Edgar Allan Poe is an expert in writing stories full of suspense and uses this particular writing style exceptionally well. ... This instantly makes the reader think why he is so and the fact that he tries to prove his innocence against being mad makes the reader believe that he or she has done something badly wrong. ... "I think it was his eye! ... He had the eye of a vulture --a pale blue eye, with a film over it. ... For example, at the beginning of the story, the man told the reader that he loved the old man but hates the eye and believes the eye is evil. ...

• Word Count: 1300
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Characterization: Even if we take these characters, for not what they were created to do, but for what they really were, it would not be alarming to say that the princess was a character, not very over powering in the beginning, but in the end, she has all the attention of the reader and it lays in her lap, which way to lead the mind's eye. ... Under the princess, she was anxious, whether, she should help him and see him alive, or should she decide to let him get killed. ... The gardener, in the flash of an eye asks the princess which gate to open. ... The element of psychological weight...

• Word Count: 1579
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

His wife unwrapped a package that encased a set of beautiful gemmed combs that she's had her eye on for quite some time. ... She was so happy that she almost forgot to give Jim his Christmas gift. ... The main character, Madame Loisel, was a simple woman in a family full of artisans. Her simple life also contributed to the fact that she married a store clerk, even when she felt as though she should be living in luxury. ... Upon entering their home, she had become hysterical when she realized that she had lost Madame Forestier's necklace. ...

• Word Count: 1490
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

At this point she receives grace, as she understands her place in humanity. ... Throughout the story the grandmother is a full-blown agent of disaster, a Geiger counter for catastrophe. ... She waves her handkerchief and adjusts the broken brim on her hat, insisting she is a lady and should not be shot. ... Later, when she asks him to pray, she again appeals to the fact that she is a lady, and she adds, "I'll give you all the money I've got!'' ... But when she wishes upon a Misfit, she is likely to be murdered. ...

• Word Count: 2384
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

In this story, a young man purporting to travel the countryside selling Bibles catches the eye of a pessimistic woman with a philosophy doctorate but who otherwise acts much like an adolescent, living at home with her mother in the rural South. ... Freeman's name is ironic because she is burdened by the land that she works, so is not really free. ... 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). ... She believes the hats in "A Good Man..."" symbo...

• Word Count: 2129
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography

Rachel is a sixty year old servant who always leaves Misto C questioning why she is always so joyful and full of excitement during their conversation Misto C asks Rachel, "Aunt Rachel, how is that you've lived sixty years and never had any trouble?... She told Misto C how she was born into slavery and how she was a slave herself. ... That is where Rachel ended her explanation to Misto C of why she was so joyful and how she experienced plenty of trouble in her past. ... It shows examples of inhumanity, and it is a big eye opener. ... She said that Mrs. ...

• Word Count: 1889
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

I think it was his eye! ... His vocabulary forces the readers to pay full attention on his characters. If we think about the stories "The Tell-Tale Heart " and "The Cask of Amontillados " the vocabulary he has use there is so strange that it keeps the reader's attention on the protagonist what keeps us wondering and guessing what she or he is going to do next. ... On the other side his super ego tells him that it is not right things to do as she is his sister and out of that fight of his own mind led him to come to a decision and that is to bury his sister Madeline alive. ...

• Word Count: 2343
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School