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Book Reports · 600 words
- The Call of the Wild by Jack London shows the effect that the environment can have on ones reactions. The main character is a dog named Buck who changes through the course of the novel in reaction to his environment. The harshness of the climate and the weather contribute to Buck's...
Book Reports · 585 words
- In the story "The Ones Who Walked Away From Omelas" Ursula Le Guin used a child as a psychomyth. The use of a child is a very potent choice because of a child's innocence, and how we value it as adults. This scapegoat is being used not just to keep the town good and pure, but, more symbolically...
Book Reports · 2,676 words
- In an attempt to challenge societal values, youth cultures, in the form
of rebellion, act and dress radically and form groups in protest. These
dissident actions against the structure of existing society promotes the
beginning of new small groups which reflect their own rules, structures,
class,...
Book Reports · 283 words
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Every now and then I have to write down everything we discussed in order to figure out exactly what we said. Last Friday we listed several people, places, and symbols that contributed to the theme of materialism in The Great Gatsby. Here is what we...
Book Reports · 1,380 words
- In the past, critics have ad moralized and/or brutalized every writer they could get their pen on. This is seen from criticisms of Henry Adams to William Butler Yeats. These writers critique everything about the writer and his/her works. For instance many critics criticize Willa Cather's novel,...
Book Reports · 581 words
- Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God shows the life of Janie, a black woman at the turn of the century. Janie is raised by her Grandmother and spends her life traveling with different men until she finally comes home. Robert E. Hemenway says about the book, ?Their Eyes Were Watching...
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- was fact. Upton Sinclair visited Chicago in November 1904 to do
research for the book. Sinclair lived in a neighborhood called
Packingtown for seven weeks. While in Packingtown, Sinclair
interviewed workers, lawyers, doctors, saloonkeepers, and social workers.
The book deals with the greed and...
Book Reports · 1,048 words
- In Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, life is centered around
a rigid Puritan society in which one is unable to divulge his or her
innermost thoughts and secrets. Every human being needs the opportunity to
express how he or she truly feels, otherwise the emotions are bottled up
until they...
Book Reports · 138 words
- George Orwell uses a vast array of symbols in his epic novel Nineteen Eighty Four to develop the major themes and to convey them to the readers. The symbols that are used in the novel are Big Brother, Paperweight, St' Clements Church, Telescreens, The place where there is no darkness, The singing...
Book Reports · 612 words
- UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO PARAN' Curitiba, 8 de outubro de 1996 Curso: Letras -
Ingl's / Noturno Disciplina: Literatura Norte Americana I Aluno: Anderson Jos'
Nogueira
TASK: To write a summary theme of Poe's "The Cask Of
Amontillado"
One of the main themes of Edgar Allan Poe's The Cask...
Book Reports · 1,133 words
- A Deeper Look into Sexuality of Steinbeck's "The Chrysanthemums" and its
Reading over this excellent story once more, I am again filled with
the same emotion (if it can be called that) that I experienced when first
reading it. Steinbeck planned for that. In a letter to George Albee in
1933,...
Book Reports · 1,430 words
- In "Macbeth" William Shakespeare employs his skills in imagery and symbolism. The landscape of "Macbeth" reveals the contours of the title character's psychological turmoil. Churning with self-doubt about his determination, his ability to connect word and act, and his sexual potency, Macbeth is a...
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- Ik ga mijn presentatie houden over Hersenschimmen van Bernlef en Gewiste Sporen van Annelies Nolet. Van deze boeken zal ik het thema, Dementie, vergelijken. Ik heb mijn vergelijking in drie onderdelen verdeeld. Ten eerste Hoe komt de dementie tot uiting in het boek en ook zal ik kijken hoe de...
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- Women in literature are often portrayed in a position that is dominated by men, especially in the nineteenth century, women were repressed and controlled by their husbands as well as other male influences. In "The Yellow Wall-Paper," by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the narrator is oppressed and...
Book Reports · 230 words
- ANIMAL FARM
George Orwell's novel 'Animal Farm' is a satire of the Russian revolution in which Orwell positions his audience to see the revolution as a failure
'Animal Farm' can be viewed as an allegory using animals on a farm to illustrate the corrupt leadership of Russia's new government after...
