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Papers on Book Reports
Candide By Voltaire
Number of words: 1159 | Number of pages: 5.... be doing, and that outside of mealtimes...the rest of the day is spent in useless quarrels...-it's one unending warfare.
By having this character take on such a pessimistic tone, he directly contradicts the obviously over-optimistic tone of Candide. In the conclusion (page 1617) an old turk instructs Candide in the futility of needless philosophizing by saying that "...the work keeps us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and poverty." In each of these examples, the character chosen by the author comes across as a reasonable and respectable person, making the author's point of view seem just as reasonable and respectable.
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Memoirs Of The Geisha
Number of words: 1743 | Number of pages: 7.... her and goes up to see what is the matter with her. As he lifts her chin up and looks into her eyes, he is marveled by the beauty her eyes posses. All he can do is stare. He gives her a handkerchief and a few compliments and tells her not to worry because everything will be fine. The Chairman then leaves but he never leaves Chiyo’s thoughts or dreams. He is the only person who has been kind to her all her life and for the past years, all she dreams about is meeting this wonderful man again and getting to know him. To make a long story short, the Chairman never forgets Chiyo and how beautiful she is, so he goes to a well-kno .....
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The Canterbury Tales: Picture Of Society
Number of words: 478 | Number of pages: 2.... and the listener is even more pleased by the request that the old woman has for the Knight. This part of the tale would keep a listener listening to the speaker. The listener would want to know what happens next. The lesson of the tale comes in the latter stages of the story. The trust that exists between a married man and woman is the lesson that is brought out in the tale. The Knight is very upset about the appearance of the woman. She is not the person that he wants to spend the rest of his life with. The woman says that if she were beautiful, he would have to worry about other men trying to tempt her away from her husband. Bu .....
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To Kill A Mocking Bir
Number of words: 322 | Number of pages: 2.... it was better described in the book.
The third point is that the pageant the night that Jem and Scout were attacked was shown in the book but no in the movie. The movie only showed them walking up to the stairs, then the scene changed and they were walking back from the pageant. The book described how scout fell asleep during the pageant and came a long time after her cue.
Many differences can be seen between the book and the movie of To Kill a Mockingbird. Most of them are very obvious. How would it feel to be the person to be convicted for something that person did not do? .....
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Lord Of The Flies
Number of words: 1068 | Number of pages: 4.... the idea of the monster. Caught of in the rabid frenzy of the dance, this fire-watcher suddenly becomes the monster and is brutally slaughtered by the other members of the group. The climax of the novel is when the hunters are confronted by the fire-watchers. The hunters had stole Piggy’s (one of the fire-watchers) glasses so that they may have a means of making a cooking fire. One of the more vicious hunters roles a boulder off of a cliff, crushing Piggy, and causing the death of yet another rational being. The story concludes with the hunters hunting Ralph (the head and last of the fire-watchers). After lighting half of t .....
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Gillian By Laurel Oke Logan
Number of words: 799 | Number of pages: 3.... more
information about it and she decided she would give it a try. Gillian was
to leave in about five days so her mother and she went to go buy the right
clothes to wear in Canada and some other things she would need. The day
finally came for Gillian to leave. As Gillian, her family and friends went
to her gate at the airport Gillian began to feel really nervous. She said
good-bye to her family and friends and then she went off. The flight to
Canada was very pleasant.
When Gillian arrived at the camp she met some very interesting people.
Jake was an older man and when Gillian started to get to know everybody and
everyt .....
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A Stranger Is Watching
Number of words: 562 | Number of pages: 3.... a successful
man with a family and no problems;at least in the mind of the antagonist.The
antagonist has problems with females,a career he feels is going nowhere,and a
lack of good friends.throughout the story we find out that the antagonist is
very jealous of the protagonist's lifeand that's why he indirectly targets
him.This contrast was an addition to the already excitng plot of the story..
In my opinion the best part of "A Stranger is Watching"is the
end,chapter 52.this chapter contains one of the greatest climaxes I ever
read.The chapter begins at a frantic moment.All of the characters lives are at
risk because Foxy's bomb i .....
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
Number of words: 750 | Number of pages: 3.... Stowe was living through all of what is in her
story. So while providing social, political, and religious commentary, she also
spatters her work with racism and subtle bigotry that would not be found in most
modern writing.
Uncle Tom's Cabin is a novel about how trust in God can conquer great
obstacles, including the pain of slavery. The main character shows this to us
through the story of his life. He is a gentle, pious slave who has been
promised freedom but is sold by his kind master to a hardened and unfeeling
trader. Separated from those who he loves, he is forced to be submitted to a
cruelty that only his trust in the .....
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Lord Of The Flies: Man Giving Into Savagery
Number of words: 396 | Number of pages: 2.... is also displayed distinguishably when civilization disappears. Piggy relies on civilization to survive, unlike Jack who relishes at the fact he is king. Hiding himself from Jack behind Ralph’s authority, Piggy may be intelligent but is a chicken-hearted coward. Piggy also clings desperately to the conch and its authority. When Jack leaves the tribe, Piggy is not timid to express his ideas and is relieved that the "bully" decided to leave. "We can do without Jack Meridew." (pg. 128)
Lacking physical qualities, Piggy depends on his intelligence and knowledge to make himself useful.
Ralph also reveals his true nature .....
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Frankenstein
Number of words: 857 | Number of pages: 4.... it is described, as isolated and dwarfed by massive snow capped mountain ranged and hunted be the emptiness of the lake. Later on in the novel and in the letters in the beginning Shelly puts the characters in the wildest, most isolated areas in Europe: The Swiss and French Alps, the Rhine Valley, the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, Northern Ireland, Russia and the Arctic. When the reader reads about these various places they get a feeling of isolation and that of loneliness, exactly what Shelly wants them to be feeling. When Victor was 15 years-old nature inspired him as to what field of study to get into. His inspiration came when at .....
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