|
Papers on Book Reports
Hypocrites In Huckleberry Finn
Number of words: 915 | Number of pages: 4.... white with pictures painted of castles."(101) The curtains painted with castles give the family a false feeling of being elite. When you think of castles you think of queens and kings and aristocracy. Ironically they think of others who lack the few finer things like curtains with castles on them to be lower class then themselves. These minor details make them think they are above everyone else. Along with this false notion of aristocracy the Grangerfords also possess a false knowledge of academics. When Huck asks one of the Grangerford sons to spell his name, The 13 yeah old son spells huck's false name "G-e-o-r-g-e J-a-x-o .....
Get This Essay
|
|
A Review Of The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
Number of words: 371 | Number of pages: 2.... me-yow! down there. That was good! Says I,
me-yow! me-yow! as soft as I could, and then I put out the light and
scrambled out of the window on to the shed." This shows the boys
resourcefulness and intelligence.
I think it is sick that the group of boys made their own gang. The
gang planned to rob people, kill people and take people for ransom. Twain
illustrates this when he writes, "We ain't burglars. That ain't no sort of
style. We are highwaymen. We stop stages and carriages on the road, with
masks on and kill the people and take their watches and money." I find it
horrible that some young school boys would plan to kill p .....
Get This Essay
|
|
Goethe In Faust And Shelley In Frankenstein: Still The Wretched Fools They Were Before
Number of words: 783 | Number of pages: 3.... As Faust strives to
become the "over man" through knowledge, he realizes that books will not
satisfy his curiosity and that maybe sensual pleasures will. Therefore, in
the process of creating his new life, Faust, becomes distant and unconcerned
with all reality and humanity around him.
Do not fancy anything right, do not fancy that I could
teach or assert what would better mankind or what might
convert. I also have neither money nor treasures, nor
worldly honors or earthly pleasures; no dog would want
to live this way!(p. 95)
Obviously, Faust has fallen into a inhumane state of livin .....
Get This Essay
|
|
Judgement
Number of words: 638 | Number of pages: 3.... the person(s).
Later in the book the Finch children find presents hidden in a tree next
to the Radley place. They can't figure out who would set these nice gifts out
for them. Later they find out that is Boo Radley. He is just trying to be nice
and other people won't accept his original approach on life. At one point in
the book the children decide to go up onto the porch to try and get a peak
inside the window. Then they see Mr. Radley inside with a shotgun and they ran
away. Jem got her pants ripped off on a fence and returned later to retrieve
them and she found them mended and laying over the fence. Another example o .....
Get This Essay
|
|
Catcher In The Rye
Number of words: 577 | Number of pages: 3.... petting his head! This freaked Holden out. " I wondered if I was wrong about Mr. Antolini making a flitty pass at me " (194).
Holden met a friend who always kept her kings in the back row, what he loves about her. Jane to Holden she was a Goddess! It seemed like every guy wanted her. Stradlater wanted Jane and Holden hated it. He got so pissed off when he found out that the two of them went and sat some where a little too comfortable for Holden's liking! " Give her the time in Ed Banky's goddam car!" (43). Then it really got to Holden when Stradlater showed interest in Jane "it just drove me crazy to think of her and Stradlater .....
Get This Essay
|
|
The Adventures Of Huckleberry
Number of words: 739 | Number of pages: 3.... beat and a racist. Nevertheless, society also considered Huck
"uncivilized" because he did not wear shoes, did not always attend school
and he smoked. Society criticized Huck as uncivilized due to physical
appearance when really Huck turned out to be more civilized than any
other character in the novel because he learns how to respect Jim.
Through the ironic critizims of society trying to civilize Huck, Huck
teaches us a lesson on being civilized.
In the novel, Jim runs away from his slave owner Miss Watson. By
doing a thing like that Jim could have been killed or beat. The people
of Jims society would not h .....
Get This Essay
|
|
The Gift: Review
Number of words: 976 | Number of pages: 4.... because she was so young and alone and also pregnant. But very soon they became supportive of Tommy and his love for Maribeth because they realized how good-hearted she was. Tommy's parents soon decide to adopt Maribeth's child, knowing that this was another chance to share their love with a child, knowing that this child was a gift from God, and that Maribeth was sent to them for a reason.
During this novel, after Maribeth had gotten pregnant, she seemed very unsure of what she was she going to do with the baby, how she was going to tell her family about her pregnancy, and what she was going to do with here life. There was tha .....
Get This Essay
|
|
Dr. Faust: Quest For Knowledge
Number of words: 435 | Number of pages: 2.... of the offer at hand, Faust is pledging his soul to eternal damnation. Because he will have access to infinite knowledge and power, Faust feels the bargain is worthy. He does not see hell as a torment despite the difference of opinion Mephistophilis offers.
As the story works towards the actually signing of the contract, a divine intervention occurs as two miracles take place in an effort to stop Faust. He will sign with his own blood. As he writes, his blood congeals and Mephistophilis must find coals to dissolve it again. Suddenly, an inscription appears on his arm that suggests he flee. Faustus, without hesitation, p .....
Get This Essay
|
|
Hamlet
Number of words: 566 | Number of pages: 3.... unattainable dream. “ The imminent death of twenty thousand men that for fantasy and trick of fame.” In this statement is declaring that he thinks Fortinbras quest is meaningless and therefore deems it foolish. He is also compromising Fortinbras basic ability to reason. Throughout the play, s wishes that he could take actions and avenge his father’s death, but in this soliloquy he also states that he believes Fortinbras reasoning to be skewed. He believes that the actions of Fortinbras are incredibly simplistic and thus feels superior in this manner. admires those who ca use their intelligence to its capacity and then act .....
Get This Essay
|
|
The Outsiders: Character Changes
Number of words: 243 | Number of pages: 1.... strict with him. But when Pony's best friend Johnny died of injury from
the church fire, Pony began to be in denial about Johnny's death. He started to
drop grades and fail classes, He became scatter minded. When he read Johnny's
note to him, he got over it and wrote a book for an English essay, and he found
out that Darry really did love him.
Johnny was a quiet, scared and abandoned teenager, yet when he
was with the gang he felt happiness and forgot all his troubles. But when he
saved the five children from the burning church, for the first time in his life
he felt like a real hero. When he was in the hospital for his .....
Get This Essay
|
|
|