In Kate Chopin's "The Storm," it shows her creative use of theme and symbolism throughout which is what makes it such a descriptive and detailed short story. ... Chopin's title refers to nature, which is symbolically feminine; the storm can therefore be seen as symbolic of feminine sexuality and passion, and the image of the storm will be returned to again and again throughout the story. ... Symbolism is another important element of "The Storm," because it is used many times throughout the story. ... The importance of nature symbolizing femininity throughout the story is that femi...

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Why is it so important to hear other people's stories? ... Dougles Glover's a precious, Dog attempts to drown in Saskatoon was a publication nominated for the governor general's award for fiction 1991, which a potagonist tells his life story about a sweet ,sentimental love affair in Saskatoon and how it became bitter in taste in eleven months of been married. Saying "like many people ,we are both masters Of beginning and ending but founder in middle of the thing" is a captivating part to describe the protagonist's story in a short form. hear...

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Male dominance and female complicity in "Frau Brechenmacher Attends a Wedding" Katherine Mansfield's "Frau Brechenmacher Attends a Wedding" is a short tale dealing with the relationships between husband and wife in late 19th Century German society. ... However, the story widens to bring in several other relationships, which the reader is invited to judge in the light of the first scene. ... The description of him eating it, as he: "broke the bread smeared it round and chewed greedily" is a prolepsis of the unseen sexual act that takes place after the story finishes. ... The women in ...

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A bothered and isolated Elisa Allen in the story "The Chrysanthemums," finds herself subject to this phenomenon and is persistently mistreated and in a sense, unnoticed by her traditionally productive, yet dull and dismissive husband. ... Elisa Allen isn't as lucky as most women in this sense, and many factors in the story The "Chrysanthemums" exhibit Allen's frustration and impatience towards her and her sexual desires, including the fact that her and Henry share no children together. ... The story clearly shows how desperate she truly is when she is sexually aroused ...

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The majority of the short novel is about Tevye's struggles to marry his seven daughters, only Tsaytl, Hodl, Chava, Shprintze, and Beilke's situations are described. ... All of the arranged marriages are rejected, except for the case of his youngest daughter Beilke, which is major dilemma in the story. ... Through the research I have done on the marriages that occur in the story and how history shows how marriages happened in the Jewish community I felt that Sholem Aleichem accurately portrayed how a Jewish man would of handled the situations that Tevye dealt with though his life. ...

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Wilkins Freeman's story, "A New England Nun.... This foreshadows how Louisa chooses the path of independence at the end of the story where "serenity and placid narrowness had become to her as the birthright herself.... Freeman writes, "It was now fourteen years since, in a flood of youthful spirits, he had inflicted that memorable bite, and with the exception of short excursions, always at the end of the chain, under strict guardianship of his master Louisa, the old dog had remained a close prisoner" (658). ... Perhaps an older and wiser Louisa would have been capable ...

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Confronted with Alzheimer's disease, Grant and Fiona experience contrasting emotions as the film progresses, which is symbolized by the kitchen, nature, and the nursing home. The kitchen in the couple's cottage home symbolizes an intimate place for the two of them; they are often gathered there after ski trips and show a high level of comfort around each other. Grant and Fiona have been married for 44 years and it is starting to become a problem when Fiona begins to acknowledge her Alzheimer's disease. Even at an old age the two are able to joke around and maintain the sense of ...

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Abigail Adams" account stands as a testimony to the birth and political maturation of the U.S while Mary Todd's story gives insight into the more factional nation of Civil War years. ... (Akers 8), as a daughter of a minister and because her family was well-off, Abigail was never short of books. ...

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