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Papers on Book Reports
A Perfect Day For Bananafish
Number of words: 712 | Number of pages: 3.... though these two characters are in theory the same man, they are slightly different in some ways. You could also say that they are the same character in different stages of development. Whatever the case may be, the "reasons" for the suicide shift slightly in emphasis as the character changes.
"" attempts to symbolize that the bananas in
See More Glass’s story represent all of the things which are taken in along the journey to adulthood. If pursued with too much zeal, these bananas can prevent spiritual development and lead to a greater materialistic development. See-More has realized that he cannot get rid of enough ba .....
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Animal Farm And The Russian Revolution
Number of words: 1467 | Number of pages: 6.... These leaders believed that all people should and could share equally in the wealth of the country.
The first leader of the animal revolution was Old Major, a prized-boar belonging to Mr. Jones. Old Major gave many speeches to the farm animals about hope and the future. He was the main animal who initiated the rebellion even though he died before it actually began.
Old Major’s role compares to Vladimir Lenin and Karl Marx whose ideas lead to the communist revolution. Lenin became leader and teacher of the working class in Russia, in their determination to overthrow capitalism and establish a socialist state. Like Old .....
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A Farewell To Arms: Style
Number of words: 607 | Number of pages: 3.... has the immediacy of a news
bulletin: these are facts, Hemingway is telling us, and they can't be ignored.
And just as Frederic Henry comes to distrust abstractions like "patriotism," so
does Hemingway distrust them. Instead he seeks the concrete, the tangible: "hot
red wine with spices, cold air that numbs your nose." A simple "good" becomes
higher praise than another writer's string of decorative adjectives.
Though Hemingway is best known for the tough simplicity of style seen in the
first passage cited above, if we take a close look at A Farewell to Arms, we
will often find another Hemingway at work--a writer who is aiming fo .....
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Slaughterhouse Five
Number of words: 989 | Number of pages: 4.... the narrator, while Billy is Billy. Their single connection is that they were both in the war.
Kurt Vonnegut places his experiences and his views in the text. He begins the book by stating, “All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true...I’ve changed all of the names.” Viewing war as a senseless act, Slaughterhouse-Five allows Vonnegut to express his feelings on the matter. Through Billy Pilgrim, he is able to indicate his views. Many things which he viewed as senseless acts were very violent. “[The two scouts] had been lying in ambush for the Germans. They had been .....
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Book Report On A Tale Of Two C
Number of words: 1899 | Number of pages: 7.... a large cask of wine had dropped and broken in the street. Because many people had very little to eat or drink, a large crowd gathered around the dirty puddle and began drinking what they could of the spilled wine. This scene was very descriptive, explaining how the people tried to scoop up the wine in their hands, and how they soaked it up with handkerchiefs from women's heads and squeezed the wine into infants' mouths. Other people licked the stones in the street or sucked on the pieces of wood from the cask. This passage showed how unfortunate many of the people were, without actually saying that they were just poor. Sp .....
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The Influence Of Reading On Anna Karenina And Madame Bovary
Number of words: 1529 | Number of pages: 6.... a product of the
debilitating adventures her mind takes. These adventures are feed by the novels
that she reads.
They were filled with love affairs, lovers, mistresses, persecuted
ladies fainting in lonely country houses, postriders killed at every relay,
horses ridden to death on every page, dark forests, palpitating hearts, vows,
sobs, tears and kisses, skiffs in the moonlight, nightingales in thickets, and
gentlemen brave as lions gentle as lambs, virtuous as none really is, and always
ready to shed floods of tears.(Flaubert 31.)Footnote1
Emma's already impaired reasoning and disappointing marriage to Charles
c .....
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The Time Machine By H.G Wells
Number of words: 3224 | Number of pages: 12.... the situation and the horror of the imagery. The Time Machine brought these concerns into his fiction. It, too, involved the future, but a future imagined with greater realism and in greater detail than earlier stories of the future. It also introduced, for the first time in fiction, the notion of a machine for traveling in time. In this novel the Time Machine by H. G. Wells, starts with the time traveler trying to persuade his guest's the theory of the fourth dimension and even the invention. He tries to explain the fourth dimension before he shows them the time machine so they don't think of him as a magician.
H. G. Wells uses de .....
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The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn: Conflict Between Society And The Individual
Number of words: 549 | Number of pages: 2.... live one from Pap. This is a society that is more concerned about a
dead body than it is in the welfare of living people.
The theme becomes even more evident once Huck and Jim set out, down
the Mississippi. Huck enjoys his adventures on the raft. He prefers the
freedom of the wilderness to the restrictions of society. Also, Huck's
acceptance of Jim is a total defiance of society. Ironically, Huck believes
he is committing a sin by going against society and protecting Jim. He does
not realize that his own instincts are more morally correct than those of
society'.
In chapter sixteen, we see, perhaps, the m .....
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The Flies: Ideal Of Authority
Number of words: 849 | Number of pages: 4.... and wishes that she is unable to fulfill due to her low status in society. One of these dreams includes the reappearance of her brother Orestes, who disappeared from the city and their father was killed. Orestes does in fact return to Argos, and at one point offers to take Electra and leave town, yet Electra refuses to go. Possibly, Electra has become to accustomed to living a life of servitude and powerlessness that she is afraid of living a life of her own with responsibilities to uphold.
As the story moves on, the reader begins to see the authority that gisthus has over the entire town. The people are currently o .....
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Stereotypes In Woolf’s A Room Of One’s Own
Number of words: 1552 | Number of pages: 6.... in the tale will be real people; Woolf’s non-fiction tale reads like a story - a personal anecdote shared with the reader by a persona who might not, if the story be fictionalized, exist. Thus, Woolf almost confuses the reader as to what classification it actually falls into – non-fiction or fiction?
The author’s conversational manner relaxes the reader to a point that he or she forgets that they are, indeed, reading a non-fiction essay. Woolf, herself, describes this aspect at the beginning of the book. “Lies will flow from my lips,” she says. “But there may be perhaps some truth mixed up with them; it is for you to s .....
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