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- 6501: The First King of Shannara: Summary
- The First King of Shannara: Summary ****This book has about the same story as all the other Shannara books but it takes place Before all the other ones.****** After the first war of the races, man became an outcast and was forced to run into the deep southland. At Paranor (the home of the Druids) A druid named Bremen was declared an outcast because of his insistence to keep using magic, which was forbidden after the first war of the races. Bremen was the only one that knew that a rebel druid named Brona has learned to use great magic for evil and was on a plan to kill all the races and make the world all for the netherworld. Bremen knew that he needed help so he (hired) a man named Kinson Ravenlock. They go into the high northland and find out that the whole Troll nation was subverted ...
- 6502: The Chrysalids: The Importance Of Telepathy
- ... in Waknuk will stop thinking that Tribulation was sent by God and that all deviations are devil's creation. They might understand that the radiation might be the remaining of a nuclear bomb or nuclear war. The sealant people might help Waknuk in education and they themselves may build the machines like today's, and grow more productive crops. The entire thinking and appearance of Waknuk might change. On the other ... characters or the surroundings in a story. In this novel these three points were influenced by mental telepathy. This type of story could be an example how people were in the past (in the really world). It is an idea what could really happen if a nuclear war would become a reality.
- 6503: The Great Gatsby
- ... before. Somebody told me they thought he killed a man once. Also, there is one more lady said that Gatsby was a German spy: It is more that he was a German spy during the war. Nike heard it, but when Nike had a chance to have a lunch with Gatsby, he told Nike, he was an Oxford man and show him that fought in World War One. Then Nike knew Gatsby was not a German Spy nor a murderer. Furthermore, at the end of the novel, when Daisy drove Gatsby's car and killed Mrs.Wilson in a car accident, ...
- 6504: Compare and Contrast Daisy to Myrtle
- ... Contrast Daisy to Myrtle The Roaring Twenties was an era of glamour and change. This era was also known as the jazz age or era. During this time people were preoccupied with petty things. After World War I you see, everyone wanted to forget the war and just lead happy, worry free lives. The rich were especially guilty of this. They spent their entire time wasting money and throwing parties. Many of them also secretly spent a lot of their ...
- 6505: The Horse and His Boy by C.S Lewis
- ... C.S Lewis I read the story 'The Horse and His Boy', which is the third book of 'The Chronicals of Narnina', from a series of seven books. Narnia in a "imagenary" place, a parolel world, which was discoverd through magic in the first book by a crazy magian. There are five main characters in the book: Aslan- The King, lord of the whole wood, and son of the Emperor across ... is a mystery about this adopted son of a Calormene fisherman.He is not what he seems, as he himself discovers through out the story. Bree- Full name-Breehy-hinny-brinny-hoohy-hah.This great war horse is also unusual. He was kidnapped as a foal from the forests of Narnia and sold as a slave horse in Cloromene, a country across the Archenland and far to the south of Narnia ... walking came into the room and sit down and talk. It was the Tisrocand the prince who wanted to marry Queen Susan of Narnia, but she didn't want him. So he wanted to open war between the two. After they left the room Aravis ran as fast as she could to the tombs. The Kings of Narnia help Shatsa to escape and reach the tombs, there Shasta sees Bree ...
- 6506: A Book of Double Meanings
- ... people in general is displayed in this act. Another display of the littleness is the fact that Gulliver is used as the Emperor's absolute weapon, but the emperor only uses him to conquer his world of two islands. This makes the emperor's ambition seem extremely low. Swift also criticizes the religious beliefs of the Lilliputians and England in the first story. In Lilliput, Ministers were chosen strictly on agility ... by their names, the distinguishing mark of the parties is the height of their heels. Within these two parties, Swift criticizes the English political parties, and the Prince of Wales. Swift also mocks the religion war that was going on in England, through the use of the war between Lilliput, and its nearest neighbor, Blefuscu. Swift uses the terms High Heels and Low Heels to compare the meaningless battles of the Whigs and Tories, such as the height of heels. Gulliver’s ...
- 6507: Say A Prayer for the Youth of America
- ... situation of two dead parents forces her to lose her innocence at a young age, and mature much faster than any other person her age. This is shown through her in-depth observations about the world and people around her, such as “He was a big wind up doll of a man.” This metaphor depicts her father, a lazy drunk who dies early in the book, probably from alcohol poisoning. Her ... has a one room house, and doesn’t even have an “inside the house” toilet. As the story progresses, Ellen’s opinions twist and turn until she reaches the conclusion “If they could fight a war over how I’m supposed to think about her then I’m obligated to do it.” This is evidence for her evolution as a person, or growing up. Her views of the world mature at a young age, as does she. Work is also an important part of growing up. Ellen gets her first taste of real manual labor when she moves in with her grandmother, who ...
- 6508: Bram Stoker's Dracula: Anti-Christianity
- ... reluctant to carry out his plans of getting rid of the vampire ladies. He is restrained from his terrifying task by the beauty of the women, though he knows they are a curse on the world. Another seen which depicts the sexual desires of vampirism is when Lucy is Un-Dead. While Van Helsing, Arthur, and Dr. Seward are spending a vigil outside Lucy’s tomb she appears and while standing ... Dracula on. This person Vlad the Impaler ( also known as: Vlad Tepes and Dracula) gave Stoker many of the ideas on which to base his character, Dracula. Vlad Tepes grew up in a time of war and corruption. Vlad Tepes like his father developed a ferocious and merciless warlike personality. The resemblence of Vlad Tepes personality to that of Dracula’s is very much similar. Dracula has an evil personality like that which Vlad Tepes grew into.Vlad Tepes began to rule Transylvania through a time of bloody massacreing and war. He started to torture people in his ruthless ways. Vlad Tepes once impaled his own army on stakes. This shows the true evil and ruthlessness Vlad Tepes practiced. It was said that he would ...
- 6509: The Great Gatsby: Nick Was A Neutral Character
- ... before. Somebody told me they thought he killed a man once. Also, there is one more lady said that Gatsby was a German spy: It is more that he was a German spy during the war. Nike heard it, but when Nike had a chance to have a lunch with Gatsby, he told Nike, he was an Oxford man and show him that fought in World War One. Then Nike knew Gatsby was not a German Spy nor a murderer. Furthermore, at the end of the novel, when Daisy drove Gatsby's car and killed Mrs.Wilson in a car accident, ...
- 6510: The Boston Massacre
- ... beginning of the quest for independence, people in this land were, even sometimes unconsciously, beginning to gain a sense of self-motivation and loyalty to those around them that had accompanied them into this New World. The people had gained almost a new identity; one that strayed drastically from the places in which they had came from. This feeling is one that could be labeled as American Patriotism. This patriotism would ... To answer this question one must look at the events that lead to the Boston Massacre to fully understand the state of mind that the colonists were in. Since the end of the Seven Years War against the French, the British had gone into a great burden of debt. England finally confronted the matter when it appointed George Greenville to Prime Minister in 1763. Facing a debt that had nearly doubled ... Greenville had to find new ways to gain funds without taxing the already heavily taxed English people.1 Greenville assessed the situation and determined that since the colonists had been a major beneficiary of the war time expenditures that the Americans should be the ones to pay a greater share of the cost for running the empire.2 The question did not dawn on Greenville to think about the justice ...
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