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On The Road

... realistic. Jack Kerovac, who is the author of the book, places himself as the narrator. Sal paradise (jack Kervac) and his best companion dean Morioty start of in New York and travels ton California to live life to its fullest. While in California Sal and Dean encounter some people that they knew. The hopes and aspirations of these guys are to find the ultimate type of euphoria. The one thing they do encounter on their road trip is the lack of responsibility that Dean had for life. He had numerous sexual partners that at one time and e ...

Number of words: 274 | Number of pages: 1

Song Of Solomon 2

... events throughout the book in a manner consistent with the beginning. On the first page we are introduced to an insurance agent by the name of Robert Smith. We shortly thereafter learn that he will "fly" form the top of Mercy Hospital. On the Wednesday of his flight a group of fifty people gather around the building to witness this event. While waiting for his "flight" or jump a woman in a contralto voice begins to sing the words "O Sugarman done fly away/ Sugarman done gone/ Sugarman cut across the sky/ Sugarman gone home…"(6) Thi ...

Number of words: 1079 | Number of pages: 4

The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn: Themes Related To Society Today

... Huck has an opportunity to exercise his gift for lying. The boy enjoys mendacity; he lies for the sake of lying and keeps the reader turning the page piling on one fiction after another. Just before the runaways get started, Huck visits a neighboring town to get information and encounters a farmer's wife. He is dressed in an old dress and is pretending to be a young girl searching for her relatives. The woman suspects his sex and tries various devices to ascertain if her suspicions are true. Among these is threading a needle and throw ...

Number of words: 622 | Number of pages: 3

The Dreams Of Alice

... to Alice falling down the rabbit hole. She keeps falling and falling, much like she is flying. "Down, down, down. Would the fall never come to an end? 'I wonder how many miles I've fallen by this time?' She said aloud," (Carroll 20). Alice falls and falls to a point where she cannot even tell how long she has been falling. In reality, falling for long periods of time, such as skydiving, is as close as one can come to true, unaided flight, just like Alice's fall down the rabbit hole People who use hallucinogenic drugs have reported f ...

Number of words: 779 | Number of pages: 3

Letter To Elie Regarding The Holocaust

... would come by a friend or a relative. You and your father were very fortunate to have stuck together. You two were close and would do anything for each other. When your father was beaten, you were scared out of your mind. You didn't know what to do. I think that if you would have defended your father it would have done everybody some good. You should have helped your father out because it was the right thing to do. Your father did so much for you; it was the least you could have done for him. Your father raised you and supported you; withou ...

Number of words: 300 | Number of pages: 2

Hobbit: Summary

... The Goblin scowled at them. Then Thorin stepped forward and explained to him that they did not mean to trespass. Gandolf appeared at the door and freed the group from the goblins. The group ran ahead and Bilbo was lost behind them. Bilbo found an underwater lake and a ring on an island in the lake. He found out that the ring made him invisible. In the lake also lived a creature named Gollum. Gollum was a creature that ate other people. Gollum approached Bilbo and Bilbo told him he desired to find a way out. They then played a riddl ...

Number of words: 453 | Number of pages: 2

King Arthur And The Knights Of The Round Table: An Epic Hero For Modern Times

... the period in Arthur's life from when he meets his future wife Guenevere to the beginning of his siege against Sir Lancelot's castle in France. The short excerpt of Morte d' Arthur tells of how King Arthur abandons his assault on Lancelot to defend Camelot and all of England from Mordred. Because Camelot seems to immediately precede Morte d' Arthur and there is no overlap in the story, the way the plot is handled in each work cannot be debated. I will however, discuss the mood, tone, and characterization of a few key figures in the two ...

Number of words: 592 | Number of pages: 3

An Economic Intrepration Of Th

... would have a one in three hundred chance of winning. The lottery is there to insure the season’s crops. If you were “lucky” enough to be chosen, you would be sacrificed to the gods. This sacrifice would involve the townspeople directing you towards the middle of a circle and proceeding to throw rocks at you until death. Everybody seems happy with the results of this yearly tradition until they are chosen for the stoning. Before the lottery, people are joking and gathering like it was a party. Once the “lucky” ...

Number of words: 2767 | Number of pages: 11

Salzman's "Iron And Silk": Losing Face

... Mark can see their skill level is far beyond his. After doing a short routine, Mark is pulled aside by Pan. Pan tells Mark he can fix his wushu but if he fails it will be Pan who looses face. People will loose respect for the greatest martial arts expert who couldn't teach a foreigner. During one of the class discussions Mark had with his students, the topic of kissing was brought up. Mark wanted to know why public sighs of affection were so rare in China. Mark said the only time he had seen two Chinese people kissing was when a mother kis ...

Number of words: 480 | Number of pages: 2

Hanging Woman Creek

... and Van. He quickly became friends with Eddie, and realized that Van was more trouble than he was worth. He and Eddie hitched a train to the West, looking for jobs as cowherds. They reach a town on the edge of the frontier that Pike has visited in the past. He finds some friends and one that offers a job. However, this job is not a very safe one. It is to round up some cattle near an outpost on and stay there. Pike and Eddie find much trouble, and one man is shot in the back by an unknown assailant. Pike escorts a lady out to her bro ...

Number of words: 1060 | Number of pages: 4

Eye Deep In Hell: Book Review

... if you count his own conclusion at the end of the book). The four parts are basically as follows: First, he examines the settings and/or conditions that the men dealt with. Second, he looks at how they went about coping with the reality of the warfare, dealing with the strategy as well as dealing with the death involved in the trenches. Third, he discusses how those in charge went about sustaining the men and keeping their morale up. Finally, he ends his book talking about the attitude of the men on the front lines. тАЬEye Deep in H ...

Number of words: 1617 | Number of pages: 6

Stand By Me: Loyal Friendships And Families

... The four boys go on a journey to find a dead body that Vern, one of the members of ChrisтАЩs gang, had over-heard about from his older brother who was in the Cobra gang. He had killed Red Brower with another one of the gang members. Two of the four main characters, Gordie and Chris, portray a strong theme of friendship as a substitute for each of their broken families. The family life of Gordie and Chris are both dysfunctional but due to that, the family situations bring Gordie and Chris closer together. At most times, Chris is GordieтА ...

Number of words: 670 | Number of pages: 3

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