Code Of The Street by Elijah Anderson depicts the peculiarities of life in the American inner-city, revealing the mainstreams and the code of such neighborhood.

The advantage with this style in poetry is that the poet has the freedom to decide on the length of the verse in order to meet the thematic concerns of the poem.

It is not a secret that the goal of many people is to find out the truth and make it available to others.

Talking about the relationships between Americans and the Natives has never been easy, mostly because of the notorious historic events that took place during the colonization of America, and the following misunderstandings between the Native [...]

The few times I have been forced to speak in front of a group, I have made a mess of it.

In "The Swimmer" the reality paves the way towards surreal through the use of foreshadowing where there is a creation of the antagonistic world faced by Ned in every new swim.

As it appears from the novel, the reason why the narrator and her husband John decided to spend their summer vacation in a secluded mansion is that this proved beneficial to the narrator's mental condition.

The irony lies in the fact that, while longing to revive their Native identity, Henry and Lyman relied on the red convertible the by-product of the 'Faustian' nonspiritual/mechanistic genius.

Since the purpose of the texts is clear, it is possible to go into some detail and analyse the differences among the three texts in question.

In his own words, Jacobson argues that the country's "trumpeted greatness" during the Reconstruction and World War I periods was influenced by "the dollars, the labor, and, not least, the very image, of the many [...]

Anne Bradstreet wrote the poem entitled the flesh and the spirit and tried to compare the things of the world and the thing of the spirit.

The ex priest of never tells lies inspires the kid to do the right at times when it is only the good that would save him while the judge from his introduction in the kid's [...]

The food motif is also manifested in the naming of other characters in the story. The food motif is very prominent in this story.

Through this analysis, the techniques used by authors and speakers to control the effects of the message they are delivering, the pros and cons of these kinds of techniques, and the meaning of these messages [...]

The term flogging in the book simply describes the system of canning, stroking, or fondling as a form of prison punishment imposed to prisoners.

Edgar died in Baltimore and the cause of his death was not clear. Edgar, in his element, overcame challenges and established a literary legacy that has stood the test of time.

He was so afraid for the pain that Norah would have to endure that for their sake, he made the decision to have the child, Phoebe, taken to an institution.

The character in the poem is complex as she struggles from childhood through adulthood to come to terms with the loose of her father at a young age.

There are high hopes that the current settings of the twenty-first century and the predictable future of governance will be sustainable and responsible especially on issues of cultural identity and preservation.

Consequently, the fish appears as a courageous fighter who has been struggling for existence and is rewarded by the gift of life it that gets from the narrator in the end of the poem.

To begin with, let us state that the story under consideration is the short story under the title "The Management of Grief" by Bharati Mukherjee.

This section tackles the main characters of the story and as aforementioned, the narrator and the old man are the only central characters in the story.

When she is isolated in the room, she notices a shadow emerging from the wallpaper and creeping over the walls and floor.

According to Taymaa, "From the moment Dorothy arrives in Oz, her sole wish is to return to Kansas, and the whole of the story recounts her search for the ability to do so".

In the first part, the reader becomes acquainted with the harsh reality of Afghanistan's culture and the struggles of women and children.

Kahlil Gibran, a Lebanese migrant in the United States, was considered a rebel in the world of Arabic literature. The diversity of Gibran's educational background is reflected through the marriage of English and Arabic [...]

Fadiman's book highlights cross-cultural communication's importance in the American medical system through Hmong's history and the fish soup concept to show the medical profession's failure of the Hmong community and offers several solutions.

There is a high chance that Old Man Warner is not concerned about the lottery itself as he is worried about preserving the old traditions. Once the lottery is forgotten, the habitual way of life [...]

Walter joins the Men's Association Committee and finds out that it enables the men in the community to silence their women and make them submissive to their ideas.

Kapasi is reminded of the television program Dallas.Mr. Was there a way to escape cultural assimilation for the Das family in Jhumpa Lahiri's "Interpreter of Maladies"?

As a result, Tyler wants to commit suicide he takes his father's gun, and it may be regarded as a symbol of the boy's wish to leave his father guilty for his death. However, in [...]

The author uses numerous literary features in order to advance the theme of justice and revenge throughout the book. The writer employs parallelism, humor, and character development in numerous accounts of narration to advance the [...]

