… splinters in my tender feet. Every ten or fifteen feet I stop, sometimes to smell the salty sea air, but mostly to wait for my parents who plod along behind carrying chairs, coolers, and other beach paraphernalia. I yell back to them to hurry, and…

… uncertainty of meaning or intention. In ?Young Goodman Brown,? there are several ambiguities that make this story a little confusing to the reader: the setting, being in Salem Village; Goodman Brown?s wife, Faith; the pink ribbons from her cap; the…

… story of Emily Grierson, an aging spinster in Jefferson, whose death and funeral drew the attention of the entire town. ?The men went through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity to see the inside…

… planet I have come to question things that many take upon blind faith. We all know that we must some day die; yet we continuously deny the forces at work inside ourselves, which want to search out the answers of what may or may not come after. It…

… take his reader to unbelievable places with his imaginative powers allows him the honor of being the most popular English novelist of the 19th century. Dickens has thrilled his readers for many years with his down-to-earth stories about real people force…

… and read along full of interest--because of the characters, who were, at first, so fully and deeply drawn. The bugs and beetles were neither upsetting nor very interesting--is everyone really surprised and troubled to hear that beetles eat dead…

… by E.M. Forster is an early example of apocalyptic fiction that shows humanity trapped by technology. It was written in the early 20th century. "The Machine Stops" is set in the distant future, when mankind has come to depend on a worldwide Machine…

… R. Hoban?s ?Summer Recorded? C.D. Lewis?s ?Walking Away? and Russell Hoban?s ?Summer Recorded? are two poems about joyful memories now lost in the sands of time. Both use metaphoric language, and similies to describe the loss and joy the poet feels…

… the philosophical question, ?What can I know?? With this philosophical question comes the epic battle between whether or not a person should base an opinion on empicism or rationalism. I believe that I need to be shown facts and logic to understand…

… is a play that takes place in the sixteen nineties during the famous but tragic witch trials. The entire community is in pandemonium yet certain characters are also fighting internal conflicts of their own. Miller uses three characters who manifest…