Papers on Book Reports
Sandra Street: Home
Words: 675 - Pages: 3.... to appreciate Sandra Street and sees the finer aspects of it after talking to his teacher, Mr. Blades, who tells him to open his eyes and be more aware of the good things in Sandra Street. Steve then goes on a walk with his teacher and realizes the significance of his home. Steve recognizes the finer aspects of his neighborhood and sees beautiful features that he had never notices before. By the end of the story, it did not matter what others said about his neighborhood because he was proud of living on Sandra Street.
In the story "Sánchez" written by Richard Dokey, home is seen as a emotional place where people are happy. The story is .....
Download This Paper
|
The Black Box: Symbolic Of Death And Faded Traditions
Words: 574 - Pages: 3.... sometimes one place, sometimes another; it had spent one year in Mr. Grave’s barn and another year underfoot in the post office, and sometimes it was set on a shelf in the Martin grocery and left there.” Death is not something that people deal with everyday. Human beings deal with death very similar to the way that the towns people stored the black box. People place their experiences with death in different rooms and shelves of their hearts.
The black box also symbolizes the need for a new tradition and the reluctance of the townspeople to accept change. The black box is a symbol of the lottery itself. The physical appearance of .....
Download This Paper
|
A Tale Of Two Cities: Love Or Hate
Words: 985 - Pages: 4.... attempts to stop her.
“It was vain for Madame Defage to struggle and
strike; Miss Pross, with vigorous tenacity of love,
always so much stronger than hate, clasped her
tight and lifted her from the floor in the struggle
that they had.” Pg. 397
This shows in very simple terms what Dickens is trying to show us. That love is always stronger than hate. Miss Pross wins the fight after Madame Defage pulls out a gun, and somehow the gun goes off killing Defage. Pross who loves Lucie dearly and is always helping her in anyway possible. “ …and she softly laid the patient on a sofa, and tended her with great skill and gentleness: call .....
Download This Paper
|
Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Words: 998 - Pages: 4.... rewarding, and that he must strive to become a real individual. Although
this is true to a certain extent, Bernard does not realize that he would
much rather attain social recognition. At least, not until the opportunity
presents itself. Thus, through a series of events, Bernard uses the
curiosity of the society to his advantage, fulfilling his subconscious wish
of becoming someone important; a recognized name in the jumble of society.
This ends when the curiosity of others ends, and as a supreme result of his
arrogant behaviour, he is exiled.
The instigator of this curiosity as well as the author of Bernard's
fame (and folly), is .....
Download This Paper
|
Jack London Stories, The Red O
Words: 692 - Pages: 3.... perceives the story-taking place with them included in the action. His ability to exclude just the very miniscule amount of information transforms his books into a semi-formal mystery. Mr. London’s tales deal with nature, the men and women who either neglected the fact that they are mere mortals, or they humbled themselves as being only a solitary one being on the earth. His stories satisfied the civilized American readers yearn for knowledge of what awaited them over the horizon, with either promise of prosperity or demise with a manifestation of dismay.
Jack’s stories have to do with as much from the unknown as it does in de .....
Download This Paper
|
Summary Of Joyce's "A Portrait Of An Artists As A Young Man"
Words: 2018 - Pages: 8.... and its leaders to unite as a people and
causes Stephen to leave it behind.
From the beginning of the novel, "family" plays a central part in his
growth, symbolizing many different things throughout his life. The first
section of the novel sets the stage for the rest of his life. Stephen
feels he should be the center of his family's universe, or the "baby
tuckoo". His family symbolizes the oppression that Stephen encounters
throughout his life. "Apologise, pull out his eyes, pull out his eyes,
apologise (Joyce 4)." Later the reader finds that this symbolizes how his
family will not accept his spontaneous outbursts, especially in .....
Download This Paper
|
The Pardoner
Words: 446 - Pages: 2.... a hundred marks a year in private income. He makes no qualms over the fact that his sermons are hypocritical and the result of his evil intentions. Though he may be equally guilty of sin, he can still make others repent. His only concern is that, realizing their sinfulness; they give him money to benefit from his pardons. All the money he gets he seems to regard as his own, he does not care if he takes from very poor people, so that their children starve, so long as he can enjoy himself. tells the tale of three young men drinking at an inn. After a coffin passes by the inn, the three learn that the dead person was a friend of theirs, killed .....
Download This Paper
|
The Crucible: John Proctor
Words: 979 - Pages: 4.... adulterer and that they did not have an affair. 2 when John is reciting the Ten Commandments. 3 where John tells Elizabeth that he are going to confess.
In the beginning of the play John Proctor is introduced as a farmer in his mid thirties, that is not a partisan of the town, and shows a very strong sense of self-preservation. The first real conversation he has with another character is with Abigail Williams, where Abigail is trying to make John tell her that loves her, and that he will come again for her. John tells Abby that their affair is over with and Abby begins to plead for John’s love and he says “Abby I may think softly of yo .....
Download This Paper
|
The Scarlet Letter: Sin
Words: 552 - Pages: 3.... Chillingsworth far outdid the
sin of Dimmesdale or Hester Prynne, for Chillingsworth's sin was one of
revengeand one of secrecy. He was not driven by an anger at his ownsin, but
by the sin of others. He used deception andmanipulation to make the life of
another miserable. He wasnot flung from society's view as if he were a
dirty secretlike Hester was; he was embraced by it. However, his sin
didtake it's toll. He was disfigured horribly and became atwisted man,
scarred by sin. He also was robbed of thepleasure of destroying Dimmesdale
which was his reason forliving. He died shortly after Dimmesdale.
Hester Prynne, however, was the compl .....
Download This Paper
|
Silent Spring: Abuse Of Pesticides
Words: 522 - Pages: 2.... our fields were growing more deadly.
The chemical plants that made the pesticides were also to blame. They though they were dumping harmless chemicals into our water supply. The relatively inert compounds when combined with other forms in the environment formed deadly compounds. In Silent Spring, Rachel talks about one case where the chemicals were caught in a storm drain, when they were flushed out, they mixed together and went into nearby streams, and contaminated the nearby lake and killed all the fish for 8 miles downstream. The government just didn’t have the research to realize that harmless chemicals when combined with .....
Download This Paper
|
Navigate:
« prev
26
27
28
29
30
next »
|
|
Members |
|
|
|