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Papers on Book Reports
Minority Rules
Number of words: 623 | Number of pages: 3.... away from me.'" Miss Pross being part of the novel deepens the plot by providing some humor and giving the reader another side to consider when thinking of Lucie and her several relationships.
Gaspard's purpose in the novel is dissimilar to that of Miss Pross. Gaspard is used to help the reader understand how the majority of the French population was feeling prior to the revolution.
Gaspard and the other peasants were treated, by the aristocracy, as if they were disgusting rodents. When Gaspard's son is run over by the Marquis, all the Marquis is worried about, is if his horses or his coach were hurt or damaged. Gaspard's ang .....
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The Great Gatsby: Nick Carroway A Good And Neutral Narrator
Number of words: 812 | Number of pages: 3.... she and Tom had gone away early that afternoon, and
taken baggage with them.
Therefore, Nick Carroway's analysis was right by these clear
observation.
However, Nick Carroway is a good narrator, he sees everything happen
and does not trust everybody easily. So during the people discuss about
something at a time, he does not believe it is true. After he proves it, he
will accept the truth.
Moreover, when Nick went to Gatsby's party, there is a drunk lady
telling everyone Gatsby killed a man before.
Somebody told me they thought he killed a man once.
Also, there i .....
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1984 By George Orwell: Character Sketch
Number of words: 908 | Number of pages: 4.... came crowding
back again. But there had been a moment – he did not know how long, thirty
seconds, perhaps – of luminous certainty, when each new suggestion of O'Brien's
had filled up a patch of emptiness and had become absolute truth, and when two
and two could have been three as easily as five, if that were what was needed.
It had faded out before O'Brien had dropped his hand; but though he could not
recapture it, he could remember it, as one remembers a vivid experience at some
remote period of one's life when one was in effect a different person.
Earlier in that section O'Brien had tortured him into believing tw .....
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Running A Thousand Miles From Freedom: The Victimization Of Women In Slavery
Number of words: 870 | Number of pages: 4.... that the master (Ellen) was traveling to Philadelphia for medical reasons. They traveled through Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, and Maryland before they reached Philadelphia on Christmas day. At one point while traveling, Ellen was seated next to a friend of her owner, who knew her from childhood. To avoid him, she looked out of the window and played deaf (Craft 43).
Even though Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom highlights the victimization of females in slavery, it is told from a male’s prospective. It also only touches the surface of the condition. Harriet Jacobs allows readers to see the conditio .....
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The Short Happy Life Of Francis Macomber
Number of words: 849 | Number of pages: 4.... find the courage to tell Wilson to
go on and finish off the lion without him." As the men enter the tall grass,
the lion came charging at them. The next thing he knows, Macomber is "running
wildly, in panic in the open, running towards the stream." Wilson finishes the
lion off with two shots from his rifle. Unfortunately for Francis, his wife has
seen the whole ordeal. Later that night, as Macomber lies on his cot, he knew “
it was neither all over nor was it the beginning. It was exactly as it
happened…and he was miserably ashamed of it.”
About three o' clock in the morning, Francis was awoken suddenly, “
frighten .....
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"Billy Budd" By Herman Melville: Captain Vere
Number of words: 466 | Number of pages: 2.... always acquitting himself as an office mindful of the welfare of
his men, but never tolerating an infraction of discipline; thoroughly versed in
the science of his profession, and intrepid to the verge of temerity, though
never injudiciously so.” In fact, his downfall is directly caused by his never
tolerating an infraction of discipline.
Captain Vere instinctively disliked Claggert, a man who, for his own
reasons, falsely accuses Billy Budd of plotting a mutiny. While meeting
together, the charge would have come to naught if Billy Budd hadn't killed
Claggert by striking him in the head. After that, whether Billy was .....
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The Prince: Politics And Science
Number of words: 1161 | Number of pages: 5.... will control the other half. Virtue is the best defense for fortune, and virtue must be used in order to keep fortune in check. The prince must take advantage of situations based solely on if it is best for the state. He should choose his decisions based on contemporary and historical examples. A prince cannot consider whether his acts are moral or immoral, and he instead must act in an unbiased manner for the state. Also, it does not matter how the state achieves its goals, as long as these goals are achieved. Finally, regardless of the personal morality involved, the prince should be praised if he does good for the state and be .....
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A Separate Peace: Changes
Number of words: 484 | Number of pages: 2.... talks about how the snow began to take possession of everything at Devon like the war took possession everything in the world. “Leper Lepellier didn’t suspect this. It was not in fact evident to anyone at first. But Leper stands out for me as the person who was most often and most emphatically taken by surprise, by this and every other shift in our life at Devon,” (85). Anything that happened at Devon was a surprise to him because he never paid attention to anything except things that concerned him. He liked things just the way they were; he did not like change. Instead of busying his time with what everyone else did, h .....
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The Story Of Sweetheart Of The Song Of Tra Bong: The Use Of Setting
Number of words: 1538 | Number of pages: 6.... by the
lure of the wilderness that he begins to talk about her with the listeners as if
she were the attractive girl from school that everyone knows but nobody dates.
" 'You know…I loved her. Mary Anne made you think about those girls back home,
how clean and innocent they all are.' " (123) Rat is pushing his views upon
the listener. He is shaping how the story is seen. The reader sees "triple-
canopied jungle, mountains unfolding into higher mountains, ravines and gorges
and fast-moving rivers and waterfalls and exotic butterflies and steep cliffs
and smoky little hamlets and great valleys of bamboo and elephant grass." (103) .....
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To The Lighthouse 2
Number of words: 696 | Number of pages: 3.... brought on Mrs. Ramsay. He sympathizes with her and is "ashamed" for what he had done. Mr. Ramsay wants to appease his wife and make her happy as a result of the torment that he inflicted on her. Next, Woolf again illustrates Mr. Ramsay's insensitive dimension when Mr. Ramsay makes Mrs. Ramsay "bend her head as if to let the pelt of jagged hail, the drench of dirty water, bespatter her unrebuked." (32) Mr. Ramsay is heartless to his wife's feelings; it is as if he enjoys "drenching" Mrs. Ramsay and enjoys seeing her in mental anguish. However, Woolf later contrasts the callous Mr. Ramsay with a more sensitive and caring Mr. Ram .....
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