Papers on Book Reports
Neuromancer By William Gibson
Words: 808 - Pages: 3.... about everywhere in SF. Of course by the time symposia were being held on the subject, writers declared cyberpunk dead, yet the stuff kept being published and it continues to be published today by writers like K. W. Jeter and Rudy Rucker. Perhaps the best and most representative anthology of cyberpunk writers is Mirrorshades., edited by Sterling, the genre's most outspoken advocate. But cyberpunk's status as the revolutionary vanguard was almost immediately challenged. Its narrative techniques, many critics pointed out, were positively reactionary compared to the experimentalism of mid-60s "new wave" SF. One of the main sources of its visio .....
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Jane Eyre: Jane's Love For Rochester
Words: 626 - Pages: 3.... with her, she never would of found happiness.
Jane is attracted to Rochester, even though she does not find him
to be handsome. "...it was not easy to give an impromptu answer to a
question about appearances; that tastes mostly differ; and that beauty is
of little consequence..." After answering no to Rochester's question of
whether or not he was handsome, she goes on to tell him that appearances
mean little or nothing. Jane understands that to have a true and loving
relationship with someone, that both must have not looks, but a similarity
in thought, and a like for the other's personality. Relationship's such as
this are ones of q .....
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Life On Land Compared To Life
Words: 750 - Pages: 3.... wear clean clothes, sleep in his bed, and go to church. She just wants him to be like a normal child of his age. Even though Huck bends the rules a bit, he eventually grows to like living with the widow. He proves this point when he says, "Living in a house, and sleeping in a bed, pulled on me pretty tight, mostly, but before the cold weather I used to slide out and sleep in the woods, sometimes, and so that was a rest to me. I liked the old ways best, but I was getting so I liked the new ones, too, a little bit." (Clemens 1211) Then Huck's father kidnapped him and took Huck to live in a cabin with him. Huck thought that it was f .....
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Lady Audleys Secret
Words: 2396 - Pages: 9.... events to act on the emotions of the audience without regard for character development or logic (Microsoft Encarta). In order to classify as a Victorian melodrama, several key techniques must be used, including proximity and familiarity to the audience, deceit rather than vindictive malice, lack of character development and especially the role of social status.
The sensational novel is usually a tale of our own times. Proximity is indeed one great element of sensation. A tale which aims to electrify the nerves of the reader is never thoroughly effective unless the scene be laid out in our own days and among the people we are in the .....
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Immoral Materialism
Words: 613 - Pages: 3.... Gastby, explains this theme when she says, “Gastby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay” (79). Gatsby Himself later states “She only married you because I was poor…It was a terrible mistake.” (131). These quotes explain Gastby’s belief, that if he becomes rich, he will be able to obtain love from Daisy. This is quite contrary to the ideas of Ben Franklin represented in this quote “Content makes poor men rich; Discontent makes rich men poor”, this quote explains that life itself is the reward, not the things that money can bring to it.
Many wealthy people assume that it .....
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Grapes Of Wrath 3
Words: 7173 - Pages: 27.... point but Tom is too absorbed into his own interest in keeping to himself. Arriving at his house with Jim Casey, Tom visits the abandoned house with one corner having been knocked in by a tractor. His family had been compelled to leave their land through repossession by the large corporations another example in Tom's life how the larger are trying to control the less fortunate. This land had been his family's source of pride and livelihood throughout his life with them and it's loss was the first sizable impact on Tom's conscience that would lead him to an awakening. After visiting the land the Joad family had lived on for many years Tom a .....
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The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn: Huck Finn As The Narrator
Words: 793 - Pages: 3.... Huck is telling Jim about royalty in general which is an example
of humor through language and incomplete education although sometimes he is
not that far from the truth.
"They [royalty] don't do nothing! Why, how you talk! They just set around."
"No; is dat so?"
"Of course it is. They just set around, except, maybe, when there's a war;
then they go to war. But other times they just lazy around; or go hawking—
just hawking…when things is dull, they fuss with the parlyment; and if
everybody don't go just so he whacks their heads off. But mostly they
hang round the harem."
However, by using Huck's language Twain creates character a .....
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The Scarlet Letter: Visions Of A Past Society
Words: 743 - Pages: 3.... of stern-
browed men and unkindly visaged women, Hester Pyrnne set forth towards the
place appointed for her punishment. A crowd of eager and curious
schoolboys, understanding little of the matter in hand except that it gave
them a half-holiday, ran before her progress, turning their heads
continually to stare into her face, and at the wink-ing baby in her arms,
and at the ignominious letter on her breast.
P. 52, 53
As this is happening, all the people see is the crime that Hester
committed, not the person behind it. They do not take into consideration,
that the crime itself, is not as evil as they make it out .....
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The Little Prince: An Analysis
Words: 430 - Pages: 2.... most
likely read or listen to the book and ask, “why?. And look for reasons or
meaning because of their curiosity and ignorance.
There are many instance where an adult might possibly pass possible
significant reflections off as nothing and a young adult would find meaning.
In the desert when the pilot is fixing his plane, there is a time when the
little Prince is about to embark to an unknown well of water. The pilot
sees the Prince wondering off and says, “Where are you going?” The little
Prince replies, “to the well”, with great contentment. An adult might pass
that off as simply just part of the plot. If they would ask, “ .....
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Another Antigone
Words: 515 - Pages: 2.... such as, "Creon wilts, and tries to bang a
U-ee." This sentence does not tell of Creon's attempt to
repent for what he! has done by burrying Polynices and then
going to free Antigone. Even if Sargoff gets all of the plot
across, that is not enough to tell the whole story. Aristotelian
Unities Yes, Antigone does follow the Aristotelian Unities.
The play occurs in the same place and roughly the same
time. Things that happened before the play or outside of the
place, was told by a messenger or a character themself. The
action was all centered around Antigone's actions. Her
actions were the sole cause of everything that happened.
Greek Tr .....
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