The Gift
.... be a bully. That
could in fact be the real meaning.
The child at the screen door might just be a metaphor and what the child
is really doing is calling for someone to help him because he is ill. But yet
all he does is become peace-fully sicker. And the mom is praying for him to
get better and hopes that one day true health will come back to this youth. Or
in shorter terms, The Gift of life.
Those were my guesses, or hypothesis of what the real meaning to The
Gift were. And I don't care how silly t .....
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The Giver: A Critique
.... many characters in this book the main one being Jonas. Jonas is
a child in this supposed "Utopia" who ends up with the most important assignment
of all the "Receiver of Memory". The Receiver holds all the memories of the
whole community so the community does not have to be bothered with feelings and
the emotional baggage that comes with them. Jonas's trainer the "Giver" is a
old man who passes the memories on to Jonas and eventually thinks of the plan to
escape. The Giver also adopts Jonas and Rosemar .....
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The Glass Menagerie: Struggle To Fit Into Society
.... depicted this.
The fire escape. A downtrodden red thing off the sides of buildings showing
societies ineffectual escape from itself. In this case it served as a passageway
between the real world and the dream one that Laura and Tom were living in at
home. Both somehow stumbled both physically and mentally. When Laura said “I'm
all right. I slipped but I'm all right”(47). She was trying to pass to the real
world to do a real job and couldn't because of societies “inability” to accept
her and her .....
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The Good Earth: Wang Lung - A Man Of Determination And Loyalty
.... money for rice, the family eats and begins to regain strength. When all
is well, Wang Lung returns home to start his life all over.
Also during the drought Wang Lung spares food and money for his uncle,
uncles's wife and their son. The uncle is a poor old gambler who would rather
gamble his money away than to spend it on his family. During the drought he
shows up in Wang Lung's fields begging for money. At first Wang Lung refuses to
dish out money to his uncle. After a time of arguementing Wang Lu .....
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The Good Earth: Summary
.... Lung's third child was a disaster. Not only was it a girl, but she
was born retarded. That summer, a drought hit the area where Wang Lung lived,
and it did not rain for months. There was little harvest, and soon all of the
wheat was gone. Starving, Wang Lung had his ox killed for food, but could not
bear to watch because the beast had been so faithful to him. Not having any
money, Wang Lung sold the furniture in his house for a few silver pieces. His
fourth child was born in the drought, and was .....
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The Great Gatsby: Tragedy From Lies
.... She lied to keep the person
she thought was the love of her life, Tom happy. Daisy's relationship with TOm
was quite unusual. Tom was having an affair with Myrtle and Daisy really wanted
to be with Tom, but not really because she only did it because she thought she
had to. Daisy was really in love with Jay but because she felt like she had to
be in love with Tom she would make up lies to keep them together. Tom pretty
much felt the same way or he thought Daisy really liked him so he didn't want to
break h .....
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The Great Gatsby: The Question Of Nick Carraway's Integrity
.... beguiled by her dry witticisms and her apparent
simple sunniness: "Time for this good girl to go to bed," she says. When Daisy
begins her matchmaking of Nick and Jordan, we sense that she is only leading
where Nick's interest is already taking him.
It is Jordan, then, who makes Nick feel comfortable at Gatsby's party,
as we sense what Nick senses: they're becoming a romantic couple. As they drive
home a summer house-party, Nick notes her dishonesty but forgives it,
attributing it to her understandab .....
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The Great Gatsby: Nick - A Good And Neutral Narrator
.... go to Gatsby's funeray.
I called up Daisy half and hour after we found him,
called her instinctively and without hersitation. But
she and Tom had gone away early that afternoon, and
taken baggage with them.
Therefore, Nike Carroway's analysis was right by these clear
observation.
However, Nike Carroway is a good narrator, he sees everything happen
and does not trust everybody easily. So during the people discuss about
something at a time, .....
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The Hidden Life Of Dogs: Book Review
.... its own? How did its navigational skills work? How was it that this dog knew
exactly where it was and could travel through different cities without becoming
lost and other dogs couldn't? Continuing on to bringing in other dogs Elizabeth
was studying, she pointed out that some had skills that others did not. Misha
was clearly able to navigate himself but when with another dog, he would become
lost. After careful observation it was seen that the other dog could easily
loose track of where she was and .....
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"The Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy", By Douglas Noel Adams
.... conclusion, "The Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy", besides being funny,
gives us a very special snapshot at the inner-world of Adams, and makes us think
of what we have taken obvious, in a different way.
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The Hobbit
.... treasure and his kingdom.
Gandalf- He is the great wizard who helped organize the adventure. At first he
travels with the dwarves and the hobbit but leaves them because he has other
business to attend to. Beorn- is a large man who can change shapes into other
animals. He lives by himself in large house with animals who he can speak to.
He helps the dwarves and the hobbit after they have escaped from the goblins.
He later joins them in the Battle of the Five Armies to help defeat the goblins
and and the .....
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The Hobbit By J.R.R. Tolken
.... it to rescue the dwarves from danger and imprisonment. They
become quite impressed by him, and even rely on him, just as Gandalf foretold.
Bilbo and the dwarves finally reach Lonely Mountain, the home of Smaug the
dragon. The dwarves send Bilbo down a secret passage to the dragon's lair. Bilbo
has more confidence in himself now and not only steals a cup, but manages to
hold his own in a conversation with the wily Smaug (not an easy thing to
do).Furious that someone has dared steal a piece of his treasure .....
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Book Report: The Hot Zone By Richard Preston
.... This was added to the list of strains: Ebola
Zaire, Ebola Sudan, and now, Reston. These are all level-four hot viruses. That
means there are no vaccines and there are no cures for these killers.
In 1976 Ebola climbed out of its primordial hiding place in the jungles
of Africa, and in two outbreaks in Zaire and Sudan wiped out six hundred people.
But the virus had never been seen outside of Africa and the consequences of
having the virus in a busy suburb of Washington DC is too terrifying to
contemplate .....
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George Dawes Green's The Juror: Annie
.... as well. I have to say that when I met
Annie for the first time it was as Juror N° 224. She was a sparkling maid. Who
would have thought a rotten soul such as the teacher would try to harm her? I
confess that her recoil in the following days impressed me. This time the trial
was against Louie Boffano. He was the head of the mob. He and his right hand The
Teacher were as bad as they come. The case was the murders of Salvadore Riggio
and his grandson. Mr. Boffano was being accused of ordering them. By this .....
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The Last Of The Mohicans
.... Chingachgook is the last one giving the book its title.
The main character of the book is Hawkeye. Hawkeye is described as having a
big head and narrow shoulders. His arms are long and skinny and he has small
hands. He also has thin legs which are very long. Hawkeye is much like a Metis
Because he is white and educated but raised an Indian.
Hawkeye at first does not want to get involved in the war he only wants to
go and trap and make some money. He only wants to take them to the fort but then
he .....
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