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Papers on Book Reports
How To Kill A Mocking Bird
Number of words: 704 | Number of pages: 3.... Tom Robinson is just a "sorry nigger," who committed an unthinkable crime. Tom represents the black race in American society. He is a victim of racism, which was the major controversy in our culture during that time. Like Boo Radley, Tom Robinson is characterized by what the people of Maycomb say about him. And after being accused of rape, many people see him as a beast.
In this novel Harper Lee uses a lot of symbolism that has to do with racism in the South at that time. The mockingbird is a symbol for two of the characters in this novel: Tom Robinson and Boo Radly. The mockingbird symbolizes these two characters because .....
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The Crossing
Number of words: 638 | Number of pages: 3.... the narrator had: one of total mental exasperation and exhaustion. When discussing the wolf, the author uses run-ons to string together ideas in much the same way a person under intense mental or emotional stress would. Also, the repetition of the word “and” mimics a child. The failure to pause to form the sentences
correctly gives the impression of a child telling a story; not so much worried about the grammatical structure, but more focused on the matter at hand. This immature and juvenile form of writing conveys the narrators loose presence of mind at this time.
Diction is also an important literary technique .....
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Summary Of Aycliffe's The Lost
Number of words: 604 | Number of pages: 3.... Michael and his love, Sophie
Wandless, back in Cambridge, as he describes his travels through Eastern
Europe, his frustrating encounters with bureaucrats, and the gloomy life in
today's Bucharest. Meanwhile, he hires a research assistant, Liliana, to
help him establish his bona fides as the owner of Castle Vliacu.. Liliana
and her secret boyfriend, however, hope to lead him into opening not an
orphanage but rather a hotel at the castle, a business likely to gather
great financial rewards. A grinding winter journey to the castle takes
Michael and Liliana through villages where many peasants seem never to have
seen a car. When thei .....
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The Sun Also Rises
Number of words: 2642 | Number of pages: 10.... courage to confront all weaknesses, fears, failures, and even death.
Jake Barnes, as the narrator and supposed hero of the novel, fell in love with Brett some years ago and is still powerfully and uncontrollably in love with her. However, Jake is unfortunately a casualty of the war, having been emasculated in a freak accident. Still adjusting to his impotence at the beginning of the novel, Jake has lost all power and desire to have sex. Because of this, Jake and Brett cannot be lovers and all attempts at a relationship that is sexually fulfilling are simply futile. Brett is a passionate, lustful woman who is driven by the mos .....
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The Sacrilege: Caesar A Political Mastermind
Number of words: 554 | Number of pages: 3.... the beginning of the story he
says that Caesar is known for being "reckless." He recounts the story of the
pirates that captured him. Also in that conversation, Decius puts down Caesar
because he says that Caesar has no money and that even as Pontifex Maximus, he
still doesn't have any money. So he thinks less of Caesar when Milo tells him
about a huge loan from Crassus to Caesar because he couldn't pay off his debts.
Decius starts to gain respect for Caesar when he makes the announcement,
as Pontifex Maximus, to label the "heinous" crime a "sacrilege." Caesar walks
so seriously and confidently people "lose their stony faces" .....
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A Separate Peace 2
Number of words: 414 | Number of pages: 2.... for him, than to believe it himself, he becomes extremely guilty for his actions. A moment, which occurred during those few seconds, has now caused him to see the pain he has inflicted on Phineas and how much Phineas really cares for him. This guilt continues to come out during novel until Phineas’ foreshadowed death. Gene’s guilt is extremely evident when Phineas breaks his leg a second time. As he sits in the infirmary with Phineas, all he could say was sorry. There was nothing more that he could do. From the beginning of the novel, we learn of a death and not until the final chapters of the book do we learn tha .....
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Pride And Prejudice
Number of words: 982 | Number of pages: 4.... of demonstrating it's importance as a theme of this novel. Lady
Catherine is one of the main offenders, her airs, arrogance and pride are
fuelled by other characters like Mr Collins who is put there to satire
proud people and their followers. Another important character to note is
Mr Darcy. He is an extremely important character in this novel, a major
character, and I think that the fact that he was perceived to have been ‘
proud' at the beginning of the novel by the reader, Elizabeth, and the
community of the shire, and our perception, along with Elizabeth, of his
character, has changed throughout the novel points to Jane Aus .....
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Invisible Man: Denial Of Education For Blacks
Number of words: 1062 | Number of pages: 4.... hidden from the blacks, denying them of a proper education. “I am standing puzzled, unable to decide whether the veil is really being lifted, or lowered more firmly in place; whether I am witnessing a revelation or a more efficient blinding” (36).
Another point that shows a denial of education to the blacks is how the college gives the students an “education,” but when it all comes down to it, the college has taught the blacks nothing of the real world. The Invisible Man calls the college a “flower-studded wasteland” because he realizes later on in the novel that his time spent in college was useless. The college do .....
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The Indian Awakening In Latin America
Number of words: 1367 | Number of pages: 5.... and the
lessons which they learned of respect for nature was passed down to their
children for generations. Much of the land they once owned was stolen from them
when the Europeans invaded.
Another aspect which was described in this book was religion and the
effects it had on the natives of Latin America. The Catholic church was forced
upon many of the Indians when the European, mainly Spanish, ideologies were
forced upon the Indians. The church claimed to want to help them to enrich thier
lives and help their communities. The new church soon forced the natives to work
for many days without any pay. The impression of the church wa .....
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Sir Gawain And The Wife Of Bath
Number of words: 4742 | Number of pages: 18.... certain common features which may help to illuminate Chaucer's use of motifs and incidents, and certainly not with an eye to source study.
If we count the magical nature of the meeting with the hag as a separate feature from her transformation, then there eight features which these tales, or most of them, share in common with Chaucer's:
1) A magical meeting with the Hag occurs in DS, DR, KH and MG. This last is uncertain, as several leaves are missing.
2) The Hag is magically transformed into a fair maiden in all the tales except SD. Jo Janet's equivalent of the transformation is the revelation of her royal identity.
3) .....
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