Situations in the story link together a bigger picture. ... Tessie then is granted another chance to pick again from The Lottery and ironically she is the final one to pull the dreaded black dot. ... The situations are the final reason why this story depicts quite a bit of irony. ... Tessie then is granted another chance to pick again from The Lottery and ironically she is the final one to pull the dreaded black dot. ...

• Word Count: 1400
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

, Faulkner presents a very horrifying picture in this story, and he does this by playing with the chronology, using detailed imagery, symbolism, and foreshadowing to present a detailed setting. ... He gives us a picture of a woman who hasfallen?... The picture of her father is just another symbol of immobility and her unwillingness to let go of the past. ... The final stage of decay in her house is revealed to the reader. ...

• Word Count: 1592
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

In Lawson's fictional world, however, such promises are made only to be broken or forgotten, and the blighting hopelessness of the bush life is subtly but inevitably conveyed in the final sentence: "And she hugs him to her worn-out breast and kisses him; and they sit thus together while the sickly daylight breaks over the bush". ... It is important for Lawson to detail the words picturing the campsite and the species of fish in the river to develop the plot. ...

• Word Count: 1266
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Of "A Good Man Is Hard to Find," Asals claims: One can easily pass over her [O'Connor's] hope that the grandmother's final gesture to the Misfit might have begun a process which would "turn him into the prophet he was meant to become"; that, as she firmly says, is another story, and it would be a reckless piety indeed which would see it even suggested by the one we have. ... Teagarden (E.A.T.) had left for her when they were courting, and she wishes to paint a picture of the "cute little pickaninny" she sees standing, without pants, in the doorway of a shack. ... The touch expr...

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

Kurt Vonnegut once said, "Enjoy the little things in life because one day you'll look back and realize they were the big things." It is often that things deemed inessential and trivial become overlooked, getting tossed aside. "Trifles," a one-act play by Susan Glaspell, is a simple story of little...

• Word Count: 1562
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Poe shows a distinct picture for the reader in his description of the boyhood school of Williams Wilson. ... The verification that the two characters in Strand's "The Tunnel " are meant to be a shadow of one character or their doppelganger, is not immediately obvious but is merely hinted toward in the final lines, "I feel I'm being watched, and sometimes I hear, a man's voice, but nothing is done, and I have been waiting for days." ...

• Word Count: 1660
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

As the clouds lay on the pavement, and the sun sets on the horizon while the birds start opening their wings to embrace the new day, it is easy to picture Washington Irving sitting at the side of the road with his pen on hand ready to write down what is happening around him. ... The final Neoclassical characteristic used by Irving is the objective point of view. ...

• Word Count: 2209
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate