In "The Fall of the House of Usher " It is easy for the reader to become the friend in Poe's story as both the narrator and the reader invite madness, as they are drawn into the underworld of the mind where fantasy becomes reality. ... " However, the narrator escapes, to watch both the tenants and the house of Usher disappear into the tarn, an underworld which is their true home. ... The narrator is a boyhood friend of Roderick. ... When Madeline supposedly "dies " and is placed in her coffin, the narrator notices "a striking similitude between brother and sister " It is at this point th...

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In Long Walk to Forever', Catharine is also torn by his fiancé Henry Stewart Chasens, and friend and true love Newt. ... Newt is in the army, and has returned to see his long friend Catharine. ... Ultimately, Catharine chooses her true love, Newt, over this Henry Stewart Chasens. ...

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The narrator whose name is unknown has fallen in love with his friend's sister. ... During the rest of the story narrator explains his problems with getting a gift for his friend's sister. ... Readers can imagine right at the beginning of the story after the narrator explains his love interest to his friend's sister that that was his implicit goal; however the story escaladed to a point that the narrator was trying to do whatever it takes to buy that one gift from Araby. ... The concept of the explicit and implicit goal is a good idea due to the fact that it makes the readers th...

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Young Goodman Brown will never be able to respect these people in his community after he has discovered their true identity. ... Montresor knowing how Fortunato will die responds, "True-True" (1316). ... Fortunato believes that Montresor is his friend when his is really just a lamp being led to the slaughter. ... Moreover, Montresor points out, "My friend, no; I will not impose upon your good nature" (1315). Montresor again calls him his friend which is ironic because he hates Fortunato and considers him an enemy. ...

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In the short story, "Rosena on the Mountain," Rene Depestre tells the story of a humble man, who on a quest for purity, becomes sidetracked by temptation. The story takes place in the country of Haiti, and there are three main characters: Alain, Father Mulligan and Rosena. Alain is a curious young ...

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In "Cathedral," the narrator's wife invites a friend over. This friend who is a man happens to be blind and the narrator is rather skeptical of him and his handicap. ... While Scotty was walking home with his friend however, he is the victim of a hit and run car accident. ... He now realizes that what he knew wasn't exactly true and that he was blind to what blind people are really like. ...

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An autobiographical fiction is when an author writes about a true occurrence that happened to him or her but puts a bit of fictional twist on it. ... Once just this past year my friend and I went up to my uncle's cabin. ... Half way up the mountain in the pitch dark my friend's car broke down. ... My friend being a quite good hunter went out and returned back a few hours later with news he got a doe. ...

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Throughout the story, Chopin demonstrates that in the nineteenth century even women that were in a loving marriages were not allowed to express their true self and voice. ... Mallard learned of her husband's death was she able to let her true self come out and really start to live. ... Mallard has heart trouble and her sister and her friend try their hardest to make sure she learns of her husband's death in a tender manner. ...

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"The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson In the story "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson, villagers gather together in the center of the town each year for an annual lottery. There is much excitement and interest at the rituals of the event proceeds. The winning family is chosen by ballot, and from tha...

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Just after realizing this, your best friend bursts into your office bubbling with joy as she recounts the events of her weekend adventure. ... Just as you finish reading the attached love letter, your best friend bursts into your office bubbling with joy as she recounts the events of her weekend adventure. ... The setting of this story supports the theory that true love is based on fate. ...

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This example is specific in its nature because evil is implied as being something physical, in this case it is Arnold Friend's name written in not just any black letters but in tar-like letters. ... This quote is also significant because it appears as though light or innocence is trying to reveal Arnold's true nature, that of a sinister person. ... Specifically intended for Connie, Arnold Friend's rhythmic words are a chant, which call Connie to cast away her reserve and to follow him into the unknown. ... Connie's intuition prepares her to be more vigilant of Arnold Friend...

