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Papers on Book Reports
Kate Chopin's The Awakening
Number of words: 753 | Number of pages: 3.... mother.
Throughout the book Edna takes many steps to increase her independence. She
sends her children away, she refuses to stay at home on Tuesdays (as was
the social convention of the time), she frequents races and parties.
Unfortunately, her independence proves to be her downfall.
Edna stays married because divorce was unheard of in those days. She wants
to marry Robert, but he will not because it will disgrace her to leave her
husband. No matter how much Edna exceeds social boundaries, she is held
down by the will of others, despite what she wants. In today's world
divorce, sadly, is almost commonplace, but in her time she .....
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Demian
Number of words: 974 | Number of pages: 4.... eye." This dream is very sinificant in that it shows Emil's departure from the absolute "good" world into one of "evil." Emil has had first experience with lying, which he did to Kromer, that opened the door to more evil. Emil now finds himself jumping at every command Kromer throws to him. Emil begins to feel separated from his family and their peace and happiness. The "white summer dresses" are a symbolic of the purity his family has which he is no longer a part of. This dream is Hesse's way of indirectly pushing Emil from innocence into reality.
The last dreams of Emil's childhood are plagued by Kromer, who Emil finds h .....
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How Women Are Portrayed In Hom
Number of words: 664 | Number of pages: 3.... also portrayed the loyal daughter type using Naussica, the young princess of Scheria and daughter of King Alcinous. Like most daughters from the Greek civilization, she thought the world of her parents, and they thought the world of her as well. We see that she thinks highly of her father because she refers to him as her "excellent father" and tells Odysseus about everything her father can give to him. Her father seems to be wrapped around her finger. I got this impression because when she asked if she could use a big wagon, her father immediately replied "You shall have the mules, my love, and whatever else you have a mind for." ( .....
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The Pit And The Pendulum
Number of words: 1136 | Number of pages: 5.... group who do not care at all for him.
Isolation from normal surroundings is mentally draining. The setting of the dungeon is dark, dank, and generally unpleasant;(17) “The atmosphere was intolerably close,(18)...It was a wall, seemingly of stone masonry(19)--very smooth, slimy, and cold,(20)...The ground was moist and slippery” (Poe 3(21)).(22) Poe's dungeon is somewhat stereotypical; it is exactly as one would imagine, and the eloquent words describing it add an involving sense of realism. This setting also is typical of a grave; death and burial are some(23) of the major themes of the story. This gravelike feeling also mak .....
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Animal Farm: The Corruption In Humans And The Character Napoleon
Number of words: 836 | Number of pages: 4.... his
cunning ways. An example of this is when the pigs milked the cows and
someone asked what was going to happen to all that milk, Napoleon
receptively shrugged it off by saying: “ ‘ Never mind the milk, comrades!'
cried Napoleon, placing himself in front of the buckets. ‘That will be
attended to.' “ Napoleon is using a communist term when referring to the
other animals as comrades. A Utilitarian is one who believes all things
should be done with the greater good in mind. This is very effective
because it gives the other farm animals the illusion that Napoleon is
striving for the best interests of all but in reality .....
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Morals
Number of words: 791 | Number of pages: 3.... Shane return to solving problems with a gun, Jack Schefer implies that a man can not
changed, there is no breaking the mold.
In A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens expresses his belief on changing ones personality. The moral of A Christmas Carol is "People can make changes in their lives whenever they really want to, even right up to the end." Charles Dickens shows the moral by haveing Scrooge change his personality. In the begining of A Christmas Carol Scrooge is a cold and almost heartless man, Scrooge doesn't like Christmas or anything to do with it. Scrooge keeps to himself a lot, he does not like having people around him .....
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Heart Of Darkness: Heart Of Controversy
Number of words: 483 | Number of pages: 2.... understand the
differences between the past and the present, and be forgiving of his
language.
The deeper the expedition progressed into the center of the
continent, the more isolation was felt by the crew. In a sense, Central
Africa IS the antithesis of Western Europe -- it lacks not only the hectic
urban structures but also the Social Darwinist attitudes of the time. It
is in this remote environment that man must face his true self without any
illusions, and the darkness of the human soul is apparent. The uncivilized
environment may mock western civilization's refinement, but this is not
derogatory towards the jungle, but r .....
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The Blood Theme In Macbeth
Number of words: 545 | Number of pages: 2.... little water clears us of this deed,” is Lady MacBeth’s response to this situation. She thinks washing the blood off their hands will also wash the guilt off their minds. Nothing so complicated is ever that easy.
Lady MacBeth soon learns that guilt is heavier than water. She is in a state of dementia and believes there is still Duncan’s blood on her hands. She keeps trying to wash this imaginary blood away. “Yet here’s a spot/…Out, damned spot out I say! One. Two. /…Yet who would have thought the old man/ to have had so much blood on him?” (5.1. 33, 37, 40-42). She reali .....
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Vladimir And Estragon: A Symbol Of Man
Number of words: 671 | Number of pages: 3.... this action Vladimir is shown to be searching for answers in his hat, which symbolizes his using knowledge and his intellectual capability for solving problems. Both Estragon and Vladimir are searching for what the reader assumes to be the key to life’s problems. When they continue to do this throughout the drama, it expresses the fact that they are searching and will continue to search until they find what they are looking for.
Vladimir is more practical, and Estragon is more of a romantic. In the drama, Estragon wants to talk about his dreams. Vladimir doesn’t want to. He can not stand to hear about the dreams t .....
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To Kill A Mockingbird: Mobs
Number of words: 501 | Number of pages: 2.... guilty. No where did it say the bias jury initially had a
guilty verdict in mind, but with the attitude towards blacks in Maycomb
County, Lee made it bluntly obvious that they had no intention of
pronouncing Tom innocent. In the book Atticus made it very clear, "In our
courts, when it's a white man's word against a black man's, the white man
always wins." Just as in the horde outside the jailhouse, another member
of the Cunningham family played the outsider of this group. Atticus later
referred to the unnamed Cunningham, "You might like to know that there was
one fellow who took considerable wearing down—in the beginning .....
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