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Papers on Book Reports
The Glass Menagerie: Struggle To Fit Into Society
Number of words: 1065 | Number of pages: 4.... and the dream one that Laura and Tom were living in at
home. Both somehow stumbled both physically and mentally. When Laura said “I'm
all right. I slipped but I'm all right”(47). She was trying to pass to the real
world to do a real job and couldn't because of societies “inability” to accept
her and her ways. She wasn't strong enough to make the trip by herself, but
needed the moral support of the other dreamer in the area, which was Tom who
came running out. Tom is the one who stumbles mentally in his inability to look
at the escape, which would be his way out of the place. He was always losing his
strength while out the .....
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Billy Budd
Number of words: 1392 | Number of pages: 6.... appearance. In the following text, Billy is appropriately named for his attributes by the narrator: "The moral nature was seldom out of keeping with the physical make. Indeed, except as toned by the former, the comeliness and power, always attractive in masculine conjunction, hardly could have drawn the sort of honest homage the Handsome Sailor in some examples received from his less gifted associates" (6). When the text of is read through a Christian interpretation these attributes of purity and perfection point towards another person in Christian tradition who was also both pure and perfect. Jesus Christ of Nazareth was c .....
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Realism Verses Romanticism In
Number of words: 644 | Number of pages: 3.... Demetrius shows no love for her, yet she persists in chasing him. "And even for that do I love you the more. I am your spaniel; and, Demetrius, the more you beat me, I will fawn on you" (Act 2, Scene 1). These characters are a true definition of "love sick." All of them appear to be in love with love, more so than in love with each other. They all frantically run about, each changing partners so often that one is never really sure of who loves whom. Each consume themselves with what they consider to be real love to the point of losing touch completely with the real world. To them, love is a fairy tale which involves no reason. .....
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The Picture Of Dorian Gray: Evil
Number of words: 905 | Number of pages: 4.... for his youth, Dorian rids of the good inside of
himself. The plot proves to us that evil does actually lie within an
individual. From the moment that he becomes forever young he begins to
deteriorate. Even once he reached his epiphany and saw his evil through
the portrait he simply denied seeing it and continued his malicious deeds.
The characterisation of the book is one of the most important
elements of this book. Dorian begins by being a very naïve lad. He is
very easily influenced by others especially his two new good friends; Basil
and Lord Henry. Basil, the painter of the portrait, influenced Dorian in
more of a .....
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Crabbe And The Dead Poets Society: Relationships
Number of words: 535 | Number of pages: 2.... most important things Crabbe
and Neil shared was “Actions speak louder than words” or “Seize the day”.
When Neil secretly started going down to the theater for auditions he was
trying to make his life worth-while and do something that he enjoyed. His
father then came back from out of town to force Neil to quit acting. He
told Neil that he was to become a doctor and not an actor. Neil then
realized that he had no choice in his future. Much like Crabbe. Crabbes
parents we're leading him into a career path he didn't want to take, he
escaped because he also wanted a say in his future. At this time Neil
killed himself. Neil's .....
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Theme And Summary Of The Color Purple
Number of words: 880 | Number of pages: 4.... white people, but form her own family members. At the age of fourteen she is raped by her father who tells her that “…she better shut-up and git used to it.” She gets married to a amn that she does not love to escape the violence in her father’s house. This proved to only make things worse when it becmae appearent that her husband also was an abusive man. Th emarrige seems to be only benifiting Mr.____ (her husband is never named), as she takes care of the kids and his house. She gets so fed up with feeling that she is worth nothing that she starts to indentify with a tree, which shows no emotion. The tree also though .....
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Run With The Horsemen
Number of words: 471 | Number of pages: 2.... speak in a southern dialect which portrays them as uneducated. A good example of this is when Buddy pleads with Porter to, “Keep yo head down, Sambo! For God’s sake, keep yo head down an be stiller’n you ever been in yo life befo!” The same words are used as would be used by an educated person, only they are shortened or run together.
The vivid imagery used throughout the novel allows the reader to have a better idea of what life was like. The summer plowing is said to have a rhythm that is “almost musical,” The stride of a man “matched that of a mule in a one-plane dance down a cotton row with ears of the .....
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A Farewell To Arms: Experiences And Their Influences
Number of words: 570 | Number of pages: 3.... like and expand their understanding of how the world was during times of war. Hemingway ends the first chapter with an understatement that when winter came there was an epidemic of cholera in the army, but “only seven thousand died.” Only. Hemingway’s cruelly flattened language paints a picture of genuine horror. All of this sets the scene for tragic happenings to come and allows the reader to be able to sympathize with the soldiers and with others.
Hemingway also allows his readers to partake in the experiences of World War 1 when the protagonist of the novel, Frederick Henry, is wounded badly when he is on the front. .....
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Social Deterioration In "The Crucible"
Number of words: 833 | Number of pages: 4.... them to dance. The girls also said that they saw
members of the town standing with the devil. A community living in a
puritan society like Salem could easily go into a chaotic state and have a
difficult time dealing with what they consider to be the largest form of
evil.
Salem's hysteria made the community lose faith in the spiritual beliefs
that they were trying to strictly enforce. The church lost many of its
parishioners because the interest of the town was now on Abigail because
people wanted to know who was going to be named next. When the church was
trying to excommunicate John Proctor, there were not enough people at .....
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Catcher In The Rye And Generation X: Holden And Andy
Number of words: 1562 | Number of pages: 6.... who protects children from the pitfalls of hypocrisy and lies, that Holden seems to think infect the adult world. As a result, Holden is very careful not to use other characters as a means for his own ends. In many ways he is unable to deflect the unexpressed pressures that every teen male feels, to have sex. He is offered the "teenage dream" of sex in a non-responsible situation when Maurice, the elevator operator in his hotel offers to set him up with a hooker. Holden jumps at the chance, but when confronted with the reality of the situation feels horrible, and ends up not touching the hooker.
Pure sex, like many other societa .....
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