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Papers on Book Reports
Death Of A Salesman: The Control Of Linda
Number of words: 465 | Number of pages: 2.... told the boys that if you were handsome, opportunity would come to you. Even though she knows this is wrong, she never teaches the boys right. She simply agrees with everything Willy says. Another example of this is when Biff goes to Bill Oliver for a loan. The two men haven’t seen each other in twenty years but Willy thought Oliver would give him the loan on the spot. She totally agrees with this farfetched statement and says "… isn’t that wonderful…" event though there is no chance Oliver will give him the loan (62).
During the entirety of the play, Linda hides her true self and contently agrees with Willy on most s .....
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Their Eyes Were Watching God: Janie Crawford
Number of words: 1181 | Number of pages: 5.... she and her daughter endured. She pushes Janie into marriage with an older man named Logan Killicks, a farmer with some property. Her life with Killicks is full of boredom and hard labor, so she runs off with Joe Starks, a handsome and well-off storekeeper who moves her to the all-black town of Eatonville, Florida. Even with the prestige and security this new marriage brings, she is bored and unfulfilled by her stunted life with Starks. When Starks dies, Janie begins to live with Tea Cake Woods, a man who cannot provide her with the stability that her Nanny taught her to value, but who finally gives her the passion and satisfacti .....
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Tom Jones
Number of words: 1084 | Number of pages: 4.... mother. He sleeps with Mrs. Waters not knowing this. Fielding does not unveil this secret until the end of the novel. The major problem in the book is simple. There is a deceitful man named Blifil. He and Tom are going after the same woman, Sophia Western. Blifil is a kaniving person and besmirches the reputation of Tom. He makes up lies that hurt Tom’s chances with Sophia. Tom is also a bastard and Sophia's father does not want her to marry a bastard. But he does want her to marry Blifil because he is in line to inherit a large estate. After arguments and many other incidences the truth is revealed. Everyone finds out that Tom .....
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Of Mice And Men: Insight Into The Life Of The Characters
Number of words: 1121 | Number of pages: 5.... to hold on to objects. Lennie is just like
a child. He will do what ever George tells him to: "Curley was flopping
like a fish on a line, and his closed fist was lost in Lennie's hand.
George slapped [Lennie] in the face again and again and still Lennie held
on. Through Lennie's actions we can see that Lennie is very similar to a
child. Lennie's first instinct when he is scared is to hold on. Just as a
little kid holds on to its mum or dad when they become frightened, Lennie
holds on to objects.
As of Lennie's low intelligence to understand his strength, he
becomes frightened and kills Curley's wife and as a result, she en .....
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Hard Times: Struggle Of Fact Vs Imagination And Struggle Between Two Classes
Number of words: 363 | Number of pages: 2.... trapped in thes run down society. He feels he deserves this
mediocre lifestyle. Blackpool was originally employed under Bounderby, but is
fired for standing up for his beliefs. This type of behavior was totally
unacceptable during the period of time as it involved imagination and
independance. Bounderby portrayed himself as a self-made man,when in fact, he
had eveything handed to him with a silver spoon. His mother gave him the very
best of everything, including a wonderful education. This demonstrates that the
upper and middle classes were not just two different classes, but two different
worlds. The book concludes with t .....
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Call Of The Wild: A Study Of Jack London's Belief In Darwinism
Number of words: 613 | Number of pages: 3.... to do as his masters say. "...he grew honestly to respect them. He speedily learned that Perrault and Francois were fair men..." (London 21). Buck also learned when and how to defend himself against man. Londons depiction of Buck's struggle to learn how to survive in an unfamiliar environment has been compared to western society's struggle with encroaching communism. "“The study of Jack London's work became a mirror of the turbulent McCarthy era..." (Veggian 2). Through these struggles, Buck was able to adapt and survive in a world controlled by man.
Buck also had to learn when and how to fight other dogs. Eventually Buck .....
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A Time Of Prejudice
Number of words: 919 | Number of pages: 4.... all her adventures.
Every summer, the boy next door comes to visit his aunt. His name is Dill. Jem, Scout and Dill, as children, find their daily childish pleasure in harassing the most mysterious character in the book Boo Radley. As Scout would say, “He went out at night when the moon was down and peeped into peoples’ windows.” Later they found out that that was obviously untrue; they were just uneducated about Boo.
In the book, Atticus, whom I might add is a well-respected lawyer in Maycomb, defends the case of a black man; Tom Robinson who is no doubt innocent, but due to racist white peoples’ thinking – no m .....
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Loves Music, Loves To Dance: Summary
Number of words: 441 | Number of pages: 2.... at his “writing cabin”. Darcy goes to sit back down on the couch
and steps on something almost completely covered by the fringe on the rug.
Ignoring it, she sits down and begins shaking uncontrollably. While
shaking so badly, Darcy accidentally spilt some sherry on the rug. As she
dabbed the wine up with a napkin, she noticed Erin's ring. She thought, “
Erin's ring. Erin had been here. Erin had answered Michael Nash's ad”
(p.279). This is the key scene because this is where the novel becomes
very suspenseful. Here, you realize that Michael killed Erin and now it's
Darcy's turn. Since this story is written so well .....
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Analysis Of Chris Marker's "La Jetee", And Roland Barthes's "Camera Lucida"
Number of words: 5041 | Number of pages: 19.... also the
most challenging, is the nature of Marker's “film” itself. Simply the fact
that I have to put the word film in quotes when applying it to La Jetee is
perhaps the strongest evidence of the enigma that this film has been
throughout its history. What exactly is la Jetee? This is a question that
haunted my research. How do you take a book about photography, and apply
its statements to this “film?” Now, obviously there are some answers to
this question. Marker's film is of course largely about photography
because it is largely photography. However, in many ways it also defies
classification. We have a series of .....
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The Photographs Of Margaret Bourke-White: A Review
Number of words: 499 | Number of pages: 2.... some grand view photographs, including lots of detailed subjects. I like to develop the pictures in black and white because it looks neat. White also does a good job of shooting pattern samples. I would also like to try and take more pattern samples.
Two photographs that I enjoy are of an old man and a house in India. The first picture is titled, Too Weak to Stand, India, 1946. Under it states, “ When the rains come late, famine follows quickly in undernourished India. After the rice goes, even leaves and weeds become edible.” I love this picture because it shows so much detail, poverty and emotion. I think one of the main .....
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