Mary Lewis

The correspondent swims to water up to his waist.  The naked man on the beach drags the cook ashore "and then waded toward the captain, but the captain waved him away, and sent him to the...

After the men see the lighthouse, the correspondent finds eight cigars in the "top pocket of his coat".  Four were soaked and  "four were perfectly scatheless" someone found three matches...

Swift's modest proposal was satirical and therefore not to be taken at face value.  "A Modest Proposal" grows out of Swift's furious indignation, his disgust with English oppression and Irish...

1.  Wash the white clothes on Monday and put them on the stone heap; wash the color clothes on Tuesday and put them on the clothesline to dry 2. cook pumpkin fritters in very hot sweet oil 3....

The story does not suggest that we should prevent technology, but that we should not let it control us; we should not rely on technology to replace our human relationships such as between parents...

In Part IV of "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the Mariner tries to pray but only a "wicked whisper came, and made/My heart as dry as dust."  The Mariner had...

There are only 6 stanzas in "The Passionate Shepher to His Love" by Christopher Marlowe. If you mean the 6th stanza, Marlowe presents an idealized pastoral world full of romance without the harsh...

The rose in the title can be interpreted several ways. The rose is most often thought of as a symbol for love in which case Homer is the "rose" or love for Emily.  Her father thought no man...

I cannot think of a better title given the shades of meaning for the word rose.  The rose is most often thought of as a symbol for love in which case Homer is the "rose" or love for...

There are several themes in the story death, the decline of the Old South, and community vs. isolation.  The story begins with Emily's funeral; previously Emily's father, Colonel Sartoris, and...

The "understated violence" would be the murder of Emily's lover Homer who was not the marrying kind. Emily killed Homer with rat poison (he was a rat to her) why we are not completely certain....

Emily represents the "old South" because she stagnates and does not change with the times.  She refuses to accept change such as the death of her father; she also does not accept that Colonel...

Emily poisoned Homer because she did not want him to leave her.  Even though he died, she kept his body in a bed upstairs and evidently laid next to him because a long gray hair (hers) was...

Actually, you quoted incorrectly: "I wanted to try this new drink. That's all we do, isn't it--look at things and try new drinks?" This has a totally different meaning when you understand the...

The man in the cart could be John, he had taken the reins before in her life and led her on a safe journey--their life together with their children.  She recognized "him by his hands, driving...

The memory that was most painful to Granny was the day she was jilted by George "...since the day the wedding cake was not cut, but thrown out and wasted."  Granny, Ellen, felt like the world...

When Granny thinks about hell, she is thinking about the day she was jilted and the mental anguish she suffers when she thinks about George.  She prayed for sixty years trying to...

 The descriptions of nature or weather in the story reflect Granny Weatherall's state of mind.  The morning of her death her bed felt "pleasant as a hammock in a light...

     John is Granny's husband who had died many years previously.  On the day she was jilted, her world was collapsing, but John's "caught her under the breast, she...

     Part of the irony of this story is that Granny feels she is on her feet now "morally speaking".  However, she is dying isolated, waiting for a sign...

When Granny was dying "she had changed her mind after sixty years and she would like to see George."  She wants her daughter to find him and tell him that she "forgot him," that she had a...

The doctor of physic was grounded in astronomy, (astrology), rather than surgery and medicine; in fact, he taught his patients by using white magic.  The doctor thought the...

Although ostensibly a very sad story about loss and regret emanating from the persecution of the Dutch Jews during the Second World War, like The Diary of Anne Frank it also more intimately speaks...

     The context of the quote is "That's my Middle West ... the street lamps and sleigh bells in the frosty dark.... I see now that this has been a story of the West, after...

In Greek mythology, Kharybdis or Charybdis  was a sea monster, the daughter of Poseidon and Gaia. She takes form as a monstrous mouth and swallows huge amounts of water three times a day...