I will also speak about the fact how persons through mental violence come back to the 'original' situation between two lovers. ... Rope In the beginning of the story an erotic tension is depicted when the husband comes back from buying coffee. ... The reader would expect that the story goes on in an erotic way. ... After having come back from returning the rope, with the rope still there, violence may give way to a beautiful, romantic atmosphere "...the smell of broiled steak floated nose-high in the cooling air. ... They both have pushed their hostile thoughts to the backgroun...

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• Grade Level: High School

In 1891, his mother sent him back to Salem to go to school. ... Then when Goodman stated " What if a wretched old woman do choose to go to the devil, when I thought she was going to Heaven! ... Come devil! ... Come witch, come wizard, come Indian powwow, come devil himself! And here comes Goodman Brown. ...

• Word Count: 1340
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• Grade Level: High School

Her life goes on her own way, a very unpleasing way. ... She was then able to go to different places and met her lifelong idols. ... " The veil goes back revealing bliss, the groom wears in to take his kiss. ... They were abundant in terms of finance yet it all slowly goes down. ... Tonirose Ollodo, her longtime best friend, way back high school. ...

• Word Count: 1291
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• Grade Level: High School

I end up starting as a wide receiver and a corner back. ... I could not tell if our crowd want to come watch us play or just get some of that tasty food and just have a ball while sitting in the stands. ... My coaches say leave it all on the field so I think to myself why not just leave it all on the practice field so I can be even greater come game day. ... Omaha Benson football field brings back memories and I have a lot history on that turf. ... Going back down memory lane once more. ...

• Word Count: 1836
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

"We come from Texas, Lucy says and grins. ... A boy named Sire really brought out the mature side of Esperanza when she got enough courage to stare back. ... Esperanza never had the courage to stare back until one day she found enough to actually stare back but she stared too long. ... She would simply have them go to the attic and stay there for the night. "Passing bums will ask, Can I come in? ...

• Word Count: 1313
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

The environment changes as Lyman journeys off on his summer adventure as he grows up and becomes a man, by going all the way to Chicken, Alaska for the long days, and back on home to North Dakota. ... She then applies the stereotype of the soldier that comes back from Vietnam being psychologically damaged, to Henry. ... Later Louise uses the Red River as a metaphor by it's altering condition and foreshadowing the events to come. ... He then goes into detail about what he and his brother did with the car. ... Hoping that it would bring them back together again. ...

• Word Count: 1504
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Lieutenant Cross, carried letters from a girl back home, Martha, who visited the same college as him. ... The darkness of the tunnel carried the uncertainty that one may come out alive or never come out at all. ... He let go of all the weight that she gave him an uncertain love that drove him crazy and caused the death of too many of his men. "Briefly, in the rain, Lieutenant Cross saw Martha's gray eyes gazing back at him," he accepted and understood the realization that Martha would never love him the way he thought (O'Brien 239). ... But for O'Brien, she lives on ...

• Word Count: 1571
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• Grade Level: High School

After asked by the principle whether or not Paul would like to come back to school, he replies that he wanted to come back. ... This remark from Paul is yet another foreshadowing that he knew it would be the end, and that he was going to finish it the way he wanted. ... He stares at a revolver for nearly half an hour, yet he decides this is not the way to go out. So he boards a ferry and goes to a train overpass, to throw himself off. Paul reflects once more upon the flowers that now come to represent his death as well. ...

• Word Count: 1360
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

These characters defined what the past represented and how it was going to be continued. ... Because the reader is held back from certain information, the story becomes a suspenseful mystery. ... However, this was a central event that foreshadowed what was to come. Unlike most stories, the climax of this story did not come till the last page. ... Because the other person she loved was her father, she was not willing to let him go when he died. ...

• Word Count: 1389
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

In this particular short story, Forster depicts what he imagines would happen if all humans turned their back on physical contact and preferred only to be connect through a machine. ... If we can't live on the surface of the Earth, where will we go? ... In the machine stops, people seldom travel away from their cells because everything looks the same no matter where you go, why bother to go anywhere? ... Forster, through exaggeration has uncovered several issues that exist today, back in his time. ... We must keep in mind that with great power comes great responsibility....

• Word Count: 1647
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In Flannery O"Connor's short story "A Good Man is Hard to Find," the gruesome ending comes as quite a shock. ... We go to the father of souls, but it is necessary to pass by the dragon." ... She has to go everywhere we go." ... As theygather themselves back together after the accident, instead of being frightened, the children begin to joke and play about their situation. ... When the Misfit's men come back from murdering Bailey and the others, he brings the Misfit Bailey's shirt. ...

• Word Count: 1439
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

In Flannery O"Connor's short story "A Good Man is Hard to Find," the gruesome ending comes as quite a shock. ... We go to the father of souls, but it is necessary to pass by the dragon." ... She has to go everywhere we go." ... As they gather themselves back together after the accident, instead of being frightened, the children begin to joke and play about their situation. ... When the Misfit's men come back from murdering Bailey and the others, he brings the Misfit Bailey's shirt. ...

• Word Count: 1477
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

With his trust dog Wolf and his gun, Rip decides he is to go hunting in the mountains or squirrels. ... Awaking and realizing it is getting dark, he starts to make the trek back down to his village. ... Even with his beard grown out unexplainably, he instinctively starts back for his village, all the while contemplating what Dame might do or say to him about his disappearance. ... The small amount of people in the colonies were going up against the most powerful nation in the world in order to win their freedom back, and that wasn't an easy task. ... Rip Van Winkle might as well be one of...

