Essays on Book Reports

... his friend, Govinda, meditated by a banyan tree. Siddhartha recited the verse: "Om is the bow, the arrow is the soul, Brahman is the arrow's goal At which one aims unflinchingly."(8) It was after meditating with Govinda that he realized what he had to do. In an attempt to reach the arrow's goal, he would leave his father to join the Samanas who he thought had the secrets to finding the "self". While with the Samanas Siddhartha learned many ways to escape the "self". He would do this through meditation, abandonment of the body, fasting, and the holding of breath. He abandoned his body through these ways many ti ...

... arrested Virgil proved Gillespie wrong by proving to him that Oberst was not the murderer. When Gillespie arrested Sam Wood Virgil also proved him innocent. Even though Gillespie didn’t like to be proven wrong by anyone (none less a Negro) he respected Virgil for his great detective work. At one point in the novel Gillespie and Tibbs shake hands and I think that was the high point of this mutual respect. Virgil didn’t respect Gillespie that much in the beginning and most of the middle of this story but in the end Virgil respected Gillespie. I think it was good that Virgil did not respect Gillespie because Gillespie was using Virgil for his scapegoat. ...

... that Hermia should obey her father. He leaves with Hippolyta, Egeus, and Demetrius, to discuss some wedding business. Alone, Lysander and Hermia discuss their situation, and the plight of all lovers. Finally, Lysander comes up with a plan -- the two crazy kids decide to meet the next night in the woods to run off and elope! Suddenly, Helena enters, and Hermia quickly changes the subject: Well, Helena isn't too sure about this whole 'fair' business - considering Hermia stole her boyfriend! Helena asks Hermia to teach her how to 'sway the motion of Demetrius' heart.' Hermia assures Helena that she has done nothing to lead Demetrius on. Helena, on the other hand, ...

... as a team, everyone will begin fighting. This is exactly what happened. When they decided on a leader (Ralph) Jack hated it. He wanted to be leader and thought he was the best for the job. Already he had started to rebel. He wouldn't do what Ralph said, and tried to get everyone to disobey him. If the boys do not work together on anything, it's never going to work. While Jack and others were rebelling, Ralph was trying his best to keep the island together. One example of how not working together hurt their the civilization severely was, when they were building the shelters. Everyone was supposed to help, but only two people (Ralph and Simon) could hon ...

... learn and improve their knowledge. People would rely on the computers rather than "try to memorize enough to match someone else who knows" (Nine Tomorrows, Profession 55). People would not chose to study, they would only want to be educated by computer tapes. Putting in knowledge would take less time than reading books and memorizing something that would take almost no time using a computer in the futuristic world that Asimov describes. Humans might began to rely on computers and allow them to control themselves by letting computers educate people. Computers would start teaching humans what computers tell them without having any choice of creativity. Computer ould ...

... arrived, had to fight a bull dog, and if it wasn't for a man named Weedon Scott, he would have died. He was his new master for ever. III. Analysis of characterization In the main character is . began his life as a wild wolf-dog, but he was taken by an Indian as a pup, and was domesticated. He soon learned the power of his master and obeyed his laws, even though his wild instincts told him not to, as London notes: Every instinct of his nature would have impelled him to dash wildly away, had there not suddenly and for the first time arisen in him another and counter instinct. A great awe descended upon him.....Here was mastery and power, something far and aw ...

... son!” Hurt, he ran to the oracle at Delphi, where upon he learned of fates’ disgusting plans. Plans to kill his father and to marry his mother. “O I fled from there. I measured out the stars to put all heaven in between the land of Corinth and such a damned destiny.” That free will act must have been invoked by fate, for the very land he fled to was the land of Thebes, the land where his real parents rein as king and queen. It would seem that fate not only controls people’s lives, but their own free will! His plans to disrupt his destiny played right into those of fate’s. A great example in the book where Sop ...

... and he resented this because it stifled his growing soul. Since his wife was continuously ill, and her cousin needed a place to stay, they took her in to help around the house. Ethan took an immediate propensity to her cousin, Mattie, because she brought a bright light upon his dismal day. He seemed to have found someone that cared for him, was always happy and could share his youth, unlike his sickly wife who always nagged him. He longed to be with Mattie, however he had loyalty to his wife. Being married to the wrong person proved to be Ethan's first failure. Ethan's second failure was not being able to stand up against his wife. His wife claimed that a new doct ...

... They are a little bit different but basically the same. Another thing in the book was the “green bullet” which also vaguely relates to Walkmen or walkie-talkies. Almost every kid in the United States owns a Walkman and many tapes or CD's. Many teenagers lives' are spent listening to music. Instead of talking and carrying on a conversation with somebody a person often turns the music on and sticks to themselves instead. Before the 1920's and before Charles Darwin came out with his theory of evolution and The Origin of Species, the only thing people knew was the story of the Bible. Almost everybody lived believing the Bible. Rarely was it questio ...

... The Wife of Bath is a skilled cloth maker and a devoted Christian pilgrim who has made trips to several shrines. Through her unique introduction in The General Prologue we learn much of her physical attributes. The Wife of Bath is gapped tooth. "Gat-toothed was she, soothly for to saye. Upon an amblere esily she sat" (p.91, ll. 470-471) This physical feature is attributed to lust and passion. The fact that she could ride a horse easily also could take on sexual connotations (Maclaine 32). The horse she "rides" so well could actually be her husband. Early in the Wife of Bath Prologue, The Wife of Bath decl ...