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To Kill A Mockingbird: Compassion From Atticus Finch

... Atticus Finch takes a moral stance by defending a black man, Tom Robinson, in court. The trial takes place during a racially tense period in U.S. history. After Atticus’ decision to defend Tom had been made, the predominantly prejudice townspeople do not accept Atticus for his decision and threaten him and his children. However, after Atticus put up a hard fought struggle in court for Tom, several of the townspeople felt compassion toward Atticus for standing up for what is morally just. QUOTE BLACKS IN BALCONY. Also, the blacks QUOTE O ...

Number of words: 684 | Number of pages: 3

Visitors From Oz

... to be fiction probably is real. For instance when he was a young boy his mother read to him the Oz books, and it was from the Oz books that he learned to read. Not only did he learn to read he learned about a whole new and different place called Oz. Even though Samuel’s mother insisted that the books were fiction, he never gave up believing that they were as real as you and me. Even when he started to grow old, even then he still believed. One day after Samuel had grown and had become a big time movie producer, he was thinking about his nex ...

Number of words: 905 | Number of pages: 4

Hester Prynne 2

... mansion whose “ brilliancy might have befitted Aladdin’s palace, rather then the mansion of a grave old Puritan ruler.” (pg. 98) Bellingham’s extravagant house shows the hypocrisy of the Puritans. They seek to punish those, like Hester, who break the laws of Puritan society but at the same time they too violate their own laws. The Puritans can not see the faults within themselves. Puritan society is seen as a place where “iniquity is searched out, and punished in the sight o ...

Number of words: 1060 | Number of pages: 4

Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!: An Innovative Narrative Technique

... Shreve the outsider (with Quentin's help) reconstructs the story and understands the meaning of Thomas Sutpen's life. In the novel Absalom, Absalom!, a multiple consciousness technique is used to reassess the process of historical reconstruction by the narrators. Chapter one is the scene in which Miss Rosa tells Quentin about the early days in Sutpen's life. It's here that Rosa explains to Quentin why she wanted to visit old mansion on this day. She is the one narrator that is unable to view Sutpen objectively. The first chapter serves a ...

Number of words: 2161 | Number of pages: 8

Billy Budd: Was Captain Vere Right?

... then a mutiny might occur, because the law states that a crime as severe as Billy's is punishable by death, and Captain Vere feels sorry for Billy and does not want Billy to suffer with guilt until a martial court could give a decision. If Billy is not executed then corruption might occur on the ship and cause a mutiny. Captain Vere knows that a mutiny might occur and does not want it to happen. Captain Vere could possibly be using Billy's execution for his crime of killing Claggart as an example for the rest of the crew. It shows the crew ...

Number of words: 621 | Number of pages: 3

Jurassic Park

... the reader will certainly enjoy the fascinating world of Jurassic Park. All of the different characters in this world, share different feelings of action, reactions, thrill, nervousness, and their beliefs. Ian Malcolm, a very knowledgeable mathematician, decides to go to the island of Isla Nublar to observe the biological preserve that a company named In-Gen has created for the world to see at a price. Malcolm always had doubts about this world of total chaos. Everyone thought that the world of Jurassic Park, is a world of new state ...

Number of words: 382 | Number of pages: 2

Go Ask Alice

... book is based on a true diary of a young girl who got mixed up in the drug world. Alice bought a diary because she had a big secret that she could never tell any of her friends. It really only ended up being that a boy named Roger she was in love with stood her up and she would be to embraced to tell her friends. She makes a big deal out of it, I can already tell she is dramatic. Her birthday is only five days apart from mine, that is a weird coincidence. From September 19 through September 25 she goes on about how nothing every happens i ...

Number of words: 2428 | Number of pages: 9

Compare Two Biographies Of Wayne Gretzky

... It showed how Wayne Gretzky from his AHL to a famous NHL player. In this book, there were a lot of Gretzky's childhood. We knew that Wayne Gretzky could skate at two years old. He was well known by people at six. When he was ten, he was signing autographs and had a national magazine article written about him. A thirty- minutes national television show done on him at fifteen. It also talk about Gretzky's hero when he was a kid. He was a funny guy. He was Gretzky's hockey instructor. He was also his lacrosse, baseball basketball and cross c ...

Number of words: 991 | Number of pages: 4

Fahrenheit 451: The Hope Of The Phoenix

... his job, and was happy. Soon Montag discovered that he was not happy at all, and that his life was nothing. His wife Mildred did not love him at all, and his only friend (that he could remember) Clarisse died in a car crash. All of sudden, he was not happy, but he did not know why. He thought maybe because his wife had pulled the fire alarm on him, but really it was he did not love her at all. "It's strange, I don't miss her at all(155)" Montag had uncertainly about his marriage, because marriage was suppose to be bonded with love, ...

Number of words: 996 | Number of pages: 4

The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn: Cynical Point Of View

... several examples seem to lend themselves well to a discussion of this sarcastic view. In the beginning of the novel, it would seem that both Huck Finn and Jim are trapped in some way and wishing to escape. For Huck, it is the violence and tyranny of his drunken father. Kept in a veritable prison, Huck wishes desperately to escape. Jim feels the need to escape after hearing that his owner, Miss Watson, wishes to sell him down the river-a change in owners that could only be for the worse. As they escape separately and rejoin by chance at a ...

Number of words: 733 | Number of pages: 3

To Kill A Mockingbird - Man Versus Society

... in the south during the 1930's. The story is a flashback when she was six to nine years old. This is a mini-novel by the author Harper Lee. The story took place in the very deep part of the south during the 1930's when the country was in a ecomincal depression in a town called Maycomb. This novel was written in the first person, therefore we know that the narrator is a character in the story. This story is a flashback that covered around three years. He father Atticus that treat her as an invitingly. In the south the tradition and society is m ...

Number of words: 459 | Number of pages: 2

2001 A Space Odyssey

... drum equipped with an electronic library of literature and music. Here you relax, eat, exercise, sleep, and chat with Hal, the conversational computer who never forgets anything – not even your birthday. Your mission is of such importance that it has been surrounded by the deepest official secrecy. You are probing a fantastic frontier, following a trial that has led to the outer edges of the solar system. You are searching the stars for evidence that man is not alone. On Earth-colonized moon, deep in the crater Tycho, a discove ...

Number of words: 644 | Number of pages: 3

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