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This concluding, we can undoubtedly see how the character traits of Gallaher bring out Chandler's true character. ... But despite this we know that he is envious of his friend because of this gaudy behaviour. ... Chandler, who is married with one child, believes that Gallaher would definitely tie the knot if he were to find the right woman, for he shakes his head when his friend mentions the money issue. ...

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As his wife informs him that an old friend, a blind man, is coming to visit, Bub is forced into a situation where he must temporarily change his ways and create a comfortable aura with the man. ... Now that she is dead, and "Robert was left with a small insurance policy and a half of a twenty-peso Mexican coin Pathetic" (156) it seems that Robert is left with nothing, except the satisfaction of seeing an old friend whom he has kept in close, intimate contact with for years. ... This also holds true for the development of the wife and husband. ...

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James Joyce uses religious imagery and sexual implications to make us understand how the boy's religious background impacts the way he handles the challenges he faces and how it is very hard for him to find his true self. The main character of this short story is deeply infatuated by his friend, Mangan's, sister. ...

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Richards, who is a friend of Brently Mallard, walks through to the door to alert Louise and her sister Josephine that Brently had been killed in a horrible train accident. ... But I"m still unsure because there is not enough support and evidence in the story to make it true. ...

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It was only on their death beds that the people realized the true symbolism of the black veil which separated him from the people with whom he once shared reverence. ... In Beatrice's instance, she is quite obligated or predestined to live a life of seclusion because of her father's decisions "though she chooses to drink the antidote alone, and therefore pass into immortality without her former friend, Giovanni. ...

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Tonirose Ollodo, her longtime best friend, way back high school. ... I smile and told her, "Wishes do come true Lucy, even the girl in the story, all that happened to her, she wished for it. Wishes can come true if you do make an want it, anticipate for it, persevere and of course, learn and accept whatever it takes. ...

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She wrote to him and told him of a story where she was on the New Jersey shoreline with a friend, she monitored the waves and how they were "separate but together" meaning that they will come together again and again for eternity (O'Brien 234). ... The objects they carried were true and false, imaginary and existing, and uncertain and certain. ... " O' Brien goes on to mention a childhood memory of his nine year old friend named Linda, who was bullied, and O' Brien had no confidence to stand up to her bully and her torment right then and there. ...

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He said in a letter to a friend, "Zelda's been sick in bed for five weeks, poor child, and only now is looking up...I am quite drunk..."... They [his generation] turned their backs on morals and what they had known, at that time, to be true values(12). ... No matter what people said about Fitzgerald's literary works, he remained true to his passion....

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This saying is especially true in the collection of short stories Interpreter of Maladies, by Jhumpa Lahiri. ... In many of her stories the main character is a woman in her thirties, living somewhere in the northeast, and in some way or another is associated with someone of Indian descent, be it themselves, a co-worker, or a friend. ...

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What worried me the most was the fact that the Indian man's suicide was a memory that would haunt Nick for the rest of his life---a fact held true by Hemingway, as is seen throughout the entire book. ... Subsequent to his arrival home and the discussion of his day with his father over dinner, Nick's father informs him that he saw his very close friend, Prudence, in the woods with Frank Washburn, another young boy. ...

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In the short story Drown, Junot Daz paints a world of many conflicts which our main character must face. Daz delicately navigates the main character through the conflicts of men being masculine, women being inferior, and not having any positive influences in his life. The story portrays men as bei...

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This is what Patrick is searching for " his true identity. ... Patrick is constantly searching and looking for his true identity. ... They also help build up his identity and true self. ... It reveals Patrick's true character. ... As the story progresses, his true character divulges and the readers learn more about him. ...

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He knows we've beat him" shows how he wants this to stop, but doesn't want to anger his friend. ... He has presented this not by only having bucket loads of violence and action, but also more tranquil scenes where the true inner nature of the people that from the Fellowship. ...

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This statement is indeed true in the character of Macbeth. ... First he kills Banquo, his best friend, because he thinks he knows too much, and then he kills Macduff's family who are innocent people. ...

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