Get Essays On Book Reports

Home « Join Now! « Member Login « Questions « Support «

Enter Topic

» Get Book Reports Papers

Comparison Of Tones Used By Ph

... Wheatley was one of the more passive abolishionist writers. Because she was a slave and she was aware of her position in society as opposed to the whites, she knew that enfuriating her audience was the wisest thing to do. When criticizing slavery she chose her words very wisely. In her poem “On Being Brought from Africa to America,” for example, she does not blatantly protest about slavery and call her readers savages like Douglass would do. Instead she and realized has realized her position in serialized her position in society as a s ...

Number of words: 452 | Number of pages: 2

The World Of Odysseus

... the well-known stories of Ancient Greece, primarily The Odyssey and Iliad, which are accepted as accurate sources of Ancient Greek history. As he divides the book into five chapters, the author organizes his data while carefully providing the reader with historical relevant background data. In one of the chapters known as "Homer and the Greeks," the author provides the reader with basic information of Ancient Greece as well as information on The Odyssey and Iliad, the two books on which this book is based upon. In another chapter, ref ...

Number of words: 1502 | Number of pages: 6

The Most Dangerous Game: Foil Character To Contrast The Protagonist

... Whitney (8): "The best sport in the world," agreed Rainsford. "For the hunter," amended Whitney. "Not for the jaguar." "Don't talk rot, Whitney," said Rainsford. "You're a big-game hunter, not a philosopher. Who cares how a jaguar feels?" "Perhaps the jaguar does," observed Whitney. "Bah! They've no understanding." "Even so, I rather think they understand one thing-- fear. The fear of pain and the fear of death." "Nonsense," laughed Rainsford. "This hot weather is making you soft, Whitney. Be a realist. The world is m ...

Number of words: 438 | Number of pages: 2

To Kill A Mockingbird: The Unfairness Of Life

... He, unfortunately had to deal with the problem of poverty. The Cunningham family was one of the poorest in Maycomb County. "Not exactly. The Cunninghams are country folks, farmers, and the crash hit them hardest." (Lee, 21) He, like others during this time period were suffering from The Great Depression, and unfortunately there was nothing he could do about it. Although the Cunninghams are poor, that doesn't mean they appreciate help from others. In fact they are embarrassed to take charity. The Cunninghams are too proud to take ...

Number of words: 835 | Number of pages: 4

Plight Of The Wingfields (the

... to his poetry writing and movie world. He is a victim of his mother’s relentless smothering and captures all the angst of his poetic soul going to waste in a factory warehouse. His outbursts with Amanda exhibit a powerful manifestation of his growing frustration. He cannot handle his menial job and his unsatisfying home life. He believes that the atmosphere is stifling and damaging to his creative capacities. He regards the warehouse as a prison that shackles all the basic impulses with which, he believes, men are endowed¾”Ma ...

Number of words: 1271 | Number of pages: 5

A Tale Of Two Cities LA

... a few months, but it was a miserable experience that would remain with him his whole life. Dickens attended school until he was fifteen. He always enjoyed reading, and especially adventure stories, fairy tales, and novels. Authors like William Shakespeare, Tobias Smollet, and Henry Fielding greatly influenced his work. However, most of the knowledge he used as an author came from his environment around him. In the late 1820s, Dickens became a newspaper writer and reporter. Dickens= first book, Sketches by Boz, written in 1836, consiste ...

Number of words: 1836 | Number of pages: 7

Adolf Hitler

... idealized his mother so when she died in 1907 it was a very traumatic experience to him. This led to many problems, especially school. While living in Vienna, Hitler made his living by drawing small pictures of famous landmarks, which he sold as post cards. But he was always poor. He was also a regular reader of a small paper, which claimed that the Arabian race was superior to all and was destined to rule the world. The paper blamed Communists and Jews for all their problems and Hitler agreed to those views. Hitler agreed with most of ...

Number of words: 1868 | Number of pages: 7

Call Of The Wild: Character Sketch - Buck

... his domain, uncontested by any other local dogs. he was a mix between a St. Bernard and a Scotch Shepherd dog. He weighed one hundred and forty pounds, and he carried every one with utmost pride. Buck had everything he could want. Little did he know, he would soon have it all taken away from him. One night, while the judge was away at a raisin grower's committee meeting, the gardener, Manuel, took Buck away from his home. Buck was then sold, and thrown in a baggage car. This would be the beginning of a new, cruel life for Buck. On his ride ...

Number of words: 924 | Number of pages: 4

Amazing Grace A Book Report

... "Why should their childhood be different from others across the country?" arose often and needs to be examined by all. In some ways the stories, accounts and tales of these inner city children were shocking. I was aware that slums existed, but knew nothing of how they functioned, what living conditions were really like, or how the people there managed to live. But in no way was I aware that such conditions existed in America, the so called "Land of Opportunity." It seems it was just the opposite in these ghettos. There was very littl ...

Number of words: 807 | Number of pages: 3

The Secret Sharer By Joseph Co

... of a ship travelling on a long and arduous journey. The captain begins to feel insecure about running his ship and questions his ability to lead his ship. During one of the first nights on board the ship, the captain demonstrates his thoughts of insecurity and self-consciousness when he does something that a captain would not normally do: he plans to take part in the night watch. “I felt painfully that I - a stranger - was doing something unusual when I directed him to let all hands turn in without setting an anchor watch” ...

Number of words: 672 | Number of pages: 3

Epic Heros In Beowulf And Roland

... by a military aristocracy whose highest good is in the warrior's code". It is partly for this reason that Beowulf needs to kill the dragon and that Roland refuses to blow the horn. Genealogy in a hierarchical society is of great importance, and to fall into shame reflects not only on oneself, but on one's family and nation. The field on which the epic hero performs is grounded in socio-political and historical 'reality'. Charles Moorman writes that "the world in which Roland lives and fights is ... a very simple world, rigidly, and ...

Number of words: 572 | Number of pages: 3

Jane Eyre

... to make decision in which the fruition of my respect for them is accepted. As the case may be, the necessity for settling on that many of whom gradually go on to seed with appreciative escape provoke my strive for a sense of belonging. Initially, I wish to overcome my birth rite as an orphan in Victorian time. At Gateshead it becomes apparent that I possess a fiery temper saying to my aunt, “You think I have no feelings, and that I can do without one bit of love or kindness, but I cannot live so and you have no pity” (Bronte 68). Here I ...

Number of words: 1548 | Number of pages: 6

Pages: 1 ... 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 next »

Essay Categories

» Get Book Reports Papers