|
» Book Reports Essays and Papers
Different Changes In Different Characters Of Lord Of The Flies
<view this essay>.... of his
peers. He had a fair nature as he was willing to listen to Piggy. He
became increasingly dependent on Piggy's wisdom and became lost in the
confusion around him. Towards the end of the story his rejection from their
society of savage boys forced him to fend for himself. Piggy was an
educated boy who had grown up as an outcast. Due to his academic childhood,
he was more mature than the others and retained his civilized behaviour.
But his experiences on the island gave him a more realistic understanding
of the cruelty possessed by some people. The ordeals of the three boys on
the island made them more aware of the evil inside themselves and in some .....
Number of words: 2305 | Number of pages: 9 |
|
Romanticism’ In Jude The Obscure
<view this essay>.... so he practically had two careers: one as a novelist, another as a poet. Hardy's poetry is an interesting blend of perfect, rhymed stanza structures and hard, blunt, modern ideas.
The aim of my research work is to identify Hardy’s a vision, which becomes increasingly darker in his novel, Jude included.
Irving Howe, describe Jude in the following terms: Jude the Obscure is Hardy's most distinctly 'modern' work, for it rests upon a cluster of assumptions central to modernist literature: that in our time men wishing to be more than dumb clods must live in permanent doubt and intellectual crisis; that for such men, to whom traditional beliefs are no longer ava .....
Number of words: 2210 | Number of pages: 9 |
|
Orwell's Animal Farm: Summary Of Characters
<view this essay>.... always causing problems for
Napoleon. In Soviet history, Snowball is like Trotsky, who is Stalin's
rival. Snowball and Trotsky are always trying to get the animals and
people to understand that what the leader is doing is not best for them.
In both cases, Stalin and Napoleon get tired of the competition and run
them off by turning the animals and people against them.
Boxer is a cart horse who works night and day on the windmill and
for Napoleon's cause. When he hurts his hoof and is unable to work,
Napoleon is uncaring and sends him off to the slaughterhouse since he is of
no further use. Some of the animals come to realize what is happening and
are mad .....
Number of words: 403 | Number of pages: 2 |
|
A Clockwork Orange
<view this essay>.... He was sent to live in a Juvenile Facility where he had to endure a strange torture of being forced to watch horrific movies. When Alex gets home, all the people that had done him wrong had their revenge on a weak, recuperating Alex. I'll let you find out what happened at the end =). "" is a cult classic. It was Stanley Kubrick's 2nd Critically acclaimed film (the first being "Spartacus"). I was first interested in the book by Anthony Burgess (which in my opinion, is equally as good as the movie).
"" contains only a few of the element that can make a good film. One of them is the makeup. Alex and his gang (droogs) all where a makeup when they go out a .....
Number of words: 1207 | Number of pages: 5 |
|
Fahrenheit 451a Brief Overview
<view this essay>.... thinking and demands conformity. Clarisse opens his mind to new concepts and from then on he begins to perceive the world differently.
One day, Guy and the other firemen have to burn down the book-infested house of an elderly lady who refuses to leave her house and her books, so she burns to the ground with her books making Guy realize that “There must be something in books, things we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there.” (p.51) Guy sneaks two books from the lady’s home and as the time goes by, he secretly reads many books until his wife discovers his secret and turns him in. After th .....
Number of words: 927 | Number of pages: 4 |
|
Joshua And The Children
<view this essay>.... become adults. This new generation will then bring happiness to the world. Joshua knows that these children were victims of their parents’ wrongdoings. He knows that they were born into a society filled with hate. Hate for members of a different race. Hate without reasoning. He feels it is wrong what the adults are doing to the children. They are being brought up to believe that it is OK to mistreat somebody who is "different" from you. This is why Joshua felt he should teach the children, and not the adults.
Once Joshua started to communicate with the children, and got to know them better the adults were amazed at how Joshua related to the chil .....
Number of words: 505 | Number of pages: 2 |
|
Miltons Paradise Lost
<view this essay>.... spouse. American Beauty's Lester Burnham, on the surface, seems to have it all. In reality he is rapidly beginning to realize that his lifestyle has left him without a soul. Burnham is an advertising writer who finds his job unbearable, his wife frigid, his teenage daughter a stranger, his life in general intolerable. While masturbating in the shower one morning, Lester declares this event to be as good as it gets all day.
So he takes a fall. Lester Burnham complicates his life further when he becomes infatuated with his daughter's best friend. After seeing this young girl at a basketball game, Lester succumbs to his delusion of a new and improved lif .....
Number of words: 853 | Number of pages: 4 |
|
Wuthering Heights: Heathcliff's Love For Catherine
<view this essay>.... Heights, he flogged Heathcliff like a slave. Although Heathcliff could have simply run away, his decision to endure the physical pains shows his unrelenting devotion to Catherine. Fortunately, Catherine feels as deeply for Heathcliff as he does for her, explaining to Nelly that "Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same…" Their love for each other is so passionate that they can not possibly live apart. At Catherine's death, Heathcliff hopes that she will not rest, but will haunt him until he dies. This absurdity contradicts the traditional norm that one should pray that the dead rest in peace. Near the end of the novel, we learn that Catherin .....
Number of words: 1028 | Number of pages: 4 |
|
|