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Papers on Book Reports
Huckleberry Finn's Struggles With Conscience
Number of words: 823 | Number of pages: 3.... kept on pecking at me, and it got
tiresome lonesome” (5). Huck's immaturity is obvious as he expresses his
dislike of how Miss Watson wanted him to sit up straight and stop fidgeting.
Huck's immaturity is clear in the beginning of the book.
All of Huck's discipline leaves his life as the book progresses,
and Huck's father shows up to take him to live in a cabin in the woods.
All of the bad habits from his past return. Even though Huck does not
miss the rules of the Widow Douglas, he realizes that he cannot go back to
his old life either. He decides to run away and teams up with one of the
widow's runaway slaves named Jim. .....
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Comparison Of 1984 And Animal Farm
Number of words: 394 | Number of pages: 2.... at the same time, then it is so. Although this true
reality is available to Inner Party members, they too do not have the freedom of
thought or individuality... they are only just aware of its existence. Only the
outside reader is able to think and understand the true nature of the reality
established by the Party.
In Animal Farm, Orwell unveiled that reality is a simple mental state
that can be easily manipulated. Napoleon and the pigs proved this theory by
repeatedly changing the Seven Commandments and reporting to the other animals
that the 'laws' had always been in their changed condition when they were
questioned .....
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A Clockwork Orange 2
Number of words: 907 | Number of pages: 4.... him in his crimes are Dim, Pete, and Georgie. Throughout the story, the author creates his own language called "nadsat", which is used by the youth of the futuristic world. "Nadsat" is a mix of Russian, English, and the slang words of both.
The story begins at the start of a wild and violent night with Alex and his friends sitting in a diner. To start a typical night they encounter an old man walking the streets, so they harass and hit him. However, this is not just any ordinary harassing episode but more of a complete and utter pounding. They beat the defenseless man until he is all bloody and disfigured. They then send him o .....
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Escape From El-Ashaq
Number of words: 880 | Number of pages: 4.... from Esther, with a titular female character . The rare similarities encourage the comparison to Job, a non-Israelite, finding favor in God, and the parallel with Esther marrying a Gentile husband, suggesting Gentiles were to only be blessed through Abraham’s seed. However, the extent to which God actually provided for Ruth is questionable; the text gives nothing of God’s thoughts on Ruth. Ruth’s desire to worship Naomi’s god seems to only affirm her love for Naomi, not God (Ruth 1.16). Nor is Ruth’s marriage to Boaz necessarily a blessing. Ruth enters into marriage for Naomi’s sake; Boaz is reluctant and wants .....
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The Changes In The Narrator's View Of Sonny
Number of words: 1298 | Number of pages: 5.... a future or career.
"He still wasn't a man yet, he was still a child, and they had to watch out for
him in all kinds of ways."(51) The narrator decided that he would plan Sonny's
future and when Sonny rebelled, the narrator saw it as yet another childish
action.
Another way in which the narrator's overall view changed was his view on whether
Sonny's idea of reality was sound. Still in the first phase, the narrator often
presents his view of reality and when Sonny rejects it, the narrator feels Sonny
is being unreasonable. For instance, "'Well Sonny,' I said, gently, "you know
people can't always do exactly what they want to do- .....
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All Quiet On The Western Front
Number of words: 1265 | Number of pages: 5.... resulting in few casualties and from which their troops emerge elated and victorious. The soldiers on the front lines actually experience events, which scar their minds with thoughts of death and destruction. Remarque displays these ideas of pain and suffering through ignorance, fear, and inhumanity.
Remarque depicts the misconception of war, by capturing the unknowingness that prevents those not fighting the war, from understanding the truth about war’s hideous reality. Ignorance, one of the many facets of the people’s general understanding of war, causes the formation of a gap between the soldiers and the rest o .....
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Hills Like White Elephants: Jig
Number of words: 962 | Number of pages: 4.... and committing to the change. She
definitely realizes she needs to change, but only goes that far. She does walk
to the end of the station and looks upon the fertile side of the valley and
comments "and we could have all this," but she continues drinking when she
knows well that she carries a child in her womb. She even says the alcohol
tastes like licorice, that everything tastes the same, and she's getting tired
of her same old life. Surely, she must know the possible damage she can cause
the baby to have, but does it stop her from drinking? No, this only indicates
that she is still not ready to change completely. Even thou .....
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MACHIAVELLI'S VIEW OF HUMAN NATURE
Number of words: 1088 | Number of pages: 4.... time of adversity, when the state is in need of it's citizens
there are few to be found."5 Machiavelli further goes on to question the
loyalty of the citizens and advises the Prince that "...because men a
wretched creatures who would not keep their word to you, you need keep
your word to them."6 However, Machiavelli did not feel that a Prince
should mistreat the citizens. This suggestion once again to serve the
Prince's best interests.
If a prince can not be both feared and loved, Machiavelli suggests,
it would be better for him to be feared bey the citizens within his own
principality. He makes the generalization that men .....
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Lawrence's "Sons And Lovers": Relationships
Number of words: 844 | Number of pages: 4.... already occupies this space in his life. Thus the
relationship between the two is a struggle for an identity. The
relationship is a struggle between Paul and his mother and Paul and Miriam.
The main conflicts between Paul and Miriam are between physical-
spiritual differences and his mother. Miriam holds spirituality very close
to her. Thing with Miriam are always on a very spiritual level. Lawrence
showed this sometimes with depiction's of flowers. Paul has other needs
that Miriam herself feels that she could never fulfill. "You make me feel
spiritual and I don't want to be spiritual." (190) Eventually, Miriam
introduces Paul to .....
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UP THE DOWN STAIRCASE
Number of words: 716 | Number of pages: 3.... students is Joe Ferone. Joe is a rebel and a hoodlum. Joe barely ever comes to class. Sylvia really wants to help Joe. Sylvia tries to schedule after school sessions with Joe, but he never shows up. Towards the end of the story I get the feeling Sylvia was starting to fall in love with him.
This story takes place in a New York City school in Manhattan, in the nineteen- sixties. The book covers the span of one school semester form September to February.
Sylvia Barret, a new teacher is starting her first day in room 304. She finds out that teaching isn’t all that she thought it would be. Her first friend is Bea a veteran teac .....
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