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Term Papers on Book Reports
The Lord Of The Flies: Personal Reflections
Number of words: 1659 - Number of pages: 7.... need to hunt.
Simon is different than the others. He seems to have some common sense,
but does not speak up. He is also one of the bigger kids, but does not have
enough self confidence in himself to become a leader.
Overall Piggy would make an excellent leader, but his appearance and age
would make the others questions his orders. Journal II
Living on the island was an inner battle. Other boys on the island found
it hard to obey my orders. One of the bigger boys, Jack, formed a hunting
group.
One day they went out on one of their trips searchin .....
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The Grapes Of Wrath: Symbolic Characters
Number of words: 2893 - Number of pages: 11.... viewing the
symbolic nature is that of the characters created by Steinbeck and how even the
smallest facets of their person lead to a much larger meaning. The first goal
that Steinbeck had in mind, was to appeal to the common Midwesterner at that
time. The best way to go about doing this was to focus on one of the two things
that nearly all migrants had in common, which was religion and hardships.
Steinbeck creates a story about the journey of a family and mirrors it to that
of biblical events. The entire family, in themselves, were like the Israelites.
"Th .....
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Canterbury Tales - The Wife Of
Number of words: 678 - Number of pages: 3.... for she is narrating the story. So the conflict, being that he has to find the answer, is
established. The knight’s journey does not go well. Finally on the last day that he has, he
comes up to a group of women, as he approaches they disappear and an old woman
appears. This part is the climax of the plot because it is when the knight finally knows the
answer. The old woman says that she knows the answer but she will only tell it to the
Queen and in return she must do anything that she asks of him. The knight agrees. Finally,
while in the presence of the Queen, .....
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Arthur, Tragic Hero Or Merely
Number of words: 1306 - Number of pages: 5.... and in their entirety. Instead, he allows his parishioners to lift him in their esteem by confessing, in all humility, that he is a sinner: "The minister well knew--subtle but remorseful hypocrite that he was!--the light in which his vague confession would be viewed." (127) They love him all the more for his honest and humble character, and this is Arthur's intent. Even as he plans to run away with Hester four days after their meeting in the forest, he comforts himself with the knowledge that he will give his sermon on predestination on the third day, a .....
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A Worn Path: Phoenix Jackson And Symbols
Number of words: 863 - Number of pages: 4.... the most simple and primitive rituals of home, or private one that comes from repeated performance of an action of love’,(Old Phoenix’s down the worn Path).(Vande Kieft 70)
I believe the conflicts were put in the story to show us the inner feeling of Phoenix. She was able to endure hardships and stay focused on the task at hand. This tells us while she was growing up she over came many obstacles. Usually Welty reserved for her black characters the functions of this vital, sure and faithful, ways of living of which modern man has either lost or denied. Ph .....
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Animal Farm Vs. Marxism
Number of words: 1505 - Number of pages: 6.... his convictions of democratic Socialism. (Zwerdling, 20). Lenin became leader and teacher of the working class in Russia, and their determination to struggle against capitalism. Like Old Major, Lenin and Marx wrote essays and gave speeches to the working class poor. The working class in Russia, as compared with the barnyard animals in Animal Farm, were a laboring class of people that received low wages for their work. Like the animals in the farm yard, the people is Russia thought there would be no oppression in a new society because the working .....
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Lord Of The Flies: The 13th Chapter
Number of words: 437 - Number of pages: 2.... of water that were
getting in the boat. They decided to abanden the boat. Everybody got in
the life rafts and watched the boat slowly sink till there was nothing
left to watch.
After a few days at sea the kids and officers land on an island.
As soon as they land on the island Jack and his "group" get together and
tie up the officers with vines on the local trees. This is Ralph's worst
nightmare come true. After they are done Jack tells Ralph, "either your
part of the group or your an outsider and that my group will hunt you for
the rest of your life." Ral .....
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Street Car Named Desire
Number of words: 533 - Number of pages: 2.... Because I found life unsatisfactory" Williams once said. Tennessee used his stories to express his childhood pain. Alcohol was a prevalent theme in his childhood. His father's drunken attacks on his mother had a great impact on Williams' play A Streetcar Named Desire.
"Drunk - drunk - animal thing, you!" screamed Stella Kowalski at her husband Stanley. Stanley had just finished throwing their radio out the window, because it was interrupting his poker game. After a small dispute Stanley hits Stella. This exemplified William's experiences at home with his .....
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