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Papers on Book Reports
Ethan Frome: Ethan Lost Control Of His Life
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his life was because he was married to Zeena. If he would have married Mattie
and left Zeena, he would not have been in the sled accident, and consequently,
he would have lived a much happier life with Mattie.
The second way Ethan could have changed the direction of his life is if he
would have sold the farm and never have married Zeena. This would have saved
him many years of problems and unhappiness. He would never have met Mattie,
which means he would never have injured himself in the sled accident. If he
would have lived in another town besides Starkfield, he might have been an
engineer and married a woman who wo .....
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To Kill A Mockingbird
Number of words: 781 | Number of pages: 3.... a shot gun and fires into the air. While running away from Mr. Radley Jem gets his pants caught while trying to get back under the fence and has to slip out of them to get away. Later that night he goes back for his pants and find them folded over the fence and roughly mended. That following winter Maycomb had its first snow since 1885. At first Scout thought that the earth was ending, she had never seen snow before. Scout and Jem made a snow man that looked exactly like Mr. Avery. During that cold spell Mrs. Radley dies, and Miss Maudies house burns down. While Scout and Jem are standing in the street keeping their distance fro .....
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Fahrenheit 451: The Strength Of Beatty
Number of words: 422 | Number of pages: 2.... once said.'" (Pg. 116) This confused Montag to the point that he almost disclosed his passion for reading books.
Beatty has mastered the skill of holding people under his power. Beatty, himself, said, "Knowledge is more than equivalent to force." (Pg. 116) He additionally declared, "I don't think you realize how important we are to our world as it stands now." (Pg. 66) He takes his position to rule the people. By depriving people of books he striped the residents of knowledge and therefore withdrew their power.
One of the ways that Beatty controls is with fright. He is very proficient at using fear for control. During his s .....
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Huck Finn And Racism
Number of words: 884 | Number of pages: 4.... has had positive interactions with blacks, and has taken a liking to the slave Jim, who he helped to free, to go with him on his wild adventure. Huck never had very much schooling. This is one of the reasons he is so smart. It may sound odd, but the school system in Huck’s time had an agenda to make little racists out of little kids’ fresh new minds. The famed philosopher, John Locke, believed in an idea he called “Tabula Rasa”. This theory stated that humans were born with a clean slate, and we would only learn through our experiences. The society at Huck’s time didn’t believe in this theor .....
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The Natural: Fate
Number of words: 512 | Number of pages: 2.... Memo is lying buck-naked on the bed. When Roy notices her there
he doesn't stop and think,”Hold on a second their is a naked woman in my
bed mabey I should turn on the light and ask her what she's doing here” No,
he just jumps into bed and runs the bases. So one day Bump dies and Roy
thinks that Memo's all his, boy is he wrong. This new found passion
totally messes up his train of thought and guess what? Yup, you guessed it
another woman falls into his life. Strike two!
The woman is a very attractive....grandmother???? Her name was
Iris who he meets at a baseball game standing in the crowd. So he decides
to go .....
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Compare And Contrast On Characters Rayona And Pearl
Number of words: 456 | Number of pages: 2.... community was different from them didn't accept them.
Rayona and Pearl were also similar in another way. Through the tough times
of their mothers they stood by their side and endured the same hardships.
Rayona and Pearl also have many differences. Rayona was of
American Indian and Black decent while Pearl was of American decent. While
Pearl had to live with her mother's troubles, Rayona lived away from them.
There is a time when Pearl finds out her history and the things her mother
went through. Rayona however never found out about her past or what her
mother went through. Another difference between the two is that Rayona ha .....
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Roles In Frankenstein
Number of words: 1629 | Number of pages: 6.... is passed on her prematurely. I'll admit there was evidence against Justine, and we have the advantage of knowing that she didn't do it. Justine was not exactly a pillar of the community, so some reasonable evidence and the fact that human behavior tends to view people that are in the lower-class as being guilty of something, was all that was needed. The ideology of a being a monster is different the n looking hideous and revolting.
The characters of the Doctor and the monster act exactly opposite then would be expected of them. The label placed on how they are supposed to act ends up on the opposite side of the sc .....
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Ethan Brand
Number of words: 677 | Number of pages: 3.... in the lurid blaze of thus very kiln."(356) His search for self-gain leaves him detached from the world of mortals. steps into the world of gods, when he learns of the unpardonable sin, and yet he has not left the realm of man. He has eaten the forbidden fruit. He lives in a human world but cannot tell of the unpardonable sin. He is too proud or feels the burden is too great for any other. He is not welcome into society. He is mocked when he returns. He learns that one may be happy and ignorant or suffering and aware. One cannot possess the knowledge of what goes on and be happy with it. Once he learns how horrible humans a .....
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H.g. Wells The Time Machine
Number of words: 1828 | Number of pages: 7.... The surroundings seem to indicate a time of great learning ,of art, and beauty. The Time Traveler states " I saw mankind housed in splendid shelters, gloriously clothed and as yet I had found them engaged in no toil" ( Wells 38 ). The Time Traveler believed that the future held a perfect society. He assumes that these people who live here live in perfect harmony with no worries at all. The Time Traveler is introduced to the Eloi , strange little people who inhabit this society. "Indeed there was something in these little people that inspired confidence a graceful gentleness, a certain child like ease" (Wells 30). .....
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The Repressive Governments Of Zamiatin's We And Orwell's 1984
Number of words: 1895 | Number of pages: 7.... of its citizens is by the use and abuse of a system by which each
member of society receives a number at birth instead of given a name (Goldstein 54). The
numbers are assigned according to sex and occupation. For example, D-503, the main
character in We, is male, and is thus assigned a consonant for his prefix while his female
partner, O-90, is assigned a vowel. As D-503 is an engineer, he receives a 5 as his first
number. All state poets such as O-90 have numbers under 100. (Zamiatin 46). This use of
numbers instead of names creates a sense of unity and oneness of purpose in the
contented, complacent Numbers of the United State .....
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