• Word Count: 1834
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Not to worry if you cannot remember or don't want to, I am sure you have come upon more than a few people that exhibit these two characteristics. In her short story, "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" ... In her short story, "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" ... As the story progresses, Arnold unrelentingly demands Connie to come with him for a ride in his car, but Connie feels pressured and threatened by Arnold. ... Connie eventually gives up on any hope that she will be spared from Arnold's wrath and submits to Arnold by hopelessly agreeing with his pressure to c...

• Word Count: 1509
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Many believe that a person's character and integrity lie deep within, dating back to what was seen as a child and how they were brought up. ... After pondering the inevitable for what seems like an eternity in the dark woods all alone, Nick fires three shots into the night sky---the signal for his father and uncle to come back in case of an emergency. ... This goes to show how big of an influence a father had on both Nick's as well as Ernest Hemingway's life. ... Where the suicide affair may encompass the unremitting death that surrounds Nick despite his efforts to leave it...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It signifies the fear of the unknown because when they took Bailey in there first, he did not know what was going on. ... The last symbol I found that connects with religion comes from The Misfit himself because some say that he represents Anti-Christ. ... She includes many themes that relate back to religion in her literature pieces. ... In addition, the unnamed grandmother passes judgment on about almost everyone that she comes in contact with and that is not very Christian of her. ... Flannery O'Connor's short story "A Good Man is Hard to Find," is about a grandmother t...

• Word Count: 1261
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Their inspiration often comes from religious beliefs and perspectives come from the people they love. ... He is still waiting for his aunts promise to come, despite having seen all the children go up to the alter claiming to "see " Jesus and the light. ... Why did he not come? ... The child himself claims his sadness when Reza says "I ran back to the house, scared"." ... I don't want to go." ...

• Word Count: 1548
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• Grade Level: High School

So all the facts we are given from the narrator come as a reliable source, unbiased, and unquestionable. We come to think of the narrator as the voice of the town as a whole, and we are made to take his word as our own. ... They simply waited for the stench to go away because they didn't want to bother Miss Emily. ... They are forced to mentally go back and change the way they view Emily in almost every aspect of the story. Faulkner practically forces his readers to go back and re-read the story after the truth about Emily is revealed. ...

• Word Count: 1870
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

When her husband talks to her about her chrysanthemums she puts the glove back on her hand and continues to work while she converses with her husband. ... Come into the yard."" (250). She's so overwhelmed and engaged with her interest that she even lets the man come inside the fence and into her property. ... She did not look back" (253). ... She later asks if they can have wine and mentions going to the prize fights; although, she changes her mind about actually going to the fights. ...

• Word Count: 1566
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• Grade Level: High School

The short story that I chose Rape Fantasies comes from Atwood's first collection of short stories called Dancing girls and Other Stories. ... It is said that women are more than likely going to get raped by someone they know. ... Out of reality and back to fantasy she sees a man dressed as a burglar climb onto her balcony on the 18th floor, coming into her apartment and stealing her body. ... No one is going to be that willing to get raped and if it's so than it's not really rape. ... In a rape fantasy the out come is that you don't get raped. ...

• Word Count: 1334
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• Grade Level: High School

The fact that Ann never had a say in the out come of the story was shown by Ann's own words on Pg. 55, " . . . ... John was the person controlling the out come of the story. ... She goes back in the house and is relieved to see that Stephen has arrived. ... The storm is very bad now and Stephen is trying to tell Anne that John will not make it back. ... So she wakes up for a while and then goes back to sleep. ...

• Word Count: 2012
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

They are asked to dress decently the next time they come in. ... Although Sammy agrees with Lengel that this action will not be soon forgotten, he decides to go through with his decision. ... In the beginning he acts like an immature kid as he dissects how each of the girls look in their respective bathing suits, but in the end, his values appear to have changed and we believe he has matured a little as he notes "[M]y stomach kind of fell as I felt how hard the world [is] going to be to me hereafter" (104). ... He first notices a chunky kid with a good tan, wearing a plaid green two-piece whom...

• Word Count: 1283
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The fact alone that the narrator had believed only things he had heard and read about blind people goes to show that it is he who is "blind"; blinded by his judgments. ... I noticed this first when the narrator's wife goes upstairs for an extended period of time and he says "I wished she'd come back downstairs. ... It really made me take a step back and realize just how crazy and intense some people are about the judgments they pass. ... It is ridiculous to come to the realization that this man felt uncomfortable around a poor defenseless blind man. ... The importan...

• Word Count: 1441
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

He wrote to his foster father many times, pleading to come home. ... The similarities between the two cannot go unnoticed. ... His worst fears come true when he awakens in complete blackness, or the pit. ... One does not know if he is going to escape or die. ... Fortunately, his torture is ended as the walls suddenly rush back and General Lasalle rescues him. ...

• Word Count: 2349
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

She knew she would once again cry at her husband's funeral and the feelings she had when he was alive would come back one final time. ... "But she saw beyond that bitter moment a long procession of years to come that would belong to her absolutely. ... Louise is letting go of her old life and breathing in the fresh air of her new life of independence. When Louise's husband arrived home back from the dead, she was shocked and overwhelmed with the realization that her imagined future had no life and neither did she. ... Louise took a bite of the forbidden fruit, causing her to go ...

• Word Count: 1871
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School