|
Papers on Book Reports
Steinbeck's "The Flight": Naturalism
Number of words: 321 | Number of pages: 2.... without even
knowing it. Who in their right mind would put a spider web in their wound.
When he relizes that his time of running has come to an end he begins to
turn to his religion. He starts to “cross” his chest as a Roman Catholic
would. Then his time comes and he pretty much commits suicide.
When Pepe leaves his home his sister has already predicted his fate
and everyone knew what was going to happen to him. It is was his
environment that killed him. Pepe adventure begins because of a death and
his adventure ends with a death of him. .....
Get This Essay
|
|
The Lottery
Number of words: 1095 | Number of pages: 4.... quaint town.
Upon reading the first paragraph, Shirley Jackson describes the town in general. The town is first mentioned in the opening paragraph where she sets the location in the town square. She puts in perspective the location of the square "between the post office and the bank" (196). This visualizes for the reader what a small town this is, since everything seems to be centralized at or near the town square. This is also key in that the town square is the location for the remaining part of the story. The town square is an important location for the setting since the ending of the story will be set in this location.
Also, .....
Get This Essay
|
|
The Awakening: Edna Pontel
Number of words: 757 | Number of pages: 3.... she can play roles other than wife and mother.
Throughout the book Edna takes many steps to increase her independence. She sends her children away, she refuses to stay at home on Tuesdays (as was the social convention of the time), she frequents races and parties. Unfortunately, her independence proves to be her downfall.
Edna stays married because divorce was unheard of in those days. She wants to marry Robert, but he will not because it will disgrace her to leave her husband. No matter how much Edna exceeds social boundaries, she is held down by the will of others, despite what she wants. In today’s world divorce, sadly, is al .....
Get This Essay
|
|
Was Sir Tomas More's Decision Correct?
Number of words: 671 | Number of pages: 3.... marriage between
Catherine and Henry would stand, he was enforcing a law within the church
that his followers would have to live by. Therefore from the point of view
of the catholic church, which was represented in the play by Chapuys,
More's decision was correct. For if one believes, as More did, in an
everlasting sole and the catholic interpretation of life & death then you
must believe that More did do the right thing. There for according to
More's beliefs, he must be living in heaven while Henry and the rest of his
followers are residing in hell for their sins.
On the other hand, when looked upon by the state More's actio .....
Get This Essay
|
|
Crime And Punishment: Is There Or Is There Not Such A Thing As Crime?
Number of words: 1017 | Number of pages: 4.... a conscience; when we do something wrong, our conscience
makes us feel guilty, although some people feel less or more guilt than others
about certain acts; it varies individually. Based on this, one can define a
crime as the things that make us feel guilty, although some crimes do not make
us feel guilty. Some people do not feel any guilt when committing immoral acts;
these people are deemed psychopaths or sociopaths by society. For example, most
people do not feel guilty when they break the law by speeding, its just a way of
life these days, but with complex ideologies (stealing, killing), we feel guilt
if they are committed. .....
Get This Essay
|
|
Catcher In The Ryes Holden Cau
Number of words: 445 | Number of pages: 2.... ephiphany during the novel as he passes the elementary school halls and notices the obscenities scribbled on the walls. His attempt to efface them is unsuccessful, and he realizes that he can't make them go away. This symbolizes Holden's need to protect, and realization that he can't be the savior of society's corruption.
Although the scene in the elementary school halls hint to Holden that he can't make the imperfections of the world disappear, nothing provides the determining insight better than his little sister, Phoebe. Upon his departure, Holden giving up, as he always does, Phoebe makes him realize what it is he is really gi .....
Get This Essay
|
|
Hamlet Observations Of Madness
Number of words: 2543 | Number of pages: 10.... or thwarted ambition. In a conversation with Hamlet in Act II scene II, Guildenstern and Rosencrantz come upon this idea:
Hamlet: Denmark's a prison.
Rosencrantz: Then is the world one.
Hamlet: A goodly one; in which there are many confines,
wards and dungeons, Denmark being one o' the worst.
Rosencrantz: We think not so, my lord.
Hamlet: Why, then, 'tis none to you; for there is nothing
either good or bad, but thinking makes it
so: to me it is a prison.
When the heir apparent calls his heritage a prison, something must be seriously wrong, and it is not difficult for them to guess what that som .....
Get This Essay
|
|
Song Of Solomon: Milkman Dead - Respecting And Listening To Women
Number of words: 1673 | Number of pages: 7.... that
he cannot act independently (120). The first lesson his father teaches him is
that ownership is everything, and that women's knowledge (specifically, Pilate's
knowledge) is not useful "in this world" (55). He is blind to the Pilate's
wisdom. When Pilate tell Reba's lover that women's love is to be respected, he
learns nothing (94).
In the same episode, he begins his incestuous affair with Hagar, leaving
her 14 years later when his desire for her wanes. Milkman's experience with
Hagar is analogous to his experience with his mother, and serves to "[stretch]
his carefree boyhood out for thrifty-one years" (98). Hagar calls him i .....
Get This Essay
|
|
The Scarlet Letter 2
Number of words: 432 | Number of pages: 2.... Dimmesdale he had a whole different plan. He came back to town as a different person with a different name. Now he was Roger Chillingworth (We don’t know his name before the first scaffold incident), a well-appreciated and educated physician. He came to help Dimmesdale, who was very sick. He became his close physician and they became very close friends.
But the truth was that Chillingworth was constantly investigating Dimmesdale and reaching to the depth of his heart and prying his secrets and by that constantly hurting him. Dimmesdale was hurt because he lived a life of lies. To the world he was clergyman Dimmesdale - a wi .....
Get This Essay
|
|
Gullivers Travels
Number of words: 1261 | Number of pages: 5.... Swift introduces us to the essential conflict of Book I: the naive, ordinary, but compassionate "Everyman" at the mercy of an army of people with "small minds". Because they are technologically adept, Gulliver does not yet see how small-minded the Lilliputians are.
In Chapter II, the Emperor of Lilliput arrives to take a look at the "giant", and Gulliver is equally impressed by the Emperor and his courtiers. They are handsome and richly dressed, and the Emperor attempts to speak to Gulliver civilly (although they are unable to understand one another). The Emperor decrees that every morning Gulliver is to be delivered "six beeves, .....
Get This Essay
|
|
|