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Term Papers on Book Reports
Dr. Jekyll And Mr Hyde
Number of words: 2582 - Number of pages: 10.... man
did not stop but simply walked right over the young girl, who cried out in
terror. Enfield rushed over and attended the girl along with her family.
Still, the strange man carried on, so Enfield chased him down and urged him
back. A doctor was called and Enfield and the doctor felt an odd hatred of
the man, warning the man that they would discredit him in every way
possible unless he compensated the girl. The strange man agreed to offer
100 British pounds.
Enfield notes that the man is like Satan in the way he seems emotionally
cold to the situation. T .....
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Why The Name "Things Fall Apart"
Number of words: 488 - Number of pages: 2.... This episode can be seen as an event where Okonko looses some faith from
his family. This corresponds to Okonko loosing faith in his father.
Another important occurrence where one can see that Okonko's life falls
apart was when he was thrown out of the clan for a few years. From this episode
one can see that Okonko's hopes dreams have begun to fall apart. His hopes of
being a rich and popular individual had drifted away with this upsetting
incident. Okonko had no longer had his farm or animals. Also Okonko lost faith
with most of his friends. This goes to sho .....
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Man's Journey Into Self In The Heart Of Darkness And Apocalypse Now
Number of words: 1033 - Number of pages: 4.... was becoming more like Kurtz. Along the trip into the wilderness, they discover their true selves through contact with savage natives.
As Marlow ventures further up the Congo, he feels like he is traveling back through time. He sees the unsettled Wilderness and feel the darkness of it's solitude. Marlow comes across simpler cannibalistic cultures along the banks. The deeper into the jungle he goes, the more regressive the inhabitants seem.
Kurtz had lived in the Congo, and was separated from his own culture for quite some time. He had once been considered a .....
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White Lilacs
Number of words: 622 - Number of pages: 3.... to move to another place against their will.
the secondary conflicts are:
- Rose Lee had to learn to set the table right. If she did not
she would be fired.
- Henry was mouthing off white people. This eventually led to
him being tared and feathered. His family had to find a place for him to hide
so nothing else would happen to him.
- The citizens of the black community (Freedom) had to find a
new place to go to school because the white people had burned the colored school
down. This happened because of the fact that no people were moving out of
Fr .....
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David Copperfield
Number of words: 1007 - Number of pages: 4.... setting is because he was born in the town of
Portsmouth, England in 1812. Although as a young child he moved to Chatham
where he experienced a pleasant childhood in which many scenes from his
childhood are intertwined throughout his novels. Dickens father was constantly
in debt and was eventually sent to jail. This memory was agonizing for young
Charles as years later he wrote: "No words can express the secret agony of my
soul. I felt my early hopes of growing up to be a learned and distinguished man,
crushed in my breast." This directly relates to Dickens .....
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Dancing On The Edge
Number of words: 279 - Number of pages: 2.... One night her Aunt Casey comes over a séance Gigi is holding, to contact Miracle’s mother something goes wrong. While using the Ouiji board, Gigi gets a message from Miracle’s mom saying, that Dane is in trouble and gone. They all rush to his room, and when they open the door there is no sign of Dane, just candles lit around the room and his clothes in a pile on the floor, just as if he had melted. Gigi tells Miracle that’s Dane has in fact “melted”. After this her behavior slowly changes, and she no longer believes in reality, she bases everything on what her Gigi tells her, such as the meanings of numbe .....
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Which Is Better, To Have Rules
Number of words: 991 - Number of pages: 4.... by the children.
"Yes!"
"Vote for chief!"
"Let's vote------"
This represented democracy, a government elected for by the whole population and they lived in a classless and tolerant society. There were rules which were to be obeyed by all. Nobody was exempt from them, they were agreed on by all. A fire was lit, to attract the attention of any passing ships or planes, huts were organised to be built. There were many plans for the boys but these weren't fulfilled due to the laziness and incompetence of the small children, the "littl'uns". Huts weren't built dead .....
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Billy Budd
Number of words: 1337 - Number of pages: 5.... Billy is a cynosure among his shipmates; a leader,
not by authority, but by example. All the members of the crew look up to him
and love him. He is "strength and beauty. Tales of his prowess [are] recited.
Ashore he [is] the champion, afloat the spokesman; on every suitable occasion
always foremost"(9).
Despite his popularity among the crew and his hardworking attitude,
Billy is transferred to another British ship, the Indomitable. And while he is
accepted for his looks and happy personality, "…hardly here [is] he that
cynosure he had previously been am .....
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