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Term Papers on Book Reports
The Scarlet Letter: The Symbol Of The Scarlet Letter
Number of words: 1371 - Number of pages: 5.... the own
personal hell Hester will create for herself if she had chosen to hide her
sin in her heart. Though it was ordered for Hester to wear the letter, it
was still her own choice to make it in a vivid scarlet, "so fantastically
embroidered and illuminated upon her bosom." Hester chose red as the color
of her brand of shame, to declare to the rest of the townspeople that she
is prepared to acknowledge her sin, instead of denying it; she could have
chosen to wear her "A" in a plain and nondistinct color, to escape the
townspeople's disdain. By displaying .....
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"Miss Brill": Emptiness In One's Life
Number of words: 559 - Number of pages: 3.... details such as the conductor's coat, the old man's walking stick, and the women's embroidered apron. She paid extra attention to the ermine toque. She noticed the way the gentleman ignored the woman and then just walked away. Miss Brill imagined that the band knew what the ermine toque was feeling and played softly as the drum beat "The Brute! The Brute!" over and over. Her tendency to notice these things shows that she is melancholy with her own life and can find no other way to fill in her emptiness other than with the lives of other people.
A good q .....
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Evolution Of They Dystopia
Number of words: 634 - Number of pages: 3.... to cure the ills plaguing early nineteenth century capitalist Europe. The creation of a government based on these principles occurred in 1917 with the Russian Revolution. The corruption which followed within this government gave Orwell the basis to construct the dystopia found in Animal Farm. The feudalist dystopia found in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World is altered by the inspirational theories of Karl Marx and by the Russian Revolution, into the communist dystopia found in George Orwell's Animal Farm.
The castes found in Brave New World depict an accurate rep .....
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The Scarlet Letter
Number of words: 481 - Number of pages: 2.... was forced into a loveless marriage and hence she would be the "good guy," or girl, as the case may be. Also the townspeople, the
magistrates, and Chillingworth, Hester's true husband, can be seen in both lights. Either they can be perceived as just upholding the law -she
committed a crime, they enforce the law. On the other hand are they going to
extreme measures such as wanting to take Pearl, Hester's daughter, away just
because Hester has deviated from the norm, all to enforce an unjust law that
does not even apply to this situation?
Although the subjects o .....
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Indians Of The United States
Number of words: 284 - Number of pages: 2.... of man to explore, the explorers just that to figure out the mysterious Indians. The explorers later theorized that the Indians came from Siberia through a land bridge in the Bering Strait during the time when the water levels were not high. They also realized that it was difficult to predict the times when things happened to the Indians since they did not keep written records. Then they figured out by use of imagination that the Indians crossed over the land bridge to Alaska finding wild game. And following rivers and bodies of water, they moved south covering most of America. Another evidence was found .....
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Jane Eyre: Changing Seasons And Weather
Number of words: 937 - Number of pages: 4.... the summer’s rain. The rain is a direct expression of Jane’s situation in reality and it contrasts Jane’s previous summer stillness adequately. Jane is soon rescued by the Rivers of Moor house, in the town of Morton. After recovering from exhaustion in the care of Mary, Diana, and St. John the summer seems to brighten. She forges new friendships with the Rivers girls and the servants. Together they explore the wild pastures and purple moors, which coinsedently are at the peak of their beauty, colorful with fresh bracken and summer flowers.
A month passes and .....
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The Stone Angel
Number of words: 855 - Number of pages: 4.... much a part of me wanted to sympathize. To
play at being her - it was beyond me." (p. 25) Hagar's father sent her to
school out east to learn how to become a proper lady. After coming back
from college to become a proper lady, Hagar wanted to teach school but her
father wouldn't allow it. Hagar, instead, kept her father's accounts and
played hostess. Hagar meets Bram Shipley three years later and decides to
marry him. Her father does not approve of the marriage, but Hagar marries
Bram in a spirit of willful pride. Hagar's father does not speak to her .....
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Analysis Of Maltese Falcon
Number of words: 1130 - Number of pages: 5.... of the “things-are-not-what-they-seemed-theory-for-Hammett’s message.” Spade is callous, avaricious, and shares a similarity with Mike from ‘The House of Games.’ Why I think Mike and Spade are similar? For one thing Brigid O’Shaughnessy gave Spade a talk/speech about him using her pretty much the same thing Ford asked Mike in the airport. Brigid’s comment (p. 211-212) “You’ve been playing with me? Only pretending you cared-to trap me like this? You didn’t-care at all? You didn’t-don’t .....
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