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Term Papers on Book Reports
Aeneid
Number of words: 1194 - Number of pages: 5.... today: the kind of life that we lead; the way we die, self - inflicted or not; and how we are buried after death are all of great significance - that all good deeds in life deserve the goodness of heaven, and all bad deeds deserve the pain and the punishment of hell. "Philgyas in extreme of misery cries loud through the gloom appeals warning to all mankind: Be warned, learn righteousness; and learn to scorn no god (pg. 165-66)." "All have dared a monstrous sin and achieved the sin they dared. Even had I a hundred tongues, a hundred mouths and a voice of iron, I .....
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The Joy Luck Club
Number of words: 2648 - Number of pages: 10.... was a symbol of all the hopes and dreams that the mother wanted to give to her daughter. This woman crossing a vast ocean, with only the company of a swan, yet she is not scared. She has dreams for her daughter, and this dream is the driving force of her actions. She is moved to realize this dream, that she is not even aware of the potential bad outcomes. There is no talk about hoping to have a daughter it says I will have a daughter just like me, and she will always be to full to swallow any sorrow. There is no single thought of failure in her mind. Her .....
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Loneliness And Friendship In Of Mice And Men
Number of words: 774 - Number of pages: 3.... come to consider each other friends. When Lennie and George camped out in the forest George said, “With us it ain’t like that. We got a future. We got somebody to talk to that gives a damn about us.” What that quote means is George and Lennie are not alone; they got each other to care for one another. Next, when George was talking to Slim, a person working at the ranch, he said, “ ‘Course Lennie’s a God damn nuisance most of the time, but you get used to goin’ around with a guy an’ you can’t get rid of him.” What that quote is saying is that even though Ge .....
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The Great Gatsby: Moral Responsibility In Gatsby
Number of words: 637 - Number of pages: 3.... Tom and Daisy
leave town the next day, proving Tom's knowledge of Daisy's guilt by just
trying to escape with her. Even knowing this, Tom still had the indecency
to tell George it was Gatsby's car. Tom can also be morally blamed for the
killing of Gatsby because of his affair with Myrtle. George killed Gatsby
not only because he thought he killed Myrtle, but also because he was under
the impression that Gatsby was the one having the affair with his wife.
Tom knew George was thinking this and when George talked to him, Tom seized
his opportunity to get off t .....
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Fahrenheit 451: Insignificance Of Life And Death
Number of words: 1127 - Number of pages: 5.... on the bed in the darkness listening earplugs. The room is described as not empty and then empty indeed, because she is physically there, but her thoughts and feeling are elsewhere. Montag will not turn on the lights in the bedroom and will not open the window to let in outside light, even though he feels as if he cannot breathe in the room with the windows closed. Mildred suffers from a hidden melancholy which she cannot consciously accept and which leads to her overdose on sleeping pills without knowing she is doing it; this same inner pain which manifest .....
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The Call Of The Wild
Number of words: 373 - Number of pages: 2.... wild and its harsh ways affected him like no other thing in his
life.
As Buck started to learn, he began to lose that aura of house pet.
He started to behave like a wolf. An untamed beast from the wild. His long-
time lost instincts given to him by his ancestors from generations ago
started to come to him. In the end of the story, Buck is leading a pack of
wolves through the forest and stops at the top of a cliff and howls,along
with his other companions, to a silvery full moon.
I think that the point of this story, is that you learn from life
and you .....
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The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn: Cynical Point Of View
Number of words: 733 - Number of pages: 3.... Watson, wishes to sell him down the river-a change in owners that could only be for the worse. As they escape separately and rejoin by chance at an island along the river, they find themselves drawn to get as far as possible from their home. Their journey down the river sets the stage for most of Mark Twain's comments about man and society. It is when they stop off at various towns along the river that various human character flaws always seem to come out. Examples of this would include the happenings after the bringing on of the Duke and King. These two con a .....
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Jay Gatsby: The Dissolution Of A Dream
Number of words: 944 - Number of pages: 4.... "...and I think he
revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it
drew from her well-loved eyes." Everything in Gatsby's house is the zenith
of his dreams, and when Daisy enters Gatsby's house the material things
seem to lose their life. Daisy represents a dreamlike, heavenly presence
which all that he has is devoted to. Yes, we should consider Jay Gatsby
as tragic figure because of belief that he can restore the past and live
happily, but his distorted faith is so intense that he blindly unaware of
realism that his dream lacks. Ga .....
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