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Papers on Book Reports
Night 2
Number of words: 1622 | Number of pages: 6.... them sit there for a while. The next step was that they had to walk to the synagogue and then they had to walk to train after being in the synagogue for a day. Once they reach the train, the Hungarian police put eighty people in a thirty person train car. The next step is the long trip on the train, where people start going crazy, people not getting fed well and no room to sit. Life in the camp, the next step is when the train arrives at Auschwitz and then SS men ordered everyone out and makes them leave their personal stuff behind. The next step they separated the men from the women and children, this was a point where families we .....
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Lord Of The Flies: Human Nature
Number of words: 926 | Number of pages: 4.... war. If there was no war going on in England at the time
they were evacuated from England, there would've been no deaths, no Lord of the
Flies, and certainly no beast. Because if they had came with a good human nature
then how would there have been a beast which Golding classified as the basic
evil inside all of us. Another thing that ties in with this that children try to
copy what they see adults do so if a child sees an adult smoke up or drink then
he may believe that it is okay or it is right because their parents do it. As
George Orwell once said "Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a
child's eyes, is that the .....
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Critical Analysis Of The Jungl
Number of words: 894 | Number of pages: 4.... researcher. The novel itself, containing over Three hundred pages, is rather long and tediously boring.
Sinclair’s central purpose in writing The Jungle was to persuade people to join the socialist party and to adopt the view that socialism is the only way to conquer the capitalistic empires that abuse the working class. The socialist ethic is that the general public will have joint ownership of the factory. Thus, they will finally be able to eliminate the undesirable working conditions and to advocate new, more comfortable working conditions. Sinclair uses many clever devices in order to get his readers to agree wit .....
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An Analysis Of Why Jimmy Doyle Will Never Succeed In Life Due To His Father
Number of words: 665 | Number of pages: 3.... "Jimmy did not study very earnestly and took to bad courses for
awhile. He had money and he was popular; ..."(p.25). Jimmy liked better
to be in the company of peers rather than study, and his father condoned it.
When Jimmy was not doing well at Dublin University, his father let him go
off to Cambridge where he could "see life a little". While there he seemed
to run the bills a little high, and his father took care of all the
expenses because he wanted to show off the money that he had acquired. The
way Jimmy's dad just gave him money and only wanted Jimmy to meet people
who were "worth knowing" corrupted Jimmy's work ethi .....
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Heart Of Darkness
Number of words: 561 | Number of pages: 3.... boy said to Marlow, “Mistah Kurtz—he dead” (Conrad 64). Another death occurs when the attack on the steamer leaves the helmsmen dead with “the shaft of a spear in the side just below the ribs” (Conrad 64). Marlow decides to “[tip] him overboard” because “if [his] late helmsmen was to be eaten, the fishes alone should have him. He had been a very second-rate helmsmen” (Conrad 47). Second, corruption overshadowed all other themes as the major theme of the novel. As Marlow’s journey progresses, the corruption of the trading business becomes increasingly obvious. Kurtz “had collected, bartered, swindled, or s .....
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Beowulf 5
Number of words: 1508 | Number of pages: 6.... Because of this Byron's mother moved them nearby to Nottingham. They were very poor. The Byron estate was mostly tied up in lawsuits, but Mrs. Byron finally got her son a decent income. He was sent to Dr. Glennie's Academy at Dulwich and then to Harrow, where he was tormented by the other boys (www.geocities.com/athens/delphi). He went back to Newstead for the Christmas holidays, which had been rented to a Lord Ruthyn who made the place habitable. There he fell in love with a neighbor named Mary Ann Chaworth. So infatuated with her he refused to return to Harrow after the holidays ended, eventually Lord Ruthyn got him .....
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Death Of A Salesman: Family Hindered By Their Dysfunctional Nature
Number of words: 1433 | Number of pages: 6.... which eventually leads Biff to feel content and fulfilled in his younger years.
Biff believed, due to his father’s pride, that he was too good for mediocre tasks, and should not settle for them. Biff stated, "I never got anywhere because you blew me so full of hot air I could never stand taking orders from anybody!"(105). Like any son, Biff praised, respected, and loved his father. Biff’s problem was taking his father’s love and transferring it into his own ideals. By holding his father in such high regard, Biff placed himself above his maximum achievements. Biff’s perception of his father as an almost flawless figure le .....
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Things Fall Apart 4
Number of words: 1005 | Number of pages: 4.... to overcame his father’s failures and achieve great prosperity and even greater reputation among the people of Umofia. Therefore, his desire for titles and respect makes him one outspoken leader of the village taking responsibilities in name if Umofia, such as carrying messages of war. Okonkwo was well known throughout the villages. His fame rested on personal achievements, he gained fame as the greatest wrestler when he was young, twenty years earlier.
Okonkwo’s habitual ways of acting is dominated by violence and anger. He rules his compound with heavy hand; his wives and children feared his fiery temper. Most village .....
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The Old Man And The Sea: Modernist Literature
Number of words: 449 | Number of pages: 2.... The reader learns of the relationship between Santiago and Manolin. "The old man had taught the boy to fish and the boy loved him" (10). From the narrator the reader learns that the boy takes care of the old man by bringing him food and supplies. The narrator tells the reader what Santiago is thinking while he is fishing.
The third characteristic is a simple direct style with a basic vocabulary. The choice of words creates basic concrete pictures with no flowery language. For example, "He knelt down and found the tuna under the stern with the gaff and drew it toward him keeping it clear of the coiled lines" (57). Hemingway .....
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The Grapes Of Wrath: Symbols
Number of words: 1214 | Number of pages: 5.... develop the
theme of the novel is through the use of symbolism. There are several uses of
symbols in the novel from the turtle at the beginning to the rain at the end.
As each symbol is presented through the novel they show examples of the good and
the bad things that exist within the novel.
The opening chapter paints a vivid picture of the situation facing the
drought-stricken farmers of Oklahoma. Dust is described a covering everything,
smothering the life out of anything that wants to grow. The dust is symbolic of
the erosion of the lives of the people. The dust is synonymous with "deadness".
The land is ruined ^ .....
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