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Papers on Book Reports
Do You Have A Voice
Number of words: 664 | Number of pages: 3.... Then fifteen minutes later Huck goes into Jim’s wigwam and apologizes. This is showing that Huck does have a voice because any other white person from the south would not apologize to a slave. The slaves were thought of as being lower than any white person and Huck was showing that a slave as equal to him or even better than him because he went and apologized to Jim. By doing this Huck was different and developed a voice because if he had no voice he would have gotten angry with Jim for calling him trash and Huck would not have apologized.
The article, that accompanied my writing assignment, is about a man named Elie Wi .....
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What Drives A Man
Number of words: 1582 | Number of pages: 6.... in separately in the various parts of the work; in a dramatic,
not in a narrative form; with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to
accomplish it catharsis of such emotions"
Aristotle, Poetics
Okonkwo is a tragic hero because he is superior to the regular people of the
tribe, "Okonkwo was well known throughout the nine villages and even beyond"
he's an extremist, ".whenever he was angry and could not get his words out
quickly enough, he would use his fists" (Achebe 3), he imposes his own reality
on people, "His wives, especially the youngest, lived in perpetual fear of his
fiery temper" (Achebe 9), demands more o .....
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Heroic Qualities In The Hobbit
Number of words: 602 | Number of pages: 3.... He is again
lucky when he is able to explore the elven palace at such great length.
Yet another example of his luck is when extremely potent wine comes in
barrels,and ends up putting the chief guard asleep who is in sole
possession of the keys which can unlock all the dwarves prisons. So with
all these examples of how luck can be a factor in heroism I am left to
believe that it is a necessary quality.
Another necessary quality needed to be a hero is bravery. This is
more than likely the most needed quality of all in being a hero. Say you
must face a nasty giant with only a sword,or jump in to a raging river,to
get away or sa .....
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Materialism - The Great Gatsby
Number of words: 1699 | Number of pages: 7.... depression and how materialism never constitutes happiness. Fitzgerald uses Jay Gatsby, a character who spends his entire adult life raising his status, only to show the stupidity of the materialistic attitude. Rather than hard work, Gatsby turns to crime and bootlegging in order to earn wealth and status to get the attention of Daisy Buchanon, a woman he falls in love with five years earlier. "He [Gatsby] found her [Daisy] excitingly desirable. He went to her house… There was a ripe mystery about it, a hint of bedrooms upstairs more beautiful and cool then the other bedrooms… It excited him too that many men had already lo .....
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The Joy Luck Club By Amy Tan
Number of words: 953 | Number of pages: 4.... to becoming a child prodigy. She starts to see her mothers hopes as expectations, and if June did not live up to this, she would feel like a complete failure. In one incident, during a talent show, June performs a piano piece filled with mistakes. Ultimately being embarrassed, June believed that her mother was ashamed of her. "...my mother's expression was a quiet, blank look..." (143). However, June was wrong. Suyuan was not ashamed, but upset. She was upset because June did not care about having the best for herself. June did not have high hopes to be successful at anything which Suyuan had wished. June had failed becaus .....
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Fyodor
Number of words: 1422 | Number of pages: 6.... only father seen in the novel, Marmeladov, is a drunkard and is portrayed as a “dead-beat” dad, who only drank and did not tend to his family’s need, but instead added to their misfortunes. Alcoholism is a massive problem that is mentioned in the book among numerous characters; consequently, shuns it for this reason. He abhorred alcoholics, especially alcoholic fathers.
Rodion imprisoned in the novel is the replica of in reality. After his successful release of his first novel Poor Folk in 1846 at age twenty-eight, he was arrested on account of publishing illegal articles of rebellion against Czar Nicholas I .....
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The Catcher In The Rye: Holden's Fall From Innocence
Number of words: 3457 | Number of pages: 13.... I initially believed.
The protagonist, Holden Caulfield, interacts with many people
throughout J.D. Salinger's novel, The Catcher in the Rye, but probably none
have as much impact on him as certain members of his immediate family. The
ways Holden acts around or reacts to the various members of his family give
the reader a direct view of Holden's philosophy surrounding each member.
How do Holden's different opinions of his family compare and do his views
constitute enough merit to be deemed truth? Holden makes reference to the
word "phony" forty-four separate times throughout the novel (Corbett 68-73).
Each time he seems to be .....
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"Minister's Black Veil" : Hidden Sins
Number of words: 1140 | Number of pages: 5.... congregation
including a elder woman who says, "‘I don't like it,…..He has changed
himself into something awful only by hiding his face'"(294). Others cry, ‘
"Our parson is going mad'"(294)! The sermon in which he speaks that day is
"…darker than usual…"(294), and also gives a gloomy feeling. The parson
speaks of a secret sin; the audience soon relates the sermon to why he is
wearing his black veil. The congregation feels that the sermon is given by
someone else through Mr. Hopper's body. As a result, the minister's black
veil is the talk of the town after the disturbing sermon.
In the next section of the pa .....
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The Scarlet Letter: The False Qualities Of Life
Number of words: 1375 | Number of pages: 5.... his" (167).
Dimmesdale had risen through the ranks of the church and had the utmost
respect of the people of Boston. Dimmesdale's "eloquence and religious
fervor had already given the earnest of high eminence in his profession"
(48). Hawthorne pointed out that Dimmesdale was a very influential and
powerful speaker, whose soft spoken words, "affected them [the townspeople]
like the speech of an angel" (48). Dimmesdale also had the ability to
preach unmatched sermons, containing messages that could touch souls. This
was the case during a service following his vigil when, "Souls… were
brought to the truth by the efficacy .....
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A Tale Of Two Cities - Two Cit
Number of words: 1150 | Number of pages: 5.... many slums, like France did. Darnay was acquitted when a lawyer, Carton,
looked much like him and an eye witness faltered to positively distinguish between them.
Carton loved Lucie but he was a drunk. Knowing that their relationship was hopeless,
he stated that he would sacrifice himself for her or anyone she loved in an emotional
conversation. Darnay ended up marrying Lucie. Darnay's uncle, the Marquiuis St.
Evremonde, was assassinated by the father of a child he ran over and Darnay inherited
his Chateau. Darnay would not take it because he did not want to exploit the French
people as his uncle did. In 1792, while the Fr .....
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