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Huck Finn

The novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain has been disputably called “one of the world’s great books and one of the central documents of American culture” (Lionel Trilling 327) and I am one of the opposition to this thought. The question one must ask when reading Huck Finn is “Why ...

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The Last Leaf

"The Last Leaf" by O. Henry is an interesting short story about a sick girl who is deeply affected by a bare ivy vine. Johnsy thinks that she will die as soon as the last leaf on that vine falls. She becomes close to death, but a neighbor called Mr. Behrman, an artist, saves her life and dies. This ...

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Lost German Slave Girl Report

Carolina Sandlin HIST-344 Dr. Pitzulo February 28, 2016 Book Review: "The Lost German Slave Girl" In 1843, a Louisianan woman by the name of Madame Carl Rouff stumbled on someone that she had known who had been missing for years; Salome Muller. With a plethora of questions concerning ...

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Analysis of Kiss of the Spider Woman

Kiss of the Spider Woman Introduction The purpose of this paper is to introduce, discuss, and analyze the book "Kiss of the Spider Woman," by Manuel Puig. Specifically, it will analyze two key passages and their contrasting styles, descriptive method, character presentation and a range of ...

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Edgar Allan Poe

Meghan Woody Mrs. Start English 3 Period 7 13 March 2015 Edgar Allan Poe Poe was the father of the short stories, a shining fictional theorist, an unpredictable genius, and an expert of human obsession. From 1835 until his death, he was arguably the main protagonist in the story of the ...

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The Secret Lives of Sgt. John Wilson

The Secret Lives of Sgt. John Wilson told an extravagant story of historical fiction based in the early 1900s. The story was committed to paper by Lois Simmie in 1995. The narrative follows the main character John Wilson, as he moves to Saskatchewan in order to prowl after work and a better life, ...

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Review Of The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby is a novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It deals with a rich man named Jay Gatsby who wants to re-live his late teenage years. In this novel he struggles to realize he can't go back. I liked this novel because it had interesting characters. It kept me thinking the whole ...

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The Bean Trees: Symbols And Hidden Meanings

The Bean Trees by Barbara Kinsolver is a book that discusses many of the problems in today's society. I found it to be over all insightful yet a little boring at time. There are many hidden meaning and symbols too many to mention so I'll look at just a few. One of the main symbols appears right ...

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Crimes Of The Heart By Beth He

The play, “Crimes of the Heart,” written by Beth Henley, is brilliantly charming, and Henley is completely deserving of her Pulitzer-Prize for this piece. My mother suggested I read this play because she says that I am very much like one of the main characters Lenny Magrath, and she said that I ...

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Keeping The Reader In Suspense

Why are mystery novels so interesting, and how does the author make the reader’s heart pound hard with suspense by just reading the novel? People like reading mystery novels because there is always a question, such as who is the killer and what was the motive for killing, asked at the beginning ...

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Farwell To Arms

The book A Farewell to Arms, written by Ernest Hemingway, is a classic about the love story of a nurse and a war-ridden soldier. The story starts as Frederick Henry is serving in the Italian Army. He meets his future love in the hospital that he gets put in for various reasons. I thought that A ...

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An Analysis Of The Yellow Wallpaper

The story of The Yellow Wallpaper reflects the period where men have dominated over women. The real meaning of this story is written hidden behind it. The author had used a writing style that is taking objects portraying men, women, and society. The story first starts off a couple have ...

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Heart Of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad is a novel where the main character Marlow is telling a story of a trip to the Congo. This novel is said to possibly be an autobiography of Conrad’s life at sea. This is said because Conrad was a seaman for a many years and went into Africa many times. The story is so ...

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Fahrenheit 451: A World With No Books

Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 was an interesting Science fiction thriller that provided an odd view on the censorship of books. Not just some books, but all books. An entire distorted culture and civilization where all books are prohibited. And the penalty for being caught with books is that ...

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To Kill A Mockingbird: Childhood Experience

Have you ever thought of an answer to reply to your children, when they ask you, “What was the world like when you were a child?”, “What things that happened that impressed you most when you were a child?” or “How interesting is your childhood experience?”. Everybody must have had their ...

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How The Garcia Girls Lost Thei

R ACCENTS This book is a story about 4 sisters who tell their stories about living on an island in the Dominican Republic , and then moving to New York . What is different about this book is the fact that you have different narrators telling you the story , jumping back and forth from past to ...

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Mother 2

Freeman’s “Mother” "The revolt of Mother" is an interesting short story by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, who lived, in the late nineteenth century. This short story presents important aspects of Freeman life. Throughout this story she express the miserable life that her mother was ...

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Summary Of The Scarlet Pimpernel

The historical novel entitled The Scarlet Pimpernel is a classic and truly deserves this prestigious title. The author of this enthralling 267 page book is Baroness Emma Orczy and it was published by Dodd, Mead & Company in the year 1964. The scene is set in the terrorized Paris ...

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To Kill A Mockingbird 2

The novel To Kill A Mockingbird revolves around a young girl named Jean Louise Finch who goes by the nicknamed “Scout”. Scout experiences different events in her life that dramatically change her life. Scout and her brother Jem are being raised by their father, a lawyer named Atticus ...

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Shel Silverstein

Few writers of the twentieth century have made nearly the same impact on the literary society than Sheldon Allan Silverstein. His writing encompasses a broad range of styles, from adult to children’s, comical to unusual. One of his most common styles was that of fantasy: actions and events ...

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