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Term Papers on Book Reports
A Catcher In The Rye
Number of words: 646 - Number of pages: 3.... bar in the hotel for a drink. All the people in the bar make him even more depressed so he decides to call it a night. On the way to his room, in the elevator the elevator attendant offers to send him up a hooker for the night. Being a virgin Holden decides to take him up on the hooker. Once the hooker makes it up to his room he gets cold feet and decides not to have sex with her and just talk. The hooker gets mad at Holden for wasting her time and leaves. Minutes later the hooker’s pimp comes looking for money and eventually ends up beating up Holden.
The .....
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To Kill A Mokingbird
Number of words: 1160 - Number of pages: 5.... parties and wearing dresses, Scout climbed trees and wore jean overalls. I laughed as I read this particular part because it reminded me of when I was young and liked to climb trees. I can also relate to the closeness shared by the siblings because I am very close to my younger brother, Brandon. Charles Baker "Dill" Harris was the only other child mentioned in the story that was a friend of Scout and Jem. He was from Meridian and the trio became aquatinted because Dill would come to Alabama and visit with his Aunt Rachel in the summer who stayed across from Sc .....
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A Review Of "The Cay" By Theodore Taylor
Number of words: 843 - Number of pages: 4.... respect the people with
dignity.
Plot
Phillip lives in Williamsted with his mother and father.They had lived
in the United States but they moved there when Phillip's father was offered
a job in an oil refinery nearby. Williamsted is very quaint and the harbour
is always full of black people on their fishing boats, called schooners.
One day a German U-boat is spotted near the harbour. The whole harbour is
on edge . When everyone calms down, the first tanker in a week sets sail
with gallons of crude oil on board. The whole population is shocked when
the t .....
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A Tale Of Two Cities: Summary
Number of words: 1014 - Number of pages: 4.... Defarge is seeking revenge, is constantly being put on the stand and wants no part of his own lineage. He is a languid protagonist and has a tendency to get arrested and must be bailed out several times during the story. Dr. Alexander Manette, a veteran prisoner of the Bastille, cannot escape the memory of being held and sometimes relapses to cobbling shoes. Dr. Manette's daughter, Lucie Manette is loved by many and marries Charles Darnay. One who never forgot his love for Lucie, Sydney Carton, changed predominately during the course of the novel. Sydney, a loo .....
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Gathering Of Old Men
Number of words: 424 - Number of pages: 2.... This shows how after time color or race does not matter to people, and how after time a man is a man and a woman is a woman. This upsets the rest of the men even more because this shows them how they are not superior to the black men anymore. As time goes on the sheriff is starting to worry even more; because he knows the men have been drinking excessively. When night falls the sheriff and his men go home, praying that nothing will happen. By this time the white men are very drunk and want revenge. To the white men’s surprise when they arrive to Mathu’s ho .....
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Streetcar Named Desire
Number of words: 692 - Number of pages: 3.... Stanley Kowalski’s first exhibition of his brutal actions
occurs at poker night. Blanche turns on the radio, but Stanley
demands her to turn it off. Blanche refuses and so Stanley gets up
himself and turns it off himself. When Stanley’s friend, Mitch, drops
out of the game to talk to Blanche, Stanley gets upset and he
even gets more upset when Blanche flicks on the radio. Due to the
music being on, Stanley, in a rage, stalks in the room and grabs the
radio and throws it out the window. His friends immediately jump up,
and .....
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To Kill A Mockingbird: Atticus And Miss Maudie
Number of words: 615 - Number of pages: 3.... have minded her company. Right? So what if he was a Negro? He was a man.
Mayella didn’t know what extent of legal trouble her actions might offer for Tom, not to mention problems with her father. She didn’t know he’d run and therefore seem to seal the fact that he provoked it.
Mayella took care of everything around her. In this way she sang her heart out. Mayella took charge of her siblings. She was like their mother. They might not have had much class, but they were relatively healthy and able thanks to her. She kept a good house (with the help of Tom Ro .....
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Davis' "Fifth Business": Death Of Boy Staunton
Number of words: 1192 - Number of pages: 5.... stone”, Paul- whom granted
his inner most wish, and lastly, Boy Staunton himself.
It can be observed that childhood experiences play a very important
role in the stableness of ones soul. One mishap in childhood can create a
devastating blow to ones true happiness in later life. This was exactly the
case in Boy Staunton's life. Once, when he was little, he got in an
argument with Dunny which led to snowballs being launched at Dunny from an
aggravated Boy Staunton. The last snowball concealed a rock, and hit
Dunny's neighbor Mary Dempster in the head. As a result .....
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