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Papers on Book Reports
Crime And Punishment: Is There Or Is There Not Such A Thing As Crime?
Number of words: 1017 | Number of pages: 4.... a conscience; when we do something wrong,
our conscience makes us feel guilty, although some people feel less or more
guilt than others about certain acts; it varies individually. Based on
this, one can define a crime as the things that make us feel guilty,
although some crimes do not make us feel guilty. Some people do not feel
any guilt when committing immoral acts; these people are deemed psychopaths
or sociopaths by society. For example, most people do not feel guilty when
they break the law by speeding, its just a way of life these days, but with
complex ideologies (stealing, killing), we feel guilt if they are committed. .....
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Matilda
Number of words: 666 | Number of pages: 3.... she replaced his hair tonic with her mother’s hair dye, causing Mr. Wormwood’s hair to be turned a platinum blonde. On her first day of school, ’s teacher Miss Honey becomes very interested in her abilities, wondering where the child picked up such an ability to solve complicated mathematical equations and read such great novels for a child her age. Miss Honey is a petite woman. She is timid towards her aunt, Miss Trunchbull, but can handle the first semester kids very well. Miss Trunchbull, a large intimidating woman, is very cold at heart. She was suspected of rubbing off Miss Honey’s father, Dr. Honey, and forged a w .....
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The Power And The Glory
Number of words: 1494 | Number of pages: 6.... meaning in the world, as it parallels the priest's internal perspective, and symbolizes his redemptive conversion and his final unconscious achievement of martyrdom.
Ater the Mexican Revolution, the Mexican government established anti-Catholic laws against the churches. The government dismissed the Church's system of redemption, and became jealous of the Church's rising influence over society. This system required "sinners" to pay the church money in order to escape eternal damnation in the afterlife. "And the priest came round with the collecting bag, taking their centavos, abusing them for their small comforting sins, and sacr .....
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Dickens As A Motivator Of Soci
Number of words: 1471 | Number of pages: 6.... to rob a house at gunpoint (165). This encounter erupts when the tenants of the house find them, and Oliver ends up getting shot and thrown into a ditch (166). When he awakens, he staggers around half-dead, eventually reaching this same house that he was forced to rob and then abused by the tenants a second time. This is certainly plenty of action.
Suspense begins to build when Oliver comes near to starvation in the workhouse that he is born in, rises when he is kicked out for asking for food (9) and then rises more when Noah Claypole relentlessly bullies Oliver (46). Right from the beginning, the reader is wondering if Oliver .....
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Native Son And Black Boy
Number of words: 1251 | Number of pages: 5.... when he kills the young white girl Mary and gets sent to jail. With Mary he was able to let his feelings out after he had seen what happened, what he'd done. All the hate he could see that in a way he was like the white people, they're both full of hate and vengeance. The most significant change that effected the story is when all of this made bigger feel powerful and stronger so he felt better but everything just made him more angry and worse.
3. A narrative technique that I believe is important to this novel is the way the author describes everything from Biggers point of view, yet is still able to make you see it sep .....
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The Invisible Man
Number of words: 483 | Number of pages: 2.... the narrator's experience in college, where he
was restricted to living up to Dr. Bledsoe's rules. He feels that he too
escaped, in order to establish himself again .The narrator identifies with
Brother Tarp because he too is trying to be an individual free of other
people's control. He does not want to be seen as a tool to be exploited,
but instead as a free-thinking human being.The invisible man knows now that
he has been a tool and feels a strong connection with Brother Tarp.It is as
though brother Tarp is passing on his final wisdom to the Invisible Man
just as the Invisible Man’s grandfather had done, and both message .....
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Sister Carrie: Dreiser's Reversal Of Male/Female Roles
Number of words: 521 | Number of pages: 2.... Hurstwood. In Hurstwood, Carrie sees
all that lacks in Drouet--a more acute sense of culture and worldliness,
and the wealth to explore the new wonders of civilized Chicago life.
Hurstwood serves as yet another step in her ladder to success, and when he
sinks into poverty and self-disgrace after his divorce, she sees him as a
no longer being an asset, and leaves him in favor of striking out on her
own, leaving him to turn into a beggar, while she makes it big. Too, after
she makes it big, and Drouet comes to see her, she can no longer see him as
a friend worthy of her company, and in fact avoids ever seeing him again.
The fact that .....
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Amazing Grace A Book Report
Number of words: 807 | Number of pages: 3.... of employment outside the ghetto, or being accepted outside it. It was their home, they were not supposed to leave it, and when they did they were eyed with hate by other people who did not want to be in their presence.
I was also mortified by the extremely high amounts of child deaths in this particular ghetto. It seemed terrible that so many young children were getting killed, whether it be an accidental death in an elevator shaft, and mistaken shootings, or because of the extremely unhealthy conditions they were living in and the poor treatments that were available at area hospitals. I cannot even imagine myself in t .....
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A Farewell To Arms
Number of words: 795 | Number of pages: 3.... to return to Catherine. When they reunite the rain stops and there is light. They then escape to Switzerland by boat and begin to live happily. When Catherine goes into labor there is complications. The baby dies and later Catherine dies from hemorrhaging. What is love? Love is difficult to explain but, it involves a deep affection for a person or thing. At the beginning of the novel, lieutenant Frederick Henry lacks a sense of value and order in his life. He chooses to intoxicate himself and make visits to prostitutes frequently. During this time of intense stress and pressure this lifestyle is common amongst his fellow comrades. .....
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The Scarlet Letter: Evil Of Isolation
Number of words: 665 | Number of pages: 3.... [forms] itself around
her." Devoid of any social contact, save that of her daughter, Hester must
endure of lonely existence. "In all her intercourse with society, save that of
her daughter, there was nothing that made [Hester] feel as if she belonged to
it."; therefore, she turns to herself for reflection of her shame. When Hester
must walk through the town, she suffers "an agony from every footstep." Frequent
suffering does not inure Hester to her inner torment; instead, the same grows"
more sensitive with daily torture." Hester's ostracism from a stoic society and
the burdensome nature of her shame, deprive her off life. Treated .....
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