In The Middle Of The Night: Review
.... you start to piece together each view you just can't put the book down,
this suspense thriller will definitely keep you holding on to the book
until the end. I found the book very enthralling and exciting. I can easily
say this has been the best book I have read this year. Robert Cormier has
pleased me with this fine novel.
In the Middle of the Night is an exciting, entertaining thriller, which you
get to piece together yourself, a very enjoyable read.
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The X-Files, X Marks The Spot: Book Report
.... you have to read all the
way to chapter 10, for the book to be any bit interesting. The events were
spread out very well in The X-files.
There was a lot of suspense. It was easy to understand. The events were
spread out very well. These are all good reasons why I liked The X-files, X
marks the spot. It wasn't another long boring science fiction book.
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The Lord Of The Flies: SUmmary
.... with building shelters, arranging work and on
being rescued but Jack only wants to roam the jungle and hunt. The failure
to establish rules soon creates confusion and inappropriate behavior
encouraged by Jack. Ralph=s only supporter is Piggy, a fat asthmatic boys
who nobody likes because he is always lecturing and criticizing everyone=s
behavior. Jack bullies him constantly and the other boys make fun of him.
Jack and his followers spend most of their time hunting for wild pigs so
Ralph=s efforts to or .....
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All Quiet On The Western Front: Themes
.... should be noted that the nature motif is carried consistently
throughout the novel, and that it supports many of the author's lesser
themes. For the purpose of portraying war as something terrible, though,
the nature motif is expressed most dramatically in the following passages.
These passages mark the three distinct stages of nature's condemnation of
war: rebellion, perseverance, and erasure.
The first passage occurs in Chapter Four when the troops are
trucked out to the front to install stakes and wir .....
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Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!: An Innovative Narrative Technique
.... on this day. She is the one narrator that
is unable to view Sutpen objectively. The first chapter serves as merely
an introduction to the history of Sutpen based on what Miss Rosa heard as a
child and her brief personal experiences.
The narration of Absalom, Absalom!, can be considered a coded
activity. Faulkner creates the complex narration beginning at chapter 2.
It ironic that one of Faulkner's greatest novels is one in which the author
only appears as the teller of the story in one brief sect .....
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Abuse Of Power Within A Clockwork Orange
.... his love for music in which he
exclaims, "And all the time the music got more and more gromky, like it
was all a deliberate torture, O my brothers . . . then I jumped"(131).
The music that represents his freedom to choose is now gone. He is left
without any reason to live. When he realizes that he is no longer a man
because of his absence of choice, Alex decides to end his life. The author
illustrates through Alex's violent actions, how they represent his abuse of
power through his freedom of choice. .....
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Great Expectations: God's Law Vs. Human Law
.... human punishment. Set on the eve in which we commemorate the birth
of Christianity, an institution based on charity and love, Pip feels guilty for
bringing food to a starving fellow human. Pip must steal food from his own
family to help Magwitch, thereby transforming mercy and compassion into crimes.
As Pip is running home, he looks back at the convict and sees him limping
towards the gallows "...as if he were the pirate come to life, and come down,
and going back up again" (27). This imagery conveys .....
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A Case Of Needing: Serious Revisions
.... the law by performing them.
The antiquated plot line is not the story's main flaw. The biggest
drawback here is a one-two punch of highly technical prose employed to
relate a thoroughly dull story. Karen Randall, the daughter of an eminent
physician, dies as the result of a botched abortion. Art Lee, a Chinese
obstetrician, is accused of performing the D & C that has resulted in her
death. Though Lee is known to be an abortionist, he vehemently denies any
involvement in the case. Lee calls upon his fr .....
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Accounts Settled: A Review
.... yet because it is waiting for Gordon to move. Gordon knows
better and stayed in the same position for what seemed like hours.
Suddenly, the porcupine returns to look for more food and this disrupts the
cougar. The climax is when Gordon quickly reaches for his gun and shoots
the cougar. The resolution is when Gordon "cries the final tears of his
boyhood" and he is finally a man.
This writer used suspense in his story many times. For instance,
"his eyes held the boy unwinkingly as he waited in th .....
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A Summary Of A Christmas Carol
.... in the book, some feeling pity,
others feeling hostility.
"External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could
warm, no wintry weather chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than he…
Nobody ever stopped in the street to say, with gladsome looks, ‘My dear
Scrooge, how are you? When will you come to see me?'. No beggars implored
him to bestow a trifle, no children asked him what it was o'clock, no man
or woman ever once in all his life inquired the way to such and such a
place, o .....
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Universial Themes In "The Return Of The Native" And "Great Expectations"
.... Before reaching home, he is frightened by the light coming
from the heath and returns to discover Wildeve meeting with Eustacia. By
pure chance, Venn discovers the boy and quizzes him.
“Then I came down here, and I was afeard, and I went back; but I didn't
like to speak to her, because of the gentleman, and I came on here again”
[Johnny Nunsuch]
“ A gentleman--ah! What did she say to him, my man?” [Diggory Venn]
“Told him she supposed he had not married the other woman because he liked
his old sweeth .....
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Hemingway's "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" And His Life
.... a second lieutenant. The Red Cross brought him to the front lines
of the war in Italy. It was here where he saw many disturbing sights which
probably had a hand in shaping his character.
After extensive injuries from the war, Hemingway returned unhappily
to Oak Park. The impression left on him by his participation in the war
had greatly changed him. He began living at home again but refused to get
a job, even when his mother ordered him to. Soon she kicked him out and he
moved to Chicago. Here he m .....
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As I Lay Dying: Styles Used By William Faulkner
.... see the tension between Anse and Jewel.
We see the lack of respect Jewel has for Anse. It is rather ironic when
Anse says "He's just lazy, trying me" (p. 129) Since Jewel has been working
really hard, and it is Anse who is lazy. Furthering on Jewel and Anse's
relationship, I feel that it is fairly evident that Jewel knows that Anse
is not his father. This is illustrated in the following section on page
136: "Jewel looked at Pa, his eyes paler than ever. 'He won't never eat a
mouthful of yours' he said. .....
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A Comparison Of "The Handmaid's Tale" And "Anthem"
.... could improve the
quality of life of the people it is deemed "evil" because he worked on his
project alone. The society in this book is also strict and authoritarian
to the point of dictating what your job will be, to whom you will have
children with.
In The Handmaid's Tale the story takes place sometime in the near
future after some kind environmental catastrophe that makes it impossible
for most women to have children. To solve this problem some radicals set
off a nuclear bomb in Washington d .....
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Great Expectations: Symbolism
.... for
her eventhough he also cannot stand her. She tells Pip "Come here! You may kiss
me if you like." [102]. Although the kiss may have meant a lot to Pip, it did
not mean anything to Estella as she was just playing with Pip's emotions.
The character of Magwitch represents the symbols of isolation and the tragic
hero. In this case, he was physically isolated from society because he was a
convict and was looked upon with disgust. When Magwitch confesses and apologizes
to Joe for stealing the food, Joe .....
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