We can never know when it will consume us but when it does happen, we can die either in the dark or in the light of God like the grandmother. ... I acquired that idea from the website Big C Catholics since the website has a same view I did of the Misfit and the reasoning behind his killing and why Flannery wrote her short story this way. ... Another theme that I found interesting is the morals that both the Grandmother and the Misfit have towards everyone. ... She only does this due to the fact she is about to die in a few moments and she was grasping at straws to save her life. ... The s...

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Analyzing the plot structure: This story theme is not a new or a very original design. ... One such eastern writer, if I may quote, also used a plot in the same fashion, he wrote a play called, "Anarkali". ... In the case of this particular story, Stockton, lays the plot with great alacrity and care. ... And he was anxious to decide whether he preferred living without her or dieing without her. ... The story might be a fiction, but the theme is a reality. ...

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Though the main theme of the story is love that is highly passionate and emotional, jealousy and vengeance dominate love and passion and eventually desolation rules. ... Heathcliff and I are such a suitable pair to divide the desolation between us" (Chapter 1, p. 1). ... The tone also reflects somber and tragic mood of Wuthering Heights as the narrator says, "There was no moon, and everything beneath lay in misty darkness: not a light gleamed from any house, far or near all had been extinguished long ago: and those at Wuthering Heights were never visible" (Chapter 12, p. 92). .....

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