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Alive Book Report

... source. Secondly, throughout the ten weeks the survivors were in the Andes Mountains, which in the end was only 16 people, cooperation was a necessity. The one instance that stands out was on the last expedition when Roberto Canessa and Nando Parrado set off for civilization. For ten days the two boys walked the endless chain of snow covered mountains until they finally found a Chilean peasant. During these crucial days it was only their minds of steel and endless cooperation that got them through. Parrado and Canessa were the one’s who sav ...

Number of words: 961 | Number of pages: 4

A Eulogy For Gatsby

... from her to catch glimpses of the woman he loved. Gatsby threw wild parties, where he wouldn’t even know half the people in the room, just to see if by chance Daisy would arrive. He would easily give up anything in the world just to spend an afternoon with Daisy. Most people are never able to experience love like Gatsby felt for Daisy, he was one of the lucky ones. The cause of his death was a horrible mistake, which never should have happened, and it will now affect the lives of everyone who knew Gatsby. Gatsby was doing what he lov ...

Number of words: 568 | Number of pages: 3

All The Kings Men 2

... about you who have touched the web and then injects the black, numbing poison under your hide”(188-189). I feel that this quote does an excellent job of capturing the theme of this novel. Jack Burden and Judge Montague Irwin defiantly feel the effects of the spider. Jack Burden, at the request of Governor Willie Stark, dug up dirt on Judge Irwin. Jack gets in over his head when he finds more than he wanted to know about Judge Irwin. That’s when everything does upside-down, and the spider gets them. The Judge kills himself, ...

Number of words: 641 | Number of pages: 3

The Odyssey: Summary

... with suitors who are trying to win Penelopeia's hand. With the help of Athena disguised as Mentes, Telemachos finds the courage to confront the suitors. In a town meeting, Telemachos announces his intentions to locate his father and rid his house of the suitors. He is met with ridicule and doubt, especially from Antinoos who confronts Telemachos twice. Athena helps Telemachos prepare for his journey, an d he sets sail in secret that night. Following Athena's advice, Telemachos visits King Nestor of Pylos to get information abou ...

Number of words: 1780 | Number of pages: 7

A Separate Peace: Three Symbols

... he jumps from the limbs of the tree. Not one Upper Middler in Devon has ever jumped from the tree; Finny becomes the first. After surfacing, Finny says that jumping from the tree causes the most fun he has had in weeks. However, the Naguamsett and the Devon completely contrast. When Gene and Finny emerge from the Devon, they feel clean and refreshed. However, Gene describes the Naguamsett as "ugly, saline, fringed with marsh, mud and seaweed" (68). When Gene starts a fight with Quackenbush and falls into the Naguamsett because Quacke ...

Number of words: 703 | Number of pages: 3

The French Lieutenant's Woman

... types of approaches or attitudes towards life. They each illuminate one of the basic facets of the human personality: the individual, the compromiser and the conformer. From the very beginning the reader senses that Sarah is very different for her times. She is quickly seen as the individualist who has taken a turn off the beaten path and decided it's much more to her liking. As well, Fowles appears to have written Sarah with a modern woman in mind; she is truly unsuited for 19th century living and she is shunned by her community because, ...

Number of words: 1155 | Number of pages: 5

Stephen Crane

... blind to see beyond their own homes and into the lives of others who dealt with a more unfortunate fate. Those being the ones who lived in poverty, abuse, and other harsh conditions which were finally exposed to America in 1893 by a 22-year old college free lance writer who simply wished to show things as they appeared to him: bitterly real. was America’s first realistic writer who exposed the realities of the slums, tenement living and other unfavorable conditions to a very naïve American audience. Through hard work and his great devotion ...

Number of words: 2458 | Number of pages: 9

Summary: Jurassic Park

... lizard fit closely to the description of a dinosaur. The second section ties in with the first one, but now the reader is presented with scientific evidence of living dinosaurs. Here the reader is given a little insight of the background to the situation, as Bob Morris, part of the EPA, reveals information that InGen had three Cray XMP's shipped to Costa Rica, which were very powerful supercomputers, and 24 Hoods, which were automated gene sequencers. Later on, the carcass of a dinosaur, which was found near the sight where the young gi ...

Number of words: 1405 | Number of pages: 6

The Adventures Of Huck Finn: Satire

... the Grangerford family and the Sheperdson family happened so long ago, that they forgot what they were fighting about: "‘What was the trouble about, Buck, - land,' ‘I reckon maybe - I don't know,' ‘Well, who done the shootin, Was it a Grangerford or a Sheperdson?' "Laws, how do I know, It was so long ago,' ‘Don't anybody know,' ‘Oh, yes, pa knows, I reckon, and some of the other old people; but they don't know what the row was about in the first place."' (108) Another demonstration of satire is played in superstition. Here, Jim ...

Number of words: 471 | Number of pages: 2

Stephen Coonts' "Flight Of The Intruder": Summary

... he is not in control of the targets, the Pentagon and Air Force is. Jake gathers information from maps and a friend in the navigation department to learn about a target he wants to go after: The Vietnam Communist Party Headquarters. The three figure that if they succeed, they'll have a good chance of hitting the leader of the party. Grafton and his bombardier, Virgil Cole miss the building completely and just hit a few bystanders and blow craters in the sidewalk. Just when the two are about to be court-martialed, President Nixon gives the orde ...

Number of words: 591 | Number of pages: 3

The Men We Carry In Our Minds And Why I Want A Wife: Gender Roles

... such examples have made clear my opinion of, “which gender has it easier”. Women far and away have the easier role in society. Through experiences and expectations I will prove this to be true. In The Men We Carry In Our Minds, by Scott Sanders, many key points of my statement are touched upon, and in many instances I can identify with the message the author is trying to send. Sanders discusses that it was the men who were sent off to the factories and the mills to provide for the family. It was the men that had to perform all of ...

Number of words: 742 | Number of pages: 3

Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony

... from also explains how Indian witchery led to the invention of the white people and all the evil inside of them, causing them to destroy the world and everything else that inhabits it. When the wind blew the white people across the ocean, thousands of them in giant boats (Silko 136), they were faced with the unfamiliar culture of the Indian people. Besides the fact that the Indians were in their way of expansion and development, the white man feared what they found. They feared an unknown language that they had never heard before and coul ...

Number of words: 1093 | Number of pages: 4

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