|
|
|
» Browse English Term Papers
The Joys Of Reading A Novel
Number of Words: 390 / Number of Pages: 2
... which results in the reader beginning to
imagine himself as the character. In some novels, for example, just the details
of the surroundings of the character's location take seven to eight pages to
explain and if the detail is missed, the reader fails to imagine the intended
atmosphere.
The extent to which a novel is studied causes the reader to lose
interest in reading the novel because some interpretations of particular moments
in the novel may not have anything to do relative to the novel. Doing things
like over-emphasizing or over-interpreting causes the reader to become bored
with the c ...
|
|
Concentration Camps
Number of Words: 1365 / Number of Pages: 5
... 37 miles west of Krakow, Poland, Auschwitz was home to both the greatest number of forced laborers and deaths.
The history of the camp began on April 27, 1940 when Heinrich Himmler, the head of the SS and Gestapo, ordered the construction of the camp in north-east Silesia, a region captured by the Nazis in September 1939. The camp was built by three-hundred Jewish prisoners from the local town of Oswiecim and its surrounding area. In June of 1940 the camp opened for Polish political prisoners. By 1941 there were about 11,000 prisoners, most of whom were Polish. From May 1940 to the end of 1943, Rudol ...
|
|
Japanese Aristocrat
Number of Words: 901 / Number of Pages: 4
... can’t see motives that are less noble then is own, “Well, Brutus, though art noble; yet I see thy honorable mettle may be wrought from that it is disposed; therefore it is meet tat noble minds keep ever with their likes; for who so from that cannot be seduced?” Brutus makes two very grave mistakes because of his high principles, he lets Antony live and worse yet he lets him speak at the funeral of Caesar. He doesn’t stir up the emotion that the people were looking for when Antony did. But even though Brutus joined the conspirators he felt so much remorse for what he had done ...
|
|
How Is The Greek Idea Of A Sound Mind And Body Essential For The Successful Characters Of The Odyssey?
Number of Words: 1142 / Number of Pages: 5
... an attempt to stand his ground, in
front of the council he breaks down into tears. Antinoos says “Telemachos you
are a boaster, and you don't know how to keep your temper!”{page 24}. Telemachos
made an attempt to express his valid point of view, and does so, but fails to
convince the council. He breaks down in tears, showing how immature he really is.
He does not have a sound mind. The council basked in this weakness and was even
more critical of him at that point. Later on, he is told of how “(Telemachos),
you speak like a man of sense, you are older than your years, your father is
just the same, you ...
|
|
Short Story Analysis
Number of Words: 579 / Number of Pages: 3
... sure that his customers are satisfied with him. The third main character is Johnnie – son of Scully, who is young and enjoys playing cards. "A tall bronzed cowboy" who is very sympathetic towards Johnnie during the fistfight, is yet another main character. Perhaps the least dominant main character is the Easterner; he is a quiet and soft-spoken person.
The main conflict in the story is the fistfight over a card in which the Swede accuses Johnnie of cheating. The fight ends and the Swede rains as victorious. The second conflict starts when the gambler kills the Swede in the bar. Earlier in th ...
|
|
King Lear
Number of Words: 653 / Number of Pages: 3
... he got punished for it.
As the play progressed, Lear slowly came to clear vision. he realized that that his two eldest daughter did not truly love him after they locked him out of the castle during a tremendous storm. He also finally saw through that Cordelia’s love for him was so tremendous that she was not able to put it in words. Unfortunately, his blindness caused the dearth of Cordelia and his own.
Gloucester was another example of character that suffered from blindness. His blindness prevented him from seeing the goodness of Edgar and the evil of Edmund.
His blindness began when Edmund ...
|
|
The Chrysanthemums
Number of Words: 2608 / Number of Pages: 10
... rain, Elisa and all woman are hopeful for a change in their enclosed lives. Steinbeck foreshadows, "It was a time of quiet and waiting" (396).
The action of the story opens with Elisa Allen working in her garden. She is surrounded by a wire fence, which physically is there to protect her flowers from the farm animals. This barrier symbolizes her life; she is fenced in from the real world, from a man's world. It is a smaller, on-earth version of the environment in which they live. This man's world is dominated by business. As Elisa works on her garden, she looks through the fence out to whe ...
|
|
White Fang
Number of Words: 488 / Number of Pages: 2
... ok and lived the rest of his days in Sierra Valley.
didn't make me feel any special way, books never make me feel a certain way. Otherwise it reminded me of my Dogs (not that are like but the bond we have together.) When Weedon saved made me feel like I'm the same way. Also when protected the Scott's reminded me of how my dogs would probably do the same thing because they are very protective. My dogs are very important to me just like was to Weedon.
The book was very descriptive and it involved dogs and dogfights and cool stuff like that. On the bad side the book was long (25 chapters long) a ...
|
|
Far From The Madding Crowd
Number of Words: 1903 / Number of Pages: 7
... her greatest fault is “what it is always . . . vanity” (p. 56).
Gabriel, although impressed by Bathsheba’s beauty and vivacity, does not immediately begin to court her. He is quite smitten with her from the very beginning of their relationship. Gabriel even goes so far as to repeat her name over and over and is quoted as saying “I’ll make her my wife, or upon my soul I shall be good for nothing” (p. 74.). He proposes marriage to her, but she admits that she does not love Gabriel and, if they tried to make a relationship work without love, he would grow to despise her. Being the amiable fellow that ...
|
|
A Winter Storm
Number of Words: 513 / Number of Pages: 2
... The storm is here. I pull the collar of my coat up a little higher and hunch my shoulders against the wind. Snowflakes begin to fall from the leaden sky, silently, making the air shimmer with their beauty. I try to hurry but the deep snowdrifts beneath my feet and the relentless wind slow my progress.
As I trudge onward the snow begins to fall heavier. It is getting harder to see as the wind whips the snow into a whirling mass of white, stinging as it makes contact with bare skin. I feel the ice crystals freezing onto my eyelashes making it difficult to keep my eyes open. The woolen scarf wou ...
|
|
|
