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Equus
Number of words: 506 | Number of pages: 2.... he did not want to be like his father. Allen is driven to all his father hates, such as television and religion. When Alan sees his father coming out of the porno movie theater, he is devastated because he is caught acting like his father.
The relationship between Alan and Dysart is one of mutual envy. Dysart envies Alan because of his passion. Dysart lives a boring life with a wife he does not love. He resents her for lacking passion, when he lacks passion himself. He is sarcastic when he speaks of his relationship and his life. He has no passion for anything. He is saddened because his job is to cure Alan and in doing .....
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Lord Of The Flies
Number of words: 518 | Number of pages: 2.... I will explain that, as well as Piggy's death later on when I make a few more things clear.
When you look at the characters of Ralph and Jack you see 2 opposite character traits. Ralph being good, and Jack being bad. You may look at these 2 characters and decide that they would want each other dead, (considering their hatred for each other) when the actuality of it is that they need each other to survive.
Consider the symbol of the Ying Yang, which symbolizes balance and states that "Within all good, there is some evil, and within all evil, there is some good." That statement would explain why when given the opportunity to k .....
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Abstractions In Power-Writing
Number of words: 1259 | Number of pages: 5.... (OED 2536) Nearly three hundred years later in 1785
the word power carried the same meaning of control, strength, and
force, "power to produce an effect, supposes power not to produce it;
otherwise it is not power but necessity" (OED 2536). This definition
explains how the power government or social institutions rests in
their ability to command people, rocks, colonies to do something they
otherwise would not do. To make the people pay taxes. To make the
rocks form into a fence. To make the colonists honor the King. The
colonialists adopt this interpretation of power. They see power as a
cruel forc .....
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Slaughter House-Five
Number of words: 873 | Number of pages: 4.... 1967 and he ends up being kidnaped by aliens from Tralfamadore. So when the story changes, the reader's mind has to adjust to the changes. The events just pop up all of a sudden. Modern man always has surprises in life that just pop up just like this novel. In life there is usually no smooth adjustments. It is abrupt and sudden. Billy Pilgrim(protagonist) travels through time in an awkward chronological order. In life people do not adapt to different situations without any problem. In this book, shifting from one situation to another is meant to be poor.
The book is difficult to follow. It has many small stories in it. Pilgrim is .....
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Little Women Book Report
Number of words: 998 | Number of pages: 4.... have turned from
little women into real women.
Jo was the second oldest of the four sisters. Her birth name was
Josephine, but she always thought that it sounded too feminine, so she
shortened it to Jo. Clearly, Jo was one of the main characters of the
story because many of the events centered on her and the audience learned
more about who she was. She was a tomboy at heart and hated all the prim
and proper ways of the ladies in those days. Jo was very blunt in her
speaking and always said exactly what was on her mind. However, most
people felt right at ease speaking with her because she had a way of
making .....
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Frosts Tuft Of Flowers And Men
Number of words: 746 | Number of pages: 3.... work by himself, he is part of something bigger; the human race.
Frost also demonstrates how men never exist alone when surrounded by nature. In “The Tuft of Flowers”, the speaker thinks he works alone. Then frost writes, “But as I said it, swift there passed me by on noiseless wing a ‘wildred butterfly” (18). The Butterfly becomes the speaker’s morning companion, and its’ flight leads the speaker to the flowers. He serves to help lead the man
to realize that life and beauty unite all things. Frost writes, “ The butterfly and I had lit upon, Nevertheless a message from the d .....
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The Hobbit-review Of Summer Re
Number of words: 467 | Number of pages: 2.... many outstanding characteristics in this story.
With so many excellent attributes in The Hobbit, I found it difficult to find many things that were not good. Tolkien's choice of a conflict was not very creative. The plot of this novel is based upon the traditional "going out and taking back what is yours" story. The many kinks and side adventures made The Hobbit interesting, but the main plot of the story is still the dwarves attempting to reclaim their lost treasure from the dragon Smaug.
This book is full of adventure in a fantasy world. It should not be read by any kind of realist. Realism would take all fun and enjoyment out .....
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When You Are Old
Number of words: 763 | Number of pages: 3.... this book” that she reads slowly. She is reading a book near the fireplace. She is also dreaming “of the soft look” her “eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.” Therefore, she is thinking about the times when she was young and had soft look in her eyes and her deep shadows in her eyes that she used to have.
In the first four lines, Yeats describes from broad thing then he goes into details. Being old is the broad description, and he explains what an old woman will have in her old age such as grey hair and sleepy eyes. Then he explains what she will do. He could have just said that she .....
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The Many Aspects Of Streets
Number of words: 632 | Number of pages: 3.... a street leads to also affects the amount of activity the street has. When a street ends with only houses, as in a neighborhood, often the travelers on the road live there. Therefore, main streets and routes have much more activity because they lead to places. Each of these factors determines the form of a functioning street.
Streets also have uses and purposes, mostly for the local community. People build houses along streets so they develop into communities. Roads are used as gateways and help people communicate by enabling them to be in contact with one another. Streets mostly serve as a way of transportation for people .....
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Great Gatsby
Number of words: 805 | Number of pages: 3.... Surprisingly, he devotes most of his adult life trying to recapture it and, finally, dies in its pursuit. In the past, Gatsby had a love affair with the affluent Daisy. Knowing he could not marry her because of the difference in their social status, he leaves her to amass wealth to reach her economic standards. Once he acquires wealth, he moves near to Daisy, "Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay (p83)," and throws extravagant parties, hoping by chance she might show up at one of them. He, himself, does not attend his parties but watches them from a distance. When this dream does not happen, he asks .....
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