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To Kill A Mockingbird 2
Number of Words: 3687 / Number of Pages: 14
... until the twentieth century when Atticus Finch (Scout's father) and his brother Jack left the land for careers in law and medicine. Atticus settled in Maycomb, the county seat of Maycomb County, with a reasonably successful law practice about twenty miles from Finch's Landing, where his sister Alexandra still lived.
Scout describes Maycomb as a lethargic, hot, colorless, narrow-minded town where she lives with her father, brother Jem (four years older) and the family cook, Calpurnia. Scout's mother had died when she was two.
When she was five, Scout and Jem found a new friend, Dill Harris ("Goin' on ...
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Yolen's Briar Rose: Review
Number of Words: 983 / Number of Pages: 4
... "America's Hans Christian Andersen," Yolen, the child of two writers, is a gifted and natural storyteller. Perhaps the best explanation for her outstanding accomplishments comes from Jane Yolen herself: "I don't care whether the story is real or fantastical. I tell the story that needs to be told." When asked if she had any relatives who were in concentration camps during WWII and how she became interested in the holocaust, she replied, “My family--both sides--came over at the beginning of this century and we had no family left in either the Ukraine or Latvia during World War II. I am interested i ...
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Tom Sawyer
Number of Words: 966 / Number of Pages: 4
... after this Tom falls in love with his
new neighbor, Becky Thatcher. Eventually the two become
engaged but the engagement falls through when Tom
accidentally mentions his former love while talking with Becky.
The two fued and do not speak. Meanwhile, the whole town is
gossiping of the murder of Dr. Robinson and the prosecution of
Muff Potter. A trail quickly forms and Muff is put on the stand.
Tom knows he can not let the innocent Muff go to jail so as the
trial comes to a close Tom testifies, proving Injun Joe guilty.
This is the climax of the story. After the trial ends, the man
hunt fo ...
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A Case Of Needing: Serious Revisions
Number of Words: 1994 / Number of Pages: 8
... here is a one-two punch of highly technical prose employed to relate a
thoroughly dull story. Karen Randall, the daughter of an eminent physician, dies
as the result of a botched abortion. Art Lee, a Chinese obstetrician, is accused
of performing the D & C that has resulted in her death. Though Lee is known to
be an abortionist, he vehemently denies any involvement in the case. Lee calls
upon his friend, forensic pathologist John Berry, to clear his name.
John Berry careens back and forth from one Boston hospital to another,
trying to figure out who actually performed Randall's abortion, and why ...
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The Hound Of Baskerville
Number of Words: 996 / Number of Pages: 4
... Sherlock Holmes is a brilliant english detective. He pays great attention to the slightest detail. He is a tall, slightly athletic man who smokes a pipe. He will do anything to solve a case. He can change cases and focus intently from one to another quickly showing his great ability to brain storm about subjects. Dr. Watson is an inch or two shorter than sherlock, and a little bit less in shape than him, he as well smokes tobacco but in a ciggarette form. Dr. watson yearns for holmes' approval and to gain the talents holmes possesses.
One person who helps them is james mortimer. He is the pe ...
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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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Davis' "Fifth Business": Death Of Boy Staunton
Number of Words: 1192 / Number of Pages: 5
... in the stableness of ones soul. One mishap in childhood can create a
devastating blow to ones true happiness in later life. This was exactly the
case in Boy Staunton's life. Once, when he was little, he got in an
argument with Dunny which led to snowballs being launched at Dunny from an
aggravated Boy Staunton. The last snowball concealed a rock, and hit
Dunny's neighbor Mary Dempster in the head. As a result, she gave birth
prematurely (to Paul Dempster), and then afterwards became “simple minded”.
This particular incident acted as a foundation for Boy's growing shadow,
and contributed to the d ...
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The Lottery: Setting, Atmosphere, And Mood
Number of Words: 579 / Number of Pages: 3
... and character assignment. The story takes place in the town square, where family and friends are joined in tradition for the annual ‘lottery’. When given this setting, the ending of the story turns out to be a big surprise for the reader.
The author’s diction in The Lottery also plays a large role in the atmosphere and mood of the story. Euphonic terms are used throughout the work, never foreshadowing the outcome of the story. Terms such as, “boisterous play” and “blossoming profusely” create a calm mood in the reader, and work to create an unexpected surprise in the final paragraphs.
Similarly, Lord ...
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Douglas Hurt's The Dust Bowl
Number of Words: 806 / Number of Pages: 3
... and the lives of anyone living near it. By mid March, the storms had become commonplace in Amarillo and Dodge City. Residents began to accept them as a part of daily life. On April 10, 1935, a dust storm rolled through Texas and Oklahoma and on to Kansas. The storm lasted for over twenty-four hours, and set a record for intensity and duration of a storm. This storm came four days before the dreadful “black blizzard” that hit Amarillo, Texas on April 14, 1935.
In 1936, The Resettlement Administration, an organization set up to financially aid rural farmers in poverty, sent a film crew to portray ...
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The Pearl: A Review
Number of Words: 1242 / Number of Pages: 5
... but the doctor won't see them because they have no money. Kino
decides to go pearl hunting in an attempt to get some money. He dives and,
after removing some shells, catches a glimpse of something shiny out of the
corner of his eye. He removes the oyster that he saw the gleam from, and
returns to the surface. Inside the oyster he finds a huge pearl that becomes
known as, the Pearl of the World. Almost immediately there after, people try to
steal it. The doctor tries to steal it after giving the baby a medicine to make
it seem ill, however Kino wakes up and chases him away. The next morning ...
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