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Papers on Book Reports
Evelina: Madame Duval
Number of words: 2136 | Number of pages: 8.... Our keen sense of depravity is quickly rewarded when we are shown the way in which Sir Clement treats our precious heroine. He is more than an insolent fool who embarrasses Evelina; he also physically violates her throughout the novel and we are horrified.
Evelina and Sir Clement Willoughby first meet at an assembly in London. He asks Evelina to dance with him and because she wants to be available for our hero, she lies and tells him she is already engaged. This arouses his curiosity and he begs to know with whom she is engaged. Our heroine refuses to tell him and he becomes rather forward in his line of questioning. Evelina .....
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One Day In The Life Of Ivan De
Number of words: 837 | Number of pages: 4.... special camp where they kept the political prisoners. These gulags were the repositories for Stalin's enemies, real or suspected. They housed many people taken in the great purges. It is estimated that the population in these camps was over 8.8 million from 1929-53. The resilience of the human spirit is perhaps the most important theme of the novel. It demonstrates the possibility of success despite a cruel environment. Even though these people have been imprisoned in these camps, they manage to survive. They live in the worst conditions, but by focusing themselves on the basics of human life they live through each day, one at a t .....
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Hard Times By Charles Dickens - Irony
Number of words: 765 | Number of pages: 3.... taught by him.
Eventually, as Gradgrind’s children became older, what they were taught
began to turn sour in their minds. Tom, Grandgrind’s son, began to despise
his father and all he was taught and thus began to rebel. He took to
smoking and gambling, which eventually led to his downfall. Tom had grown
up to become a sycophantic, self-absorbed parasite. He had turned out the
exact opposite as hoped. Thomas Gradgrind had raised his children never to
wonder, but wondering intrigued them. Gradrgind had observed his children
peeking into a circus tent because they were curious as to what was inside.
The children were scolded fo .....
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After The Bomb
Number of words: 1682 | Number of pages: 7.... arm, foot, and he even saw a half body only, everywhere he walks dead body, critically wounded people and crying voices begging for help and attention. And here where he maid a negotiation for the sake of his mother. „« La Canada ¡V here where the hospital. „« Pasadena ¡V here where his father use to work unfortunately he won¡¦t be able to go there co¡¦z of the derricks along the roads. „« Via Carlotta ¡V here where Mr. John Billing lives, a retired DWP engineer (department of Water and Power¡¨. And here where Philip also found a child being threatened by Cayotes. And a dog who where protecting the child. „« .....
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The Good Earth: Wang Lung's Character
Number of words: 1325 | Number of pages: 5.... to be no more then slaves. In the early chapters of the novel when Wang Lung was poor, he gave O-lan four silver pieces so she may return to the House of Hwang in grand style. He also offered to pay five thousand silver pieces for her recovery after he discovered she had a "fire in her vitals"(170). He then spent the rest of her days by her death bed and bought her the best quality coffin. Furthermore, Wang Lung had a special relationship with his first daughter, Poor Fool, his mentally retarded offspring. Poor Fool did not speak and did nothing more then twiddle a piece of cloth in the sun. Although Wang Lung had servan .....
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Animal Farm
Number of words: 792 | Number of pages: 3.... the future. He is the main animal who got the rebellion started even
though he died before it actually began. Old Major's role compares to
Lenin and Marx whose ideas would spark the communist revolution. Lenin
became the leader and teacher of the working class in Russia, and their
determination to struggle against capitalism. Like Old Major, Lenin and
Marx wrote essays and gave speeches to the working class poor. The
working class in Russia, as compared with the barnyard animals in Animal
Farm, were a laboring class of people that received low wages for their
work. Old major tells the animals that the source of the problem .....
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Allegory In Young Goodman Brown
Number of words: 2425 | Number of pages: 9.... look at his wife with the same faith he had before.
When Goodman Brown finally meets with the Devil, he declares that the reason he was late was because "Faith kept me back awhile." This statement has a double meaning because his wife physically prevented him from being on time for his meeting with the devil, but his faith to God psychologically delayed his meeting with the devil.
The Devil had with him a staff that "bore the likeness of a great black snake". The staff which looked like a snake is a reference to the snake in the story of Adam and Eve. The snake led Adam and Eve to their destruction by leading them to the Tree .....
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A Farewell To Arms - Response
Number of words: 748 | Number of pages: 3.... that the unfairness of life and the insignificance of our free will are apparently the most important themes in the book, but I don't agree. I also don't agree that it is a war story or a love story. Exactly what it is, though, is not clear to me. Can't art exist without being anything? "There isn't always an explanation for everything." War and love are obviously important themes in the book, and the relationship between the two is explored by Hemingway and, somewhat, by Henry. In the first two Books we are in the war and the war is overwhelming. In the last two Books we are in love. And, just as the first two Books are peppered .....
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The Narrator And Sam Cavanaugh: Dolls To Control?
Number of words: 1245 | Number of pages: 5.... Then he takes Mr. Norton to a bar and risks his health and life. When Dr. Bledsoe found out about the trip the narrator was kicked out of school because he showed Mr. Norton anything less than the ideal Black man.
The next example in Invisible Man that implies the narrator and all black men have no control or say so in their lives is when the narrator is sent away from the college. He is sent to a paint factor to work. The narrator arrives and immediately notices the huge electric sign that reads "KEEP AMERICA PURE WITH LIBERTY PAINTS" (Ellison 196). Later on, the reader will learn that Liberty Paint is famous for its .....
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The Sound Of A Voice
Number of words: 1124 | Number of pages: 5.... days have no meaning without sound. She doesn’t believe anyone
should be left in silence. She feels lonely when she’s without sound. She
feels sad and abandoned when it is quiet. She speaks of how lonely it is
when no other living thing is around. The woman never really had a
permanent companion. Everyone that had visited her, left for some reason
or another. She states that it is hard to sleep at night without sound.
However, she soon becomes reassured knowing that she will hear the
visitors breath in the next room while he sleeps. The mats also are
important because they keep the women awake. She feels if she sta .....
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