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Term Papers on Book Reports
With The Guest By Andrew Camus: Daru
Number of words: 840 - Number of pages: 4.... around him (pg
203). We know indirectly that Daru is very trusting, sometimes when maybe he
should not be. He lets the Arab sleep in the same room with him untied, even
though there is a chance that the Arab could try to do Daru harm. When Daru
lets the Arab eat at the same table as him, we see that he does not think
himself to be superior to the prisoner (pg-207). Near the end of the story we
can tell that Daru is a generous man. He gives the Arab food and money and the
choice for freedom or for prison. Overall we could say that Daru is a kind man
which co .....
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Stephen King's The Stand
Number of words: 529 - Number of pages: 2.... She dreams of an old lady named Abigail, in Colorado. This lady is kind and loving and promises to protect them from the evil. In the dreams there is also a "Dark Man". He is always there lurking, waiting to attack.
Harold admits to himself that he is in love with Fran and goes crazy when he realizes how serious Fran has become with Stuart Redman, one of the newcomers to their traveling group. Harold becomes insanely jealous and plots to separate them, even if it means murder.
Harold doesn't admit it to any of them, but his dreams are different from thei .....
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The Scarlet Letter
Number of words: 506 - Number of pages: 2.... notices that Hawthorne carefully, and sometimes not subtly at
all, places Pearl above the rest. She wears colorful clothes, is
extremely smart, pretty, and nice. More often than not, she shows her
intelligence and free thought, a trait of the Romantics. One of Pearl's
favorite activities is playing with flowers and trees. (The reader will
recall that anything affiliated with the forest was evil to Puritans. To
Hawthorne, however, the forest was beautiful and natural.) "And she was
gentler here [the forest] than in the grassy-margined streets of the
sett .....
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Who Is Amelia Sedley?
Number of words: 516 - Number of pages: 2.... a man named Rawdon
and her social difficulties and marital problems are paralleled by Amelia’s.
Amelia’s marriage to George Osborne is threatened when her family sinks
into financial ruin and George’s father refuses to countenance a union
between his son and the helpless daughter. However, inspired by his friend
Dobbin, who is himself in love with Amelia and always selflessly thinking
of her happiness, George rebels against his father and marries her.
George is killed in battle and she is poverty-stricken that she is
forced to hand her son over to her despis .....
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The Jungle
Number of words: 325 - Number of pages: 2.... after the death of his young wife, and then the death of his only son. After his time in the country and working for the political machines of Chicago, he became interested in the idea of socialism. With the introduction of a socialist Jurgis, I wanted to put down the book. Where had the whole socialist movement came from? I felt it made absolutely no sense to be in this story. The story, at that point, needed to concentrate more on the reunited family of Jurgis rather than the radical ideas circulating throughout Chicago. Upton Sinclair painted an accurate .....
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Siddhartha
Number of words: 882 - Number of pages: 4.... becomes infatuated with the believe of total peace, and goes about trying to obtain it. At the end of the story he obtains inner peace.
Govinda- Govinda is Siddhartha's best friend. He also is striving to obtain inner peace. He follows Siddhartha for a while, but eventually goes to follow Buddha. Towards the end Govinda meets up with Siddhartha and discovers that he has obtained peace.
Vasadava- Vasadava is the old ferryman that has obtained the peace that Siddhartha has striven to obtain. He learns all that he knows about spirituality and peace from the r .....
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William Fualkner - A Rose For
Number of words: 584 - Number of pages: 3.... The only person they would see was her butler. To everyone’s surprise, Emily did meet a man a few years later, by the name of Homer Barron. The two would ride down the street on Sundays in a buggy. The town hoped that this would be Emily’s opportunity to wed. Time passed, and the town no longer saw Homer come around any more. The last time the town saw Homer, he had gone into Emily’s home through the kitchen door for supper.
Never the less, it finally came time for Emily to pay taxes. The older town people from her father’s generat .....
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To Kill A Mockingbird: Lessons Never Learned
Number of words: 938 - Number of pages: 4.... race. He was falsely accused of raping a white woman.
Because the alleged victim was white, the people of Maycomb readily
accepted her accusation against Tom Robinson, despite the lack of solid
evidence. Robinson's alibi was strong and the character of the accuser was
in question, however, he was still brought to trial. Many of the
townspeople developed a lynch-mob mentality and did not want Tom Robinson
to be granted the right to trial. Atticus was not swayed by prejudice
against Robinson and fought for the trial, which he subsequently lost. To
further ill .....
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