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Papers on Book Reports
Lord Of The Flies: Animal Instinct
Number of words: 942 | Number of pages: 4.... thinking about him.” In this it is obvious that
Piggy is scared of Jack, so much so that he thinks about him constantly and now
he has him figured out. This is why Piggy is unaffected by his evil. He sees
what is happening to everyone else through Jack. The other person who wasn't
overcome by their evil is Ralph. Ralph was an older child, and he was an
athletic born leader. He was the leader of the tribe until the children began
doing what Jack said. Although he never completely surcame to it, Ralph was
tempted by evil. One instance happened when Jack and his hunters came back from
a hunt and began to dance. The story .....
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All Quiet On The Western Front
Number of words: 480 | Number of pages: 2.... Front. The soldiers on the front were devastated during the first bombardment and all the mental and physical conditions of the soldiers deteriorated from that point on. The values of the Renaissance were the opposite of those that arose on the battlefield.
The fantasy of solving their own national problems disabled Germans in viewing other countries war aims. Over confidence destroyed the troops.
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In the movie “All Quiet on the Western Front”, young inexperienced German soldiers eagerly enter World War I, but their enthusiasm “wears thin” as they experience the horrors of the war. Slowly, .....
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The Giver: Book Report
Number of words: 491 | Number of pages: 2.... Memory.
Complication: Jonas finds out that not all memories are nice.
Conflict: The conflict is man vs. man. Jonas can't turn down his
assignment without being released.
Climax: Jonas runs away from the perfect community so that Gabe won't be
released.
Falling Action: People search for Jonas and Gabe.
Resolution: Finally Jonas and Gabe make it elsewhere, and they were safe.
Setting
#1: “Now the landscape was changing. It was a subtle change, hard to identify
at first. The road was narrower, and bumpy, apparently no longer tended to by
road crews. It was harder suddenly, to balance on a bike .....
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The Metamorphosis: The Last Four Pages
Number of words: 478 | Number of pages: 2.... Gregor.
The scene at the kitchen table proves revealing once again when Mr.
Samsa announces that he will fire the cleaning lady (17). By doing so, Mr.
Samsa demonstrates that he has changed and can take responsibility. Grete
(Gregor's sister) and Mrs. Samsa also show that they have changed by not
contesting Mr. Samsa's decision to fire the cleaning lady. In retrospect,
firing the cleaning lady is an additional step towards change from the past.
The second revealing scene is the scene on the trolley. In this
scene, Kafka reveals the family's plans for the future, as well as the
significant changes in Grete. He .....
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Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde: Is There Evil Inside All Of Us
Number of words: 940 | Number of pages: 4.... deformity without any namable malformation, he had a displeasing smile, he had borne himself to the lawyer with sort of murderous mixture of timidity and boldness, and he spoke with a husky, whispering and somewhat broken voice. (Stevenson 10)
In this novel it states that a potion can isolate your evil side. But does it take more then that? In many people minds it would take the willingness of the person to want to change himself. In the case of Dr. Jekyll he wanted this to happen, he was not happy with himself. (http://www.phuckschool.com)
One day the evil was just too strong and Henry Jekyll would be no more. He was now Edwa .....
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Young Goodman Brown: Everyone Is Capable Of Sin
Number of words: 470 | Number of pages: 2.... the
minister are talking about missing a church ordination dinner to attend the
satanic gathering. The deacon says,'”Besides several of the Indian powwows,
who, after their fashion know almost as much deviltry as the best of us,'”
(311). The whole time Goodman is on the trail, he is committing sin.
Every step of the way, he is forsaking his god. He slowly succumbs to sin
as the lord of the underworld coaxes him. At the meeting, when a voice
screamed out, ‘”Bring forth the converts!'”(315), Goodman steps forward,
accepting evil. Under the right settings, anybody is capable of evil.
Using the right settings, Hawthorn .....
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The Epic Of Gilgamesh
Number of words: 730 | Number of pages: 3.... epic. Gilgamesh has gone from arrogant to scared.
Second, the death of Humbaba changes Gilgamesh. Humbaba is evil. Many
people who live in the city of Uruk fear Gilgamesh. Most would say that
Gilgamesh himself is, in fact, evil. He has sex with the virgins, he does what
he wants, and he tends to offend the gods. He has lots of problems with Ishtar.
By going into the forest and facing Humbaba, Gilgamesh makes a name for himself
and changes the views of the people in his city. This is a very arguable point.
Yes, the past of Gilgamesh does not change, but the great deed of killing
Humbaba, makes him a better person because h .....
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Walter Mitty's Pathetic Life
Number of words: 207 | Number of pages: 1.... try to do
things for himself-parking his own car. He didn't have much confidence in
himself.
He daydreamed all the time about what he wanted to be because he didn't
have a very exiteing life. He dreamed he was a doctor, pilot, convict, etc. On
acount of his boring life he dreamed of having a realy exiting life.
His wife made him do things that he did not think were necessary, but he
did them anyway because he was afraid to stand up for himself. She made him
wear his boots and gloves and told him not to sit in a certain chair in the
hotel.
Overall Mitty has no self confidence about himself or the way other
people loo .....
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Grendel
Number of words: 461 | Number of pages: 2.... his mother. She cares for Grendel but just with the natural
motherly instincts which Grendel sees as mechanical. Grendel doesn't understand,
"Why can't I have someone to talk to?" as the world starts to look darker in his
eyes. Animals of all sorts are enemies of his because they don't understand him.
Grendel is more superior
Grendel's role in society is to be the great destroyer. The Dragon tells
Grendel this " You improve them, my boy! … You stimulate them!" but Grendel dose
not want to except it. HE want to be part of the humanistic world. He want a
different role in society. This makes Grendel very unhappy that he canno .....
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The Scarlet Letter: The Morality Issue
Number of words: 767 | Number of pages: 3.... her community as she accepted herself and the “A” on her chest. We all have sins, but if we don not admit to our sins we won’t be forgiven. The reverend Dimmesdale said “But still, me thinks, it must needs be better for the sufferer to be free to show his pain, as this poor woman Hester is, than to cover it all up in his heart.” This statement is true because she because she began to reconstruct her life. The community began calling her sister of Mercy, and the “A” was said to stand for “Able.” Though Hester was morally wrong in her act, she was morally right in accepting her wrong.
This leads us to the Re .....
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