The good and evil ironically meet to relay the message of grace, common throughout her works. ... For every good or evil thing, there is an antagonist or opposing force. ... As well as McMullen, many are just as critical of O'Connor's use of symbols. She claims that because O'Connor offers no explanation of symbols carrying through each story, she "places an added burden upon the reader to decipher her actual intent" (McMullen 31). McMullen follows this statement with a discussion of the symbols she finds most troubling. ...

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However, for the duration of the story Connie struggles amid her innocence in addition to the evil that attempts to devour her. ... Oates uses symbols such as color imagery and music, and Connie's familiar world to illustrate how Connie is caught between two worlds: adolescence, understood to be innocence and adulthood, understood to be the consumption of her innocence. ... On the contrary, dark imagery signifies evil or the devourer of innocence. ... Connie's symbolic representation through light imagery or innocence was devoured by Arnold's dark imagery or evil. ... However, o...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The text exhibits interesting clues such as word choice, tone and mood, reappearing symbols and references that enrich the story and intensify its underlining message. ... The racism in the story is not discussed openly but is prudently mixed in with Armand's atrocious character and his evil soul. Armand's evil was deep as he forsakes his loving wife, infant son, and God. ... The evil in Armand did not come from his parents and the black employees were cheerful when he was growing up so it is an open question concerning his acquired hatred. ... The way Madame Valmonde described the L...

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Even though everything seems alright, inside the "doll house- evil lurks. ... They are a symbol for his madness. ... The reader is supposed to feel uneasy when the story ends with Jack staring into the evil grin. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Thesis Statement Edgar Allan Poe was an extraordinary writer. Born during the Romanic Era in literature, Poe managed shock readers of his time and the modern readers, with terrifying, gruesome plots. Two of his literary works, "The Pit and the Pendulum" and "The Tell-Tale Heart", are perfectly ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Indeed, it is a symbol of human punishment and torture in the primitive times. ... Black color usually has a metaphor meaning of the evil and the death. ... Jackson particularly designs their names to hint the truth of the lottery and to unveil an ugly side of human nature of evil of the town people. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In an early moment of tension, Hepzibah is frightened by the shop bell which she perceives to be "betwitched", becoming fearful that she has "summoned up an evil spirit" (49)-yet we quickly discover that it is simply a sweet little urchin boy wanting to buy gingerbread. ... After all, the narrator has thus far acted as our guide throughout the novel, at times blatantly explicating the meaning of symbols for us-we have built up trust in his opinions, although moments of revoked explanation has left us wanting. ...

• Word Count: 1547
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate