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Gulliver's Travels
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 769.... when Gulliver finds
himself lost in a world one-twelfth the size of his own, he proves himself to be
quite naive and impressionable. Although he is simply too large to perceive
them in detail, Gulliver judges the country's inhabitants he meets to be as
perfect and innocent as their toylike appearances. He refers to the Lilliputian
emperor, a being not even six inches high, as “His Imperial Majesty” and blindly
agrees to perform any demanded service, even though he could easily overpower
the tiny nation. It is only after his services have been exploited and himself
banishe .....
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Huck Finn
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1206.... the two women have in store for him. The freedom Huck seeks in Tom Sawyer's gang is nothing more than romantic child's-play. Raiding a caravan of Arabs really means terrorizing young children on a Sunday School picnic, and the stolen "julery"(12) is nothing more than turnips or rocks. Huck is disappointed that the adventures Tom promises are not real and so, along with the other members, he quits the gang. Still, Huck ignorantly assumes that Tom is superior to him because of his more suitable family background and fascination with Romantic literature. Pap and "the kidnappin .....
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The Catcher In The Rye: Holden's View Of The World
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 991.... yet, much to Holden's despair "seldom
yields any occasions of peace, charity or even genuine merriment. "Holden
is surrounded by what he views as drunks, perverts, morons and screwballs.
These convictions which Holden holds waver very momentarily during only one
particular scene in the book. The scene is that with Mr. Antolini. After Mr.
Antolini patted Holden on the head while he was sleeping, Holden jumped up
and ran out thinking that Mr. Antolini was a pervert as well. This is the
only time during the novel where Holden thinks twice about considering
someone as a pervert .....
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THE BOGART
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 820.... mortals. Boggarts cannot be seen or heard..
The Volink family sold the castle right away because it would be to expensive to keep. Emily and Jessup kept two pieces of furniture to bring home. What they didn’t realize was that a Boggart was sleeping in the desk they took home. When the Boggart got up he realized he was no longer home in Scotland in his castle.
As the Boggart got comfortable he began his practical jokes in Toronto. He would take Mr. Volinks razor and hide it. The Boggart would hide the razor in such a place that Mrs. Volink would find it; making Mr. Volink .....
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Invisible Man
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 378.... Mary's cast-iron coin bank is of what black people stand for to white people. The coin bank made the narrator angry, because it was symbolic of blacks, being slaves to white people, and how some white people though of black people as entertainment, and were not actually people but where just animals. 4. I believe that the narrator was unnamed for two reasons. One being that most of the novel was a flash back to things that had happened and he was explaining about himself, and we didn't need to know his name since we knew so much about him. Secondly because of the title of .....
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The Power And The Glory
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1241.... can set the mood of the scene. Setting, can also make the reader feel a certain way. Some of the scenes in “The Power and the Glory” evoke certain feelings in the reader. In the scene when the whiskey priest was put the crowded jail, for having liquor on him, Greene makes the scene so horrible that you can’t help but feel sorry for the priest. As Kenneth Allott said, “The crowded unseen figures in the dark seem like shapes from a Dore hell.”(182). In the scenes when the priest is traveling from town to town, the setting is very rough. Through dense forests and complete da .....
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The Characteristics Of Mrs.dic
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 643.... That makes her to be a independent person. After the death of her husband, she has no help in anyway. She tend take care of the family by herself. Financially, she has to go out and work, she has two jobs which will earn her money to live. "She helped a friend with a little hat shop......bred puppies for sale". Emotionally, she is independent. Her son, Frederick, is the only one lives with her. She hasn’t marry any other man in five years after the death of her husband. "It was five years since her tragedy and she had not married." (P112) She also try to raise her son by .....
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To Kill A Mockingbird: Trading Places With Atticus Finch
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 385.... citizen's political views, or if the average
citizen even had one. It would also be fun to see what "technology" there
was, although there was probably not much. Lastly I would enjoy seeing how
people dealt with the low standard of living.
There are many differences between him and me. One is that I have
never been persecuted. He was every day. That would not be fun. People
wanted to kill him, which wouldn't be fun either.
The other main difference was that he lives during a whole different
time and place. The era of today is a lot nicer, materially, than ba .....
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