Truman Capote's short story, "A Christmas Memory" is a bitter sweet tale of both a great familial love and of innocence lost shared between a young child and his older cousin. The age difference between the cousins is great- more than fifty years- yet it is clear that the two are almost on the same level of intelligence. ... This is a child's role that she, as an adult plays. ... The setting plays an important part in the story because it tells why there is a loss of innocence and that what the boys did was not just random acts of violence. ... They wanted everyone to know what they ...

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This suggests a specific and clear meaning to her arrival, but the fact that the laughter is soft indicates that there is something amiss. ... Unfortunately, when superstitious acts take place the one against it is usually the one that has evil presented before them unknowingly. ... This shows that something is wrong, and the lottery may not be what you might expect out of a typical money lottery. ... Superstitious acts can cause many disadvantages and hardship for people. Jackson's writing has shown private and public thoughts between the townspeople and Mrs. ...

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While they are playing, he asks her if she would like to catch a bananafish. ... Salinger typically focuses on the conflict between an innocent, childlike character, and the vulgar adult world. ... Seymour acts unaffected by these things when he is on the beach with Sybil. ... With a wife and mother-in-law judging him and telling him what to do, he wanted some control over his "diseased" life (Kazin). ... Salinger's stories always contained hidden meanings and morals. ...

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While O'Connor's mentality seems to be futile and interspersed with senseless brutality, in actuality, her writing is full of symbolism and meaning that is concealed beneath a flawless narrative approach. ... (Galloway) O"Connor's deep acknowledgment of her family's Southern legacy plays a strong role in the attitudes of her short stories. ... What originally look like irrelevant deaths inevitably turn out to be prominent depictions of God's righteousness. ... To capture the attention of a world in which traditional scriptural truths no longer have meaning was Flan...

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We went to go watch Alabama play LSU in football. ... What would you do? ... This is what O'Connor's writing can do to a reader because in reality, her writing is filled with meaning and symbolism, hidden in plain sight beneath a continuous narrative style that breathes not a word of agenda, of certainty, or of personal belief. ... Her characters are now showing more signs of not being sure of black people and their racist acts are now looked at from the reader's perspective as wrong. ... In Columbia Tennessee, on February 25, 1946, a dispute erupted between James Stephenson, a ...

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They destroy themselves by trying to be what, in truth, is worse than what they had. ... In "The Scarlet Ibis, " Brother acts out of pride and embarrassment towards his disabled brother, Doodle, and eventually causes Doodle's death. ... These three stories clearly prove through the examples of pride, greedy, and fear, that the Environmental Changes played an important role on affecting one's behavior. ... In Richard Cornell's tale "The Most Dangerous Game ", the main character Rainsford, is dragged into a game between life and death. ... For the first time, feels what it'...

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Bearing in mind the fact that "the Prologue" plays the most important part in the organization of the text, we have to read it very carefully. ... So he was highly interested in the relationship between "the local" and "the alien", in the intersubjective relationship between "the foreigner intruding in", and "the local". ... The short-story is based on a paradox: the gap between the factual level of the text, the way the governess acts, her words and her attitudes, and the textual level, what is rendered, implied by the text. ... It renders the unfolding of a past, which implies the distance b...

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