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Term Papers on Book Reports
To Kill A Mockingbird: Controversial Issues
Number of words: 1230 - Number of pages: 5.... not sing its own
song, we characterize it only by what the other birds sing. Hence, we see the
mockingbird through the other birds. In the novel, the people of Maycomb only
know Boo Radley and Tom Robinson by what others say about them. Both of these
characters do not really have their own "song" in a sense, and therefore, are
characterized by other people's viewpoints.
Throughout the novel, Scout, Jem, and Dill are curious about the "mysterious"
Boo Radley because he never comes outside of his house or associates with anyone
in the neighborhood. The children .....
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King Authur And The Knights Of The Round Table
Number of words: 502 - Number of pages: 2.... by
his word to have the same fate as the Green Knight's body in one year and a
day.
Another example of the demise of chivalry occurs at the Green
Knights castle. Sir Gawain manages to keep his word for two of the days,
but on the third day, he keeps the lady's scarf. The reason he does this
is obviously for its protective properties. This seems like a good idea,
but this violates his promise to give everything he gets back to the lord
of the manor. It also violates his faith in God's ability to save him from
being decapitated. Sir Gawain isn't as good .....
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Femininity In The Odyssey
Number of words: 538 - Number of pages: 2.... absence. One woman that isn't really a human but a maternal shape and manages to have an impact on Odysseus is Antikleia. This is the mother of Odysseus who has an encounter with him in Hades. She tells her son of how his absence resulted in her death and how the zest for life that his wife once had is disappearing with time. All these women managed to have an impact on Odysseus, whether it was as a result of their innocence, kindness, or death, each's femininity contributed to the safe return of Odysseus to Ithaca.
There are also the threatening women of this .....
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Ordinary People: Dysfunctional Family
Number of words: 951 - Number of pages: 4.... Beth and Conrad. Both
are unable to forgive themselves for similar reasons, but Conrad comes to
terms with his guilt while Beth cannot.
She is furthermore, a perfectionist. "Everything had to be perfect,
never mind the impossible hardship it worked on her, on them all." Conrad
is not unlike his mother. He is an overachiever, an "A" student, on the
swim team and a list-maker. His father tells the psychiatrist, "I see her
not being able to forgive him. For surviving, maybe. No, that's not it, for
being too much like her"(147). In some cases weak people tend on t .....
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The Crucible - Witch Trials
Number of words: 2534 - Number of pages: 10.... them. The Crucible starts after the girls in the village have been caught dancing in the woods. As one of them falls sick, rumors start to fly that there is witchcraft going on in the woods, and that the sick girl is bewitched. Once the girls talk to each other, they become more and more frightened of being accused as witches, so Abigail starts accusing others of practicing witchcraft. The other girls all join in so that the blame will not be placed on them. In The Crucible, Abigail starts the accusations by saying, "I go back to Jesus; I kiss his .....
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Flowers For Algernon: Charlie Becoming Smart
Number of words: 481 - Number of pages: 2.... got smarter, he started to realize who he thought were his
friends were not. This one night he soon found out that this really was
true. That night Charlie tells Frank that he does not want to drink,
because he already drank before and he felt sick the next morning. Frank
did not listen to Charlie. Instead, he spiked Charlie's drink to make him
look like a fool. Charlie did not know this and thought that the drink
just let a funny taste in his mouth. He started tripping over people's
feet and Frank says, "I have not laughed so much after we ditched him .....
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Paradise Lost 2
Number of words: 476 - Number of pages: 2.... from any suspicion of blame for letting the Angels rebel or Man eat of the forbidden fruit. Milton defends God's foreknowledge in Book III, when God says,
. . they [rebel angels] themselves decreed
Thir own revolt, not I: if I foreknew,
Foreknowledge had no influence on their fault,
Which had no less prov'd certain unforeknow.
God states that His knowledge of future events is not the same as predestination, he establishes himself as merely a bystander in these events. To force His divine will on the Angels or Man would be an injustice to each particular .....
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A Tale Of Two Cities: Inner Soul And Human Emotion
Number of words: 679 - Number of pages: 3.... Lucie Manette, the daughter of Dr. Alexandre Manette, unjustly imprisoned in France for 17 years. Though Lucie marries Darnay, Carton still loves her and in the end, gives his life to save Darnay for her. Dickens, who was fascinated with French history, especially the French Revolution, begins by criticizing the aristocrats' treatment of the poor people of France. In the seventh chapter of book two, the Monsieur the Marquis had accidentally driven his carriage over a young child, killing him. Instead of worrying about the child's welfare, the Monsieur's reaction .....
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