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Papers on Book Reports
The Jilting Of Granny Weatherall
Number of words: 744 | Number of pages: 3.... hard to maintain the household further strengthens Granny’s character. Her ability to fence in a hundred acres, dig post holes and care for sick children and horses reflects her strengthened character. On her death bed Granny wishes things to be orderly the way she handled them in the house. Many of the positive characteristics and work ethic of Granny reflect on to her children.
Some of Granny’s many attributes include her endurance and fortitude, which she passes on to her children. Granny’s useful household skills are passed on to her children. While she is on her deathbed, her children take care of the house as .....
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Twain And Finn: Breaking The Language Barrier
Number of words: 559 | Number of pages: 3.... in the character of Huck in that
he was gaining an education that he never really wanted in the first place,
but soon came to realize that it was something actually useful, and in the
fact that he was disobeying his father's orders.
Huck's feelings about slavery are shown when he helps Jim, Miss
Watson's slave, to escape. Huck's constant statement that “Jim talks like
he is white inside” shows that Huck was unique amongst the society in which
he lived in the fact that he saw beneath the color of a person's skin and
saw the person that was truly there. Jim seems to be the only person that
Huck can trust other than Tom Say .....
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The Scarlet Letter: Visions Of A Past Society
Number of words: 743 | Number of pages: 3.... to stare into her face, and at the wink-ing baby in her arms,
and at the ignominious letter on her breast.
P. 52, 53
As this is happening, all the people see is the crime that Hester
committed, not the person behind it. They do not take into consideration,
that the crime itself, is not as evil as they make it out to be. Hawthorne
describes it as enjoyable to the spectators, by showing the children watch
her and laugh as she makes her way to the scaffold. It's as though the
people of the Puritan religion are heartless, ruthless, cold blooded, and
that what is going on, is considered fun. .....
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Essay On Jim In The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
Number of words: 376 | Number of pages: 2.... and he stopped Tom before the Phelpses
saw him. Tom hid until that night when they planned to break Jim out. But
being the one for excitement that Tom was he derived a plan that would for
sure get them caught. He left a note on the Phelps's porch that something
was going to happen. As Huck and Tom freed Jim Mr. Phelps fired a shot and
it hit Tom but Huck and Jim didn't realize it until they got to the boat
and floated to the island. On the island, they decided to leave to leave
Tom while Huck went to get a doctor and Jim got away. But when the doctor
arrived Jim was watching Tom. Jim sacrificed his freedom to help someon .....
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Kate Chopin's Controversial Views
Number of words: 1806 | Number of pages: 7.... Taking on the role of a high society lady as well as wife and new mother,
Chopin fit in well with the New Orleans culture. She enjoyed the Louisiana
atmosphere so well that most of her writings were based here. Chopin
continued living in Louisiana raising her six young children until the
sudden death of her husband brought her back to St., Louis (Skaggs 3).
Oscar Chopin died while their youngest child, Lelia was only three. Soon
after Chopin moved her family to St. Louis to be with her dying mother. In
the grief of her losses Chopin had to rediscover who she was. This
challenge came out in her writing of heroines searching f .....
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A Comparison Of The Misguided Desires Of Gatsby And George
Number of words: 1523 | Number of pages: 6.... acting like a little boy," he says to Jay, and this single remark defines much of Gatsby's peculiar charm. For Gatsby, despite (or because of) his wealth, and his dreams, was indeed a "little boy"-- a worshipper of toys that he took to be signs of Divinity. For immature people like Jay Gatsby, the trivial is always elevated to the universally significant. Lastly, Gatsby, after being so proud of his wealth at the beginning of the book, totally reassess the value of all of his possessions (regardless of how expensive they were) by the reactions they elicited from Daisy. It was as if Gatsby believed that Daisy was the embodimen .....
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The Scarlet Letter
Number of words: 449 | Number of pages: 2.... reverend. Then again, if he doesn’t, he will be forced to carry the ever so heavy burden. Dimmesdale waits for such a long time that the guilt has already got to him by the time he is ready to confess. He carves the letter, “A,” into his chest. He beats himself with leather whips, and has to go for long walks in the woods. Back then the woods where known to everyone as the place where the Black Man lives. In this book, Dimmesdale is the dominant character that shows how guilt can rip you apart at the limbs.
People could say that Pearl really was possessed and that she was mean, but in all seriousness why would Heste .....
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1984 Big Brother Is Watching Y
Number of words: 1160 | Number of pages: 5.... that do the jobs of the government. In this world, never has anyone thought any different of his or her place in society. Due to this authority that attempts to control the human train of thought, paranoia among the people became common. Nobody would talk to each other. Bonds between one another were broken, and it was never thought to be any different than before. To hold on to what makes you human - emotions and the ability to speak freely - was considered a crime against Big Brother. Of course, with authority comes punishment. To break from traditional views essentially asks for some form of retribution. For Winston, thi .....
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The Scarlet Letter: Hester, What A Change!
Number of words: 915 | Number of pages: 4.... using the plight of Hester Prynne and Arthur
Dimmesdale to illustrate the conflict between the desire to confess and the
necessity of self-concealment. Hawthorne grew up with his two sisters and
their widowed mother, and an uncle saw to his education at Bowdoin College.
In 1852, Hawthorne wrote the campaign biography of Franklin Pierce, an old
college friend. The best of Hawthorn's early fiction was gathered in
Twice-Told Tales, Mosses from an Old Manse, and The Snow-Image. These
capture the complexity's of the New England Puritan heritage. Hawthorne's
writing had a wide range of influence upon people, such as Melville w .....
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An Analysis Of The Effects Of Spiritual Visitations On Scrooge
Number of words: 780 | Number of pages: 3.... the game played
at the party.
Then there was the Cratchit's who seemed to be more grateful
towards Scrooge, a man who gave them barely enough money to buy food and
shelter, then they really should have been. At first when Scrooge sees Bob
stand to toast him he's almost filled with pride or at least an enlarged
ego, but when Mrs. Cratchit says in a fit of rage "I'll drink his health
for your sake, and the Day's, not for his. Long life to him! A merry
Christmas and a happy New Year! He'll be very merry and very happy I have
no doubt!" (Dikens, 80) Scrooge is only reminded of what he is and what he
may end up as.
The third .....
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