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Term Papers on Book Reports
Catcher In The Rye: Summary
Number of words: 1703 - Number of pages: 7.... She likes poetry, and she also
likes to go to the theater. She goes out on a date with Holden.
PLOT
This story is based on a young boy's life. This young boy's full
name is Holden Caulfield. He is twelve years old, and attends a school
called Pencey. Holden starts off this story by telling his story about the
last Christmas. He starts off by saying that he was at Thomson Hill
watching a football game. He returned from New York with the fencing team.
He was the manager of the team. Holden went to his room located at Pencey.
Holden was very bored; so he took out .....
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Scarlet Letter - Pearl
Number of words: 843 - Number of pages: 4.... Prynn constantly questions Pearl's existence and purpose asking God, "what is this being which I have brought into the world, evil?" or inquiring to Pearl, "Child, what art thou?" Hester sees Pearl as a reminder of her sin, especially since as an infant Pearl is acutely aware of the scarlet letter A on her mother’s chest. When still in her crib, Pearl reached up and grasped the letter, causing "Hester Prynne [to] clutch the fatal token so infinite was the torture inflicted by the intelligent touch of Pearl's baby-hand" (Hawthorne 66). The tort .....
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Zimbabwe 2
Number of words: 522 - Number of pages: 2.... by white rule continued in the feud between black and white incomes and black Zimbabweans wanted their fair share of the chief farming territory that had been previously owned by the white settlers from the
1890’s till today (TIME).
Zimbabwe went bankrupted after the long war for freedom and the
economy was even weakened by the huge emigration of Europeans and a drought in the early 1980’s (TIME). The slow pace land reform led to tension in Matabeleland in southwestern Zimbabw and Zanu. But now, they were rivals and
the tensions between them and t .....
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Life
Number of words: 1336 - Number of pages: 5.... relationships". It also means "good sense, generally accepted belief, a wise attitude or course of action and the teachings of the ancient wise men". If that is true then what does one so keen, so aware of how living things must cease to live, have to fix? Dylan Thomas appears to be telling us that wise men fear that they have not given their wisdom to others appropriately. It seems that wise men worry that all the wisdom they have accumulated over the many years of their existence was of no matter. Thomas has an eloquent way of phrasing things, “Though wise m .....
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Red Badge Of Courage
Number of words: 384 - Number of pages: 2.... them when
they think of him. It is a tragedy when Jim dies because of all of the
moral inspiration he gave the regiment. True to his character Jim dies a
quiet and peaceful death not distributing any of the regiment.
Wilson represents the two sides of human nature. In the beginning of the
book Wilson is a mean tough guy that no one liked. This outward act of
being tuff is just a cover of the true nature of Wilson. It is natural
for people to cover their true nature in front of new faces. Towards the
end of the book Wilson starts to care about Henry. hen .....
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Reivew Of Conrad's "Heart Of Darkness"
Number of words: 976 - Number of pages: 4.... thus "out of
trouble," the natives are forced to do meaningless, pointless exercises.
Marlow is shocked by this total subjugation of the Africans and the
completely pointless work which they are forced to perform.
Prior to 1807, the Europeans directly enslaved the Africans. After
1807, Britain, and eventually most European countries, banned the slave
trade. However, this did not stop the Eldorado Exploring Expedition, whose
members Marlow described as "reckless without hardihood, greedy without
audacity, and cruel without courage," from using natives as forc .....
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Tom Sawyer And Huck Finn
Number of words: 1703 - Number of pages: 7.... taken every boy in the town's wealth if he had not run out of paint.
On June 17th about the hour of midnight, Tom and his best friend Huck were out in the grave yard trying to get rid of warts, when they witnessed a murder by Injun Joe. At the time Muff Potter was drunk and asleep so Injun Joe blamed the murder him (Muff Potter). They knew if crazy Injun Joe found out they knew, he would for sure kill them. Tom wrote on a wooden board "Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer swear to keep mum about this and they wish they may drop down dead in their tracks if they .....
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Critiscisms Of My Antonia
Number of words: 1334 - Number of pages: 5.... pattern in his life about his Antonia. This is so because the collection of books that make up the novel, My Antonia, is about Willa Cather; the narrator's idea of what and to what point Jim Burden remembers. Miller also states that the novel "lacks focus and abounds in irrelevancies." (Wells 1) This is due to the fact that Cather didn't provide and consistent character portrayal throughout her novel. Another critic, Kim Wells, asserts Miller's opinion on the novel. Because as he states the novel has many "variations from a theme." (Wells 1) For ins .....
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