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Term Papers on Book Reports
Another Antigone
Number of words: 515 - Number of pages: 2.... to
repent for what he! has done by burrying Polynices and then
going to free Antigone. Even if Sargoff gets all of the plot
across, that is not enough to tell the whole story. Aristotelian
Unities Yes, Antigone does follow the Aristotelian Unities.
The play occurs in the same place and roughly the same
time. Things that happened before the play or outside of the
place, was told by a messenger or a character themself. The
action was all centered around Antigone's actions. Her
actions were the sole cause of everything that happened.
Greek Tragedy Antigone does .....
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Watership Down
Number of words: 652 - Number of pages: 3.... arose. Dandelion, another smart rabbit, was known for
his speed and for his great story telling of El-ahrairah, the rabbit folk
hero. He could always tell stories which distracted and eased the
rabbits from problems. Pipkin, a good friend of Fiver, was small like
Fiver but acted as if he was as big as Bigwig. He always did what he
was told and never complained. PLOT One day Fiver, sensing danger,
convinced his brother Hazel that they must leave their warren. Hazel
tried to warn the Chief Rabbit of the danger, but he did not listen.
Hazel gathered a group and .....
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The Yellow Wallpaper: Male Oppression
Number of words: 1129 - Number of pages: 5.... course, but one expects that in a marriage.” This shows that women were not taken serious and their opinions were merely laughed at. One part of the house that could be misinterpreted in this story is the window in the nursery. In most cases, a window symbolizes a view of hope. In this story though, the window has bars on it, symbolizing imprisonment or oppression.
An additional symbol of the narrator’s oppression is her husband, John. He is considered to be “a physician of high standing” (p.630). This along with the fact that he is her husband makes any opp .....
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The Autobiography Of Miss Jane Pittman
Number of words: 625 - Number of pages: 3.... want to.
Differences that were highly noticeable were that in the novel, the interviewer was a teacher that wanted her information for his class and in the movie, it was a magazine reporter. When Albert Clevoue died in the novel, the chariots of hell came for him, and in the movie, you don’t even hear of his death. In the novel, it was a black horse that killed Joe Pittman, and the movie, white.
In conclusion, the novel had more, described the stories more thoroughly. One might find that the novel is much more enlightening than the movie, but it takes m .....
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‘A White Heron’ By Sarah Orne Jewett
Number of words: 1684 - Number of pages: 7.... pranks as an intelligent attempt to play hide and
seek, and as the child had no playmates she let
herself to this amusement with a good deal of zest.”
This quote lets us know several things. Sylvia does not have any playmates; in fact, we get the impression that her best friend is her grandmother’s cow. The story soon gives us another piece of vital information about Sylvia.
“ “‘Afraid of folks,’” old Mrs. Tilley said to
herself, with a smile, after she had made the
unlikely choice of Sylvia from her daughter’s
houseful of children, and was retur .....
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In The Middle Of The Night
Number of words: 644 - Number of pages: 3.... Every year around October a week or two before the anniversary of the accident harassing calls start . Denny father really only one rule and that is not to answer the phone, but now that Denny is sixteen and he wants to be like all other teens so he starts to answer the phone in the middle of the day when he is the only one home. The voice on the other end of the phone was seductive. The mystery voice would soon ravel herself as Lulu. Lulu would tease and play with Denny’s hormones with leading him on with sentences like “I want you to love my eyes, and my lips .....
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Canterbury Tales: Who Is The Narrator?
Number of words: 1953 - Number of pages: 8.... that his audience might not want to hear what he has to say because he asks them if they want to listen to his tale.
Besides being a poet who both recites his work and writes it down, the narrator is also a pilgrim. He says it clearly: "in that seson on a day, In Southwerk at the Tabard as I lay Redy to wenden on my pilgrymage" (1). But the fact that he is a pilgrim gives no clue to what he does in real life; beggars and kings alike could be pilgrims.
So we know the narrator not by his vocation, but by his avocations: writer and pilgrim. Why not short-circu .....
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To Kill A Mockingbird
Number of words: 499 - Number of pages: 2.... thought every person was the same as her. But she found that out at last. She also finally found out that most people were nice. She just had to put herself in those people's situations. "As I made my way home, I thought Jem and I would get grown but there wasn't much else left for us to learn, except possibly algebra." This statement showed that she understood the prejudice and people's thinking at last. That would make her life a lot different.
Jem was Scout's brother. He was a little older than Scout. He also became familiar about the prejudice of Maycomb Coun .....
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