… the two short stories "Spelling" and "Differently" written by Alice Munro deal with female relationships. These relationships paint a vivid picture of the kinship, deception, challenges, and associations that affect friends and family as they journey…

… Desire, by Tennessee Williams, Stanley Kowalski displays his brutality in many ways. This classical play is about Blanche Dubois’s visit to Elysian Fields and her encounters with her sister’s brutal and arrogant husband, Stanley Kowalski, and the…

… take the SAT and ACT in hopes of scoring high enough to get into the college of their choice. This is not always possible, even for the smartest students and the best test takers. The SAT and ACT are used as an estimate of how a student will do in…

… war that knows no end. This was the recurring image of this powerful novel by Ninotchka Rosca. Set in the Marcos era, a time of violence and turmoil, it displays the brutality and beauty of humanity in its cast of colorful characters scattered among…

… is a thrilling novel that portrays the forces of good against evil. In the year 1991, a plague strikes America, leaving only a few thousand people alive who are "immune" to the epidemic. Of the survivors, those who serve G-d instinctively join…

… human mind." -Patrick McGrath When you read that quote, what does it make you think? Well, it makes me think of one thing. It makes me think of all of the terrifying stories I’ve read by the master of the macabre himself, Stephen Edwin King.…

… a certain relationship that seems to be unbreakable. The narrator shares a special relationship with Bartleby. Both characters have similarities in their personalities and the way they act. Generally we look at them as being similar in the way they…

… provokes thoughts and senses in ways that allow the reader to imagine what they perceive to be occurring. Although each person develops their own mental picture, each one could be considered correct. It is through the wonderful use of diction,…

… Mrs. Mallard seemed to me an old woman and as we are told in the very first line, “afflicted with a heart trouble.” I was surprised later, when it said that she was young. I think that Chopin is showing us a social situation of the times with the…

… Ward. New York: Random House, Inc., 1988. 123 pp. $9.00. Trade Paper. Imagine your mother dying and you would never be able to see her again. Most people would be devastated, but the main character in The Stanger could care less. This charact…