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Visitors From Oz
<view this essay>.... was a young boy his mother read to him the Oz books, and it was from the Oz books that he learned to read. Not only did he learn to read he learned about a whole new and different place called Oz. Even though Samuel’s mother insisted that the books were fiction, he never gave up believing that they were as real as you and me. Even when he started to grow old, even then he still believed.
One day after Samuel had grown and had become a big time movie producer, he was thinking about his next movie that he was going to produce. He had come to the conclusion that he would base his movie on the book The Emerald City of Oz, since that was his favorite out of all fo .....
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Kadohata's The Story Devils: An Overview
<view this essay>.... of the post World War II period. Within the small community there
lived a woman that had been through a recent divorce, and was raising three
children, Kate, the author, and her brother Sean. Because the mother is having
a problem making ends meet, she begins to go to church and meets the antagonist,
Mr. Mason.
The story is told by the author in the body and mind of an eight year
old. It is a first-person narration and she is playing the part of the
protagonist. The point of view remains constant throughout the story, which
gives you only the viewpoint of the author to get facts from. Although this may
be a possibly unreliable perspective, due t .....
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Hemingway's "For Whom The Bell Tolls": War's Affect On Man And Importance Of Time
<view this essay>.... dying at the end of the
novel he says to Maria "Thou wilt go now, rabbit. But I go for thee. As long
as there is one of us there is both of us. Do you understand?"(p460) We begin
to understand how we as people are never truly alone but instead are always
surrounded by the memories and thoughts of those we love. When two people truly
fall in love they become as one. Where one goes, both go. Robert finally says
to her " The me in thee. Now you go for us both. Truly. We both go in thee
now. This I have promised thee. Stand up. Thou art me now. Thou art all
there will be of me. Stand up." (Pg.462) By saying this Jordan reveals how man
is never an ind .....
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The Crucible - Witch Trials
<view this essay>.... by their sides, eyes slightly downcast, and their mouths were to be shut unless otherwise asked to speak. It is not surprising that the girls would find this type of lifestyle very constricting. To rebel against it, they played pranks, such as dancing in the woods, listening to slaves' magic stories and pretending that other villagers were bewitching them. The Crucible starts after the girls in the village have been caught dancing in the woods. As one of them falls sick, rumors start to fly that there is witchcraft going on in the woods, and that the sick girl is bewitched. Once the girls talk to each other, they become more and more frightened of bein .....
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All Quiet On The Western Front
<view this essay>.... not knowing the fate that lies before them. At first, the group is sent to training. They aren’t in a serious mood, thinking that war conditions aren’t as bad as they really are. When the boys are sent to the front, it is only then when they start to realize how war is not great. This is when the boys are cramped into the trenches. Some of the soldiers were shell-shocked because of the constant bombardment. When one of the boys was wounded, he was taken to a hospital where there were many wounded soldiers. Some soldiers had to have parts of their bodies amputated in order to survive. When Kemmerich was in the hospital, Müller ask for his pair of .....
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Book Report: Bless Me, Ultima
<view this essay>.... man, a carefree rancher on the plains who tends to push his son away from his mother’s protective arms. He is often depressed because he gave up his lifestyle for his wife. His dream in to move to California.
Lupito- A man turned mad by the happenings of the war who kills the sherriff of the town in cold blood. It is his blood that first defiles the river. The memory of his death stays with Tony throughout the novel and causes him to think about the difference between good and evil and forgiveness.
Narciso- An honorable man who tries to protect Ultima from harm. Because of the loss of his young wife, Narciso begins to drink and is known as the town drun .....
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The Catcher In The Rye: Holden
<view this essay>.... media speculated widely about the possible connection. This
gave the book even more notoriety. So what is 'The Catcher In The Rye' actually
about ?
Superficially the story of a young man's expulsion from yet another school, 'The
Catcher In The Rye' is in fact a perceptive study of one individual's
understanding of his human condition. Holden Caulfield, a teenager growing up in
1950s New York, has been expelled school for poor achievement once again. In an
attempt to deal with this he leaves school a few days prior to the end of term,
and goes to New York to 'take a vacation' before returning to his parents'
inevitable wrath.
Told as a monologue, the b .....
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The Outsiders: Character Changes
<view this essay>.... athlete in track.
Pony also thought that his older brother Darry hated him because he was
too strict with him. But when Pony's best friend Johnny died of injury from
the church fire, Pony began to be in denial about Johnny's death. He started to
drop grades and fail classes, He became scatter minded. When he read Johnny's
note to him, he got over it and wrote a book for an English essay, and he found
out that Darry really did love him.
Johnny was a quiet, scared and abandoned teenager, yet when he
was with the gang he felt happiness and forgot all his troubles. But when he
saved the five children from the burning church, for the first time in his life
he .....
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