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Papers on Book Reports
Mansfield Park
Number of words: 358 | Number of pages: 2.... the
novel's publication. Some dislike the character of Fanny as "priggish" (however, it is
Edmund who sets the moral tone here), or have no sympathy for her forced inaction
(doubtless, those are people who have never lacked confidence, or been without a
date on Friday night!). Mansfield Park has also been used to draw connections between
the "genteel" rural English society that Jane Austen describes and the outside world,
since Fanny's uncle is a slave-owner (with an estate in Antigua in the Caribbean;
slavery was not abolished in the British empire until 1833). Like a number of other
topics, Jane Austen only cho .....
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Native Sun: Society's Responsibility
Number of words: 793 | Number of pages: 3.... of being discovered by Mrs. Dalton. This internalized social oppression literally forces his hand when he holds the pillow over Mary's face, suffocating the drunken Mary. Bigger knew that no white person would believe he was not trying to rape Mary. As Bigger tells Max, "They believe that. ...when folks say things like that about you, you whipped before you born." Bigger's sense of lifelong hopelessness becomes evident when he says, "I don't have to do nothing for 'em to get me. The first white finger they point at me, I'm a goner, see?" (pg. 325). That is why Bigger said he used violence. Violence is Bigger's only outlet of .....
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Comparison Of 1984 And The Cry
Number of words: 1105 | Number of pages: 5.... example sexism and homophobia) and indeed conflicts (for example the conflicts between the Republic and Northern Ireland). In the novel ‘1984’ know-one follows a religion as such, as far as the people of Britain in 1984 are concerned there is no God, the complete opposite of the radical religious views of the people of Waknuk. Most people in Waknuk have been ‘brainwashed’ by Christianity in the same way many people in Great Britain in 1984 have been ‘brainwashed’ by the party and Big Brother. Each use repetitive slogans, in 1984 such slogans as: “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” are used .....
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Tale Of Two Cities: The Wine Shop Chapter - Element Of Secrecy
Number of words: 361 | Number of pages: 2.... said nothing...but coughed just one grain of cough. This, in combination with lifting her darkly defined eyebrows suggesting to her husband that it would do him well to look around the shop.(pg. 28). The reader, at this point, becomes aware of the same secrecy between the Defarges but is unsure why.
Charles Dickens certainly used the wine shop to install an element of secrecy in the novel. He shows that certain individuals are required to lead a secret life just to stay alive. He shows this when Mr. Monette is hidden away in the attic.
Often you will see in novels that the author has chosen to experiment with the reader's m .....
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Essay On The Stranger
Number of words: 575 | Number of pages: 3.... would only lead to lascivious killing. While describing that hunt to the boys, Jack was "twitching" and "shuddering" as he talked. He knew it was wrong. Eventually all the savages hid behind their masks when their lust for killing climaxes on the manhunt for Ralph. Throughout all of the story, all hunting, killing, and shedding of blood was done while hidden by masks.
The mask, to whoever wears it, makes the boy unknown, unrecognized, and mysterious. When the first mask was put on, Jack "looked no longer at himself but at an awesome stranger". At the formation of Jack's tribe, all who join wear a mask from that time on and bec .....
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Maus
Number of words: 945 | Number of pages: 4.... camps began to fill; yet Vladek and Anja manage to survive using strategies, and blind luck, until they are caught and sent to Auschwitz. “We had to make for ourselves “bunkers,” places to hide” (Spiegelman, pg. 110). By hiding in these bunkers they are able to avoid the Germans. For instance Vladek tells Art about one of the bunkers they stayed in.
“In the kitchen was a coal cabinet maybe 4 foot wide, inside I made a hole to go down to the cellar. And there we made a brick wall filled high with coal. Behind this wall we could be a little safe” (110).
The description of this bunker shows one of the ways .....
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Compare And Contrast Daisy To Myrtle
Number of words: 447 | Number of pages: 2.... social classes. Myrtle is not very high class. She proves this to us several times. For instance when she buys a copy of the “Town Tattle” or when she is content with the mutt puppy that Tom bought her. Daisy would not have been content with this gift and would not have purchased a copy of the “Town Tattle” because Daisy was a member of the elite high or upper class society. Another difference between them is their appearance. Myrtle was somewhat overweight, and not very pretty. She was sort of a possession to tom and that’s why he stayed with her. Daisy on the other hand was thin, pretty, and refined. She was sort .....
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The Pardoner: "The Root Of All Evil Is Money"
Number of words: 1071 | Number of pages: 4.... financial gain. He sold them various “relics” that supposedly cured
ailments ranging from sick cattle to jealousy. And if the relics didn't
seem to work, it was obviously because of the sinful man or woman who
purchased them, and no fault of the Pardoner. He had a few lines he would
routinely say to his potential customers;
“Good men and women, here's a word of of warning:
If there is anyone in the church this morning
Guilty of sin, so far beyond expression
Horrible, that he dare not make confession,
Or any woman, whether young or old, .....
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The Most Dangerous Game: Foil Character To Contrast The Protagonist
Number of words: 438 | Number of pages: 2.... Luckily, you and I are hunters."
Rainsford never considered what it was like to be the prey rather than the predator, that is until he met General Zaroff. General Zaroff was much like Rainsford, only he had found the ultimate game to hunt- human beings. By making Rainsford the huntee, Zaroff showed Rainsford what it felt like to be the prey. Instead of being the one to set traps and track the prey, Rainsford learned what it felt like to fear for his life, as did the beasts that he himself hunted. Previous to the hunt, he had assumed that the creatures that he tracked had no sense or feeling. However, .....
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One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest: Comparison Of Movie And Book
Number of words: 316 | Number of pages: 2.... was when the new McMurphy
was revealed to the viewers. Up to that point we were used to McMurphy
being a lively and cocky character. What we were exposed to was a character
with totally contrary characteristics. He looked like a dead corpse with
just enough energy to breathe. This was a truly moving scene that lead to
Chief suffocating the lifeless body.
This film was a poor adaption of the novel. The events in the movie
were not accurate when compared to the novel. The biggest difference in my
opinion was the charcterization. In the novel we really get to know the
background of .....
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