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Term Papers on Book Reports
The Genji Monogatari
Number of words: 2172 - Number of pages: 8.... the story (and,
incidentally, the basis for a paper).
The first way that Murasaki employs nature is in her precise
characterizations of the dozens of main and minor players in Genji. From
the season in which the character appears to the clothes that they wear to
the portion of Genji's palace that they inhabit, without a more than casual
appreciation to nature in reading this novel a great chunk of the literary
value is lost. "[Murasaki} is not content simply to describe the charms of
the different seasons, but they are skillfully harmonized with the feeling .....
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Commentary On The Road Not Tak
Number of words: 881 - Number of pages: 4.... us to integrate roads into the natural environment and it gives an impression that the decisions that we have to make are natural. The divergence of the two roads into the same place (a yellow wood) symbolises Frost’s departure into the real world (because of the singularity in “wood”). This could mean that the wood is being compared to the “unknown” world. Again, in the first stanza there is the start of the ambiguity in the very colour of the wood. A strong believer in the view that Frost has given a regretful tone to the poem will point out that there is a .....
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America And I: “Light” And “Dark”
Number of words: 1028 - Number of pages: 4.... these images, is able to present a clearer picture of the emotions that should be interpreted from the story.
Even from the very beginning of the story Yezierska uses images of light and dark to describe her coming from Russia to America. She describes her hopes for America as “sunlight burning through my darkness”. In this instance she has used light and dark to emphasize her feelings. Sunlight is used to symbolize the hopes and dreams of a better life while darkness is used to illustrate the hopelessness and disparity she felt in Russia. Furthermore, she de .....
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The Fortunate Pilgrim
Number of words: 1310 - Number of pages: 5.... deeply about her husband, he was killed in an accident at work. After her husbands death she had to raise her two young children alone and give birth to a fatherless child. After her husbands death many of the other women on the street offered Lucia Santa help, but soon after the pity and condolences they turned their backs on her, except for one, Zia Louche. As a pregnant widow Lucia Santa with her new wiser eyes got past her misfortunes and married her second husband Frank Corbo. Frank was an older man that had never been married; he had a good job and was .....
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Brave New World: All Things Are Relative
Number of words: 639 - Number of pages: 3.... Even today in Japan, tradition says that women are supposed to walk ten
feet behind their husbands. This may seem like demeaning women to us but who
are we to judge when the United States has had a long history of racial and
ethnic discrimination and only now are we changing.
The society in Brave New World has not lost their values but has simple
changed their idea of what is right and wrong. After all, how much have we
changed in the past 600 years. Six-hundred years ago in England, we killed
people for conducting scientific experiments and believ .....
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Ordinary People Vs. The Catche
Number of words: 624 - Number of pages: 3.... thing they can count on to give them strength for the test they call life.
In Catcher in the Rye, Holden loses his brother Allie at a young age just like Conrad. He cannot find a meaning in life afterwards. School and friends don’t matter to him anymore and he wanders through the city of New York searching for some kind of answer. In both books the characters are teenagers and still full of youth. Conrad is on the swim team and participates in activities while Holden is great at English and is a keen observer of life. After their brothers’ dea .....
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You Belong To Me By Mary Higgi
Number of words: 496 - Number of pages: 2.... Susan has been dating. He tries to suffocate her and leaves her to die. Another doctor friend of Susan's has also been paying attention to the case though, and he is worried about something happening to Susan. He finds her in her office before she suffocates, and they are able to have the police arrest the bad guy before he does any more damage.
"You Belong to Me is a superb thriller from one of the genre's all-time greats, Mary Higgins Clark." (Book Browser 1) Almost all critics had only good to say about Clark's work. "No doube many readers have one or .....
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Madame Bovary: Destiny
Number of words: 1048 - Number of pages: 4.... We conclude this because she attended a boarding
school where she was taught “dancing, geography, needlework and piano.”
(p.15) Charles, on the other hand, gives her more credit than she deserves.
He regards her as well very educated, sophisticated, sensitive and loving,
with the last characteristic being the one she lacks most. Soon after Emma
marries Charles we see her unhappiness, and we are faced with a dilemma,
why did she marry him? There are numerous possible answers to this, but
the end conclusion is the same: if she had not married him it would have
be .....
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