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Life On The Farm
Number of pages: 16 | Number of words: 4394.... Napoleon and Snowball. Napoleon is big, and although he is not a good speaker, he can assert himself. Snowball is a better speaker; he has a lot of ideas and is very vivid. Together with another pig called Squealer, who is a very good speaker, they work out the theory of “Animalism.”
The rebellion starts some months later, when Mr. Jones comes home drunken one night, and forgets to feed the animals. They break out of the barns and run to the house, where the food is stored. When Mr. Jones recognizes this he takes out his shotgun, but it is too late f .....
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Hawaii By James Michener
Number of pages: 16 | Number of words: 4310.... a great deal to the islands and their people.
Since Hawaii covers such a huge time span, there are a great many plots
and sub-plots, all of which show the different situations that each of the
many "types" of Hawaiians are confronted with. Michener uses mostly
specific, fictional details to support the general ideas of the islands and
their various people, that he conveys through Hawaii. I will go into more
detail about the plot in the "Documentation" section.
Michener's Hawaii is a superb example of a great work of literature. He
paints vivid literal pictures of v .....
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A Tale Of Two Cities: Characters Are "Recalled To Life"
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 464.... is given another chance at life ,
and therefore was "recalled to life."
The last and most significant instance of someone being "recalled
to life" is found in the last chapters of this book. Sydney Carton has
recently switched places with his look alike, Darnay, and is awaiting the
guillotine. While Sydney awaits his death he thinks, "It is a far, far
better thing that I do, then I have ever done, it is a far, far better rest
that I go to than I have ever known." Through these words Sydney
recognizes that by sacrificing his life for Darnay, a loved one of Lucie,
he w .....
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The Glass Menagerie: Amanda Wingfield Is Annoying
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 380.... Amanda seemed to want her daughter Laura to have as many
gentlemen callers as she had when she was a young woman. She kept talking
about having 17 gentlemen callers at one time. How she would set each one
and talk to each one about the important issues of life.
Amanda wants to know what each one of her children are doing each
minute of the day, in scene III, where Tom and Amanda are having
dissolutions about his books, and he can not have certain things kept in
her house; not realizing it was he who was paying the rent, and she wanted
to keep him under her shirttail .....
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Subject: Giovanni & Lusanna-by Gene Brucker
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 591.... to marry her in a public
wedding because his social status would be greatly hurt to marry some one
in the working class of Florence. This is another example of why today¦s
society is so much different from how it was when they lived. Another
strange thing about their society is the open humiliation that people were
subjected to. It was said that Lusanna first husband was called a ¦cuckold
¦ to his face. People who were said to earn money in a dirty fashion often
had blood or paint thrown on their steps. These kinds of things are just
not normal or permitted in today¦s wor .....
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Comparison: Journey To The Center Of The Earth & The Time Machine
Number of pages: 7 | Number of words: 1656.... Center of the Earth uses the plot "The Choice." Professor Hardwigg found a parchment by Arne Saknussemm that tells how to get to the center of the Earth. The professor couldn't resist an adventure and chose to go on it. The Time Machine uses the plot "The Understanding." The Time Traveler had built a time machine and went into the future. The sensation he felt when he traveled he could not describe. The kinds of conflict are different. Journey to the Center of the Earth uses the conflict Man Vs Nature. The travelers have to over come the dangers of the journey. They have to .....
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The Scarlet Letter: A Review
Number of pages: 8 | Number of words: 2198.... one person that turns a
story into a classic; the same should be said of literature. Rosenblat
said the same idea better than I: "Keeping the live process of the
literary experience before us, I shall attempt to look more deeply into the
nature of the literary experience, and to explore implications for problems
of literary theory. . ." I think that Rosenblat would agree with me that
it might not be literature in my own sense, but on the larger scale,
literature it is.
II. At the beginning of the second semester, each individual in our
English class with Dr. Taylor wr .....
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To Kill A Mockingbird: Scout's Development
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 377.... for
marksmanship, and does not go hunting because he thinks it gives him an unfair
advantage over other living things.
The main event of the novel is a trial, in which Atticus is the defendant's
lawyer, against a black man who has been falsely accused of raping a white
woman. Atticus does his best to prove Tom Robinson's innocence, to a degree
where any objective jury would surely have found him not guilty, but it
sentences him to death, as it is expected to do by the general populace. Prior
to the trial, Scout and Jem are mocked by other children at school, which have
b .....
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