Finally, "The Dead" snow strangely falls in Dublin and Gabriel conveys his hope that the "qualities of humanity, of hospitality, [and] of kindly humour" (Joyce, 204) of those who came before are not lost with the new, "hyper-educated" (Joyce, 204) generation succeeding them. ... He becomes more and more obsessed with her and cannot think of anything but her as time passes after their brief conversation. On the morning of Araby, the narrator asks his uncle for money for a train ride to the bazaar, and his uncle says he will give it to him after he returns home. ...

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After a few years in Canada, he started writing stories and gained immediate attention, receiving two Hart House literary prizes and Canadian Fiction Magazine's annual Contributors' Prize in 1985. ... After all, they are probably most widely known for a single practice: the way they dispose of their dead by leaving them in a tower for vultures to feast on. ... The tempest that is Indian politics before, during, and since Mrs. ... In a newspaper article that appears on the Internet, which unfortunately provides neither a date nor a source, Mistry replies to criticism leveled by Germai...

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After a few years in Canada, he started writing stories and gained immediate attention, receiving two Hart House literary prizes and Canadian Fiction Magazine's annual Contributors' Prize in 1985. ... After all, they are probably most widely known for a single practice: the way they dispose of their dead by leaving them in a tower for vultures to feast on. ... The tempest that is Indian politics before, during, and since Mrs. ... In a newspaper article that appears on the Internet, which unfortunately provides neither a date nor a source, Mistry replies to criticism leveled by Germai...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

After his marriage, Reefy had established a more effective means of communication with his young wife; he would read to her from his scraps of paper. Unfortunately, after almost a year, Dr. ... Before his marriage, Reefy isolation only allowed him to express his thoughts and truths through writing. ... After he leaves, the girl takes his advice, and demands to be called Tandy. ... Right after World War I, America pursued the isolationism policy, the ruling that kept America out of foreign affairs. ...

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He belonged to a wealth family that lost its richness after civil war like other prospers southern. ... However, they started to complain about the unbearable odor that proceeded from Emily's property after she was abandoned by a northern man named Homer Baron who used to flatter her and that it was believed by the town he was going to marry her. ... Before buying the arsenic, she came out form her isolation to date with Homer Baron, a northerner who was contracted by the town to pave the sidewalks and after she bought it, the town stopped seeing Homer Baron "A neighbour saw the Ne...

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His broadcast did not last for long before government police came through the studio and gun down Harrison.  ... And the two main characters that were watching the new program were both handicapped by the government so the both forgot shortly after about the whole preserved heroism performed by Harrison.  ...

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Georgiana would address the topic again to Aylmer by asking him: "Do we know that there is a possibility of unclasping the firm gripe of this little hand which was laid upon me before I came into this world?... After Aylmer reassures Georgiana that he is confident of finding a way to removing her birthmark, It is this part of the story where Georgiana shows her complex qualities by proclaiming that, "danger is nothing to me; for life is a burden which I would fling down with joy," (Hawthorne 151) and compels her to command Aylmer to, "either remove this dreadful hand or tak...

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The reader assumes the appearance of Rip from the preceding paragraphs in which the author sets the general timeframe in the colonial era before and after the American Revolutionary war. ... Rip inquired about the club of the sages after sleeping for twenty years. ...

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" Even after saying that, her son did not look up, as if no one had spoken to him. ... Yet, the worst of the grandmother's selfishness is revealed when the Misfit finds them after the accident and she sees him carrying a gun, she only says, "You wouldn't shoot a lady, would you?... Nevertheless, the grandmother is only able to truly feel compassion before she is killed when she tells the Misfit that he was one of her own children, but even then, redemption did not save her, and her actions lead to her death and the death of her whole family....

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An attempt to explain the characters feelings that he has known this personage before is revealed in his thoughts, "I cannot better describe the sensation which oppressed me than by saying that I could with difficulty shake off the belief of my having been acquainted with the being who stood before me, at some epoch very long ago -- some point of the past even infinitely remote. ... Soon after Poe brings the reader to the conclusion of the conflict between Wilson and his doppelganger, the pace of the story proceeds to reveal other altercations between the two beings. ...

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The ending is reasonably cut and dry, some argument could be made that perhaps it was all a dream but without sufficient evidence to back such a theory up the majority will see it as explained before. ... " was the line that has sparked a debate with no concise proof either way as to whether or not anything after the point Quaid sat down in the Total Recall chair ever took place. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

After many readers discover this, they cease to continue investigating the other discourses present. ... Several signs that support the affair theory between the man and the girl are that the man takes control of the conversation from the beginning, he often talks down to the girl as if she is much younger than him, and the girl asks the man for permission before taking any actions, such as ordering a drink. ...

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The literature of Flannery O'Connor can appear to be distant and unemotional, as well as unbelievably harsh and violent. Her short stories characteristically conclude with horrific fatalities or an individual's emotional ruin. While O'Connor's mentality seems to be futile and interspersed with sen...

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