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Papers on Book Reports
Comparative Analysis: Cinderella And Snow White
Number of words: 1186 | Number of pages: 5.... this behavior when she was rescued by the seven dwarfs. They told her to cook, clean, do odds and ends around the house, and other busy-work as in "Cinderella." Behaving just as her counterpart, Snow White complied without protest of any sort, becoming the domesticated servant of the dwarfs' abode (Grimm 3).
The two critics of "Cinderella" also agree that Cinderella was degraded by being slandered by her sisters, mistreated by her parental figure, and forced to sleep near and in the hearth of the chimney. Again, this seems to be a paradigm for Snow White as she was degraded by gullible, disobedient, and ignorant behavior. She .....
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The Great Gatsby: Eastern Desires
Number of words: 728 | Number of pages: 3.... deficiency
in common which made us subtly
unadaptable to eastern life.
In other words, after finding out what the east was really like, Nick lost
his interest in being in the east and returned to the west.
Gatsby came east looking for another type of money - Daisy.
Gatsby and Daisy had last seen each other about five years before, when
they were dating. Then Gatsby had to go to war. While he was away in war,
Daisy met Tom and then married Tom. Daisy had always been rich and
thought that in order to get Daisy back, he need to have money and be able
to give Daisy anything she wanted. He found out that Daisy .....
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"Put Yourself In My Shoes"
Number of words: 1319 | Number of pages: 5.... Christmas party. But he doesn't want to go, mainly because the textbook publishing company where she works is also his former place of employment. Like Marston in "What Do You Do in San Francisco?" Myers is feeling the guilt of the unemployed, which is intensified by the fact that he moves in a much more upscale setting that is typical of Carver's protagonists. Myers is also reluctant to pay a holiday call on the Morgan, although his wife, Paula, finally convinces him to go. The meeting does turn out to be quite an uncomfortable occasion, however. As they approach the house, Myers narrowly avoids being attacked by the Morgan .....
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Stoker And Rice's Books About Vampires
Number of words: 1924 | Number of pages: 7.... humans without them even noticing and as a bat he
can cover more ground in a shorter amount of time. Rice's novels mention
nothing of being able to morph into a bat, mist or anything else for that
matter.
The ability to fly is used in each novel but they are used very
differently. In Dracula the count can fly but, in order to do this he
must turn into a bat and fly as a bat would fly. More powerful vampires in
The Vampire Chronicles can fly as , for example, super man would fly. In
order for a vampire to fly it requires lots of energy and a great force of
will Lestat says “ It was as if a current of air had caught me .....
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Catcher In The Rye: Holden Caufield
Number of words: 506 | Number of pages: 2.... sense because when "bought" the
prostitute Sunny for a throw he could not go threw with it, so he paid her
anyway and sent her away from him. Holden was charitable when he gave a
considerably large donation of twenty dollars to the two nuns. This action was
nothing other than an act of pure kindness.
Holden Caufield has a foil or an opposite in the story, The Catcher in
the Rye. This person is his younger sister, Phoebe. She has a positive outlook
on life, while Holden hated it and thought he was doomed. She was his "ray of
hope" in life and she was the only thing that brought them true joy. Phoebe was
also the only person Ho .....
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The Pearl: Notes Chapter 3
Number of words: 327 | Number of pages: 2.... so he could get a piece of what Kino got for the Pearl. Kino
despises the doctor. He would rather kill him than speak with him, let
alone invite the doctor into his own home. The neighbors believe the
doctors motives to be what they truly are: to take advantage of Kino.
6.
7. The Pearl separated Kino from his neighbors and his caste. After Kino
found the pearl his neighbors wished to take it from him, while before,
they did not really care, as he was one of them.
8. By the end of the chapter Juana hates the pearl and believes it to be
evil, and wishes it to be destroyed. .....
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The Giver: The Setting
Number of words: 410 | Number of pages: 2.... and other
The setting has increased my knowledge of the specific time and place. It takes sometime in the future because of the way people see things and how it is nothing like now. also the laws that the people have are stupid, like females under the age of nine are to have their hair ribbons tied neatly at all times, and you could not receive a bicycle until they turned nine.Another thing that happens is the food at night for dinner is brought to every home. In this society you have no choices to make.
If this story took place in a different setting like the city, it would be chaos. It would be impossible to keep tr .....
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Frankenstein: The Creator's Faults In The Creation
Number of words: 1323 | Number of pages: 5.... obvious fact that ugliness is the natural result when
something is made from parts of different corpses and put together. Were he
thinking more clearly he would have noticed monster's hideousness.
Another physical aspect of the monster which shows a fault in Frankenstein is
its immense size. The reason that Frankenstein gives for creating so large a
creature is his own haste. He states that ,"As the minuteness of the parts
formed a great hinderance to my speed, I resolved, contrary to my first
intention, to make a being gigantic in stature ..." (52). Had Frankenstein not
had been so rushed to complete his project he would .....
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Hunchback Of Notre Dame, Theme
Number of words: 1498 | Number of pages: 6.... a relationship in which two parties are physically attracted to one another. Esmerelda, the gypsy, is quite beautiful. She dances in the midst of a crowd near a bonfire:
All eyes were fixed on her, all mouths hung open. As
she danced to the rhythm of the tambourine which her
round, delicate arms held over her head, she seemed
to be some sort of supernatural creature. (22)
Quasimodo is taken by her loveliness just like most other men. However, because he is deformed and hideous, Quasimodo's physical attraction to the Mistress is unrequited. Nevertheless, this attraction is uncontrollable. Although he never acts upon his urg .....
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Moby Dick: Good And Evil
Number of words: 1347 | Number of pages: 5.... it is the dichotomy between the respective fortunes of Ishmael and Ahab that the reader is left with. Herein lies a greater moral ambiguity than is previously suggested. Although Ishmael is the sole survivor of the Pequod, it is notable that in his own way, Ahab fulfills his desire for revenge by ensuring the destruction of the White Whale alongside his own end. Despite the seeming superiority of Ishmael's destiny, Melville does not explicitly indicate so. On the contrary, he subtly suggests that Ishmael's survival is lonely and empty upon being rescued: "It was the devious-cruising Rachel, that in her retracing searc .....
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