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- 9691: The Insanity Plea by Winslad and Ross: Summary
- ... who lived in Illinois. He had never met or seen Lyman Bostock, but if you think about it, if he actually sat down to think about it, a pro baseball player would obviously be very high. Leonard had dreamed about getting it as good as Lyman, he dreamt about a wife, a kid, a dog, a nice house with a fence around it, and job security, but his attempts always failed ...
- 9692: In Cold Blood: Summary
- ... himself but didn't succeed. He was finally hung, during the hanging period he apologized to everyone for what he did. "This is it, this is it, this had to be it, there's the school, there's the garage, now we turn south." To Perry, it seemed as though Dick was muttering jubilant mumbo-jumbo. They left the highway, sped through a deserted Holcomb, and crossed the Santa Fe tracks ...
- 9693: The Handmaids Tale
- ... people were no longer having children at the normal rate. First, the pollution, diseases, nuclear problems and resulting mutants deterred people from having children because the future looked pretty bleak. Secondly, crime rate was very high, with most of them being sexual atrocities. Women and children were in danger, yet many people denied that such things could ever happen to them, and did nothing to stop it. Thirdly, everyone had become ...
- 9694: The Different Conceptions of the Veil in The Souls of Black Folk
- ... civil war to the failure of reconstruction. The following chapters then tell of those who have acted to strengthen the veil such as Booker T. Washington or who suffered behind the veil such as the school children Du Bois taught. The veil also acts as a psychological barrier separating blacks from whites. The theme of the psychological separation of blacks and whites is a central metaphor of the book starting with ...
- 9695: Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The House of the Dead
- ... House of the Dead Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky was born in Moscow on Nov. 11, 1825. As his father was a former military surgeon, Dostoyevsky grew up in the noble class. He entered the military engineering school at St. Petersburg at age 16. Shortly after graduating, he resigned his commission and devoted all his time to writing. However, he soon became caught up in the movement for political and social reform during ...
- 9696: Pride and Prejudice: What's Love Got to Do With It
- Pride and Prejudice: What's Love Got to Do With It In Pride and Prejudice life is not all fun and games. There are many pressures in life: mothers with high expectations for a good marriage and a girl's own expectation of what life and hopefully marriage will be like. Charlotte Lucas is the oldest daughter in a large family, she is not the most ...
- 9697: Trainspotting: A Novel By Irvine Welsh
- ... Aside from being on and off heroin, his good friend Danny Murphy, or Spud (as everyone calls him) is a habitual thief. His friend Simone is nicknamed Sick Boy for good reasons. When he is high he hears voices in his head willing him to do evil things. He likes to shoot dogs as their masters are taking them for a walk, and he enjoys using women for nothing but sex ...
- 9698: To Kill A Mockingbird: Scout's Development
- ... surely have found him not guilty, but it sentences him to death, as it is expected to do by the general populace. Prior to the trial, Scout and Jem are mocked by other children at school, which have been told by their parents that Atticus will defend the offending black man. Simply bearing this, as Atticus tells them to, instead of retaliating it physically, which would have been a much more ...
- 9699: The Yellow Wallpaper: What The Hell????
- The Yellow Wallpaper: What The Hell???? The Yellow Wallpaper does nothing but confuse me. It seems to be about a high strung, mentally ill woman who is obsessed with rotting wallpaper. This yellow wallpaper obsesses her so much that she begins to distrust everyone, even her husband. She is terrified that someone will take her wallpaper ...
- 9700: The Witching Hour
- ... plot were sometimes set aside because of the vivid development of each individual character throughout the book. I've already read several novels from this author, and this novel earned it's position with a high mark. It's intuitive, mysterious, logical, and enlightening. But the sad ending of Rowan's strength depleting from her loss from this "evil" Lasher, causes the book to develop into its next novel "Lasher". Anne ...
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