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Papers on Book Reports
Never Ending Story
Number of words: 1460 | Number of pages: 6.... hero living out struggles inside the book. Their separate worlds are furnished together to bring a united conclusion, but with the reality and truth of their past, they are again separated; but in a resolving mood. This coming together of reality and fiction associates with the reader’s mind because it justifies and gives a reason to connect with The Neverending Story by Michael Ende. Thus, this book deserves to be a significant part of the canon because it deepens the realistic illusion that stories come from other stories, it is identical in many ways to the monomyth cycle (by Joseph Campbell), and finally it reminds .....
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Snow Falling On Cedars
Number of words: 1415 | Number of pages: 6.... "Is Kabuo home ? ". The two often spent time together "Look at this, Kabuo loaned it to me". Kabuo had lent Carl a bamboo fishing rod made by his father. Though this friendship was condemned by Etta Heine, it continued until such a time that the "real world" of maturity and prejudice and cultural differences removed was brought into their lives by the war.
Hatsue and Ishmael also shared a very close friendship for many years, from the time of childhood till their teens when the two became extremely close, to the point of sexual contact. "I want to marry you" , in a time where inter racial marriages were considered heinous b .....
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Jane Eyre: The Preserverance Of The Personality
Number of words: 2290 | Number of pages: 9.... that the fountainhead of her emotional life is the experience of oppression. Yet, her little self is full of fiery energy (as one of the servants observed: "Did ever anybody see such a picture of passion!" ), which like a volcano erupts at times in the form of revolt against the "tyrants". It seems that the child's most burning question is what kind of role she plays in the Reed house: if young John is her "master", she consequently has to be a servant, yet, she is regarded less than a servant - a beggar and an intruder. For Jane this "insupportable oppression" and the position of being inferior to the Reed children is almost h .....
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Chopin's A Pair Of Silk Stockings: Mrs. Sommers
Number of words: 526 | Number of pages: 2.... point, she wants more.
She begins to think without reason, and loses her sense of responsibility when
she puts the stockings on in the ladies room. Mrs. Sommers is "not going
through any acute mental process or reasoning with herself", she is "not
thinking at all" at this point.
Mrs. Sommers's mind is not working like it used to at the beginning.
All of a sudden nothing is too expensive, she eats the expensive restaurant,
buys shoes, gloves, and magazines "such as she had become accustomed to read in
those days". These things give Mrs. Sommers a "feeling of assurance, a sense
of belonging to the well-dressed multitude". Now .....
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A Dolls House
Number of words: 277 | Number of pages: 2.... “darlings”. Nora thinks of her children as something sort of like a plaything, a doll maybe. Her description of their “red cheeks! -- like apples and roses” emphasizes the children’s doll like appearance, with an imagery of bright red cheeks like those painted on dolls. Nora even goes as far as calling her baby her “sweet little baby doll.” Her throwing the children’s things around shows her carelessness to realize that she is the mother of her children, not their owner like one who owns toys. She acts like a kid playing with her toys, not as much as an adult taking care of her children. She plays hide and seek w .....
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Beloved
Number of words: 1006 | Number of pages: 4.... only sees things as a baby does. For this reason, she does not know how to form sentences. The only word that is consistently punctuated correctly is “I.” The only thing that is truly sure about, is herself. Everything else has the power to deceive her. “we are all trying to leave our bodies behind the man on my face [Halle] has done it it is hard to make yourself die forever” (page 210). has been amongst the living and the dead. According to her, the purpose of life is to become dead. Halle, the man on her face, has accomplished this through disappearing. Nobody knows anything about him, so he is as good as dead. C .....
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Lord Of The Flies
Number of words: 1934 | Number of pages: 8.... a double Lntendre in its
psychodynamic and physically sensual sense.
Jack's unwillingness to acknowledge the conch as the source of centrality on
the island and Ralph as the seat of power is consistent with the portrayal
of his particular self-importance. Freud also linked the id to what he
called the destructive drive, the aggressiveness of self-ruin. Jack's
antithetical lack of compassion for nature, for others, and ultimately for
himself is thoroughly evidenced in his needless hunting, his role in the
brutal murders of Simon and Piggy, and finally in his burning of the entire
island, even at the cost of his own life. .....
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“A Rose For Emily”: Changing Of Values And Attitudes In Southern Society
Number of words: 346 | Number of pages: 2.... into her own hands purchasing Arsenic. She offered no explanation for its use even though the druggist explained to her that the explanation was required by law. When an unbearable stench emanated from her property, the men sprinkled lime around the property to contain the smell but asked no questions out of respect for Miss Emily. The people of the town “knew that there was one room in that region above the stairs” that most likely held a tragic secret. Out of respect for who she was or who she had been, the secret was allowed to be hidden until she was “decently in the ground”.
Allowances were made for Miss E .....
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Animal Farm: Character Analysis Of Napoleon
Number of words: 488 | Number of pages: 2.... other animals one on one and
"psychologically brainwash" them. He is very kiniving in his ways to get more
power and is always trying to discredit and undermine the other animals. One
time he urinated on Snowball's plans for the windmill. Napoleon's sense of
timing is keen and this is very useful is his quest for more power. At just the
right time he implies that Snowball's teachings are not beneficial to the other
animals. Then the time comes when Napoleon has to carry out the rest of his
plan, getting rid of Snowball. But by the time the animals realize what is
going on Napoleon has taken control and is ready for any obje .....
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Humanity's Fall In "The Garden Of Eden"
Number of words: 1139 | Number of pages: 5.... good has
been lost to him. (Bk. 4, lines 75, 108-110). Satan's moral state further
decays in Book nine as detailed in a soliloquy at the beginning of the book
by Satan. Satan recognizes his descent into bestiality after once being in
contention with the gods to sit on top of the hierarchy of angels. He is
unhappy with this "foul descent" and in turn wants to take out his grief on
humanity. Despite recognizing that revenge eventually becomes bitter,
Satan wants to make others as miserable as he is. It is i n destruction
that he finds comfort for his ceaseless thoughts. (Bk. 9, lines 129-130,
163-165). Satan is described .....
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