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The Robert E. Howard Foundation and Project Pride of Cross Plains, Texas are proud to announce the dates and Guest of Honor for the 2016 version of Howard Days, to be held June 10th and 11th at the Robert E. Howard Museum in Cross Plains. This year’s Guest of Honor is Michael Scott Myers, screenwriter…

Representation of Hulga’s Leg In Flannery O’Connor’s short story “Good Country People” she introduces Joy -Hulga. Joy-Hulga is an educated and intelligent young woman who lives within an environment she doesn’t belong. Joy-Hulga feels as if she is not one of those good country people despite her education and intelligence, however, throughout the story she…

The attic room scene in Mrs. Dalloway symbolizes the dynamics and death of Clarissa as an artist, of her mind and memory as suppressed embodiments of Beauty and Fertility.  It also shows her fragmented self and psyche (which she attempts to unify) and the collapse of categories such as space and time. For one, the…

Robert E. Lee Ewell In the book Bob Ewell is very much seen as the antagonist of the story. Harper Lee illustrates Bob Ewell to be the most disliked character and is whom much of the novel revolves around. Appearance: Scout Finch describes Bob Ewell in the courtroom (page 170) – “… a little bantam…

Understanding written material requires careful analysis of the society, culture, and context in which it was composed. Neglecting this can result in disregarding the work as insignificant or without meaning. T. S. Eliot, a celebrated poet during the interwar era, sought to avoid such perceptions by introducing his distinctive concepts, employing precise language, and leaving…

 William Sydney Porter, or O. Henry as it is widely known, is one of the most famous names in American literature. He was a master short-story writer of nearly 300 short stories. With a very inventive mind, he made plots for his stories from the commonplace things. The settings of his stories were drawn from…

Born William Sidney Porter, this master of short stories is much better known under his pen name “O. Henry. ” He was born September 11, 1862 in North Carolina, where he spent his childhood. O. Henry’s stories are famous for their surprise endings, to the point that such an ending is often referred to as…

Isolation is a reoccurring theme in both texts. It is highlighted again and again within ‘The Road’ through the use of the boy and the father and in the short stories written by Kafka, such as ‘The Metamorphosis’ and ‘Investigations of a dog’. It is this isolation which presents us with the despair and nothingness…

            Our of all the controversial narcotics, opium is one of the most popular drug since time immemorial. The use of opium is traceable embedded in many cultures of the world.  It is just ironic that opium use is one of the most detested acts, and yet the society seems to tolerate its existence. Moreover,…

            Aristotle defines a tragic hero or tragic character as someone who experiences a “change of fortune . . . from good to bad. It should come about not as the result of vice, but of some great error or frailty . . .” (Aristotle).  Both Faustus and King Lear suffer from excessive pride or…