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    Coming Of Age Stories

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    a primal need to be”childish”; or is it that even as adults‚ human beings still are growing‚ learning and evolving their minds just like in adolescence. These questions are asked in a multitude of coming of age stories‚ like in The Intruder by Andre Dubus‚ The Grave by Katherine Anne Porter and The Passage by Dalton Trumbo. All these stories connect in the way that they

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    In order to become a hero‚ one must suffer pain to please themselves and others. In ‘Eveline’ by James Joyce and ‘Killings’ by Andre Dubus‚ the authors show their own versions of heroism. In ‘Eveline’‚ the main character‚ Eveline‚ gives up her future to fulfil a promise made to her mother. As for ‘Killings’‚ the main character‚ Matt becomes a hero for his wife and family when he kills the man who murdered his son. Heroism can be seen in different forms to everyone‚ to some it may look impressive

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    written by Andre Dubus. These stories are similar in plot and theme. Both of these stories deal with murder‚ love and revenge. Though‚ love and murder are presented in different ways in the two stories. The main character in both these stories are of the opposite sex and they are both the protagonist. “A Rose for Emily” is about a women named Emily Grierson and her mysterious life as a southern belle. While “Killings” is based on a man named Matt Fowler who commits a bad crime. Faulkner and Dubus start

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    The Differences Between This paper is about four different American authors. Two are from the American South and two are from the American North. Their different styles of writing American literature stories are quite obvious. A goal is to point out the differences in these stories and what drove these authors to write these stories. Each region of our country has its own set of values that are unique to that section of the country. These values influence the characteristics of the life and the

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    Judgment in the House of Sand and Fog People place judgment on one another every day based on differences. Sometimes it is done subconsciously; sometimes it is done on purpose. In the book The House of Sand and Fog‚ by Andre Dubus III‚ two different cultures were represented; Kathy represented the culture of the western civilization‚ whereas Behrani represented the culture of Persians. People judge one another based on unimportant things‚ and get judged based on those same things as well. Two

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    Luke Ripley from “A Father’s Story” by Andre Dubus and the sitter from “Winter Night” by Kay Boyle both deeply love their daughter and were motivated to make choices based on that love whether wrong or right. Luke’s decisions in “A Father’s Story” where completely controlled not by‚ “a stable owner or a catholic or any other Luke Ripley I had lived with for a long time‚ but a father of a girl” (Epperson ??). He decided to deny his faith and what he knew was right to protect his daughter from going

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    Death and Impermanence

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    Death and Impermanence ENG 125 Instructor: Macy Dailey September 05‚ 2011 This paper focuses on the similarities and differences of the representation of death and the impermanence in the short story “A Father’s Story” by Andre Dubus‚ and the poem “Because I could not stop for Death” by Emily Dickinson.” The reader finds two authors who are different‚ but produces a mental picture of death in the short story and poem. In “A Father’s Story” the main character in the story is the father

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    Hemingway, the Eco-Feminist

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    Robin Allison Professor Knight ENG 113 OM4 1 December 2013 Hemingway‚ the Eco-Feminist Ernest Hemingway‚ a world-renowned author considered by many to be a master of the short story‚ has been often criticized as being sexist‚ misogynistic‚ patriarchal‚ or anti-ecological in his mindset. In fact‚ although he probably did inherit many of these pervasive traits from the culture in which he was born‚ his writing taken at face value paints a picture of a man who‚ rather than enforce these ideologies

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    Powder by Tobias Wolff

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    One of the most renowned American writers‚ Tobias Wolff is known mainly for his work on the memoir‚ and short stories. He was part of a new wave of writers‚ including Andre Dubus and Raymond Carver‚ who ushered in a novel style of fiction writing‚ which is all at once real yet incredible‚ grounded yet detached‚ but always engaging. Wolff wrote his short story “Powder” as part of his 1996 collection entitled The Night In Question. There are only two major characters in the story—the

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    Descriptive Analysis

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    Descriptive Analyses of the Essays and Short Stories Narration and Description THE STRATEGIES Although the narrative and descriptive essays are often given as separate assignments in composition courses‚ they are combined in this first section so that teachers can present expressive writing and still reserve time for the many forms of informative and argumentative writing. This choice is tricky because it confirms the folk wisdom about expressive writing and rhetorical difficulty. According to

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