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Papers on Book Reports
Universial Themes In "The Return Of The Native" And "Great Expectations"
Number of words: 1239 | Number of pages: 5.... the boy and quizzes him.
“Then I came down here, and I was afeard, and I went back; but I didn't
like to speak to her, because of the gentleman, and I came on here again”
[Johnny Nunsuch]
“ A gentleman--ah! What did she say to him, my man?” [Diggory Venn]
“Told him she supposed he had not married the other woman because he liked
his old sweetheart best; and things like that” [Johnny Nunsuch]
[Book First, chapter 8, pp. 82]
This chance exchange reveals that Wildeve is meeting with Eustacia. Venn
uses this to his advance by announcing himself to Mrs. Yeobright as a
suitor for Thomasin. This backfires because Mr .....
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Glass Menagerie Symbolism
Number of words: 2391 | Number of pages: 9.... time had passed, so they do not know how to break free of that confinement. All the characters as a whole have tried to escape the harsh reality, but in every case they manage to fail, and in turn shatter their dreams like glass. This continuing struggle is a large part of the major theme of The Glass Menagerie.
Just as the glass menagerie represents all of the characters as a whole, it also represents each character individually. “Though the glass menagerie is most directly relevant to Laura, all four characters have sublimated their animal drives into esthetics. Laura has her glass animals, Tom his movies and poems, .....
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The Odyssey: Telemachus And His Development
Number of words: 891 | Number of pages: 4.... that his father will come and clean up the mess that the suitors are
to blame for. Telemachus knows that his father would handle the situation
with the suitors in a much more aggressive manner than he does. Odysseus
would kill all of them for being treacherous beings, while Telemachus does
nothing but whine. Telemachus says "how his noble father might come back
out of the blue, drive the suitors headlong from the house, and so regain
his loyal honors, and reign over his own once more"(The Odyssey, Homer,
1980 Oxford University Press, W. Shewring)(pg. 17)
It is not till Telemachus receives divine attention that he even
be .....
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Death Of A Salesmen: Freedom And Willy’s Dream
Number of words: 1725 | Number of pages: 7.... else and he knows that his father isn’t all that he seems. He is giving his love away to someone other than Linda.
The second thing of significance is the fact that is one instant Biff now doesn’t want Willy to get his grade changed. He thinks that because of the person he now thinks his father is he couldn’t do it. He is completely disillusioned by what he has seen, and his whole concept of who his father is breaks down. His hero image of his father is shattered. He doesn’t believe in his father anymore, because he thinks he is a different person than he perceived him to be.
Until that point in his life everyt .....
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The Scarlet Letter: Symbolism In The Forest
Number of words: 865 | Number of pages: 4.... Pearl is still
in her life. At this time the forest itself is a open door to another
world, a wicked world that would take her away from her present situation,
but that is not the only door that the forest holds.
The forest is an open door to love and freedom for both Hester and
Dimmesdale. It is a place where the letter on their bodies can no longer
have an effect on them if they choose. A world ruled by nature and
governed by natural law as opposed to the artificial strict community with
its man made puritan laws. Its as if the forest represents a key to the
shackles the Hester and Dimmesdale have been forced to wear, all th .....
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The Great Gatsby: Forces Of Corruption
Number of words: 516 | Number of pages: 2.... of
the corrupt American Dream.
Another force of corruption responsible for Gatsby's fate is his obsession
with a woman of Daisy's nature. Determined to marry her after returning from
the war, he is blind to her shallow, cowardly nature. He is unable to see the
corruptiion whick lies beyond her physical beauty, charming manner and playful
banter. That she is incapable of leaving her brutal husband, Tom, of commiting
herself to Gatsby despite his sacrifices, escapes him. As Nick observes,
Gatsby's expectation is absuredly simple:"He only wanted her to tell him [Tom]
that she never loved him." (pg.91) DAisy is not worthy of t .....
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With The Guest By Andrew Camus: Daru
Number of words: 840 | Number of pages: 4.... the Arab could try to do Daru harm. When Daru
lets the Arab eat at the same table as him, we see that he does not think
himself to be superior to the prisoner (pg-207). Near the end of the story we
can tell that Daru is a generous man. He gives the Arab food and money and the
choice for freedom or for prison. Overall we could say that Daru is a kind man
which could be considered very rare for that day and age (considering his
nationality also).
Daru is dramatized, consistent, motivated, and plausible. He is
dramatized because the author shows him speaking, doing different things, and
the author also shows Daru expressing th .....
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Ancient Mariner
Number of words: 633 | Number of pages: 3.... 'slimy things' as creatures of strange beauty" (Fraser 203), he understands the Albatross was a symbol of nature and he realized what he had done wrong. The mariner is forgiven after sufficient penance - "We could not speak" - is performed by Nature. Nature shows us more strength as we realize that people of today often can not forgive someone who has shot or killed another person.
At a spiritual level, Nature's power can decide if we will live, or be condemned. Nature is capable of presenting "innermost suffering" (Coburn 33) upon people. The mariner's suffering included having his "soul in agony" soon afterwards. After attempts .....
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Huckleberry Finn: Lack Of Education
Number of words: 850 | Number of pages: 4.... gone three days (p.35).” Pap has no idea that he does anything wrong, even though he is such a horrible father to his son. By showing how uneducated Pap is, and what suffering it causes Huck, Twain argues his point. A speech that Pap gives early in the novel is one of the most affective parts of this story. Pap talks about the efforts that some citizens make in the courts to remove Huck from the care of his father. He criticizes saying, “ They call this a govment! Why, just look and see what’s it’s like. Here’s the law a-standing ready to take a man’s own son away from him-a man’s own son, which he has had al .....
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Alive Book Report
Number of words: 961 | Number of pages: 4.... gave you a real sense of how terrible it was for the Andes survivors. First of all, the Andes setting was basically what kept the survivors from being found by an airplane. The snow covered mountains blended to the roof of the Fairchild to a point where the plane was literally invisible from more than 50 ft. away. Secondly, the intense cold, which at night dropped to around 40 below zero, weakened many of the passengers. Since there was no proper protection against such extreme temperatures, many of the passengers who were already injured from the plane crash developed frostbitten limbs which eventually turned gangrenous. The pass .....
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