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Papers on Book Reports
Lord Of The Flies
Number of words: 654 | Number of pages: 3.... rules is one thing, but the children would rather play than keep the fire going. Ralph gives the idea for the fire, but can they keep it going? " There's another thing. We can help them to find us. If a ship comes near the island they might not notice us. We must make a fire(#38)." Jack has a great idea to use Piggy's glasses to light the fire." Jack pointed suddenly. "His specs-use them as burning glasses (#40)!" Jack has a obsession of hunting and it turns to the choir as well. They have the responsibility to keep the fire going, but they get side tracked, go hunting and the fire goes out. "There was a ship. Out there. You said .....
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Wuthering Heights-storm And Ca
Number of words: 759 | Number of pages: 3.... upsetting the balance between the relationship of Catherine and Heathcliff. Edgar’s love for Catherine is sincere, but the element of great passion which is strongly characterized does not compare to Heathcliff’s love. The difference between Catherine’s feeling for Heathcliff and the one she feels for Linton is that Heathcliff is a part of her nature, while Edgar is only a part of her superficial love. “For he (Heathcliff), like her, is a child of storm; and this makes a bond between them, which interweaves itself with the very nature of their existence.” (Cecil 26) Emily Bronte makes a point i .....
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Philip “Pip” Pirrup’s Development
Number of words: 2299 | Number of pages: 9.... Great Expectations a novel of moral education.
Although shame and guilt are often brought on by actions, it can also brought about by circumstances beyond the individual’s control. Pip’s first moral development stemmed from both such instances. His shame for Joe and himself for being common and mundane were first contrived soon after encountering Estella. Although Pip wasn’t the normal, satisfied child that one would think most children to be, he felt no shame for Joe or himself. Although Estella and himself were of the same age, she had a talent of making him feel inferior. She was disgusted at hearing him call knave .....
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George Dawes Green's The Juror: Annie
Number of words: 893 | Number of pages: 4.... soul such as the teacher would try to harm her? I
confess that her recoil in the following days impressed me. This time the trial
was against Louie Boffano. He was the head of the mob. He and his right hand The
Teacher were as bad as they come. The case was the murders of Salvadore Riggio
and his grandson. Mr. Boffano was being accused of ordering them. By this time
Annie and I already knew the teacher, but we acknowledged him as Zach Lyde. He
had a very piquant approach toward Annie; he bought three of her artworks for
twelve thousand dollars each. Nevertheless, how were we to imagine that he was
part of the mob? By the time tha .....
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Of Mice And Men: Lennie And George
Number of words: 1610 | Number of pages: 6.... rare,
because most farm workers rarely have companions, but George and Lennie have
been together ever since Lennie's Aunt had passed away, and Lennie began to
follow George around everywhere.
Instead of hurrying to the farm that night, they stop by a stream to
camp in the open, and they'll arrive at work the next morning. Why? Well,
Lennie isn't very bright. George didn't want him to blow the job opportunity.
The logic between waiting until morning until going to work was, that way, all
the other farm hands would be out working, thus they'd have a better chance of
getting the job, since Lennie wouldn't have to confront to m .....
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The Frame Structure Of Franken
Number of words: 1006 | Number of pages: 4.... be found also elsewhere in the novel. The Monster’s desire is to be loved by someone. When he realises that not only the DeLaceys but every human being will reject him because of his uglyness, he tells Frankenstein his story in order to persuade him to create a female being of his kind for his companion. At the end of Chapter 8 of Volume II (page 97 of our edition) the monster says: "We may not part until you have promised to comply with my requisition. I am alone, and miserable; man will not associate with me; but one as deformed and horrible as myself would not deny herself to me. My companion must be of the same species, and .....
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1984: Control Is Power
Number of words: 814 | Number of pages: 3.... people's life in such ways as a gang sometimes
does. “Our control over matter is absolute (pg. 218).” The plot shows
many aspects of the nazi party also. Hitler brain-washed many people into
believing that there was a master race and all others had to follow under
certain rules or be punished. The only thing that could stop Hitler was a
more dominant party of different beliefs. Orwell's new that power is
everything in the way that society is ran. As you can see 1984, is not far
from reality in many ways. It's main plot is control is power.
The setting of 1984, took place in a very dreadful, grey Oceania,
which is kind .....
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Battle Royale
Number of words: 708 | Number of pages: 3.... in white society and that society is arranged to create conflict within the black community. The narrator states "In those pre-invisible days I visualized myself as a potential Booker T. Washington." Booker T. Washington was known for advocating working within the white community, quietly and without protest to gain status in the white society. The view that makes this a possibility is discarded by the narrator later in his life, but it is important to note he believes in the theory at this point in the novel. The narrator, when speaking of the boys he is to fight, states he feels "superior to them in my way." The conflic .....
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The Scarlet Letter: Sin-Stained Conscience
Number of words: 923 | Number of pages: 4.... secret, Arthur proclaims that those who hold such "miserable secrets…will yield them up that last day…with a joy unutterable." By this expression, Arthur offers a glimpse into his tortured heart and shows how heavy a burden his secret is. When Chillingworth further inquires about such sinful secrets, Arthur holds his hand to his breast, a motion that he carries out as "if afflicted with an importunate throb of pain." Evidently Arthur does this frequently, and the reader is presented with the thought that this gesture possibly is not done as much out of physical suffering as spiritual suffering. Not only is the health o .....
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Hamlet To Kill Or Not To Kill
Number of words: 618 | Number of pages: 3.... Claudius right away.
The play did come with a success. Claudius did show his disapproval of the play, proving to Hamlet that he was the killer.
Give me some light. Away!
-Claudius, Act III, Scene ii 275
But this leads to Hamlet's second hesitation moment. While Claudius is trying to confess his sins, Hamlet sees a window of opportunity. He could kill Claudius with no one around and no one to witness, but Hamlet had second thoughts on the matter.
Now might I do it pat, now 'a is a-praying,
And now I'll do't. And so 'a goes to heaven,
And so am I revenged. That would be scanned.
A villain kills my father, and for .....
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