Book Report: Raptor Red
.... These animals must learn of all
the dangers of the new land without being killed. Unfortunately Raptor
Reds mate is crushed by a 20 ton herbivore which they were hunting. Now
she is all alone. Raptor Red uses her brain, which is very capable of
learning, to solve problems by means of using things she knows and
applying them to things she does not know. Then all the information she
gathers is stored forever in her memory sorted by separate thoughts. Like a
tree diagram.
Utahraptors are so smart that t .....
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Comparison Between Brave New World And Fahrenheit 451
.... discarded. Unlike Bradbury,
Huxley includes in his book a group of people unaffected by the changes in
society, a group that still has religious beliefs and marriage, things no
longer part of the changed society, to compare and contrast today's culture
with his proposed futuristic culture.
But one theme that both Brave New World and Fahrenheit 451 use in
common is the theme of individual discovery by refusing to accept a passive
approach to life, and refusing to conform. In addition, the refusal .....
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Ray Bradbury's Dandelion Wine
.... life and death, heaven and hell, and the past
and the future.
The themes of life and death become entwined with raw fantasy in
Dandelion Wine. One of the first experiences of young Douglas Spaulding is
to realize that the pure, unbridled energy, emotion, and fantasy of the
summer make him truly alive. (Bradford 69) The pure, unadulterated fantasy
of life and joy in Dandelion Wine gives a more than magical feeling to the
book and leaves the reader wishing that he or she lived in this world.
(Bradford 69) O .....
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Ray Bradbury's The Martial Chronicals
.... time to writing. His first story,
published in 1940 by Script magazine, was "It's Not the Heat, It's the
Hu" and established Bradbury's popular theme of social irritation. By 1942,
Bradbury was able to earn enough money writing that he could give up his
job selling newspapers and devote all of his time to what he loved.
(Candee 88)
As some critics would agree, the term "science-fiction" does not
apply to Bradbury's work. Most of his stories are more along the lines of
fantasy with an intense u .....
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The Red Badge Of Courage: Fear
.... regiment who is called
the loud soldier. When he is in the tent talking to Henry and conklin he
talks about how he will not run and take on the whole army on by himself.
When he is in the first battle he tries to run but is caught by an officer
and made to go back and fight. His attitude changed from being confident
to being scard of fighting.
Jim conklin is also a soldier in the 304th regiment who talks with
Henry and tom. When Conklin was talking to Henry and Wilson about how they
felt about fi .....
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Crabbe And The Dead Poets Society: Relationships
.... first to suggest the dead poet's society.
Neil was very smart in school but probably knew very little about the
outside world, also like Crabbe. One of the most important things Crabbe
and Neil shared was “Actions speak louder than words” or “Seize the day”.
When Neil secretly started going down to the theater for auditions he was
trying to make his life worth-while and do something that he enjoyed. His
father then came back from out of town to force Neil to quit acting. He
told Neil that he was to become .....
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Lord Of The Flies: The Theme Of Religious Persecution
.... much the
same way Adam and Eve left a scar in the Garden of Eden. Another religious
element Golding uses is in the title of the book. ‘Lord of the Flies'
translates into ‘Beelzebub' in Greek - a name for the Devil. This suggests
the entire book is about the epitome of religious evil - the Devil himself.
A final religious element is well hidden. The "stick sharpened at both
ends" exists not only in Golding's description of the killing of the sow,
but also in the Bible in the story of David and Goliath. .....
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A Separate Peace: The Internal Constant
.... place and so I did not.(so
here I am telling this to my English teacher...). Gene and Finny entered a
large gymnasium and discovered a few pole vaults. Finny abruptly picked
one up, ran, and pole vaulted, breaking the school record. He then told
Gene never to tell anyone about Finny breaking the record. Both of these
instances are incredibly alike. Finally, Finny was symbolicly killed
because of society. Finny was wounded and wound up in a cast. He
eventually died after he had seen what society reall .....
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Religion And Its Effect On Stephen Dedalus
.... little schemer. I see schemer in your face," exemplify the type
of attitude Stephen begins to associate with his Catholic teachers. By the
end of Chapter One, Stephen's individualism and lack of tolerance for
disrespect become evident when he complains to the rector about the actions
of Father Dolan. His confused attitude is clearly displayed by the end of
the chapter when he says, "He was happy and free: but he would not be
anyway proud with Father Dolan. He would be very kind and obedient: and he
wish .....
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Summary Of Pike's "Remember Me"
.... only to find out that their beloved daughter is dead.
She finds an old friend, that died a while back, and he helps her. She
wishes to seek the one who terminated her existence. The place that she
goes is to earth, yet it is different than the earth mortals know so
different that it is indescribable, by all except the writer, who
definitely knows how to write. If I gave away the ending it would be
devastating to those who have not read it. Even when I have told a short
summery of the story, for those .....
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Resurrection In A Tale Of Two Cities
.... He has been traveling back and forth between
France and England and is thought to be a spy. The people in the crowd are
sure that he will be found guilty, the punishment for this crime being
death. Darnay is saved by the ingeniousness of Sydney Carton, and he too
is suddenly resurrected or "recalled to life".
In both "Book the Second" and "Book the Third," the reader gets
different perspectives of the resurrection theme. Jerry Cruncher is a
body-snatcher and he refers to his late night activities as .....
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O'Grady's Return With Honor: Summary
.... “ this is to certify that Scott
O'Grady has navigated the air ways and flown up to Santa Catalina's unique
Airport in the sky, which overlooks the ocean from an altitude of 1602
feet.” By the time he was in the eighth grade he became fixated on the
idea he was going to be a pilot In high school he was a kicker on the Long
Beach Gators, which was his high school football team. He began as a
second string player but a good friend, who was a professional kicker,
helped him to improve. This along with his s .....
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An Analysis Of Irving's "Rip Van Winkle" And "The Devil And Tom Walker
.... story. In both of the stories you get
the feeling of something supernatural is going to happen. Also in both they
take place in remote areas.
Next we have the husband wife relationship in both cases. Now Rip
was sort of a say nothing do nothing when it came to his house and wife.
His wife would bad mouth him and yell at him, but Rip wouldn't do much
anyway. He would just go off and sleep. Now Tom and his wife on the other
hand would battle to the death. Tom would yell and scream and so would his
wife. .....
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The Chrysalids: The Importance Of Telepathy
.... runaway to the fringes, and they established some kind of contact with a
woman from Sealant (Zealand, On page 134). The help that the sealant woman
promised is on their way to the fringes. The plot is greatly influenced,
David learns more things as the time goes on. He discovers who is the
Spiderman(Gordon) and where is Sophie. He meets them and learn what it is
like to live in the fringes. When the sealant woman rescues David,
Rosalind and Petra they are brought to a big, developed city like the .....
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Robinson Crusoe
.... on this
abandoned land. His main concern is survival. He has no idea how to use
tools, but from his own determination to live, he learns how to make things
on his own. With nothing but his bare hands and a couple of hatchets, he
starts out building a shelter for himself. From acquiring these new skills,
he adds onto his house and learns to form his own tools. Out of new
experiences with these tools and his vivid imagination, he now has the
ability to build anything that he wishes for. Later, he builds .....
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