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Papers on Book Reports
Flowers For Algernon: Supplementary Book Review
Number of words: 762 | Number of pages: 3.... she played a very important part in Charlie's involvement in
trying to sort out his past and figure out his present and future plans.
Charlie is a mentally retarded person who has impressing people and gaining
friends as one of his top priorities. He then hears of an experiment which
could possibly make him smart. He makes himself subject to this human
experiment with the hopes of gaining knowledge in a sole purpose of gaining
friends. As the book progresses, Charlie goes through dramatic changes
mentally, and instead of making him gain friends he actually is looked on
in the same way if not worse. For example, at Charlie's old .....
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Catch-22
Number of words: 837 | Number of pages: 4.... states, “I always didn’t say you couldn’t punish me, sir.” Finally, the colonel is satisfied with that answer even though Clevinger’s statement did not answer the question and has no meaning. Major Major often spoke with a lack of meaning. He simply did not make sense. For instance, he told Sergeant Towser, his assistant, “From now on, I don’t want anyone to come in to see me while I’m here.” According to this statement, when would anyone be able to see him if they could only go to his office when Major Major was out? When Appleby once went to see Major Major, he started to talk to Sergeant Towser. “About how l .....
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Jay McInerney's Bright Lights, Big City: You Are The Coma Baby
Number of words: 801 | Number of pages: 3.... not realize the fallacies of his ways until he has
hit rock-bottom.
The Coma Baby is shown to be the symbolic representation of the main
character through his actions and philosophy toward life, a philosophy wholly
irresponsible and unmotivated. As the main character approaches he asks the
Baby if he's going to come out. The Baby responds with "No way José. I like it
in here. Everything I need is pumped in."(line 11) This remark illustrates the
main character's attitude toward life. With the condition that the Baby gets
what he needs, he has no motivation to improve his situation. This parallels
with the main characte .....
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Animal Farm Essay
Number of words: 779 | Number of pages: 3.... apples. He doesn't care
about the work the animals do, just what would benefit him.
For example, Napoleon comes up with the building of the windmill that
would supply electricity so they would not have to work as hard. Napoleon was
against this because he didn't come up with the idea. When Napoleon sees that
Snowball is gaining more power with the speech of the windmill, Napoleon sends
his dogs to chase Snowball out of the farm. After Snowball was chased out of
the farm, Napoleon gains more power by saying Snowball was a bad person. He
told the animals that Snowball was with Mr. Jones from the starting. (Ch 6. P.
72) "We .....
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Hound Of The Baskervilles
Number of words: 793 | Number of pages: 3.... was Selden Barrymore.
One night while Watson and Sir Henry were in the Hall, they observed Mr.
Barrymore (the Butler) sending signals through the window using a candle.
Through questioning he divulged that he was really doing a favour for his
wife for the escaped criminal was his brother in-law. Baffled by this Sir
Henry and Watson went to go and arrest this villain, they reached him in
time, but Selden managed to evade the authorities once more.
Through remenents of a letter written to Sir Charles Baskerville prior
to his death, it was written by a Miss Laura Lyons from Coombe Tracey. She
wrote this letter to finance h .....
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Wise Blood: Whose Deformity Is The Most Serious
Number of words: 1050 | Number of pages: 4.... desperately needs a new Jesus, and Enoch,
perceiving this Jesus to be an actual being, follows his instincts and
brings Hazel a three-foot shrunken man whom he honestly believes to be the
savior. Before actually donating the messiah to Hazel, Enoch's blood
directs him to clean his room in order to house Jesus. This particular
misconception may cause many readers to regard Enoch as rather insane, but
his actions but his most prominent deformity is his admiration for and
eventual metamorphoses into a gorilla. Consequently, his attraction to the
gorilla stems directly from his aspiration to be received in a welcoming
manner by so .....
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Sweat By Zora Hurston
Number of words: 497 | Number of pages: 2.... into to bed and threatened that, “[he] oughter mash [her] in [her] mouf fuh drawing dat skillet [on him].” After they been married only a short few months he gave her the first beating. Others in town knew of the abuse Delia suffered from. One gentlemen from town made the comment one day, “[Sykes] done beat [Delia] ‘nough tuh kill three women.” Many people in the town had little to no respect for Sykes because he beat Delia and Sykes even tried making offers with presents to some of the other mens’ wives.
Besides physical and emotional abuse Delia had to put up with mental abuse from her hus .....
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Ray Bradbury's Dandelion Wine
Number of words: 1770 | Number of pages: 7.... first experiences of young Douglas Spaulding is
to realize that the pure, unbridled energy, emotion, and fantasy of the
summer make him truly alive. (Bradford 69) The pure, unadulterated fantasy
of life and joy in Dandelion Wine gives a more than magical feeling to the
book and leaves the reader wishing that he or she lived in this world.
(Bradford 69) One of the reasons that the fantasy of Dandelion Wine is so
appealing is that Bradbury masterfully crafts the expressions of fantasy
that everyone takes part in, such as dreams and the inner world of the mind,
into a recognizable whole and masterfully expresses it in Dandelion Wine .....
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A Wizard Of Eathsea
Number of words: 961 | Number of pages: 4.... others. When he is a little older, he leaves his home. This is easy for him to do because he has no emotional ties to anyone in Ten Alders, and he has the will to learn. He has almost “a calling” to go with Ogion, and it is his fate to do so. He can feel it inside of him, an urge to go; He doesn’t know what but he needs to go.
Geds ego and impatience are always getting to the best of him, Ogion is trying to teach him important lessons, but Ged is still young and still has romantic fantasies about what being a wizard is all about. He lets himself make decisions with just his heart instead of w .....
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The Murder Of Art From The Sou
Number of words: 419 | Number of pages: 2.... painting, he decides to get rid of this dreaded piece of art once and for all. Dorian takes the same knife that he killed Hallward with, and stabs the portrait of his older self. A sudden scream echo’s, leading the servants to his room a short time later. There, dead on the floor, is an old unrecognizable man who they find out is Dorian. The only evidence that this thing was once Dorian Gray was by the rings on his hands. He lay there, dead on the floor, with a knife stabbed through his heart. Hanging on the wall was a portrait of his, but it was him in his younger years-his youth.
He spent his last living moments as a y .....
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