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Papers on Book Reports
Barn Burning: Sarty's Transformation Into Adulthood
Number of words: 846 | Number of pages: 4.... his
fathers "...wolflike independence..."(145) causes his family to depend on almost
no one. He believes that they live on their own because of his fathers drive
for survival. When Sarty mentions the way his father commands his sisters to
clean a rug with force "...though never raising his voice..."(148), it shows how
he sees his father as strict, but not overly demanding. He seems to begin to
feel dissent towards his father for the way he exercises his authority in the
household. As we near the end of the story, Sarty's compliments become sparse
and have a different tone surrounding them. After running from the burning barn, .....
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Anselm's Definition Of God
Number of words: 1572 | Number of pages: 6.... hand, contingent
beings (such as ourselves) depend on something else for their existence.
One example of this is, that as a child we utterly depended on our parents
for food, clothing, and shelter. Contingent beings therefore can begin to
be or cease to be at anytime. They can, unlike God, be here today and gone
tomorrow.
Anselm uses the definition of God (the ontological argument), in which I
have described above, to prove God's existence. As I mentioned, Anselm
believes that God is the greatest being we can possibly think of. He does
this by first trying to prove the opposite of what he really wants to
prove. For exampl .....
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Nature And Its Elements In Jane Eyre
Number of words: 1598 | Number of pages: 6.... nests and singing idylls in your boughs; the time of love and pleasure is over with you; but you are not desolate: each of you has a comrade to sympathize with him in his decay.'"
As reflected in the passage above, nature plays an integral part as a thematic element in Jane Eyre. Charlotte Bronte consistently draws a parallel between Jane's life and nature and its elements throughout the novel. This passage seems central to the narrative because it serves as an analogy to the relationship of Mr. Rochester and Jane Eyre, the two main characters of the novel.
Once Jane Eyre has left Lowood and arrives at Thornfield, the relat .....
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Rattle Bone
Number of words: 1148 | Number of pages: 5.... method is the experience of the divorce between Irene’s parents. This long-term process displayed Irene’s parents as being unforgiving. At first his wife forgives James Wilson for the affair that he enjoyed with October Brown, but after a period of time, Pearl also had her share of the fall in their relationship. At this time, neither one of Irene’s parents would forgive the other nor make up with the other. This example again shows the use of foreshadowing by Clair by evolving the event over several chapters with different narrators.
Irene, the narrator in several different stages of the divorce between h .....
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Mixed Emotions In The Story Of An Hour
Number of words: 940 | Number of pages: 4.... how married women behave.
She sits in her room, “merely letting impressions of the outer and inner worlds wash over her” (Papke 132), trying to make sense of all the emotions that are suddenly falling on her.
First, she is afraid of this new feeling of freedom, something different that she never experienced before. She is frightened because she was not born to be independent and “it is not of her true womanhood world; it reaches to her from the larger world outside and would possess her” (Papke 133). Finally she accepts it, the wonderful joy of being free. “Her pulses beat fast, and the coursing blood warmed and rel .....
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American Dream And Gatsby
Number of words: 2361 | Number of pages: 9.... face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder. (P. 171).
On his last visit to Gatsby’s house, Nick realizes that Gatsby’s belief in life and love resembles the hope and faith of those early Dutch sailors coming to America, looking forward to freedom and spiritual and material jubilation. With this in mind, we can be sure that Gatsby is the reflection of the American Dream. So, in what way is Gatsby representative of the American Dream?
After people have determined their specific aspirations, they need to structure a course of actions to achieve them in order t .....
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Girl, Interrupted
Number of words: 571 | Number of pages: 3.... friends or lovers to have" - what one of Caisson's therapists called "people whose lifestyles bother them." Certainly, Caisson suggests , such uncertainty is the normal state of teen-agers. Especially the smart ones, such as Caisson herself, who, like clever prisoners, learn to work the hospital's system of rules and restrictions to their own advantage. Patients are checked on by nurses at five-, 15- or 30-minute intervals, day and night. They are escorted everywhere by one or more nurses; for safety, they are allowed to eat only with plastic utensils and to shave with a razor only under watch . Patients learn much more from each o .....
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A Tale Of Two Cities: Love Or Hate
Number of words: 985 | Number of pages: 4.... trying to show us. That love is always stronger than hate. Miss Pross wins the fight after Madame Defage pulls out a gun, and somehow the gun goes off killing Defage. Pross who loves Lucie dearly and is always helping her in anyway possible. “ …and she softly laid the patient on a sofa, and tended her with great skill and gentleness: calling her “my precious!” and “my bird!” and spreading her golden hair aside over her shoulders with great pride and care.” Pg. 23 And because of this love she is the victor over Madame Defage. Meanwhile Madame Defage is a perfect example of hate. She cares for nothing but the kil .....
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Summary Of 1984
Number of words: 838 | Number of pages: 4.... He had heard
of an anti-Party organization called the Brotherhood, but there was no way
of knowing if it really existed. He didn¹t know if anyone felt the same way
he did, but he was sure there must be.
The Party was reconstructing society as a whole, and no one seemed
to notice. it was done so systematically and effectively, it was hard to
believe the world had ever been otherwise. Children were raised to love Big
Brother (the human face the Party took on). They were taught to turn anyone
in who showed signs of deviation from the Party, even their own parents.
they were born not knowing anything of the past, and without anyw .....
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Hamlet 4
Number of words: 562 | Number of pages: 3.... her future, hopes “to explore a new life with Frank (Joyce 5).” When, in a moment of terror she realizes that “she must escape (Joyce 6),” it seems to steel her determination to make a new home for herself elsewhere. On the other hand, she is comfortable with the “familiar objects from which she had never dreamed of being divided (Joyce 4).” She rationalizes that: “In her home anyway she had shelter and food; she had those whom she had known all her life about her (Joyce 4).” As she reflects on her past she discovers “now that she was about to leave it she did not find it a wh .....
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