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Papers on Book Reports
Ellen Foster
Number of words: 381 | Number of pages: 2.... died, she is unwillingly left with her alcoholic father who mistreats her. Ellen spent a lot of time at her friend, Starletta’s house and at the house of her grandmother. Life with her grandmother was no better than life with her father. She did not want to be in either situation. After living with her grandmother, Ellen’s struggle to find a suitable, comforting home comes to an end. For the second time in her life, a family member has died right next to her, basically in her arms. Ellen is able to overcome this, even as a young child, by finding a foster home that gives her everything that she wanted in a family. What Em .....
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Cantebury Tales
Number of words: 3104 | Number of pages: 12.... Pagan rites at the same time, and in the number of people who promptly apostatized when a Christian king died. There is certainly no evidence for a large-scale conversion of the common people to Christianity at this time. Augustine was not the most diplomatic of men, and managed to antagonize many people of power and influence in Britain, not least among them the native British churchmen, who had never been particularly eager to save the souls of the Anglo-Saxons who had brought such bitter times to their people. In their isolation, the British Church had maintained older ways of celebrated the major festivals of Christianity, and .....
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Great Expectations: Pip's Personality Change
Number of words: 601 | Number of pages: 3.... in a
person. No matter how coldly Pip was treated by Estella, he went on loving
her only because of her astounding beauty.
As Pip progressed in life, he became increasingly ungrateful to the
people that had raised and cared for him as a child. His disrespect was
most strongly shown towards Joe. Having not seen Joe for a number of years,
Pip shows that he would rather have continued his now prosperous life
without having anything to do with Joe, when he thinks, "Let me confess
with what feeling I looked forward to Joe's coming... Not with pleasure
though I was bound to him by so many ties; no, with considerable
disturb .....
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True Cristian Kindness- Mercha
Number of words: 886 | Number of pages: 4.... religion and its image of a more stern and vengeful God. In the first half of the trial mercy and revenge are contrasted. The Duke appeals to Shylock to be merciful as if he shared their Christian values--
Shylock the world thinks, and I think so too,
That thou but leadest this fashion of thy malice
To the last hour of act, and then 'tis thought
Thou'll show thy mercy... (IV.i.18-21)
The implication is that demanding Antonio's death for forfeiting a bond is "strange apparent cruelty" (IV.i.22), unnatural and that "the world" (Venetian aristocratic society) agrees with him. Shylock demands his bond with no other justification than .....
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A Room With A View By E.D. For
Number of words: 601 | Number of pages: 3.... that George penetrates. When Cecil attempts to kiss Lucy it is very different than George. He first of all asks permission, then Cecil timidly moves in to kiss her, and lastly his glasses fall off. This example shows the difference between Cecil and George and how Cecil lacks the aggression and desire that George has. Lucy has to make the decision between the mind and the heart. She is torn between Cecil’s world of books and conformity and George’s world of passion and nature. This decision is not easy for Lucy to make.
Lucy came really close to marring the wrong man due to her lack of thought. She has grown up and lived a lif .....
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Redemtion And Salvation In A T
Number of words: 1286 | Number of pages: 5.... begins when he is imprisoned unjustly for eighteen years. The solitary time spent in the prison waiting for his certain death is so excruciating it makes Manette go insane. When Dr. Manette is finally released he does not even know his own name: "one hundred and five north tower" (Dickens p 37) is all he says when asked. Mr. Lorry and Lucie Manette have the emotional stressful task of restoring Dr. Manette back to health: "to restore him to life, love, duty, rest, comfort" (Dickens p 22). It took more than five years for Mr. Lorry and Lucie to reinstate Dr. Manette's health and even still he has a lot of trouble dealing with f .....
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Fiction Analysis Question # 1: Love And Acceptance
Number of words: 623 | Number of pages: 3.... is lighter than Maggie, with nicer hair and a
fuller figure." She Fahning -2-speaks of the fire that burned and scarred
Maggie. She tells us how Maggie is not bright, how she shuffles when she
walks. Comparing her with Dee whose feet vwere always neat-looking, as if
God himself had shaped them." We also learn of Dee's "style" and the way
she awes the other girls at school with it.
The mother in I Stand Here Ironing speaks of Susan, "quick and articulate
and assured, everything in appearance and manner Emily was not." Emily
"thin and dark and foreign-looking at a time when every little girl was
supposed to look or thought she .....
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Moby Dick 2
Number of words: 3474 | Number of pages: 13.... member of the crew. On this island they ran into a group of cannibals that, instead of harming them, would take them in. None the less, both the men would grow tired of the tribe and would escape, although Melville did remain slightly longer than is counterpart. When Melville did escape, however, he would board the Lucy Ann, a whaling ship that was temporarily docked on the island. This ship though, proved itself no better than the Acushnet, and Melville would escape to Tahiti, again with one crewmember to tag along. Eventually Melville ended up in Hawaii, where he joined the U.S. Navy and would work aboard the frigate U .....
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The Stone Angel
Number of words: 855 | Number of pages: 4.... college to become a proper lady, Hagar wanted to teach school but her
father wouldn't allow it. Hagar, instead, kept her father's accounts and
played hostess. Hagar meets Bram Shipley three years later and decides to
marry him. Her father does not approve of the marriage, but Hagar marries
Bram in a spirit of willful pride. Hagar's father does not speak to her
ever again. When entering the marriage with Bram, she expected that she
could change him into the image that she wanted him to be. By doing this,
Hagar denied Bram the affection and sharing which might have made him less
rebellious and despairing. Hagar didn't cons .....
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Accounts Settled: A Review
Number of words: 419 | Number of pages: 2.... look for more food and this disrupts the
cougar. The climax is when Gordon quickly reaches for his gun and shoots
the cougar. The resolution is when Gordon "cries the final tears of his
boyhood" and he is finally a man.
This writer used suspense in his story many times. For instance,
"his eyes held the boy unwinkingly as he waited in the fiendish way of cats
for the moment when the man must stir, or make an attempt to escape, the
moment when his ingrained fear of man would be swallowed up by the rising
tide of his blood-lust" and "moments passed, horrible heart-thudding
moments, during which neither man nor animal stir .....
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