At the end of the story, it is revealed that the point of the lottery is to select a victim among the community members and collectively stone her to death.

The name The Storm symbolizes some of the characters' lives, and Calixta and Alcee end up marrying other people. Therefore, the two storybooks are related in the sense that one is the continuation of the [...]

In order to offer the reader a better comprehension of the story, the environment is described in great detail. The power to choose the true meaning of the story is what actually distinguishes it.

Maggie is still determined to do her best to find the perfect pet, but she still has a lot to cope with her family, friends, and herself along the way.

This literary essay's central theme is the search and identification of plot evidence in favor of the fact that the antagonist Arnold Friend is the embodiment of real evil, according to the writer's intention.

Eliezer is the narrator in the tale and experiences multiple challenges throughout the story. Faith, guilt and inaction, and inhumanity are some of the narratives themes that readers can analyze when focusing on the various [...]

Following one of her dreams, Ruth is surprised to discover previously unseen pages of the diary, which point toward a happier ending for Nao and her father.

To prove his point, the old man tells the narrator and the readers the amusing and scary story of the vineyard.

On the first page of the story, the author uses several techniques to present his narrative to the reader. The first page also presents the reader with an exposition of the story, in which the [...]

At the end of the story, the legend of the Phoenix is told. Beatty is the antagonist of the story and a proponent of the current rule.

The author intends to put himself and his companion to the test by traveling to six cities of the US in the conditions of uncertainty and social rejection.

One of the main issues raised in the story is the indignation of the older woman by the behavior of her granddaughter who "is not like my daughter Natalie, or like me".

Reading this short story, the audience meets a young boy who desires to make a mash on a beautiful girl resorting to the use of lies and deceitfulness, but he soon realizes that such an [...]

In Carver's short story "What We Talk About When We Talk about Love," the author explores the essence of love, along with the term's implications in a different context.

The interrelation of these parts makes the whole text a metaphysical work, and Paley uses it to comment on the state of literature and the definition of "short stories" that are often considered traditional.

Thousands of other people had also been affected by the test and they were all blaming the government of the US. Terry and her family had to bear the consequences of an irresponsible government.

The journey of the protagonist that stretches from the abyss of despair and moral tortures to the final recovery of Tayo and his people, serves as a representation of the main theme of the novel, [...]

By connecting this 'abode place' of 'the gentleman who had observed the commencement of all this' slept to the residence of the white men which neatly built of reeds, with a balcony on both the [...]

The character Pearl is considered a perfectionist, and when the father deserts the family, she is challenged in her attempt to hold the family together as strongly as it used to be.

A person who is not aware of the date when the story "Our America" was written, will think that Jose Marti wrote the story, which is a speech in its format, in the 21st century.

Perhaps the "evening" in the second line refers to the evening of life, considering that Prufrock is a middle aged man.

The main characters of the story are the two girls, Roberta and Twyla and the ambiguity of their race is what the story relies upon.

All for his association with a Black woman."Because I was used to white people by 1948" is a statement he made at the very beginning of the book. A racist who is a racist in [...]

Corresponding tendencies in the drama are shown in the writings of Ibsen, Hamptman and Galsworthy."In the United States, Wolfe, Hemingway and Faulkner are among the leading representatives of the modern school of realism"..

The novel "The grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck is claimed to describe the lives of ordinary farm workers all over the United States of America who moved to California during the period of the [...]

John Steinbeck's short story, "The Chrysanthemums" reflects the struggles of a stereotyped woman of the time, Elisa Allen to find her own identity in the oppressive world of men.

Kaplan in her work Social Construction of American Realism has called realism a "strategy for imagining and managing the threats of social change".

One of the hooks the author uses to make the book unusual is the number of narrators and the organization of their accounts.

Although he has a company that makes his life easier, such as Lilia's family, where he goes to watch the news and have supper, he still feels lonely and detached. Lilia's family has lived in [...]

The role of nature in the people's lives and the role of an individual in the natural world is one of the main themes in Whitman's poetry that is why Section 31 of "Song of [...]

At the same time, the story draws a parallel to the uprising itself, with the tyranny of Rip's wife leading him to try and escape, only for this woman to disappear before his return.

The central characters, the correspondent, the captain, the oiler, and the cook, are all survivors of a shipwreck which left them stranded in the water in a small and flimsy dinghy.

