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Papers on Book Reports
Summary Of Nathaniel Hawthornes "The Scarlet Letter"
Number of words: 1386 | Number of pages: 6.... as much of
her story as is commonly known. When he asks the identity of the child's
father, he discovers Hester has refused to divulge this information. From
the balcony overlooking the scaffold, the young Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale
also asks for this information and eloquently appeals to Hester to publicly
name her partner in sin. She refuses.
Upon her return to prison, Hester is distraught, and Roger Chillingworth, a
self-proclaimed physician, comes to calm her and the babe. Chillingworth,
who is actually Hester's husband, refuses to publicly acknowledge her and
share in her shame. He makes Hester promise to keep his true id .....
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Hamlets Transformation
Number of words: 951 | Number of pages: 4.... take on the task of avenging his death. This encounter changed who he is completely. He said that he will wipe away books, the past, and all of the things he was taught. He will live “within the book and volume of …brain”(a.1, sc.5, l.). He only will live through this purpose in life, and everything else is erased from his memory. He is possibly trying to shut down the part of him that knows right from wrong. His purpose his more important than all else, even if it means destroying on people along the way. He was on a mission that was larger than he had ever imagined. He was driven by grief and ambition.
After he .....
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The Pearl: Material Society, Material Thoughts
Number of words: 1020 | Number of pages: 4.... one by one. In the night he heard a
"sound so soft that it might have been simply a thought..." and quickly attacked
the trespasser. This is where the problems for Juana and her family began. The
fear that had mounted in Kino's body had taken control over his actions. Soon
even Juana who had always had faith in her husband, had doubted him greatly.
"It will destroy us all" she yelled as her attempt to rid the family of the
pearl had failed. Kino had not listened however, and soon Juana began to lose
her spiritual side and for a long time she had forgotten her prayers that had at
once meant so much to her. She had tr .....
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Stephen Coonts' "Flight Of The Intruder": Summary
Number of words: 591 | Number of pages: 3.... Vietnam. Grafton and Cole fly their next mission
with a EA-6B for SAM (surface-to-air missiles) suppression. This plane only
carried antiradiation missiles to destroy the SAMs and their radar. But, as they
were approximating (approaching, advancing on) the first SAM surface gun
destroyed most of the plane. The crew ejected within the midst of the night;
Grafton landing safely, but Cole's back broke. Eventually, they were rescued by
a helicopter, but an A-1 Skyraider pilot who was killing off the Vietnamese that
were trying to shoot the crew.
The setting of the book was in the Vietnam Era, most likely in the early
years. There .....
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Aphrodite Versus Athena
Number of words: 942 | Number of pages: 4.... without hesitation in anger(Hesiod, 66). the genitals were throw “
into the restless, white-capped sea/ Where they floated a long time. A
white foam from the god-flesh/Collected around them, and in that foam a
maiden developed/And grew(Hesiod, 66).” This maiden is Aphrodite. The
foam signifies a womb to spontaneous creation and is resembling a women’s
assets in order to support a baby. Now “from (Zeus’) own head he gave
birth to owl-eyed Athena(Hesio,87).” The two women both possess the honor,
beauty, intelligence, and power observant to all. The methods in which
they achieve these or the channel through which, th .....
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All Quiet On The Western Front
Number of words: 1072 | Number of pages: 4.... the members of Paul's unit, who were then only
mildly punished. During a bloody battle, 120 of the men in Paul's unit were
killed. Paul was given leave and returned home only to find himself very
distant from his family as a result of the war. He left in agony knowing
that his youth was lost forever. Before returning to his unit, Paul spent
a little while at a military camp where he viewed a Russian prisoner of war
camp with severe starvation problems and again questioned the values that
he had grown up with contrasted to the values while fighting the war.
After Paul returned to his unit, they were sent to the front. During an .....
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Mother/Daughter Relationships In Beloved
Number of words: 1664 | Number of pages: 7.... betrayal and recovery through the mother daughter relationships between Sethe and her mother, Ma’am, and Sethe and her daughter, Beloved.
The mother-daughter relationship between Sethe and her mother starts the cycle of perceived abandonment, betrayal and recovery inherent in the novel. Sethe is the daughter of a slave woman that suffered through the Middle Passage. The only memories that Sethe has of her mother, Ma’am, are two vague instances were first her mother was pointed out to her “stooping in a watery field wearing a cloth hat as opposed to a straw one” (Morrison 61) and secondly where her mother showed .....
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Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse 5: Fate
Number of words: 534 | Number of pages: 2.... that is indeed biased.
Based on the fact that Tralfamadorians cannot understand the human concept
of time, they have the ability to pick and choose when they want to live
each moment of their lives ,unlike humans, especially Billy Pilgrim who
has no control of his unpredictable "time tripping[s]."
Furthermore, the Tralfamadorian's belief that life is predetermined
has caused them to concentrate on the good things in life and forget about
the bad, which has lead them to become very un-sentimental life forms. They
constantly use the phrase "so it goes" for everything that goes wrong,
including such emotion evoking things like de .....
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The Chrysalids: The Importance Of Telepathy
Number of words: 708 | Number of pages: 3.... is on their way to the fringes. The plot is greatly influenced, David learns more things as the time goes on. He discovers who is the Spiderman(Gordon) and where is Sophie. He meets them and learn what it is like to live in the fringes. When the sealant woman rescues David, Rosalind and Petra they are brought to a big, developed city like the one in David's dreams. Because of the telepathy David discovers that such a city really exists but most of all through Petra they establish contact with a more civilized people than they are. Because of the conflicts in the story it leads the main characters to discover the sealant city .....
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Accounts Settled: A Review
Number of words: 420 | Number of pages: 2.... look for more food and this
disrupts the cougar. The climax is when Gordon quickly reaches for his gun and
shoots the cougar. The resolution is when Gordon "cries the final tears of his
boyhood" and he is finally a man.
This writer used suspense in his story many times. For instance, "his
eyes held the boy unwinkingly as he waited in the fiendish way of cats for the
moment when the man must stir, or make an attempt to escape, the moment when his
ingrained fear of man would be swallowed up by the rising tide of his blood-
lust" and "moments passed, horrible heart-thudding moments, during which neither
man nor animal stir .....
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