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Novel Essays and Term Papers
To Kill A Mocking Bird 2"I'd rather you shoot at tin cans in the backyard, but I know you'll go after birds. Shoot all the bluejays you want,
if you can hit'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird."(96).
The above words are what Atticus Finch tells his children after they are given air-rifles for Christmas. In ...
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Flowers For Algernon - ReviewThe book, "Flowers for Algernon", was an exciting science fiction novel written by . The main characters of the story are the central character, Charlie, who is a mentally retarded individual involved in a remarkable experiment which increased his I.Q., Alice, a teacher at the special education ...
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The Periodic Kingdom: ReviewIn his book The Periodic Kingdom, P.W. Atkins takes a different approach to trying to explain the periodic table to the common reader. He compares the periodic table to a kingdom and then uses other analogies and similes to explain different aspects of the table.
When you first open the book and ...
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Great GatsbyThe , by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is a novel about several people's lives in high society, told from the point of view of a rather normal man. The theme of the withering of the American dream shows itself in the book through many of its characters. Most of these people seem to be either living or ...
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EmmaJane Austen's is a novel of courtship. Like all of Austen's novels, it centers around the marriage plot: who will marry whom? For what reasons will they marry? Love, practicality, or necessity? At the center of the story is the title character, Woodhouse, a heiress who lives with her widowed ...
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Huck Finn - Mark Twains ViewsHuck Finn - Mark Twain's Views
Throughout the Mark Twain (a.k.a. Samuel Clemens) novel, The
Adventures of HuckleBerry Finn, a plain and striking point of view is
expressed by the author. His point of view is that of a cynic; he
looks upon civilized man as a merciless, cowardly, hypocritical ...
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Dimmesdale S Humble MoralityDimmesdale’s Humble Mortality--Life is hard, but accepting that fact makes it easier. In this twisted story of deception and adultery set in the Puritan era, Hawthorne introduces Dimmesdale as a weak and cowardly man who refuses to take responsibility for his actions. By the end of the novel ...
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The Scarlet Letter 7The virtue of truth and the evil of secret sin are clearly illustrated in the novel, The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The three main characters in this novel display their own honesty and sins.
Hester Prynne exhibits the essence of truth and pride when she bravely faces the ...
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Frankenstein: Effects Of Alienation And IsolationThe gothic horror novel, Frankenstein, written by Mary Shelley, tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a power-hungry man who brings about his own destruction through the creation of a monster. While searching for the monster in the arctic, Frankenstein is rescued by Robert Walton, a lonely sea ...
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The Scarlet Letter: The Symbolic ScaffoldNathaniel Hawthorne uses the powerful scaffold setting three times throughout his novel, The Scarlet Letter to portray the themes woven into his tale of sin. The title of Hawthorne’s novel alludes to the fact that the scarlet A, the symbol of Hester Prynne’s adultery, plays a main role in the ...
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A Portrait Of The Artist As AYoung Man:
Like his protagonist, James Joyce was an Irish Catholic. He was also sent to Clongowes Wood College to board and study as a young
boy. In effect the story is in part an autobiography of Joyce's own life up to the age of twenty or so (Kershner 6). In his essay A Portrait as Rebellion ...
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The Robber BrideDepending on how you look at Margaret Atwood’s , Timson
calls it an “upmarket melodrama” whereas Martin refers to it as a novel
“confronting politically correct feminism”. The truth is it isn’t
either of these. While some of the situations are greatly ...
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Reaching Up For ManhoodUnder-privileged, African-American boys are more prevalent in today's society than the typical person would like to recognize or admit. These boys seem to be faced with an ideal in which they need to follow or conform to as any and all cultures have. However, the problem is that for these boys, ...
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Crime And Punishment 2In the novel Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky,
suffering is an integral part of every character's role. However, the
message that Dostoevsky wants to present with the main character,
Raskolnikov, is not one of the Christian idea of salvation through
suffering. Rather, it appears to ...
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The Call Of The Wild: The Effect Of The EnvironmentThe Call of the Wild by Jack London shows the effect that the environment can have on ones reactions. The main character is a dog named Buck who changes through the course of the novel in reaction to his environment. The harshness of the climate and the weather contribute to Buck’s ...
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Animal Farmby George Orwell
George Orwell's novel does an excellent job of drawing
parallels from the situation leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917.
is a satire that uses its characters to symbolize leaders of
the Russian Revolution. The animals of "Manor Farm", the setting of this
novel, which ...
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Scarlet Letter EssayNathaniel Hawthorne uses setting, plot, and the characters to develop the theme of Sin, Isolation, and Reunion in his novel, The Scarlet Letter. In this novel Hawthorne uses the scaffold along with other place to in the setting to develop this theme. He develops the plot by making one character ...
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To Kill A Mockingbird: InjusticeIn Harper Lee's novel To Kill A Mockingbird, an issue is addressed
which could be considered controversial. This issue is one that everyone
faces each day, no one particularly likes to suffer from it, yet we often
do it to others. This issue is injustice, and it was ever-present in To
Kill A ...
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Sister Carrie: Dreiser's Reversal Of Male/Female RolesThe novel Sister Carrie seems to be the platform from which Dreiser
explores his unconventional views of the genders. In the world of Sister
Carrie, it would seem that the role of women as trusting, caring creatures,
and men as scheming victimizers is reversed; it is Carrie that uses the ...
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