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POINT OF VIEW IN AandP
Number of Words: 646 / Number of Pages: 3
... the fifty-year-old woman. He describes the older woman as having rouge on her cheekbones and no eyebrows. The young girls are all given nubile qualities, which are described by the character of Sammy using references to food. The first girl to catch his eye is a chunky girl with a sweet can and two crescents of white just underneath it. The second girl is described as having a chubby berry face with her lips all bunched together under her nose. The third girl doesn't get compared to food until she is at the cash register and is obviously the most attractive to Sammy as he describes her as having ...
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In Contempt By Christopher Darden: A Review
Number of Words: 1068 / Number of Pages: 4
... the lives of these people that he didn't even know. He
even went as far as to say in the book that this was the first case that
affected him personally and emotionally. As one may expect the majority of this
book is taken up with the Simpson case but, chapters two through six detail his
life from birth, his childhood in a working class district of Richmond,
California, and becoming a district attorney of Los Angeles in 1981. Chapters
two and three mostly consist of stories of him and his brother, Michael,
stealing from local stores or his brothers drug deals. When Michael hit his
mid-teens hesta ...
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"By The Waters Of Babylon"
Number of Words: 696 / Number of Pages: 3
... were just like he was.
V. What events make up the story's falling action?
The falling action is when John goes back to town to tell his father
what he saw. He then went to his father to be praised an purified. His father
told him that "You went away a boy. You come back a man and a priest." He
started to go to the Dead Places to retrieve books and magic tools.
VI. Describe the story's resolution.
The resolution is all summed up in two sentences. "They were men who
were here before us. We must build again." They will learn the ways of the old
people, and from that they will bui ...
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Kafka: The Reality Of Change
Number of Words: 1975 / Number of Pages: 8
... meals, the ever changing faces, never to be seen again, people with whom one has no chance to be friendly” (Kafka 13). Gregor, working to pay off his family’s debt, has resigned himself to a life full of no pleasures only work. Kafka himself paralleled this sentiment in a quote taken from his diaries noting that no matter how hard you work “that work still doesn’t entitle you to loving concern for people. Instead, you’re alone, a total stranger, a mere object of curiosity” (Pawel 167). Gregor submerges himself in work and becomes a stranger to himself and to life. Any type of social contact beyond p ...
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Book Report On Dostoevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov"
Number of Words: 3141 / Number of Pages: 12
... Because he has no respect for himself,
he can have no respect for others, either. He has no respect for women,
for example; he is a despicable "voluptuary," and he satisfies his lust at
any cost. He drives his wife to madness by bringing "women of ill-repute"
into their house right in front of her. Even more shockingly, he rapes a
mentally retarded woman, who later dies giving birth to his illegitimate
son, Smerdyakov, who grows up as his father's servant.
Fyodor is even more blatantly disrespectful to his three legitimate
children. After his wife's death, he abandons them, for they " ...
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The Call Of The Wild
Number of Words: 373 / Number of Pages: 2
... to behave like a wolf. An untamed beast from the wild. His long-
time lost instincts given to him by his ancestors from generations ago
started to come to him. In the end of the story, Buck is leading a pack of
wolves through the forest and stops at the top of a cliff and howls,along
with his other companions, to a silvery full moon.
I think that the point of this story, is that you learn from life
and you can never forget or change who you really are deep inside. Buck,
who's ancestors were of the wild and untamed, and after generations, Buck
was able to become what he was in the first place g ...
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The Catcher In The Rye: Connection To The Title
Number of Words: 924 / Number of Pages: 4
... made happy by the little boy's singing unless one has an idea of
what the song means to Holden. The little boy is described by Holden in
gentle caring terms: "The kid was swell. He was walking in the street,
instead of on the sidewalk, but right next to the curb. He was making out
like he was walking a very straight line, the way kids do, and the whole
time he kept singing and humming." (Page 115). Holden notes that the
child's parents pay no attention to him. To Holden this child represents
innocence and youth unspoiled by adult immorality.
Holden wishes to serve humanity by safeguarding the ...
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Tales Of The City
Number of Words: 5060 / Number of Pages: 19
... meshes the character's lives with one another,
till ultimately the product is a mass evolution.
It is interesting to note that the writing style Mr. Maupin uses to guide
the story forward is consistent throughout the book. Chapters inevitably
commence with a character's response to the given situation. There are several
departures from this style, which are explained further on in this book report.
The chapters are suited for the readers of a newspaper. Each is short,
usually between two and four pages in length. This makes the reading simple to
digest. Each chapter equates to an indiv ...
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A Rose For Emily And Antlers: The Struggle Against Loneliness: A Search For Human Affection
Number of Words: 1086 / Number of Pages: 4
... of her dignity" from her community (Faulkner, 411). An example of the respect Emily expects in her town is when she is summoned for taxes, but refuses to pay because of her hereditary tradition. Emily sees herself as a "high and mighty Grierson" who earned honor and admiration from her family legacy (Faulkner, 409). Emily’s fear of loneliness is first seen when she refuses to admit that her father had died and would not let his body be buried. Emily’s denial of her father’s death indicates her fear to be alone. Once Emily became older, her loneliness was more and more apparent to the town’s peopl ...
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Carver’s Characters
Number of Words: 1358 / Number of Pages: 5
... things, the right things would happen" (Gentry 123). Somewhere in the middle of this life he realized, very much like one of his characters, that things would not change.
What Carver deals with in almost all of his stories is the daily responsibilities of life weighing down on one's shoulders. "Almost all the characters in my stories come to the point where they realize that compromise, giving in, plays a major role in their lives," Carver said. "Then one single moment of revelation disrupts the pattern of their daily lives. It's a fleeting moment during which they don't want to compromise anymore. A ...
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