Lulu
Lulu, the cute little antelope taken as a pet by the Baroness, is pretty much directly a symbol for the Baroness herself. She is described as "the pride of the house" (1.4.24) but also as having th...
The Brass-Serpent
You know all about representative government from social studies class, but you might not know about representative mourning. In Out of Africa, when something bad happens, according to Dinesen, the...
The Stork
In a vignette entitled "The Roads of Life", the author remembers a story she used to hear as a child, where a man hears a terrible noise and goes out in the night to investigate, falls in ditches a...