However, his theme is not one of searching for the "American Dream." His theme addresses what happens when the "American Dream" lands on you. ... He proceeded to the University of Gonzaga, where his dream was to become a physician. After fainting from disgust in his anatomy class, he had to abandon this dream. ... He utilizes diary entries, faux newspaper articles, and multiple storytellers to tell stories within stories. ...

• Word Count: 1573
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

These citizens are chasing the new American dream in the film, a promise of a new profitable life of worry free luxury is promised via the ad shown during Quaid's trip around the city. ... He lived out his dream, achieved things he didn't believe he could, and we are left in awe of his accomplishment. The ending is reasonably cut and dry, some argument could be made that perhaps it was all a dream but without sufficient evidence to back such a theory up the majority will see it as explained before. ... "I just had a terrible thought... what if this is a dream?... The specific de...

• Word Count: 1253
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

You must allow yourself to become for a few minutes that character within. ... When growing up in a small town much like this girl, there's only so much pleasure that you can seek from within the town. ... For example in the story "Prue," Prue states, "I present my life in anecdotes, and though it is the point of most anecdotes that hopes are dashed, dreams ridiculed, things never turn out as expected, everything is always altered in a bizarre way and there is no explanation ever"(372). ... In Munroe's "An Ounce of Cure," the same type of loneliness is expressed through a conversatio...

• Word Count: 1285
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

He proves how brave, kind, and compassionate he is, which cannot compare to anyone within the outcasts. ... Oakhurst does not intend to destroy Tom's beautiful dream of finding Poker Flat, the place Tom and Piney, Tom's love, want to find happiness. ... In order to keep their dream of Poker Flat alive, Mr. ... Oakhurst's snowshoes, run as fast as he can, and he will reach Poker Flat within two days in order to receive help. ...

• Word Count: 1328
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

There is much reference to Chinese Tradition and myth within this story. ... The setting in this story helps to highlight the changes that occur within the story between Mabel and Dr. ... Time is the most significant element of setting within this piece of literature. ... Yellow can represent unfulfilled dreams, sorrow, being cut-off from a loved one, and also the desire to reject new ideas. There are three references to death within this poem. ...

• Word Count: 1865
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Within twelve months Carver completely changed his life. ... He eventually gave up on the dreams he and his wife had at one time. ... This showed an obvious change within writing such as "Cathedral" because his characters were finally allowed successful relationships and happiness. ...

• Word Count: 1298
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In the end, we can never be sure if good or evil won the fight carried on within Young Goodman Brown, but Hawthorne makes it abundantly clear that Goodman was scarred for life by his experience. ... The simple act of faith enables us to reach our goals and achieve our dreams. ...

• Word Count: 1340
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

We wish for it, dream of it, and expect it. ... According to Peggy Vaughan, "Forces within the individual that pull them toward affairs: Attraction: sex, companionship, admiration, power, Novelty, Excitement, risk, or challenge, Curiosity, Enhanced self-image, Falling in love" (1). ... She was getting everything she wanted that her husband wouldn't and couldn't give her to enhance her self-image because she had someone else to give it to her, I believe, Peggy Vaughan said that, "Forces within the individual that push them toward affairs: Desire to escape or find relief from a painful...

• Word Count: 1560
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

To live a good and happy life, one must own up to their true beliefs in order to come to a peace within them. In Susan Cooper's Dreams and Wishes: Essays on Writing for Children, she states "Fantasy goes on stage beyond realism, requiring complete intellectual surrender" (Cooper 85). ...

• Word Count: 1423
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

When his stepfather dies in 1943, Baldwin moved to Greenwich Village to pursue his literary dreams. ... Brooke discusses various articles published within the issue including one on James Baldwin's queer utility, one on the influence of Carson McCullers to James Baldwin. ...

• Word Count: 1511
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography

He writes, "Its walls within are stored with the monuments of John's ancestors; and it is snugly fitted up with soft cushions and well-lined chairs, where such of his family as are inclined to church services may doze comfortably in the discharge of their duties" (304). ... Through invasions, corruption, war, and even education, minorities lose their land, culture, and dreams. ...

• Word Count: 2209
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The short-story is opened to widely different interpretations because none of the three narrators within the text is endowed with an omniscient vision. ... Also she is under the pressure of the promise to her master as she herself admits that she had already been carried away in London, in Harley street by her master who "prove the gentleman, a bachelor in a prime of life, such a figure as have never risen, saving a dream or in an old novel before a fluttered anxious girl out of Hampshire vicarage." ...

• Word Count: 2120
• Approx Pages: 8

As a result, the short story usually leaves a great deal of its content open to interpretation and examination by the reader and it tends to have some interesting parallels within the story itself. ... She ends up falling asleep and having a bad dream that John had caught them and is choking her. ...

• Word Count: 2012
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School