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The Reader Essays and Term Papers
The OutsidersINTRODUCTION:
"" by S. E Hinton is an early novel based on two waring juvenile
gangs, divided by economical and social background, the lower East side Greasers
and the upper West side Socs. The novel is set in 1966 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It is
a novel written in first person by a 14 year old Greaser, ...
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Lord Of The Flies - CharacterViewing the Text from a Different Perspective
Many times in novels the elements of setting, mood and tone are used to extend beyond the words in a text and elaborate the reader’s mind into imagining the actual events taking place. In the classic novel, Lord of the Flies, William Golding utilizes ...
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A Freudian Turn Of The ScrewThere is one question about The Turn of the Screw that has never and probably will never be answered to everyone’s total satisfaction. Is it a ghost story or is it a psychiatric case history? The story which for years was presumed by most to just be a mere ghost story has in later years, after ...
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Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn:
The chosen task is number 6- a book reviewed by a newspaper (my own doing).
A unique cooperation between the New- York Times, the most influential newspaper in the world, Mark Twain, one of the most popular novelists ever lived:
Mark Twain’s is a novel about a young boy’s coming of ...
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Iliad By HomerThe essay of Iliad, Homer finds a great tool in the simile. Just by opening the book in a random place the reader is undoubtedly faced with one, or within a few pages. Homer seems to use everyday activities, at least for the audience, his fellow Greeks, in these similes nearly exclusively. From ...
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Crime And PunishmentIn the novel , Dostoevsky portrays the main character, Raskolnikov, in a complex and unique fashion. He could have been portrayed as the good guy, bad guy, or just your average man on the street, but Raskolnikov is displayed with more than one persona. "It would have been much easier for ...
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Young Goodman Brown 4Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown", a story of innoncence betrayed, leaves the reader wondering if Brown made any kind of jounrney at all. Was Brown tired when he left his home and Faith, so much so that maybe he fell asleep in the forest at the begining of his journey? Hawthorne's use ...
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A Rose For Emily By William Fa"A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner is a brilliant story. Faulkner uses great techniques to try to confuse the reader. The story begins at one point; he throws a twist in the middle and brings the reader back to the ending of the story. This is a fantastic story that gives us an insight of a ...
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Maestro By Peter Goldsworthy"And thus while I listened, the future became the present unchallenged; and all too soon the regretted past".
Paul's growth to maturity is the central concern of the novel
To what extent do you agree with this statement? Discuss in relation to the novel's themes and issues.
The central concern of ...
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A Prayer For Owen MeanyPrayer As A Symbol in Irving’s
In John Irving’s there are many prominent symbols. Those of arm-less figures, water, and angels are a few of the more prominent ones but, there are also many symbols that are much more subtle than those few. The most prominent of the subtle symbols is that of ...
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Last Of The Mohicans: Differents Between The Book And MovieThe book Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper was very
different from the movie Last of the Mohicans in terms of the storyline.
However, I feel that the producer and director of this movie did a good job
of preserving Cooper's original vision of the classic American man
surviving in the ...
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One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest: SymbolsKesey's brilliant work in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest is the
by-product of many factors. Kesey uses the setting of the story as his most
powerful weapon in establishing his viewpoints. At first, one might
consider the story to simply be a fine piece of contemporary fiction, but
in reality it ...
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D.h. LawrenceAn English novelist and poet, was born September 11, 1885, in Nottingham, England. He was the son of a coal miner and a school teacher. His mother, the school teacher, was socially superior. She constantly tried to alienate her children from their father. The difference in social status between ...
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Malory’s Le Morte D’Arthur: Myths And LegendsIn Malory’s Le Morte D’Arthur both myth and legend are encompassed. As stated, a legend is a story passed down throughout the years that is not regarded as historically true, but is usually based on some facts. This story is a myth because of the supernatural occurrences which take place.
“Let us ...
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Edgar Allen Poe's: "The Murders In The Rue Morgue"In Edgar Allen Poe's short story, "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", a
classic detective story is played out in a seedy Paris suburb. The story begins
as the narrator meets Monsieur C. Auguste Dupin, a poor but well-read young man.
As they become close friends, they live together in seclusion, ...
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Cynthia Ozickwas an American short story writer, novelist, essayist, poet, and translator. She considers herself an American Jewish writer. was a writer of fiction and non-fiction, but did not bloom her career until she was 32 years old. Her literary hero was Henry James. After finished graduate school, ...
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Native Son“Do you believe in fate Neo,” Morpheus asks. “No,” Neo responds. “Why not?” “Because I don’t like the idea that I’m not in control of my life,” Neo explains. In this scene (from the blockbuster smash hit The Matrix) a parallel can be drawn between Neo and Bigger Thomas (the protagonist in ...
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NetiquetteAs we enter the age of computer technology, more and more people are relying on the computer for communication. The main medium of computer communication is e-mail. When using e-mail there are some basic unwritten rules that one should follow. E-mail protocol, better known as , is the list of ...
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Tennessee William's A Streetcar Named DesireTennessee Williams shatters society’s facade of women in his plays, “A Streetcar Named Desire”and “Sweet Birds of Youth”. In both plays, Williams develops his characters to show the reader that women are not always able to live up to the stereotypes and standards that society creates. He ...
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Where Should The Line Be Drawn??
“As soon as men decide that all
means are permitted to fight an
evil, then their good becomes
indistinguishable from the evil they
set out to destroy”--Christopher Dawson ...
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