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Term Papers on Book Reports
Once And Future King Essay
Number of words: 667 - Number of pages: 3.... Arthur and produced Mordred out of her desire for revenge on Uther, Arthur's father, for the murder of the Duke of Cornwall, her father, and Uther's marriage to Igraine, her mother. Mordred himself plotted the war against the King because he was the King's illegitimate child. It is evident that characters in the novel were constantly working against Arthur, although he was always trying to be fair and just to everyone. However, Arthur was not alone as the object for others' revenge. Lancelot was hated intensely by Agravaine, who had gone to tell Arthur of .....
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To Sir With Love - Change
Number of words: 681 - Number of pages: 3.... are the total opposites of his of his initial ideas.
This is gradually shown through their actions, such as such as the students
all going to visit the house of their black friend during his crisis, or
their learning to treat each other with respect;they learned to address
each other as their last names, inthe case of the boys, and "Miss", for the
girls. For the students,they learned to respect and really learn from their
teacher,something they had never cared to do before. Braithewaite helped
them to break out of the the pattern of intolerance and roughness t .....
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The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn: Slavery
Number of words: 654 - Number of pages: 3.... respected members
of the community. Even the widow who rescued him from his father owns
slaves. Huck shows his own belief in the practice of slavery when he
discovers that Jim has run away. He has promised not to tell but worries
that people will “call me a low-down Abolitionist and despise me for
keeping mum....” (43). During the course of their journey, the line that
Huck envisions between himself and Jim becomes increasingly fainter.
Society and its mores seem extremely distant and remote from the simple yet
ideal life Jim and Huck lead on their raft. .....
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Old Man And The Sea
Number of words: 675 - Number of pages: 3.... thought, "Do you believe the great DiMaggio would stay with a fish as
long as I will stay with this one? I am sure he would and more since he young
and strong. Also his father was a fisherman. But would the bone spur hurt him
too much?"(68).
"But I must have confidence and I must be worthy of the great DiMaggio who
does all things perfectly, even with a bone spur in his heel"(68), this
particular quote from the old man shows that the image of Joe DiMaggio works in
fulfilling its role in the old man's challenge of catching the fish. When
thinking of t .....
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Madame Bovary: Emma's Unorthodox Behavior Due To Childhood
Number of words: 625 - Number of pages: 3.... roamed the forest, with
Roman Ruins surrounded by virgin forests and lakes full of swans. "And the
shaded oil-lamp . . . lit up all these pictures of the world, which flowed by on
after another, in the silence of the dormitory, to the distant sound of a late
cab somewhere still rolling along the boulevards." (page 30) In short, Emma
fell in love with a world that never existed anywhere. She embraced the
elegance of the life in the pictures which she had hung in her dormitory, and
never did anyone tell her that such realities did not exist outside those pag .....
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Candide: Problems With Everyday Surroundings
Number of words: 796 - Number of pages: 3.... the whole regiment, or to receive twelve bullets in his brain.” That is just one of the many predicaments in which our main character becomes involved in. Another such incident occurs in chapter fifteen when Candide is faced with his true love’s brother. In this scene the brother is outraged that Candide has expressed his love toward his sister due to his unworthiness, and this is the outcome: “…at the same time he stuck him across the face with the flat of his sword, Candide instantly drew his own sword and plunged it to the hilt in the Jesuit baron’s belly” .....
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Cyrano The Bergerac - Love
Number of words: 663 - Number of pages: 3.... but he is shy to tell her so. When he finds out of her feelings towards another character Christian, who she likes because of his looks, Cyrano finds a way to express his love to Roxane. He decides that he would write to her in the name of Christian who comparatively is a poor writer and "wishes to make Christian his interpreter"(II,85).
Both Christian and Cyrano love Roxane but Roxane loves only the person that has been writing to her. It was actually Cyrano, who was writing to her but she thinks it was Christian. Cyrano had said, "..And we two make one h .....
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To Kill A Mocking Bir
Number of words: 322 - Number of pages: 2.... There were no in-depth descriptions of the situation. Another example of this point was when Boo Radley had saved Jem and Scout from Mr. Ewell. When Scout told Boo it was alright for him to pet Jem, it was better described in the book.
The third point is that the pageant the night that Jem and Scout were attacked was shown in the book but no in the movie. The movie only showed them walking up to the stairs, then the scene changed and they were walking back from the pageant. The book described how scout fell asleep during the pageant and came a long time afte .....
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