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Shirley Jackson / Biographical Discussion
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A basic, 5 page overview of author Shirley Jackson's life & works. Using several of her stories (including The Lottery) as examples, the writer discusses Jackson's frequent use of evil as a theme. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: Shirjack.wps

Shirley Jackson's 'The Lottery' / Foreshadowing
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A 5 page paper examining Shirley Jackson's famous story in terms of how its ending is foreshadowed by the events in the book. The paper concludes that careful plotting and handling of symbolism leads us toward the shocking ending, but does not spoil it for us. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: Lottfore.wps

Shirley Jackson's 'The Lottery' / Message Concerning Society
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A 5 page essay on her terrifying short story about human sacrifice in a small agricultural village. The writer addresses this issue and what it says about human societies as a whole giving examples from the past and present where similar thinking is taking place. No additional sources cited.
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Shirley Jackson's 'The Lottery' vs. David Rodriguez's 'I'm Not Stupid'
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A 7 page paper discussing a comparison of Margaret Fletcher in the play, I'm not Stupid and Mr. Summers in The Lottery in controlling their environments and others around them. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: Control.doc

The Theme Of Violence On 'The Lottery' & 'Doe Season'
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A 5 page paper examining the theme of ritualistic violence in these two stories. Compares and contrasts the two different approaches taken by Jackson and Kaplan that arrive at the same conclusion - that violence is wrong.
Filename: Lottdoe.wps

Humor in Irving’s “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”
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A 5 page paper analyzing Washington Irving’s use of humor in this short story. The paper argues that within this story, Irving first uses humor to depict a character we can laugh at from a distance; he then uses fear to create a strong reader identification with that character, so that we come to realize that within Ichabod Crane there rests a great deal of us. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Washington Irving and American Romanticism
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A 3 page essay that points out the features of Irving's story 'Rip Van Winkle' that illustrate characteristics of American Romanticism. Quotations from the source. Bibliography lists 1 source.
Filename: IrvRom.wps

Washington Irving's 'Rip Van Winkle' / Critical Analysis
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A 7 page paper providing a critical analysis of the Washington Irving work Rip Van Winkle. The writer is concerned with highlighting significant points and also showing the parallels between Rip Van Winkle himself. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: Ripvan.wps

Iris Murdoch/A Severed Head
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A 3 page analysis of Iris Murdoch's novel, A Severed Head. In this work, the main character, Martin Lynch-Gibbon, experiences a progression of revelations that compel him to an new awareness of the realities that make up his life. Throughout the book, Murdoch combines the elements of her narration with Freudian psychology, which aids her in portraying Martin's movement from the unconscious to an awareness of reality. No additional sources cited.
Filename: 90head.rtf

Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man' / Analysis
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A 19 page paper on Ellison's 'Invisible Man' in which the writer argues in support of the idea that there is a direct link between Ellison's concept of invisibility and the narrator's search for self-identity. The writer also relates the narrator's struggle for identity with the same struggle recognized by black theologians. Nine sources cited.
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Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man' / Analysis Of Scenes
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A 5 page paper that compares two major scenes in Ellison's Invisible Man--The Battle Royale and the Harlem Riots. This paper contends that not only do these scenes represent black violence inacted against other blacks but they also serve to underscore the narrator's invisibility, two major themes of the novel. No additional references are cited.
Filename: Maninv.wps

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