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Papers on Book Reports
Summary Of Lord Of The Flies
Number of words: 1079 | Number of pages: 4.... they talk about the
need for hunters. A small boy with a mulberry-colored birthmark on his face
says he is afraid of a snakelike beast in the woods. Is there really such a
beast? The boys can't agree. However, the fear of the beast, of the dark,
and of what is unknown about the island is very real and an important part
of the story. Ralph convinces everyone that they need a fire for a signal
in case a ship passes the island. Starting a fire is impossible until they
use Piggy's glasses. Then the boys often abandon the fire to play, finding
it hard work keeping the fire going.
Jack becomes more and more obsessed with hunt .....
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Carver’s Characters
Number of words: 1358 | Number of pages: 5.... 123). Somewhere in the middle of this life he realized, very much like one of his characters, that things would not change.
What Carver deals with in almost all of his stories is the daily responsibilities of life weighing down on one's shoulders. "Almost all the characters in my stories come to the point where they realize that compromise, giving in, plays a major role in their lives," Carver said. "Then one single moment of revelation disrupts the pattern of their daily lives. It's a fleeting moment during which they don't want to compromise anymore. And afterwards they realize that nothing ever really changes" (Gentry 80).
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In The Middle Of The Night: Review
Number of words: 284 | Number of pages: 2.... Night is about an accident in a theater where a balcony
collapses on a number of small children, and kills them, and a few are injured.
The owner of the theatre kill himself and everyone is out to blame John the
usher who was investigating the noises from the balcony at the time. Today the
usher has grown up and has a son. A victim, who died in the accident but came
back to life that day, is out for revenge on the usher's son.
The novel is hard to follow at first because there are jumps from one character
view to another, to piece together a whole view of the story.
The structure of the story is from 3 different views, one is t .....
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Catcher In The Rye: Letter To The Editor - An Unfair Trial
Number of words: 390 | Number of pages: 2.... form of human imaginable, who would have lost no matter what the
case was if she was up against another white person. She was Mayella
Ewell; disgusting. The point is, how would Tom might have been sentenced
if he was in another town like yours and mine, say (your state here)?
There's no doubt in my mind that he would have been found innocent right
away if he was tried in my town, because of the undeniable evedence, and
the lack of racial discrimination in (your town here). The place called
Maycomb County needs to be in the hands of a better judicial system. The
judge would have found some way to find him guilty no matter what .....
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Report On The Prince By Machia
Number of words: 1211 | Number of pages: 5.... actions, and man’s will control the other half. Virtue
is the best defense for fortune, and virtue must be used in order to
keep fortune in check. The prince must take advantage of situations
based solely on if it is best for the state. He should choose his
decisions based on contemporary and historical examples. A prince
cannot consider whether his acts are moral or immoral, and he instead
must act in an unbiased manner for the state. Also, it does not matter
how the state achieves its goals, as long as these goals are achieved.
Finally, regardless of the personal morality involved, the prince should
be praised if he does .....
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The Great Gatsby: Portraying A Morose Tone
Number of words: 589 | Number of pages: 3.... despair and lack of friendship that Gatsby witnesses in his life. The lack of companionship that Gatsby has cogitates how lonely and despondent he is. Through the uses of certain words the author helps express feelings and emotions of the morose tone.
Through imagery Fitzgerald can make the reader feel like they are in the story. Water, specifically evokes the senses. It describes how the procession of cars stopped in a thick drizzle. This depicts how gloomy it appears outside. The reader can hardly see the three cars because of continuous soaking. They describe a motor hearse as ". . . horribly black and wet." A hearse nor .....
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Livy's Historical Approach
Number of words: 784 | Number of pages: 3.... or the partons of the arts. Livy in his time wrote a total of 142 books, many of which have been lost, and most of his later books are known only by summaries.
The history of Rome, which was compiled by Livy in the height of the Roman civilization takes a look at the past achievements of his great civilization. Although a historian, Livy did not take an objective view towards the history of Rome.
There is not a lot to be known about the man himself; it is assumed though that he must have had some kind of independent fortune because he was not dependant on official patronage. Being not sponsored by someone with any politic .....
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BAG OF BONES
Number of words: 751 | Number of pages: 3.... hood ornament in all of this, doomed to go where ever the car took her”(360). Both being millionaires, they battle it out through court, and Mattie and Mike win the case. But in the meantime, Mike is being mysteriously haunted through his dreams by Sarah, the owner of the lodge (named after her) at the beginning of the century, who was gruesomely raped and murdered by Max Devore’s Father. While having a party to celebrate their victory, the deceased Max Devore (he had died near the end of the trial) had hired hit men to kill them all (Mattie, Mike, the lawyer, and their P.I.). The hit men managed to wound the lawyer, morta .....
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1984, Science-fiction Or Reali
Number of words: 1016 | Number of pages: 4.... to watch us just as “the party” watches the citizens of Oceania.
As we speak, hundreds of satellites orbit our planet, each capable of watching everything we do outside. This technological advancement highly mimics that of the telescreens in 1984. If our government wished, it could use helicopters to peer into our windows just as “the party” did in the novel. “‘I didn’t want to say anything in the lane,’ she went on, ‘in case there’s a mike hidden there’”(Orwell 125). The mikes that can hear your conversation are much like the cellular phones in our soc .....
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Cry The Beloved Country: Book Review
Number of words: 1224 | Number of pages: 5.... the white people, but having little success. It is this so called racism
that is essential to the setting of the story. Without it, the book would not
have as much of an impact as it does.
The story begins, as many great stories have begun, with a solitary man taking a
long and dangerous journey to a distant land. The man is an Anglican Zulu priest,
Rev. Stephen Kumalo, and the journey is to the white-ran Johannesburg in 1946.
Like a weary prophet taking a biblical sojourn to Sodom, Kumalo is seeking out
lost members of his family who have left the townships for the lights of the big
city. He is looking for his sister Gertrude .....
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