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Term Papers on Book Reports
To Kill A Mocking Bird
Number of words: 699 - Number of pages: 3.... harm people who do not harm you.”
The setting of this book was in Maycomb, Alabama in the 1930’s. Scout, Jem and Dill spend the summer trying to get Boo Radley out of his house. None of them had ever seen him. Scout started to school and on his way there and back, he and Jem would find gifts in a hole in the tree by the rocky place. Scout and Jem started hearing their father referred to as a “nigger-lover” because he was defending Tom Robinson – a Negro man accused of rape. When Scout, Jem and Calpurnia come home from church, they find Aunt Alexandrea is s .....
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The Cather In The Rye
Number of words: 1318 - Number of pages: 5.... uit zijn verdoving, als die wakker werd waren de poppen aan het dansen. Hij trok de rits van zijn leren zwarte jas helemaal dicht en sloop de nooduitgang uit. De lamp buiten sprong aan. Zonder naar te denken zette Bertus het op een lopen en verdween in de donkere nacht. Toen hij thuis kwam sloop hij zachtjes naar de schuur. Tegen de wand stond een breekijzer, hij wikkelde deze in kranten en hield het ijzer onder zijn jas. In zijn hoofd ging hij alle mogelijkheden na. Had hij alles? Kon iemand hem? Of nog erger HAD iemand hem gezien? Hij zette deze gedacht ui .....
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Comparison: Mary Reilly And The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde
Number of words: 2813 - Number of pages: 11.... of evil. Finally, unable to procure one of the ingredients for the mixture of redemption, and on the verge of being discovered, he commits suicide.
Mary Reilly by Valerie Martin, is a powerful and moving novel. It takes the story Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde, and gives a fresh take on the distinguished Dr. Henry Jekyll and the nefarious Mr. Edward Hyde. It is told through the psyche of a Victorian servant named Mary Reilly. The book's structure purports to be Mary Reilly's diary. The entries articulate Mary Reilly's feelings and experiences while in service for Dr. .....
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Anne Frank Remembered: Review
Number of words: 1116 - Number of pages: 5.... own eyes that some 'Aryan' woman was
not to be swept in by the Nazis." (Gies, p. 41, 1987).
The main source of background to the author's viewpoint is her own
story. In order to further discuss her main points and views, a summary of
her story must be given.
The book began with a brief history of the childhood of Miep Gies.
She was born in Vienna, Austria in 1909, where she lived with her parents
until the age eleven year. She was then sent to Amsterdam by a program in
the aid of undernourished and sick children and was to be adopted by a
D .....
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Catch 22: Satire On WWII
Number of words: 2539 - Number of pages: 10.... White House. It also
deals in detail with Gold's family problems and Gold's struggle to write a book
on the contemporary Jewish society.
Throughout these two novels, Catch-22 and Good as Gold, Heller
criticizes many institutions. In Good as Gold it is the White House and
government as a whole, and in Catch-22 it is the military and medical
institutions.
In Catch-22 the military is heavily satirized. Heller does this by
criticizing it. Karl agrees with this statement by offering an example of the
satire of both the military and civilian institutions in Catch-22 .....
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The Scarlet Letter: A Review
Number of words: 2198 - Number of pages: 8.... taken in by other people. After all, it isn't one person that turns a
story into a classic; the same should be said of literature. Rosenblat
said the same idea better than I: "Keeping the live process of the
literary experience before us, I shall attempt to look more deeply into the
nature of the literary experience, and to explore implications for problems
of literary theory. . ." I think that Rosenblat would agree with me that
it might not be literature in my own sense, but on the larger scale,
literature it is.
II. At the beginning of the second .....
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The Many Faces Of Love In Arth
Number of words: 5113 - Number of pages: 19.... thus entails many of the same characteristics that it does in Hartmann’s works as far as love among human beings is concerned. But Wolfram develops love’s definition to the point where the only true love is the love and service of God. In order to clarify this development of the concept of love from simple human desire to a sublime commitment to the almighty, let us examine in detail the works of these perpetuators of Arthurian Legend.
Geoffrey of Monmouth’s History of the Kings of Britain contains an account of the events that lead up to the birth and reign .....
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The Black Cat: Deranged Narrator
Number of words: 736 - Number of pages: 3.... the narrator mutilated his favourite pet, Pluto, causing the cat to
become terrified of his master. The alienation of his cat gave the narrator
even more cause to become mentally unstable.
The hanging of his cat shows how the narrator has become obsessed with
doing evil things for the sake of their evilness. This evilness is linked to
his alcoholism. The narrator was most-likely in a drunken state when he hung
his cat, which only infuriated his temper. This separation of friends had a
huge effect on the narrator's deadly temper. His temper is such .....
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