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Essays on Book Reports
Title: Character Analysis Of Through The Tunnel
Details: Words: 497, Pages: 2... Without no communication
Jerry has to relay on body language and actions. When Jerry sees the boys
swimming in the water below and the pop out on top of the rocks he decides
to check it out and see what down there. He saw a black tunnel which was
very dark and gloomy. As Jerry tries to swim through it, he becomes afraid
and scared and decides to go back. As he came up for air he saw the boys
snickering at him and Jerry decided he must do this to impress the boys and
have them like him. Jerry is not one who asks people for gifts or money but
to him this was very important. So he asked his mother to buy him some
goggles so that he could swim.
After the boys w ...
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Title: The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn: Critique
Details: Words: 371, Pages: 2... depicts the 1900's southern
social climate in a manner that is not only satirical, but psychoanalytically
intuitive. In it, Huck, as he is commonly known, runs away with a slave named
Jim. As they travel along the Mississippi river, in the southern region of the
United States, they undergo many extraordinary adventures.
Analysis
One of the most predominant themes in this novel is that of deception.
Deception, in one form or another, is used with an avid consistency throughout
the story. Two personifications of deception were the characters, King and Duke.
They were "entrepreneurs" of deception (which is a polite way of saying
hustlers). Samuel Clemens writ ...
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Title: Year 10 Asian History Origami
Details: Words: 637, Pages: 3... (How to Fold One Thousand Cranes). The Kan no mado (Window on Midwinter), a comprehensive collection of traditional Japanese figures, was published in 1845. The name origami was coined in 1880 from the words oru (to fold) and kami (paper). Previously, the art was called Orikata.
Meanwhile, paper folding was also being developed in Spain. Arabs brought the secret of paper making to North Africa, and, in the eight-century AD, the Moors brought that secret to Spain. The Moors were devoutly Muslim and their religion forbade the creation of representational figures. Instead, their paperfolding was a study of the geometries inherent in the paper. After the Moors wer ...
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Title: Anna Karenina: Foreshadowing
Details: Words: 470, Pages: 2... goes and greets the
visitor. As Anna is walking to her bedroom, she glances over to see who had
called at such a late hour. She immediately recognizes it to be Vronsky and she
feels ‘a strange feeling of pleasure mixed with a feeling of vague apprehension
suddenly stirred in her heart.'( page 90)This tells of what may be the conflict
in the plot.
The day after the great ball Anna announces that she must leave. Dolly
expresses her gratitude toward everything Anna has done to help her in her time
of crisis. She tells Anna that she does not know of a person with a greater
heart. Anna tells her that Kitty was depressed because Vronsky spent the evening ...
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Title: Everything That Rises Must Converge
Details: Words: 907, Pages: 4... as her savior who must teach her a thing or two about her outmoded viewpoints. And although Julian's criticisms of his mother do have merit, she is not the oblivious southern racist he makes her out to be. And either is he the free-thinking poet he struggles so hard to make his mother believe he is. In reality, Julian's mother has sacrificed a great deal for her son's well-being. She's allowed her own teeth to rot to afford him braces, has worked hard so that he might attend college, and makes excuses for his unemployment. Although she talks only through a string of cliches, Julian's mother is all too eager to please her son and obviously lives through him. This ...
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Title: Frankenstein: Roles Between Males And Females
Details: Words: 1128, Pages: 5... thus he is the one who will make the decisions. Unfortunately, it doesn't quite work out the way Victor had planned, and by the end of the novel, it is the creature who is giving the orders.
The women in the story occupy many of the same traits that distinguish them from others. Shelly's women are portrayed as "gentle and affectionate" (65) and they have features of an "angelic beauty" (144). Victor describes Elizabeth as "the most fragile creature in the world" (65) showing that he feels superior to her. Since the women are mainly confined to the home, they are naive and are not as prepared for the outside world as the men are. (Mellor, 276). This is per ...
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Title: Lord Of Flies: Animal Instincts
Details: Words: 801, Pages: 3... the story all of the children, including Jack were in favor of having rules and following them. One of the rules was that the children would come to gather for an assembly upon hearing the sound of the conch. It is stated that in the beginning of the book, " By the time Ralph finished blowing the conch the platform was crowded." (p.32). This shows that in the beginning of the story the children were very obedient to following the rules. As the story progress, though, Ralph becomes aggravated. He states, "Things are breaking up. I don't understand why. We began well. We were all happy." (p.82). He is also annoyed with the amount of work the others are not ...
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Title: Big Two-Hearted River
Details: Words: 1185, Pages: 5... is entirely in the first person , and "On
the Quai at Smyrna", which is only possibly in the first
person, there is just one instance in In Our Time in which a
character speaks in the first person. It occurs in "Big
Two-Hearted River: Part II", an intensely personal story
which completely immerses the reader in the actions and
thoughts of Nick Adams. Hemingway's utilization of the
omniscient third person narrator allows the reader to
visualize all of Nick's actions and surroundings, which would
have been much more difficult to accomplish using first
person narration. Nick is seen setting up his camp in "Big
Two-Hearted River: Part I" in intimate detail, from choosin ...
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Title: With And Without The State In
Details: Words: 1825, Pages: 7... their desolate existence and to help alleviate the conditions of daily life.
The distance between the state, the outer world and the people,
the inner world, creates an ignorance that the state refuses to attend. It
is widely known the two factors for the makeup of a civilization lies in
the people and the state or the state and its people. Without one or the
other to depend on, reliance hinders stability. The functional branch or government in Rome is thousands of miles away that there is a barrier
between the Italian people. Because the capital is not located in the
village, they cannot interact and develop a personal fulfillment ...
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Title: Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
Details: Words: 993, Pages: 4... place where Huck can revert to examine any predicament he might find himself in: "They went off, and I got aboard the raft, feeling bad and low…Then I thought a minute, and says to myself, hold on,- s'pose you'd a done right and give Jim up; would you felt better than you do now? No, says I, I'd feel bad…" (p.127). Only a few weeks with Jim and still feeling great ambivalence, Huck returns to the river to think. Twain tries here to tell the reader how strong the "mob" really is, and only when totally alone is Huck able to make the morally correct decision. The natural flowing and calm of the river cause this deep-thought, show! ing how unnatural the coll ...
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