Thus, the recognition of an individual in the society, the respect of the individual rights and freedoms are fundamental in the determination of a person as a part of that society.

Another aspect that is worth noting is that it is entirely possible that the boy has recognized that Abner is emotionally unstable and requires the support.

In the book, the theme of liberty is presented as the opposite of discrimination, and there is a category representing liberty in this book.

In the poem Death Be Not Proud, death assumes the role of a tyrant without real power. To the poet, death is a brief rest, and when we wake up we will live eternally and [...]

He tries to justify his actions, and show that he is not a bad person. Most importantly, he tries to show that he is not a mad man.

The reason for this is that, despite the unconventional sounding of the story's plot line, it appears innately consistent with what happened to be the socially suppressed unconscious anxieties, on the part of readers.

In this paper, I will explore the validity of the above-stated at length, in regards to the novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz, because there are indeed a number of [...]

Although Elie questions the whole concept of faith in God, he never stops to ask questions that connect him with God.

The fact that Sonny was the black sheep of the family was obvious even in the story's opening paragraphs. The story unfolded without giving any clue that the black sheep of the family, the drug [...]

The family pattern for the Blacks includes high fertility rates compared to the average Americans, with the Indians and the Hispanics also displaying the same.

Thus, Shepard develops the topic of the American dream and variety of its aspects with the help of discussing Austin and Lee's different attitudes to success, glory, wealth, and independence which are the reflections of [...]

The research focuses on Mark Twain's use of humor persuades the readers to finish the entire novel. Mark Twain.creatively wove the novels to bring the real life issue of racism to the readers.

Therefore, the fact that, while sitting by the fireplace with his wife, Updike felt suddenly amorous, cannot be thought of as a proof of him being a romantic individual, but rather an indication of the [...]

Enoch Emery is one of the main characters of the book who can be discussed as the opponent to the main protagonist Hazel Motes because of the drives which direct their lives.

Similarly, the job that the new employee is to partake is insignificant to the story. The narrator shifts from orientating the new employee to the general office to revealing about personal lives of the employees.

The Death of Artemio Cruz critically analyzes the shortcomings of the revolution in Mexico and looks into the history and prospects of the country by examining different aspects of the community, beliefs and politics.

Thus, it will only be logical to conclude this paper by reinstating once again that there is indeed a good rationale in referring to Butler's Parable of the Sower, as an intellectually enlightening novel.

Using nature as an important background for the upcoming events in the early period of the New World, the author touches on the issues of racism and its separation from slavery.

Once John Keats has established the metaphor of the time portal that the urn represents, he uses several important lines in the fourth stanza of Ode on a Grecian Urn to extend the metaphor and [...]

Based on this it can be seen that the cycle of oppression and insecurity seen in society is in fact reflected in the novel itself where the author attempts to create a microcosm of the [...]

Still others are very much convinced that whatever differences there may be in languages can easily be eliminated if translations are done without the use of idioms to make sure that the meaning of the [...]

As highlighted in the in the introductory part, religion is one of the themes that stand out in the Life of Pi.

The role of the narrator of the story The Fall of the House of Usher is great indeed; his rationality and his ability to represent the events from the side of an immediate participant of [...]

At the same time, Nora is fighting her own dissatisfaction with her life, and is even ready to sacrifice it in the name of her husband's reputation, which is a paramount example of altruism.

The Authors purpose in writing this book was to give the story behind the development of ghettos in the black community specifically the Cleveland community.

Gimpel's belief that the world is full of marvelous things characterizes him as a man of vision. Remarkably, Gimpel is sure that everything is possible and he acknowledges that the world is, indeed, full of [...]

The beauty of the music is in the feelings, not in those which should be expressed according to the rules, but in those which the musician wishes to express and which arouse in the audience's [...]

Religion in Gilead is the similar to that of the current American society especially, the aspect of ambiguity which has been predominant with regard to the rightful application of religious beliefs and principles.

In the first stanza, the departure of the lover marks the end of their love, while the second stanza uses the dropping of sand as symbolic to the passing of time in an hour glass.

In the 20th Century, it is a recognized factor in Australia, and all over the rest of the world, that there was neglect of Aborigines since the settlement of the first western civilization, and for [...]