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Term Papers on Book Reports
Of Mice And Men: George And Lennie's Lonesomeness
Number of words: 1378 - Number of pages: 6.... named Candy whom tries to help them financially. Before this dream can happen, Lennie kills the wife of the boss's son. As the novel concludes, George has to kill Lennie for his benefit. Later he goes into town and abandons his dream by spending his money.
The main cause of George and Lennie's lonesomeness and that of all the people at the ranch was a lack of a home. The only thing that kept the two men going was their friendship with each other and the hope to soon get a place of their own. In the novel George and Lennie mention what their dream place is going .....
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Symbols In "The Glass Menagerie"
Number of words: 273 - Number of pages: 1.... "The Glass Menagerie" in nostalgia for a past world and its evocation
of loneliness and lost love celebrates, above all, the human need to dream.
Amanda Wingfield resents the poverty - stricken neighborhood in
which she lives, so much so that she needs to escape mentally from it by
invented romance and self-deception. Williams describes her as having
"endurance and a kind of heroism, but she is also silly, snobbish,
sometimes cruel and sometimes pathetic in her well-intentioned blundering.
Her love for her children is exasperating and suffocating; her energetic
gaiety can be nauseating. Abandoned by .....
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“In Cold Blood” By Truman Capote
Number of words: 630 - Number of pages: 3.... The book was a success, but Capote was never the same after. He spent six years of his life on this project, and it was hard work. While imprisoned, Perry and Dick considered him a true friend and wanted his help to get a pardon. Capote felt torn by his affections for the two and by knowing of the murders they had committed.
Capote did not begin the book with the murder scene. Instead, he gave the reader a view of the Clutters as people, not just as victims. There is a chance for the reader to get to know and like the Clutters before they are murdered. A .....
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Animal Farm: Power And Control Of The Farm
Number of words: 445 - Number of pages: 2.... and his opponents look evil. One of many reasons Napoleon and Squealer get away with these false allegations is that the animals are too dumb to remember what happened.
Another way Napoleon uses methods to make him look good is simply changing the rules to favor himself. Squealer again is responsible for the wrongdoing. All of the Seven Commandments of Animal Farm are eventually broken before the commandments are "revised" to prove the pigs did nothing wrong. In the eighth chapter, the commandment that strictly forbids animals to kill one another was cunningly ch .....
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Lord Of The Flies: Characters And Conflict
Number of words: 573 - Number of pages: 3.... refers to how he doesn't think it is very important because he would rather be having fun hunting.
Ralph is not the only character in Lord of the Flies that is faced with conflicts, but I feel he is faced with the most difficult conflict. He has to mature so quickly in order to be responsible and get himself and the rest of the kids rescued. I think that would be the toughest task a twelve year old boy could be asked to do, and Ralph does a good job on it. Mario Muscarella English
In the novel Lord of the Flies many conflicts take place. Characters in co .....
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One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest: Power
Number of words: 886 - Number of pages: 4.... He came in singing and
laughing, something that no one had heard in a long time. He walked around the
room shaking hands, introducing himself to everyone, even the chronics. He
taught the acutes how to play cards and he taught them to gamble. His very
first bet though was that he could get the best of nurse Ratched within the week,
and he did. She wasn't going to back down though. To try and stop all the
gambling going on she rationed the cigarettes, so they no longer had anything to
bet, but that never stopped them, they used money instead.
The pat .....
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The Scarlet Letter: The Harsh Puritan Society
Number of words: 1063 - Number of pages: 4.... where men, as well as women, can open up, and be themselves. It is here
that Dimmesdale can openly acknowledge Hester and his undying love for her. It
is here that Hester can do the same for Dimmesdale. It is here that the two of
them can openly engage in conversation, without being preoccupied with the
constraints that Puritan society places on them. The forest itself, is free.
Nobody watches in the woods to report misbehavior, so it is here where people do
as they wish. To independent spirits like Hester Prynne's, the wilderness
beckons her: "Throw off the shac .....
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Independence And Failure
Number of words: 1933 - Number of pages: 8.... the other. If one side tries to stand on its own then the second will fall on the first as it tries to stand. This metaphor also excellently exemplifies the catastrophe that occurs in Macbeth as both Lady Macbeth and Macbeth try to separate. Macbeth is a eighteenth century play written by William Shakespeare. Using these two metaphors, the breakdown in the relationship between Lady Macbeth and Macbeth and between the king and the thanes and how they perfectly parallel each other because each is caused by Macbeth’s will to be independent
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