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Term Papers on Book Reports
Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale: Offred
Number of words: 983 - Number of pages: 4.... future" that could result.
Offred is symbolic of "every woman". She was conventional in prior
times, married with one daughter, a husband and a career. She is
ambivalent to many things that may seem horrific to the reader. On page 93,
Offred is witness to Janine's confession of being raped. She doesn't
comment on how the blame is placed on Janine. Is this because Offred has
begun to accept the words of Aunt Lydia, or more likely, is she silent to
create emphasis on the horrific deed? The answer is easily satisfied when
the reader finishes the novel. .....
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A Rose For Emily: Emily's Life
Number of words: 910 - Number of pages: 4.... no good for her. The townspeople even state "when her father died, it got about that the house was all that was left to her; and in a way, people were glad being left alone. She had become humanized" (219). This sounds as if her father’s death was sort of liberation for Emily. In a way it was, she could begin to date and court men of her choice and liking. Her father couldn’t chase them off any more. But then again, did she have the know-how to do this, after all those years of her father’s past actions? It also sounds as if the townspeople thought Emily was abov .....
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Frankenstein: Morality
Number of words: 773 - Number of pages: 3.... (pg.152) says Victor upon looking
back at his work. If there is another monster there will be twice the
power and possibly twice the evil, which could hurt or kill his family.
When and if Frankenstein commits the moral sin of creating another monster
he may be rid of both monsters forever. "With the companion you bestow I
will quit the neighbourhood of man,"(pg 142) promises the morally corrupt
monster to the doctor upon the completion of his partner. When the doctor,
if and when he, finished his first creation's mate there is a chance that
the monster .....
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Stephen Coonts' "Flight Of The Intruder": Summary
Number of words: 592 - Number of pages: 3.... and just hit a few bystanders and
blow craters in the sidewalk. Just when the two are about to be court-
martialed, President Nixon gives the orders of unauthorized bombings
anywhere in North and South Vietnam. Grafton and Cole fly their next
mission with a EA-6B for SAM (surface-to-air missiles) suppression. This
plane only carried antiradiation missiles to destroy the SAMs and their
radar. But, as they were approximating (approaching, advancing on) the
first SAM surface gun destroyed most of the plane. The crew ejected within
the midst of the night; Grafton .....
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The Subtle Humor Of Pride And Prejudice
Number of words: 1135 - Number of pages: 5.... opinions.
The comic techniques caricatures, irony, and satire, not only helped to provide
humor for Austen's readers, but they also helped Austen to give her own personal
opinion on public matters.
When an action is exaggerated on stage by an actor, it becomes all the
more noticeable to the audience. An author can exaggerate a character in order
to make fun of them. Austen exaggerates many of her characters and therefore
makes caricatures of them in order to emphasize their ridiculousness. Mrs.
Bennet is such a character. Her extremely unpleasant man .....
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Huckleberry Finn: Prejudice And Intolerance
Number of words: 1163 - Number of pages: 5.... it Vinci and pronounce it Vinchy; foreigners always spell better than they pronounce." Even in the opening paragraph of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Clemens states, "Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot."
There were many groups that Clemens contrasted in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The interaction of these different social groups is what makes up the main plot of the novel. For the objective of discussi .....
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Good Versus Evil: Wars In A Separate Peace
Number of words: 1266 - Number of pages: 5.... a room at their school. We enter the story at what is called a
"summer session" which could be described as today's equivalent of summer
school. But, as the story unfolds, we are forced to ask ourselves, are
they friends as the appear to be at the start of the novel or are they
mortal enemies as Gene begins to hint with this quote at the point Gene
thinks Finny is finally going to "get away" with something he did. "This
time he wasn't going to get away with it. I could feel myself becoming
unexpectedly excited at that."(page 20) This shows us that even .....
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Kafka's The Trial: The Reality Of Guilt
Number of words: 2762 - Number of pages: 11.... Joseph may not be
guilty in the sense of committing a sin, but could be guilt itself.
An important note to keep in mind while reading "The Trial" is Kafka's
structural organization of paragraphs. Most of the paragraphs are
confusing and lengthy; some even more than one or two pages long. In
chapter two when Joseph is speaking at the Court of Inquiry, he is abruptly
interrupted by the shrieks of a woman. Kafka explains the scene in almost
two pages, paying extreme attention to detail. Most of his descriptions
seem unnecessary, redundant, and quite confu .....
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