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Gone As she was walking down the highway she kept thinking of how her mom could have end up with Steve, a poor, uneducated, unemployed drunk who probably only married her because she had more money than most people on our block. Her mother only wanted to marry since her husband went to war and…

For my historical fiction project, I chose “My Brother Sam is Dead” by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier to explore the American Revolution. This time period has always fascinated me. The American Revolution was a conflict between the Patriots (Americans seeking independence from Britain) and the Loyalists (British and American supporters of Britain). It…

Reaction to James Joyce’s “Araby” James Joyce’s “Araby” is no different than his other works. The story of “Araby” is layered and profoundly complex yet, so are his other works. “Araby” is the story of a young boy who lives in Dublin and is completely captivated by a female counterpart. Something that is quite evident…

In Chapter 9 of The Hound of the Baskervilles, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle creates tension and suspense with his use of the following techniques: form and narrative voice; setting; structure; language and narrative style; social and historical setting and literary tradition. This chapter involves a lot of mysteries which keeps the reader interested and intrigued….

She knew what her dreams were, and where she wanted to be. She knew that she did not want to live in her small little apartment. She dreamed of living in a great mansion, with great reception halls, and small scented rooms for conversing with friends. But all those dreams, those wonderful, wonderful dreams faded…

Rusty Burke once observed that H. P. Lovecraft was Robert E. Howard’s only truly significant correspondent—not just in the number of letters exchanged and the importance of their content, or even in their length, but in the sheer breadth of subjects that the two men covered in their seven years of acquaintance through letters—and perhaps…

N. Scott Momaday divides his book The Way to Rainy Mountain in aninteresting manner. The book is divided into three chapters, each of whichcontains a dozen or so numbered sections, each of which is divided into threeparts. The first part of each numbered section tends to be a legend or a storyof the Kiowa culture….

Octavia E. Butler was born in a African American family. Her grandmother was a slave who did the laundry for a white family. When she was in child, she felt ashamed that her mother was a housemaid. However, when she grew up she realized that her mother endured a lot of disrespect, such as employers…

A sun submerged below to horizon, giving up orange tension through an island. A kind breeze rustled palms of tree, as boys drew round a fire. A humour was sullen, as they remembered the events of day. Voice of Ralph, once certain and command, hesitated now, as he appealed to the group. We “can not…

In ‘Of Mice and Men’ Steinbeck uses dialogue, action and description to introduce and describe the characters. Curley’s wife is first introduced, through description, as a girl not a woman: “A girl was standing there looking in. ” (page 53). This implys that Curley’s wife is looked down upon because she is female and young….