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Papers on Book Reports
Cry, The Beloved Country: The Breakdown And Rebuilding Of South African Society
Number of words: 999 | Number of pages: 4.... them out of where they used to reside where the
land is so good that it could be even referred to as “holy, being even as it
came from the Creator.” (pg. 3). In the rural areas such as this the decay
comes as a result of making the blacks live in confined areas where the land is
so bad it can't be farmed any more, and the taking of the strong males out of
these areas to go work in the mines were things are unsafe and people rarely
return. Because of this, the people leave the tribe to go on the roads to
travel to Johannesburg, because “All roads lead to Johannesburg.” (pg. 10).
As Kumalo arrives in Johannesburg he finall .....
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Good And Evil In The Crucible
Number of words: 829 | Number of pages: 4.... of witchery and swirling accusations, John Proctor was easily indicted of being a messenger for the devil by the testimony of his disillusioned servant Mary Warren, who in the past committed perjury. The court who heard the testimony easily accepts it because she is a church going person, while John Proctor slightly deviates from the norm. This transfer of blame is also noticeable when the truth is first discovered about what the girls were doing in the woods. The girls were not blamed. The blame was put on Tituba, the “black” slave who was said to have “charmed” the girls. Abigail swears that “she [T .....
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Colonialism And The Heart Of D
Number of words: 694 | Number of pages: 3.... Through this statement Conrad attacks the vicious and selfish nature that colonialism infests upon colonizers. Another direct attack is Marlows description of the natives. They faced hardships and atrocities, many of which they could not physically or mentally endure. Here Marlow gives a dark picture of their plight. They were dying slowly—it was very clear. They were not enemies, they were not criminals, they were nothing earthly now, nothing but black shadows of disease and starvation lying confusedly in the greenish gloom. Brought from all the recesses of the coast in all the legality of time contracts, lost in uncongenial s .....
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The Grapes Of Wrath
Number of words: 1745 | Number of pages: 7.... though Ma in reality is the driving force behind it. He is a hard working tenant farmer who is forced out by elements beyond his control.
Grampa
He was attached to the land. He was too old to adapt to a new place. As soon as he was removed from the land, he died. He pretended to want to go to California but he was faking it.
Granma
She and Grampa quarreled a lot but they really were devoted to each other. After Grampa died she withered and died.
Jim Casy
The preacher, Jim Casy, can be seen as a modern day Christ figure, except for without the Christian Doctrine. The initials of his name, J.C., are the same as Jesus .....
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Canterbury Tales: Chaunticleer; Behind The Rooster
Number of words: 790 | Number of pages: 3.... unlikely because he does not take heed to his own
advice and stay away from the fox that encounters him later. He is educated
enough to know these supposed quotations but not intelligent enough to
understand the real meaning of them. It is if he simply brings because they help
him win the argument with his spouse and not because he actually believes what
they say. Chaucer is using the idea that the Aristocracy has schooling
throughout their childhood, but it is only done to have seemingly important but
empty conversations.
His physical appearance is also described with such beautiful passion
that it makes us think Chaunticleer i .....
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Marigolds By Eugenia Collier
Number of words: 616 | Number of pages: 3.... and as her fear and anger build up, they move her to an act of destruction. But this act also taught her a lesson in life.
Childhood is meant to be a time of learning and reaching to find that person you want to be as an adult. It seems that every act as a child is based on innocence and ignorance. Innocence involves an unseeing acceptance of things at face value, an ignorance of the area below the surface. As a child, even an act of destruction is seen as innocence. During childhood, violence seems to come so normal to children, as if second nature. They tend to think it's their only way of letting go and forgetting .....
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A Farewell To Arms - Love And
Number of words: 868 | Number of pages: 4.... handling of human beings trying to come to terms with their vulnerability." As far as Stubbs is concerned, Hemingway is quite blatant in letting us know that role-playing is what is occurring. He tells that the role-playing begins during Henry and Catherine's third encounter, when Catherine directly dictates what is spoken by Henry. After this meeting the two become increasingly comfortable with their roles and easily adopt them whenever the other is nearby. This is apparent also in that they can only successfully play their roles when they are in private and any disturbance causes the "game" to be disrupted. The intrusion of the .....
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The Nation Takes Shape: A Review
Number of words: 1024 | Number of pages: 4.... seventy
five post offices, scattered bout the Union, the number had soared to over
twelve thousand. There were now twenty five hundred miles of canals,
though none had existed while Washington was in office; and the railroads “
beginning only ten or twelve years ago, are already completed over one
thousand miles.” Schools, colleges, lyceums, and institutes were
multiplying in scores.(1) As you can see from that example, this time
period certainly did show how our nation was growing into the power that it
is today, and taking shape. That is the author's point of view, that the
time period of 1789-1837 was a great period .....
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Animal Farm By George Orwell
Number of words: 796 | Number of pages: 3.... about hope and the future. He is the main animal who got the rebellion started even though he died before it actually began. Old Major's role compares to Lenin and Marx whose ideas would spark the communist revolution. Lenin became the leader and teacher of the working class in Russia, and their determination to struggle against capitalism. Like Old Major, Lenin and Marx wrote essays and gave speeches to the working class poor. The working class in Russia, as compared with the barnyard animals in Animal Farm, were a laboring class of people that received low wages for their work. Old major tells the animals that the source of the .....
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Araby By James Joyce And A Sun
Number of words: 1646 | Number of pages: 6.... of the boy’s initiation in the final sentence: "Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; andmy eyes burned with anguish and anger." The character had a negative reaction to his new awareness. His realization caused him to have feelings of shame, anguish and anger. He was possessed and controlled by his passion for Mangan’s older sister. His ideals of the girl were not realistic but were futile and vain. The girl drew out feelings in him and he discovered that feelings must be reciprocated and the downside that love can also be painful. Heh ad a difficult time accepting his own weaknes .....
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