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Ring World
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 280.... because of particular qualities: Nessus for his insanity, Louis Wu because he has survived an adventurous life for 200 years, Teela Brown because of her luck, and Speaker-to-Animals because of his combination of strength, ferocity, and relative reasonableness.
The story begins with Nessus (an insane puppeteer) gathering his crew together, Louis Wu is taken from a transport Nessus has manipulated, Speaker-to-Animals by Nessus insulting his friends in the worst possible way. Nessus meets Teela Brown, but it takes her some time to agree to come along. The price they are being .....
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Ancient Mariner
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 633.... towards forgiveness - "Water, water, everywhere nor any drop to drink." When "the mariner begins to find his salvation when he begins to look on the 'slimy things' as creatures of strange beauty" (Fraser 203), he understands the Albatross was a symbol of nature and he realized what he had done wrong. The mariner is forgiven after sufficient penance - "We could not speak" - is performed by Nature. Nature shows us more strength as we realize that people of today often can not forgive someone who has shot or killed another person.
At a spiritual level, Nature's power can decide .....
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Obasan: Book Review
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 741.... of Naomis Aunt Emily to ensure that her family would be together in whatever place they were sent to. Aunt Emily wanted to head east to Toronto, but was unable to get the documentation for the entire family which included her sister children, who she was taking care of. The novel discuses the camps that the Japanese families were sent to in Hastings Park during the war. It described the treatment the families received while there, including the lack of food and the smell of manure. Naomi during this time was being sexually molested by her next door neighbor and did .....
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Macbeth
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1210.... the King of Scotland. was a very greedy and thoughtless person.
In a way, could be classified as jealous. He was obviously a bit jealous of Duncan because Duncan had everything, including happiness. Duncan was the King and was not. This could cause a lot of jealousy. had desires and wishes but they were unattainable with Duncan around.
In the end of the story everyone loses respect for and realizes that he was the one who killed Duncan. was killed. This seems like a high price to pay just to be King. The strange thing is that was filled with extreme guilt and .....
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George Orwells 1984 2
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 602.... in the way he acted he wasn’t overly strong or courageous like the typical stereotype we have a hero to look like . Nick was more of a modern day hero in his own right .
Gatsby on the other hand although not a hero in the sense of a physically strong man who saves the lives of distressed people . But he is a hero more in the sense that he is totally devoted to one woman most of his life . Then when it looks as if she is going to get into trouble for the death of Mrytle after she hit her with Gatsby’s car Gatsby heroicly comes in and hides the car and destroys th .....
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Silas Manner
Number of pages: 7 | Number of words: 1679.... in the story but was being taken advantage of by his brother and failed his girlfriend by marrying Molly a poor barmaid who was addicted to d rugs .Eliot describes their marriage as " an ugly story of low passion delusion and waking from delusion, which needs not to be dragged from the privacy of Godfrey's bitter memory."(33). The marriage was one that Godfrey did not think much about before acting on his impulse. His brother Dunstan had trapped Godfrey in a position where Dunstan could blackmail him Dunstan saw the marriage as a way "of gratifying at once his jealous hate and .....
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Fahrenheit 451: Similarities To Today's World
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 469.... 19).
The toaster in the Montag;s house, it did all the work. “Toast popped out of the silver toaster, was seized by a spidery metal hand that drenched it with melted butter. Mildred watched the toast delieered to her plate.” (Bradbury 18).
The mechanical hound in the firehouse worked as a sercurity system only better. It was a device of terror, a machine whose perverse similarity to a trained killer-dog. It was improves by a refined technology that allows it to inexorably track down and capture criminals by stunnning them with a tranquilizer. This hound would be very u .....
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The X-Files, X Marks The Spot: Book Report
Number of pages: 1 | Number of words: 265.... was suspense as soon as I got into
the second chapter. I didn't want to put the book down. I sometimes have
trouble trying to find a book that's actually interesting, but I didn't
have any trouble with this book. I got through the whole book fast, I was
always reading it in study hall, and trying to get as far as I could in
readers workshop.
It was easy to understand. I've read a lot of science fiction books that
are very complicated. Some books have too many characters to remember, or
they have something that is really weird or unrealistic. Some science
fiction books ge .....
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