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Papers on Book Reports
“Changes In M. Lantin’s Perspective”
Number of words: 1032 | Number of pages: 4.... wife dies of pneumonia, he is caught up in despair and within one month his hair turns white (15). He becomes desperate and is on the verge of both a mental and financial breakdown. After leaving her things the way she had left them for some time, he finds himself penniless. He realizes that he could sell her “worthless” trinkets for six to eight francs a piece (20). He finds out that these trinkets were worth quite a large sum of money. He now knows his wife’s secret: the jewelry is real. He then sells all the jewelry and made a profit of some 200,000 francs (68). He tries to fill the void that his wife has left in .....
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To Kill A Mockingbird: A Summary
Number of words: 1167 | Number of pages: 5.... Robinson. Judge Taylor is the
Judge of Maycomb County. Heck Tate is the county law official.
I think the protagonist in the story is Atticus Finch because he
has the main part and he has the biggest decision to make. The decision
being whether to defend or not to defend Tom Robinson.
To Kill a Mockingbird is set in Maycomb County, an imaginary
district in Southern Alabama. The time is the early 1930s, the years of
the Great Depression when poverty and unemployment were widespread in the
United States.
The story begins during the summer when Scout and Jem meet a new
playmate named Dill who has come from .....
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Pinocchio
Number of words: 1776 | Number of pages: 7.... the wood the piece of wood cried out
"Pollendina"! Geppetto outraged at being ca lled this scr eamed at the
Cherry for he did not know that the wood had said it, so Ôúú‰ú?ú€%úÔ
Cherry then said that ÃúÃÃÃÄÄÄúÄthe wood had said that, Geppetto furious
struck Cherry for thinking he was a imbecile and a huge fight occurred.
After the fight the two men got up and shook hands and promised to be
friends forever. As soon as Geppetto got home he began work on the puppet
and as soon as he had finished the mouth he decided to name the puppet
Pinnochio. The puppet then started to laugh for no apparent rea .....
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Billy Budd 3
Number of words: 1022 | Number of pages: 4.... and the robot obeys. When Billy kills Claggert, Captain Vere has to decide whether or not Billy should be punished and if so, how he should be punished. He decides to hang Billy. Then the possibility of a revolt on the ship comes up. This revolt would probably cause the death of the Captain and his officers. If he lets Billy go, he would be going against the law that he has sworn to enforce. Since Vere is a law-abiding man, he decides to hang Billy. These ideas were also left out of the movie. This shows that sometimes movies can ruin a good book. What’s the answer? Watch a book with your mind.
Billy Budd's character in t .....
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Dante’s Tools Of Character: Love And Choice
Number of words: 1151 | Number of pages: 5.... or respond to love.
A person rarely gives up on those they love, at least not with out a great struggle. Giving up on our own liberation is quite natural, most of the times. Being found worthy in the eyes of another allows us a new perspective on ourselves, especially if their admiration and compassion is coupled with actions of self-sacrifice. In other words, to discover oneself they must go and find someone who will love them. It may not be a demonstrated love but merely an act of human kindness that point to a great love. As in Dante, one may have to move backward in time to remember when they were loved and valued. Ou .....
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Stoker And Rice's Books About Vampires
Number of words: 1925 | Number of pages: 7.... by humans without them
even noticing and as a bat he can cover more ground in a shorter amount of time.
Rice's novels mention nothing of being able to morph into a bat, mist or
anything else for that matter.
The ability to fly is used in each novel but they are used very
differently. In Dracula the count can fly but, in order to do this he must
turn into a bat and fly as a bat would fly. More powerful vampires in The
Vampire Chronicles can fly as , for example, super man would fly. In order for
a vampire to fly it requires lots of energy and a great force of will Lestat
says “ It was as if a current of air had caught m .....
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Plight Of The Wingfields (the
Number of words: 1271 | Number of pages: 5.... (Williams ). In the warehouse, Tom does not find any satisfaction at all¾“I’d rather somebody picked up a crowbar and battered out my brains¾than go back mornings!” (Williams )¾let alone amiable, intimate friendship or companionship.
Even more stifling to his poetic creativity is his home where Amanda, prompted by her motherly solicitude and her fear for the family’s sole source of income, is the major obstacle to his creative concentration. Home is more like a cage as oppressive as the warehouse by Amanda’s austere parental control and over-protectiveness (Ng). During meals, she insists that he .....
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The Horse And His Boy By C.S Lewis
Number of words: 1379 | Number of pages: 6.... taken from Narnia. She and Aravia become friends in time.
Other chractors who are seen in the book are:
Peter Pevensie- King Peter the magnificent, the High King.
Susan Pevensie- Queen Susan the Gentle.
Edmund Pevensie-King Edmund the Just.
Lucy Pevensie- Queen Lucy the Valiant.
The four Pevensies, brothers and sisters, visted Narnia at the time of the winter rule of The White Witch. They remained in Narnia for many years and established the Golden age of Narnia. Peter is the oldest, followed by Susan, then Edmund and Lucy .
Shasta lived with his 'father' a poor fisherman in a small cottage. one day a very special man rode .....
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The Women Of The Grapes Of Wra
Number of words: 595 | Number of pages: 3.... is replaced with survival. In addition, near the end of the book, when the boxcars have flooded and it seems all hope has been lost Ma leads the family to higher ground. Despite the despair she feels she overcomes it to do what must be done to insure that they survive to live another day. Her strength gives her the power rise above adversity and be the leader that she is. Ma's strength is what allows the family to hold up as long as they do.
Rose of Sharon on the other hand shows the sacrifice the Joads and the rest of the Okies had to endure. For example, while they are driving to California she tells Ma of her and Connie's de .....
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To Kill A Mockingbird: Trading Places With Atticus Finch
Number of words: 385 | Number of pages: 2.... not much. Lastly I would enjoy seeing how
people dealt with the low standard of living.
There are many differences between him and me. One is that I have
never been persecuted. He was every day. That would not be fun. People
wanted to kill him, which wouldn't be fun either.
The other main difference was that he lives during a whole different
time and place. The era of today is a lot nicer, materially, than back
then, but there wasn't so much crime, either, which leads me to believe
that they were better people. I would still like to try living during that
time for a couple of days, if only for the above reaso .....
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