The different apartment complexes mentioned in the story create the image of the father being someone who constantly moves from place to place. ... At his apartment, the pool is "smaller than it sounded on the phone," and the front lawn has "patches of bright-green grass," (pg 32) which the son shamefully proclaims upon arriving at this industrial slum of a neighborhood. ... Where the "fridge [is] empty except for ketchup," and there are "his old Playboys," (pg 36) to read; this place has obviously seen some better days than this. ...

• Word Count: 497
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

As people began to visit Emily's decayed fragile body, the imagery Faulkner uses is, " The rose when she entered- a small, fat woman in black with a thin gold chain descending to her waisther skeleton was small and spare" (Faulkner 300). ... Based how Emily is described in the story when she was dead as pale, drowned, small and skeletal. ... Next, as the story unfolds, the mindset of the townspeople or 'society' shows that they were disgusted with this character when, " the next day he [the mayor] received two more complaints'send her word to have her place ...

• Word Count: 1189
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson is a deceptively simple story about a small town community that holds an annual lottery. ... The box is also "splintered badly along one side to show the original wood color, and in some places faded or stained" (566). ...

• Word Count: 874
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Within this infamous territory-which also featured in the second success of American literature, James Fenimore Cooper's The Spy (1821)-Tarrytown was particularly notorious as the place where John André, the British officer subsequently executed as a spy for his dealings with the traitorous Benedict Arnold, was captured. ... The Dutch are comfortable in this place in ways the itinerant Ichabod is not. ... One can easily see Ichabod's "odd mixture of small shrewdness and simple credulity" (p. 277) as a two-pronged attack on Yankee-and by extension, American-character, lamenting...

• Word Count: 1590
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

" Jackson presents a small town that has a yearly lottery on June 27th, that determines which one of its inhabitants will be sacrificed. ... The notion of sacrificing someone else in her place highlights the fact that the ritual is not an act of martyrdom, but a cold and heartless murder. ...

• Word Count: 1719
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Seeking and Maintaining Balance: Rohinton Mistry's Fiction. (Critical Essay) Abstract: Balance is an important quality in the fiction of Rohinton Mistry, as suggested by the title of his second novel, 'A Fine Balance.' Mistry was born in India, a member of the Parsi community, and immigrated to Canada in 1975. Mistry's short story collection 'Tales from Firozsha Baag' and his two novels, 'Such a Long Journey' and 'A FIne Balance' focus on the Parsi community in India rather than on the immigrant experience. The Parsis and India become metap...

• Word Count: 4675
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Seeking and Maintaining Balance: Rohinton Mistry's Fiction. (Critical Essay) Abstract: Balance is an important quality in the fiction of Rohinton Mistry, as suggested by the title of his second novel, 'A Fine Balance.' Mistry was born in India, a member of the Parsi community, and immigrated to Canada in 1975. Mistry's short story collection 'Tales from Firozsha Baag' and his two novels, 'Such a Long Journey' and 'A FIne Balance' focus on the Parsi community in India rather than on the immigrant experience. The Parsis and India become me...

• Word Count: 4673
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: Undergraduate