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Papers on Book Reports
Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale: Offred
Number of words: 983 | Number of pages: 4.... seem horrific to the reader. On page 93,
Offred is witness to Janine's confession of being raped. She doesn't
comment on how the blame is placed on Janine. Is this because Offred has
begun to accept the words of Aunt Lydia, or more likely, is she silent to
create emphasis on the horrific deed? The answer is easily satisfied when
the reader finishes the novel. Offred must realize the injustices if she
feels compelled to reveal her story on the tapes. She must grasp the
importance of conveying the atrocities that were executed during the
Gileadian area.
Offred is representative of an average women also because she has
exper .....
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Go Ask Alice
Number of words: 2428 | Number of pages: 9.... and school.
She thinks everything is losing interest and everything's dull. I think she just
is going through the "teenager blues".
Julie Brown had a party but she didn't go because she gained seven whole
pounds. I don't think that seven pounds is a big deal.
On September 30th her father was invited to be the "Dean of Political
Science at --------- ". She says that she is gonna become a new person by time
she gets her new house and that it is gonna be so great. Good maybe now she will
quit crying about her dull life. She says that she is gonna exercise every
morning, eat right, clean my skin (what she never had a bath before) .....
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The Hidden Life Of Dogs: Book Review
Number of words: 729 | Number of pages: 3.... becoming
lost and other dogs couldn't? Continuing on to bringing in other dogs Elizabeth
was studying, she pointed out that some had skills that others did not. Misha
was clearly able to navigate himself but when with another dog, he would become
lost. After careful observation it was seen that the other dog could easily
loose track of where she was and mislead Misha. Another interesting topic
covered is how dogs behave with each other. How they achieve their social status,
why some dogs don't become accepted and how they react to each other. By
comparing the dogs with the wolves and dingoes some of the dogs' actions become
cl .....
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The Role Of Women In A Doll's House
Number of words: 886 | Number of pages: 4.... controlled by her husband. She has a subordinate role: she relies on him for everything, from movements to thoughts. One could argue that her most important obligation is to please her husband, making her role similar to that of a slave.
Nora’s society has a hypocrite side by making the characters believe what she wants them to believe. Torvald thinks that he needs to be there to watch out for her, and that she would be nothing without him. As to contradict him, circumstance suddenly place Nora in a responsible position. Nora broke the law and decided to borrow money to pay for her husbands' treatment. By doing this, she ste .....
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Lord Of The Flies
Number of words: 1185 | Number of pages: 5.... the author does this to make Jack stand out. He is a very important character because throughout this whole novel, Golding depicts this island and savagery to everyday life. Jack is the perfect character to play this role due to his temperament and power hungry acts. Jack is solely concerned with hunting, and cannot see the necessity of other things that can keep them alive. Fire, an important necessity, is carelessly abused and treated by Jack. His whole existence and survival depend on fire yet his mail goal is to hunt and kill. His controlling and persuasive behavior, allow him to take over the chief position towards the e .....
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Hills Like White Elephants
Number of words: 944 | Number of pages: 4.... of all but one character. With this point of view in the story the reader can be put into the mind of one of the character again helping to better understand their feelings and thoughts. The reader will be able to know why things happen and what the character's attitude is at that time. Another point of view is the First-person point of view where the author is even more restricted. One of the characters tells the story omitting the author as the narrator. If the story were told from this point of view, they would be able to gives us, the reader, a full description of what was going on would be aware of more things within t .....
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Siddhartha
Number of words: 1241 | Number of pages: 5.... that he was perfect. agrees with Govinda so they started on a journey to hear the Buddha's teaching. After they heard the Buddha's teachings, Govinda becomes his follower, but doesn't. and Govinda said goodbye to each other. learned that even from the perfect one, the teachings wouldn't teach him, so he decides to be taught by nobody. He realizes that he was trying to lose the Self because he was afraid of it. From here, he starts to learn from himself. After a few days, he reaches a large town, and there he sees a beautiful woman carried in a sedan chair, go into the grove followed by her servants. Her name was Kamala, and .....
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Characters And Their Roles In The Great Gatsby
Number of words: 1139 | Number of pages: 5.... is one of Gatsby’s only confidants and is there whenever Daisy and Gatsby meet. He is a crucial character of the novel.
Tom Buchanan is one man that no one who reads this novel likes or has any feeling for. He is the antagonist and is the character in which much of the typical macho male aspects are placed upon. He went to school with Nick at Yale and eventually married Nick’s Cousin Daisy. He cam from a very wealthy family in which materialism and the love for money was rampant. Tom was very ungrateful for what he had in Daisy, and Nick as well as Gatsby were aware of that. Tom had a mistress, Myrtle Wilson. He did noth .....
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Heart Of Darkness: Marlow And Kurtz
Number of words: 639 | Number of pages: 3.... travels with the native savages. Marlow shows he has the savage qualities as well when he follows Kurtz into the forest, but not to the extreme Kurtz has. Marlow also shows his savageness when he is first in Africa when he and his men are carrying a dead man. One of his men expects to see Marlow kill someone, this man sees that Marlow has the potential to kill a man.
Marlow realizes that Kurtz is a savage by his actions and behavior. First Marlow is horrified by the human heads on the poles outside his house. Marlow is also outraged and upset when Kurtz threatened to kill him if he did not give him the ivory. Kurtz is willi .....
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An Analysis Of Catch 22 By Joseph Heller
Number of words: 1291 | Number of pages: 5.... power
and elitism that have become so sought after in America. Throughout the
novel, he tries to find a way to live a fuller life as a real human
individual. He looks to many of the other characters in the book for help
but only finds unsatisfactory answers.
Each of the characters in Yossarian's life at the base shows the
reader one more example of how bad society has become. Clavinger tries to
live life by reasoning. He looks for a reason in everything. In constantly
looking for a reason why, he never enjoys life to it fullest. As further
proof that this life leads nowhere, he is shot down and killed, certainly
not an event wit .....
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