The short story "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place," written by Ernest Hemingway, is about two waiters in a Spanish café who are discussing their last customer of the night, an elderly and lonely drunk man. ... In the day time the street was dusty; but at night the dew settled the dust and the old man liked to sit late because he was deaf and now at night it was quiet and he felt the difference" (Hemingway). ... The young waiter has confidence, purpose, and a wife to go home to at night. ...

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They seem to struggle every other Friday night to fill this immense social void. ... This is considered irony of situation because the readers and characters expect the next payday or Friday night out to open the door to a new relationship, however they do not ever meet. ... The ritual for both the man and the woman is to go home every night alone and lie in their beds and stare at the same moon, while feeling depressed for the same reason. ... Cisneros uses symbolism in many different instances in the story; in one instance Friday nights appear to symbolize an empty ritual night, the...

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One night Gradwitz goes looking for Znaeym to see if he's on the land. ... As the night goes on the story goes on Rainsford discovers that Zoroff is a hunter who hunts other humans. ... After the first night irony hits, Rainsford realizes what is was like to be hunted by an expert hunter, much like himself. ... Then on the third night Zoroff pulls out all the stops to get Rainsford, including using his whole pack of hunting dogs. ...

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Every night for 8 nights the narrator observes the old man as he is sleeping. On the eighth night the narrator comes fully inside the room and puts the old man under his bed. ... "It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain; but once conceived, it haunted me day and night. ... "To suspect, every night, just at twelve, I looked in upon him while he slept." ...

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Impossible idea enters the narrator's mind, "It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain; but once conceived it haunted me day and night" (829). ... Reader can consider two periods- period of calmness at day time, and period of horror at night. ... What is more interesting the murder does not happen on the first night, Poe makes readers wait for seven nights. ... On the eight night everything starts. ...

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Yes, Mathilde wants to be wealthy, and she desires this necklace badly so that she can pretend for one night to be part of a more fortunate class of people. ... For one night of being accepted among rich people she had to suffer ten years of debts. ...

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In the short story It's Just too Late, written by Calvin Trillin, we are presented with the story of FaNee Cooper, a troubled teenager searching to find her place in the world. Her parents once believed her to be the perfect child but now they find themselves with a rebellious introverted daughter...

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It was a dark and stormy night in April of 2054. Things were going fine in the little town of Chataqua until I woke up in the middle of my slumber to see a dark blue mass coming toward my home. I jumped out of bed to war the others, but they had already spotted it. After about ten grew long minutes ...

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Another issue that adds to the mystery of "The Signalman" is the fact that it is always night in the story. The dark and night time is always linked to the thoughts of ghosts and evil spirits. ... They are both set at night which is typical of a gothic, horror genre. ...

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A young man spotted her and asked her if she could tell him the way to the main road or where he could find a place to stay the night. ... Night falls and still no bird. The young man stays one more night at Mrs. ...

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"This is enough to satisfy Anber yet again the social system only works on behalf of the rich, and he sets out that night to redress this wrong by burning DeSpain's barn (855). ... As a result he set out that night and put DeSpain's barn on fire....

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The materialistic and consumeristic society in ANBS is all because of the rapid growth of technology and how some parents work day and night to purchase lifeless objects to fill their houses on the other hand RBS concentrates on how being isolated in a farm can change a person's behaviour and his actions towards the people around him. ... He thinks the girl is ungrateful because she doesn't appreciate that he work all day and night to buy the things he finds will make his family happy but in RBS the father hits the child because he plays with red back spiders when he shouldn't. ...

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"I Stand Here Ironing" is a short story written by Tillie Olsen, a famous writer. Olsen is best known for her works of fiction, high-lighting the lives of working-class Americans. "I Stand Here Ironing" is about a young mother, trying to make ends meet by using all her time towards her job. By doing...

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Bowen writes that Kathleen "never knew much about [her soldier] fiancé [and she] never saw completely his face [When they would talk outside the garden, she would sometimes]verify his presence by putting out her hand [which] he pressed painfully on one of his buttons [and cut her palm] [One night Kathleen] felt that unnatural promise drive down between her and the rest of humankind.... Supernatural things such as a demon tend to be like the night to come out since they have some way to hide they presence, this can explain why they made the "unnatural promise" in the night...

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As Brown is leaving his home and wife of three months to venture to the forest at night, Brown mentions his faith and the pink ribbons. ... Most critics seem to have the same views relating to Brown's life being tormented that night in the forest. ... " (Askew 22) When Brown went into the forest that night and left his wife of only three months, he lost his love of faith, his wife; faith, his belief and the love of the innocent pink bows....

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There would always be those times where she would still reminisce back to that one night, when she was happy. ... The same way she didn't question the authenticity of the diamonds on the necklace, her wealth that night wasn't question either because of her appearance, both perceived something they weren't and accomplished it. The same way she deceived many people that night, she was deceived by the jewel. ...

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Hawthorne shows through the description of events, with the forest at night as a creepy setting, and also thoughts that Young Goodman Brown is experiencing, that evil is surrounding him. ... Young Goodman Brown departs his wife and heads into the forest, in the dark of night, knowing that he is about to go forth "on his present evil purpose" (pg. 21). ... Young Goodman Brown venturing into the forest in the dark of night could be an allegory for the view of the Puritans of this time period; the fear of the unknown, people were scared to leave their homes, the pressure placed on their...

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Once the hunter told Sylvia about the herring that he was hunting, she decided to sneak out one night and climb the tree to find out where the herring's nest was located. ... He explains how he is hunting the herring, and just needs a place to stay for the night so Sylvia decides to bring him back to the house. ... "No amount of thought, that night, could decide how many wished-for treasures the ten dollars, so lightly spoken of, would buy,"" (Jewett, 187). ...

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A dream could be something you had in the night that seems so real, or a dream could be your fantasy, where everything is going your way. ... One night, she nearly murdered her employer, which caused her to go to prison and her to be what she is now, a person living on the streets. ...

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Comparing Dick to a shadow or something "moving in the night," both disturbs the reader and causes one to question first impressions. Night, darkness, and shadows emerge as crucial themes, once again drawing their power from the introductory stanza from "Tiger." ...

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The date was December 25, 2004 and I was driving home from the extended family dinner, when the unexpected happened. I was never a fan of waking up early on Christmas, mainly because I knew it was a day I had to spend with my twenty-eight cousins, in addition to all my aunts and uncles. The day star...

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The short story "Revelation" by Flannery O'Connor, portrays a story of a woman who thinks she is superior to everyone else and is caught up in the illusion she is living the right way by God. The majority of the story is in a doctor's waiting room where Mrs. Turpin has taken her husband Claud for tr...

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Lying in his cot the night after the incident with the lion, he thinks back on the problems of his marriage to Margot. ... Next, on the hunt for the buffalo, the day after the lion hunt, Macomber overcomes his fears with thoughts of his hatred of Wilson for sleeping with his wife the night before. ...

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While the narrator described his across the parking lot, he recounts "insects flying up in my face, weeds whipping, frogs and snakes, and red eyed turtles splashing off into the night " (128). ... The trees hide the forest floor, as the night time and sneakiness hide the whereabouts and illegal activities of these rebels. ...

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He acquired a job of selling newspapers on local L.A. street corners, while this was going on he squeezed in going to the public library during the day, and pecking away at his typewriter during the night. ...

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