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Term Papers on Book Reports
The Children In "Sons And Lovers" By D. H. Lawerence And "What Maisie Knew" By Henry James
Number of words: 908 - Number of pages: 4.... impoverished emotionally. The emotional
poverty that Maisie experiences in her life exist because of her parents
extremely vicious hatred for each other. They use Maisie as a “vessel for
bitterness” (13). To Beale and Ida, Maisie was just a tool that they used
to hurt the other person. Eventually, Maisie figured out that they were
using her to be the bearer of brutily hateful messages. Consequently, she
learned not to deliver such messages. This made her parents very angry and
they decided that she had “grown incredably dull”. Thus, Maisie realized “
They .....
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A Tale Of Two Cities: Summary
Number of words: 462 - Number of pages: 2.... years. She is unaware that her
father was even alive. Together they go and live in London, England. There
her father recovers from the effects of being in prison for so long. She
and her father become very close to each other. Meanwhile, over in Paris
the tension is mounting. The Monseigneur, and the Monsieur the Marquis are
murdered by the French Resistance. Much secrecy occurs among the French
peasants. The Defarges are two of the main characters in the resistance.
Charles Darnay and Lucie Manette are eventually married and have a daughter.
It turns out Char .....
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Nature And Its Elements In Jane Eyre
Number of words: 1598 - Number of pages: 6.... look, and charred and scorched, there must be little sense of life in you yet; rising out of that adhesion at the faithful, honest roots: you will never have green leaves more - never more see birds making nests and singing idylls in your boughs; the time of love and pleasure is over with you; but you are not desolate: each of you has a comrade to sympathize with him in his decay.'"
As reflected in the passage above, nature plays an integral part as a thematic element in Jane Eyre. Charlotte Bronte consistently draws a parallel between Jane's life and nature and .....
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All Quiet On The Western Front
Number of words: 1072 - Number of pages: 4.... that Paul had comforted earlier. Paul and Kat again strongly questioned the War. After Paul's company were returned to the huts behind the lines, Himmelstoss appeared and was insulted by some of the members of Paul's unit, who were then only mildly punished. During a bloody battle, 120 of the men in Paul's unit were killed. Paul was given leave and returned home only to find himself very distant from his family as a result of the war. He left in agony knowing that his youth was lost forever. Before returning to his unit, Paul spent a little while at a military c .....
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Injustice In To Kill A Mockingbird
Number of words: 341 - Number of pages: 2.... white people, he did not get mad because he was improperly accused, he just showed the level of respect which everyone deserves. He handled the injustice with a manner reserved only for gentlemen, which is a good description of what he really was.
The third person to suffer injustice in the novel was Boo Radley. Many accusations were claimed about him even though they were untrue. Just because he didn't leave his house, people began to think something was wrong. Boo was a man who was misunderstood and shouldn't of suffered any injustice. Boo did not handle the .....
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The Yellow Wallpaper: The View From The Inside
Number of words: 1053 - Number of pages: 4.... instead of the strength of men as women dominating machines.
From the beginning of the story forward the narrator speaks of how her husband and other influential men in her life direct her so that she will recover quickly and I believe this to be the initial sign that the feminist perspective will be presented throughout. The narrator shows how although she has a formed opinion (and probably successful idea for her treatment), she is still swayed by her husband's direction with the following passage, "I sometimes fancy that in my condition if I had less oppositio .....
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The Awakening Vs. A Doll's House
Number of words: 711 - Number of pages: 3.... these works aren't
ideas readers should assume to be true or good. The first of these is the
theory that husbands will most likely treat their wives as inferiors after
they are married. In A Doll's House, Torvald is blatantly condescending to
Nora. He calls her his ³little squirrel² or ³little skylark² and requires
her to ³do tricks² to please him. In addition, he treats her like a child,
a ³feather head² who can't understand anything important. In The Awakening,
Leonce is more subtle in his mistreatment of his wife. He tries to control
Edna by pushing his .....
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Huck Finn
Number of words: 1885 - Number of pages: 7.... seen as a moral person who grows through his actions and experiences both on land and in the river, even though his actions might go against the set standards of society.
Huck is a moral person at the beginning of the novel before he begins his journey on the river. The character of Huck can be seen as subdued in the beginning of the novel. Huck has not let out his true self and it is important to understand this point that Mark Twain tries to get across. This is so important because at this point Huck is conforming to society and following all the standards .....
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