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One Flew Over Cuckoos Nest
Number of Words: 1115 / Number of Pages: 5
... and visit them.
Hesitantly, he dialed the phone.
A sexy woman's voice melted through the phone.
"Hello, who is this?"
"Hello, may I speak to Mr. Harding?" He choked a little with nervousness.
The woman's voice suddenly transformed with harshness.
"Who's that?... Ah, you must be one of his buddies," she emphasized the word "buddies" with contempt, chewing on it with relish-hatred, "You idiot, don't you know that he died 3 years ago?"
There was a shock and a pause.
"Died? You mean Mr. Harding, Dale Harding? When? How?"
"I am a busy person. I don't have time to talk to you. My fianc¨¦ is waiting ...
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The House On Mango Street: The American Dream
Number of Words: 361 / Number of Pages: 2
... of is everyone’s dream. The house was nothing like this dream. The house was small and red with tight steps in front and small windows. It was old and broken down. It was not the most secure or safest place to live and it was not what Esperanza wanted. Throughout the entire book, Esperanza and many others were trying to escape Mango Street in order to look for a better place to live.
Finally, Esperanza didn’t have many friends. Sometimes she went as low as to pay five dollars for a friend. She then met Sally. Sally was the closest friend Esperanza had. Sally introduced her to many things such as boys, ...
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Book Report For The Odyssey
Number of Words: 1288 / Number of Pages: 5
... did not explain or describe things as clear as he could have; however, this was a good thing. It served to leave something up to the imagination and creativity of the reader. Odysseus struggles with extremely menacing foe such as a giant cyclops, Polyphemus, who eats Odysseus' men like bite-size candy and a six headed beast, able to devour men whole. Homer allows the imagination of the reader to come up with the details like the color and size of the creatures and what the surroundings look like.
Odysseus was away at Troy for 10 years fighting a long, difficult war. Unfortunately for Odysseus the ...
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Beloved
Number of Words: 761 / Number of Pages: 3
... from humans, to that of
animals. They were not treated with any respect, or proper care. Even modern day
criminals, those that have murdered large numbers of people are treated more
humanly then the average slave ever was. The life that the children would of
lived would of been one of complete servitude, they would of never of known what
it was like to live on their own and make their own decisions. This all goes
back to the fact that they would never be human or treated as humans, so based
on this I believe that Sethe was justified in killing her children and
preventing them from becoming ensl ...
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The Red Badge Of Courage And A Farewell To Arms: The Main Characters
Number of Words: 1474 / Number of Pages: 6
... thoughts are about himself and not about the welfare of
others. Also, the fact that he wants to impress people and appear heroic
is a selfish aspiration. Heroes act not to impress others but to help them.
Usually the actions of a hero are impulsive and not premeditated because
the hero does what he/she believes is right and what their heart tells them
is right and not what others judge is right.
In The Red Badge of Courage, Henry is preoccupied about whether or
not he's going to run when it comes time to fight. After the second
skirmish, the readers find out that he does indeed run from battle but ...
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The Scarlet Letter And A Tale Of Two Cities: A Comparison
Number of Words: 1267 / Number of Pages: 5
... her paramour
did not escape punishment.
In fact, the father of her bastard child took a more severe sentence.
Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale seemed to be an upstanding, young priest. The whole
town liked him and respected him as a holy man. Thus, his deception was much
more direct and extreme when he did not confess that he impregnated Hester
Prynne. Unlike Hester, he was not publicly punished. So although Hester
overcame her ordeal and went on with her life, Dimmesdale exacted a constant,
physical and mental reprobation on himself. This inner pain was so intense that
his physical health bega ...
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The Role Of Women In The Odyss
Number of Words: 1230 / Number of Pages: 5
... expect from men. Also all the societies and lands Odysseus visited that were inhabited by mortals were dominated by men.
In The Odyssey women are unequal, treated differently, and are considered inferior to men. Throughout the epic women are not given an appropriate amount of respect by men. The male characters of The Odyssey expect certain traits and characteristics of women that they do not expect of themselves. Men expect that the women in The Odyssey be loyal to them, and not be adulterous or seductive. When Odysseus returns to Ithaca in disguise, he expects Penelope to be faithful an ...
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The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe: An Analysis
Number of Words: 375 / Number of Pages: 2
... given a
shield and sword. Susan received a bow, arrows, and a horn. Lucy's gift was a
bottle of healing juice and a dagger. that was the climax of the book because
the spell of the White Witch was fading. Then they met up with Aslan and he
freed all the stone figures and made them his army. The resolution of the book
is when Aslan's army and the witches army confront and Aslan's army wins.
Peter kills the witch at the end of the battle.
The impression I got from this book is that Naria is a land of
surprises and I'm excited that this years assignment will allow me to read more
of " The Chronicles ...
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Frankenstein: What Makes It A Gothic Novel?
Number of Words: 700 / Number of Pages: 3
... in the memory. And that is what is felt throughout the novel-the
dreariness of it all along with the desolate isolation. Yet there were
still glimpses of happiness in Shelly's “vivid pictures of the grand scenes
among Frankenstein- the thunderstorm of the Alps, the valleys of Servox and
Chamounix, the glacier and the precipitous sides of Montanvert, and the
smoke of rushing avalanches, the tremendous dome of Mont Blanc” (Goldberg
277) and on that last journey with Elizabeth which were his last moments of
happiness. The rest goes along with the melodrama of the story. Shelly
can sustain the mood an ...
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Huckleberry Finn's Struggles With Conscience
Number of Words: 823 / Number of Pages: 3
... Huck's standpoint, “Miss Watson she kept on pecking at me, and it got
tiresome lonesome” (5). Huck's immaturity is obvious as he expresses his
dislike of how Miss Watson wanted him to sit up straight and stop fidgeting.
Huck's immaturity is clear in the beginning of the book.
All of Huck's discipline leaves his life as the book progresses,
and Huck's father shows up to take him to live in a cabin in the woods.
All of the bad habits from his past return. Even though Huck does not
miss the rules of the Widow Douglas, he realizes that he cannot go back to
his old life either. He decides to run away ...
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