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Papers on Book Reports
The Scarlet Letter - Punishment And Death
Number of words: 612 | Number of pages: 3.... her
work dutifully and completely.
She is emotionately worn out by all the work and penance for her sin.
Midway through the novel she no longer appears as a hidden beauty. Hester
now wears her hair in a cap, and the only effort of considerable worth is
that which she expends in her teachings to Pearl. She has earned the towns
people respect. People now regard the letter as representing the word
"able."
As the Reverend Dimmesdale refers to Pearl in his argument for
allowing the child to remain with her mother, "God gave Pearl as a blessing
and as a reminder of her sin." The girl herself is a much more considerable
punis .....
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The Struggle Between Good And Evil In The Hobbit
Number of words: 1631 | Number of pages: 6.... creatures lose their flesh - blood forms, and magic rings of
Power rule and corrupt (Evans145).
Magic comprises part of the fantasy aspects of the book. For example, when Gandalf is awakened by a scream, there is a flash of light and the goblin king falls at Gandalf's feet. "Bilbo's yell had done that much good. It had wakened him up wide…" (Carpenter 124). When Gandalf used his magic lightning command he killed the goblin king. When Bilbo encounters Gullum and plays a game of riddles with Gullum he steals a magic ring from Gullum. When Gullum found out he attempted to chase Bilbo. At that moment Bilbo placed the ma .....
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Silas Manner
Number of words: 1679 | Number of pages: 7.... describes their marriage as " an ugly story of low passion delusion and waking from delusion, which needs not to be dragged from the privacy of Godfrey's bitter memory."(33). The marriage was one that Godfrey did not think much about before acting on his impulse. His brother Dunstan had trapped Godfrey in a position where Dunstan could blackmail him Dunstan saw the marriage as a way "of gratifying at once his jealous hate and his cupidity."(33). For reasons not stated in the book Dunstan has a deep-seated hate towards his brother. Godfrey soon acquires a huge debt to both his brother and his wife who has had his child, to kee .....
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Morrison's Jazz: Characters' Actions
Number of words: 1760 | Number of pages: 7.... the history
that is recounted in this novel is more gossip than fact, it presents a
more accurate story than the one depicted in the “offical story” located at
the beginning of the novel. Toni Morrison attempts, through these three
characters to illustrate how the narrator's perception of each character's
history can alter the reader's understanding of a character's actions.
Through this technique, she is able to demonstrate that circumstances and
events are not always as simple or truthful as they seem.
The first impression of Violet is presented through the
"official story" established at the beginning of the nove .....
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The Scarlet Letter: Admitted, Hidden & No Guilt
Number of words: 462 | Number of pages: 2.... the town and lives there with the scarlet “A” on her chest, after she had left for so many years.
Hidden guilt preys on a conscience and brings about hypocrisy. Dimmesdale does not confess his sin, which troubles his conscience as well as his “red stigma,” the unhealed wound on his breast. He becomes paranoid and begins to see his sin everywhere. In the meteor which flashes through the sky one night, he sees he letter A. He covers his guilt even more by placing his hand over his chest. The “red stigma” represents his deep regret for the sin, but is not a proper substitute for public confession. He doesn’t .....
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The Awakening 5
Number of words: 743 | Number of pages: 3.... sphere it [is] surely this union.” Madame Ratignolle has surrendered to her husband’s world as proper wives at the time were expected to do. She obeys her husband and assumes the responsibility of keeping him satisfied. “She would not consent to remain with Edna [when] Monsieur Ratignolle was alone, [because] he detested above all things being alone.”
While Madame Ratignolle is the ideal Victorian woman, Mademoiselle Reisz is “a disagreeable little woman, no longer young, who [quarrels] with almost everyone, owing to a temper which [is] self-assertive and a disposition to trample on the rights of .....
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All Quiet On The Western Front: Alienation
Number of words: 626 | Number of pages: 3.... terrible beyond anything we could imagine. All our senses are
assaulted: we see newly dead soldiers and long-dead corpses tossed up
together in a cemetery (Chapter 4); we hear the unearthly screaming of the
wounded horses (Chapter 4); we see and smell three layers of bodies,
swelling up and belching gases, dumped into a huge shell hole (Chapter 6);
and we can almost touch the naked bodies hanging in trees and the limbs
lying around the battlefield (Chapter 9).
The crying of the horses is especially terrible. Horses have
nothing to do with making war. Their bodies gleam beautifully as they
parade along--until the shells st .....
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20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA
Number of words: 307 | Number of pages: 2.... to go there. They almost died leaving the Great Ice Barrier.
Then they fought with giant squid. Captain Nemo seemed to be seeking revenge on
ships from his own country. He used the powerful Nautilus as a weapon to sink
many ships. After 10 months of being aboard they completed their underwater
exploration covering 20,000 leagues under the sea. A Maelstrom hit the
Nautilus and Professor Aronnax, Conseil and Ned Land, already in the dinghy
ready to escape, were thrown from the submarine. They floated to safety and
returned to their homeland. The mystery remains. Nobody knows what happened to
the Nautilus and its infamo .....
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Brave New World
Number of words: 1089 | Number of pages: 4.... into the main card index and stored. It is here that they are "sexed". Thirty percent of the female embryos are allowed to progress normally (to maintain the supply of initial ova). The rest of the female embryos are given a large dose of male hormone that renders them physically female in all ways, but sterile.
It is also here that their caste designation determines how much oxygen they will receive in their bottle. "The lower the caste, the shorter the oxygen." The lower caste Epsilons are oxygen deprived because they don’t need smarts for the work that they do.
The "Bokanovskified", pre-sexed, caste designated embryos are the .....
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Animal Farm Vs. Marxism
Number of words: 1505 | Number of pages: 6.... essays and gave speeches to the working class poor. The working class in Russia, as compared with the barnyard animals in Animal Farm, were a laboring class of people that received low wages for their work. Like the animals in the farm yard, the people is Russia thought there would be no oppression in a new society because the working class people (or animals) would own all the riches and hold all the power. (Golubeva and Gellerstein 168).
Another character represented in the book is Farmer Jones. He represents the symbol of the Czar Nicholas in Russia who treated his people like Farmer Jones treated his animals. The anim .....
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