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Term Papers on Book Reports
Escaping Harlem
Number of words: 987 - Number of pages: 4.... the music is. He sees it not as notes and sounds but an expression of their past and his emotions. It becomes a way to celebrate their struggle in an unforgiving world.
The protagonist in the story is Sonny’s brother. He is a dynamic character that learns how important it is to respect other people’s philosophies. “Freedom lurked around us around us and I understood, at last, that he could help us to be free if we would listen, that he would never be free until we would.” The narrator uses a limited omniscient point of view to describe Sonny’s brother. .....
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Angelas Ashes Summary
Number of words: 2124 - Number of pages: 8.... begging a pig's head for Christmas dinner and gathering coal from the
roadside to light a fire, Frank endures poverty, near-starvation and the casual
cruelty of relatives and neighbors--yet lives to tell his tale with eloquence,
exuberance and remarkable forgiveness.
Angela's Ashes is colored on every page with Frank McCourt's astounding
humor and compassion. It is a glorious book that bears all the marks of a
classic.
ORAL BOOK REVIEW
"When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to
survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable ch .....
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To Kill A Mocking Bir
Number of words: 322 - Number of pages: 2.... There were no in-depth descriptions of the situation. Another example of this point was when Boo Radley had saved Jem and Scout from Mr. Ewell. When Scout told Boo it was alright for him to pet Jem, it was better described in the book.
The third point is that the pageant the night that Jem and Scout were attacked was shown in the book but no in the movie. The movie only showed them walking up to the stairs, then the scene changed and they were walking back from the pageant. The book described how scout fell asleep during the pageant and came a long time afte .....
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The Colors Of Daisy Buchanan
Number of words: 805 - Number of pages: 3.... that was as cool as their white dresses and their impersonal eyes in the absence of all desire.”(17). White is also a color that I find to be lacking depth and substantial emotion. Much of Daisy’s personality is never really revealed in the book and the use of white helps to shroud her in more mystery, as its purity does not disclose any further information about her. However, white is inaccurate when trying to portray Daisy as pure, as she did cheat on Tom. “His heart beat faster and faster as Daisy’s white face came up to his own. He knew that when he ki .....
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Jack London’s Apparent Conflic
Number of words: 1482 - Number of pages: 6.... child, London passed his childhood in poverty in the Oakland slums. (Walcutt 8) At the age of 17, he ventured to sea on a sealing ship. The turning point of his life was a thirty-day imprisonment that was so degrading it made him decide to turn to education and pursue a career in writing. His years in the Klondike searching for gold left their mark in his best short stories; among them, The Call of the Wild, and White Fang. His novel, The Sea-Wolf, was based on his experiences at sea. His work embraced the concepts of unconfined individualism and Darwinism in it .....
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The Pearl: Material Society, Material Thoughts
Number of words: 1020 - Number of pages: 4.... answered, if
she could have foreseen the future what she would have seen would have been a
mirror image of her reality. Juana's husband was caught in a twisted realm of
mirrors, and they were all shattering one by one. In the night he heard a
"sound so soft that it might have been simply a thought..." and quickly attacked
the trespasser. This is where the problems for Juana and her family began. The
fear that had mounted in Kino's body had taken control over his actions. Soon
even Juana who had always had faith in her husband, had doubted him greatly.
"It .....
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To Kill A Mockingbird: Mobs
Number of words: 501 - Number of pages: 2.... to remove the men, and go home.
Similarly in the courtroom, another moral dilemma arose: this time within
the jury. Once more, a group of twelve men came with an intent of charging
Tom Robinson guilty. No where did it say the bias jury initially had a
guilty verdict in mind, but with the attitude towards blacks in Maycomb
County, Lee made it bluntly obvious that they had no intention of
pronouncing Tom innocent. In the book Atticus made it very clear, "In our
courts, when it's a white man's word against a black man's, the white man
always wins." Just .....
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The Adventures Of Huckleberry
Number of words: 739 - Number of pages: 3.... by pap got too handy with his hick'ry and I couldn't stand
it. I was all over with welts." Here the reader can observe the
ultimate failure of an uncivilized person. Pap is an alcoholic, a dead
beat and a racist. Nevertheless, society also considered Huck
"uncivilized" because he did not wear shoes, did not always attend school
and he smoked. Society criticized Huck as uncivilized due to physical
appearance when really Huck turned out to be more civilized than any
other character in the novel because he learns how to respect Jim.
Through the ironic .....
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