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Term Papers on Book Reports
The Awakening: Chopin Glorifying Edna's Fatal Situation
Number of words: 343 - Number of pages: 2.... Chopin has successfully convinced a reader that the characters are
real or that they could be real, the reader is likely to apply what he has
learned from this fable in his or her own life. With these assumptions in mind,
one must apply the task of figuring out what she wants people to believe and how
to behave as a result of reading her book. Edna, whose husband has held her
like a piece of furniture, a piece of personal property, suddenly becomes aware
she is a human being. Leonce certainly errs if he only values his wife as a
piece of furniture. There is no .....
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Of Mice And Men: Insight Into The Life Of The Characters
Number of words: 1121 - Number of pages: 5.... to work. Lennie uses
his abilities to work hard, but does not understand how strong he is.
Without George, Lennie does not understand what to do. Lennie gets
frightened and uses his strength to hold on to objects. Lennie is just like
a child. He will do what ever George tells him to: "Curley was flopping
like a fish on a line, and his closed fist was lost in Lennie's hand.
George slapped [Lennie] in the face again and again and still Lennie held
on. Through Lennie's actions we can see that Lennie is very similar to a
child. Lennie's first instinct when .....
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The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
Number of words: 5641 - Number of pages: 21.... after all that mubl'in we
had a purdy good time. As a matter of fact as I recall that day it was almost
pur'fect. If it warn't for me drunk Pa gettin arrested by the Sheriff that morn,
it woudda' been real pur'fect. Course I reckon a boy's gota have a good time
at his best friend's bert'day party.
I was at Sam's house. Course I warn't de only one dare. His Pa, Judge
Clemens and Ma, Miss Jane Lampton, till she married of course, was dare and I
reckon his whole 'tire family must da been at dat house, can't barely remember
it was only his fourth birthd .....
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Wuthering Heights: Themes In The Novel
Number of words: 954 - Number of pages: 4.... drawn to the
book much as some are addicted to viewing day time soap operas.
One of the main elements of the story that is mentioned in the
review is cruelty. Cruelty has helped form some of the characters to be
what they are. When a young Heathcliff is brought into the Earnshaw family,
he is instantly disliked by Hindley Earnshaw. Hindley hates Heathcliff for
intruding onto his family. He loses his fathers love and sets out to
destroy Heathcliff. Within Catherine's diary was written: " I wish my
father were back again. Hindley is a detestable substi .....
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Keeping The Reader In Suspense
Number of words: 1387 - Number of pages: 6.... the characters the reader is kept in suspense. He wants to continue reading and finding more about those strange and different people introduced in the book. In “K is for Killer” the victim is Lorna Kepler. She was a beautiful young lady who was really strange and mysterious. Grafton introduces weirdness as one of Lorna's characteristics to create suspense. Lorna was a loner and did not have a lot of friends, and she rarely talked to people. No one really knew her and a lot of people were jealous of her. What creates mystery is the fact that Lorna was a pr .....
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The Taming Of The Shrew
Number of words: 495 - Number of pages: 2.... society and abide by the unspoken rules. The play ends with her conformance to the norms of society but it isn't a wholehearted choice, it's in her actions but not in her mind. Katherine assumes the role of an obedient, polite wife but she still retains her innate assertiveness. Katherine's being tamed is not a matter of her being cured of her shrewishness but rather her having learned to get along in a man's world.
In this play courtship and marriage aren't the result of love but rather an institution that people are expected to take part in. Suito .....
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Alive Book Report
Number of words: 961 - Number of pages: 4.... these crucial days it was only their minds of steel and endless cooperation that got them through. Parrado and Canessa were the one’s who saved their friends in the Andes. The setting in ALIVE gave you a real sense of how terrible it was for the Andes survivors. First of all, the Andes setting was basically what kept the survivors from being found by an airplane. The snow covered mountains blended to the roof of the Fairchild to a point where the plane was literally invisible from more than 50 ft. away. Secondly, the intense cold, which at night dropped to .....
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A Journey To The Center Of The
Number of words: 641 - Number of pages: 3.... dark labyrinths, they descend (this goes on for days). The three men then face difficulties: thirst, light, getting lost, injuries, and fatigue, were among them.
They make many discoveries. They find that there’s a sea, with fish and sea monsters. They find forests, giant mushrooms, animals that look like dinosaurs, and even what seems to be giant human beings.
The idea of writing this story came from a scientist who explored the crater of a certain mountain. Verne got the idea that maybe it would be possible to descend even further into the earth. Many of Vern .....
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