Get Essays On Book Reports

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

Enter Topic

» Get Book Reports Papers

The Worth Of Huckleberry Finn

... An example of Mark Twain's feelings toward humanity during the era can be found in the section of the book when Huck finds himself in the middle of a feud between the Grangerfords and the Wilkses. In this passage of the book, Mark Twain puts Huck in a situation where there is no thought or reason. This fact is pointed out when Huck asks what started the feud, and nobody can tell him because they don't know, yet they continue to kill each other. The point which Twain drives toward in this point of the book is that people are basicall ...

Number of words: 678 | Number of pages: 3

1984

... spots O'Brien, a party leader whose eyes he see's a bit of political sympthy. See's young girl who he dislikes. He feels it is only a matter of time before his though crimes are detected. A knock at the door he thinks is police. Mrs. Parsons, his neighbor is at the door and asked him to unclog a sink. He does it but smells sweat all over the apartment. Mrs. Parsons is a follower of party doctrine and a fellow employee at the ministry. The children are members of Spies, a youth that encourages spying and telling on traitors, includin ...

Number of words: 3038 | Number of pages: 12

First Knight And The Ox-Bow Incident

... moral or not. Some of the differences range from; law, their feelings toward others, and their ethics and morale. The first difference is the two groups view on the law. The Knights of the about them. Whereas, the cowboys had a set of unwritten laws, which they changed whenever there was something that they wanted to pursue. Most of them felt that the law was wrong and too slow, so they often decided to take law into their own hands and form posses. If the majority of the people believed that a certain person is guilty or not, they would ...

Number of words: 642 | Number of pages: 3

Summary Of The Canterbury Tales

... less than a quarter of this plan. The work contains 22 verse tales (two unfinished) and two long prose tales; a few are thought to be pieces written earlier by Chaucer. The Canterbury Tales, composed of more than 18,000 lines of poetry, is made up of separate blocks of one or more tales with links introducing and joining stories within a block. The tales represent nearly every variety of medieval story at its best. The special genius of Chaucer's work, however, lies in the dramatic interaction between the tales and the framing s ...

Number of words: 1364 | Number of pages: 5

The Fall Of The House Of Usher: Imagery And Parallelism

... sending a letter detailing only a minor illness. After the narrator arrives and sees the condition of the house he becomes increasingly superstitious. When the narrator first sees his host he describes his morbid appearance and it arouses his superstition even more. Over a period of time the narrator begins to understand his friends' infliction, insanity. He tries in vane to comfort his friend and provide solace, however to no avail. When Roderick's only remaining kin, his sister Madeline dies, Rodericks insanity seems to have gone to a ...

Number of words: 1632 | Number of pages: 6

The Scarlet Letter Theme Symbo

... strict message. The churches plant a vision of austere religion and conformity into the minds of eager readers. The closeness of the buildings in proximity to one another demonstrates the level of care and interest each member of the population is meant to take in the others. One of the most prominent structures in the market place is the scaffold. “It was in short, the platform of the pillory; and above it rose the framework of that instrument of discipline, so fashioned as to confine the human head in its tight grasp, and thus hol ...

Number of words: 958 | Number of pages: 4

Frankenstein Biography, Settin

... illegitimate child, Fanny Imlay, and was pregnant with Mary when she married William Godwin. She was born in London in 1797. Sadly, Mary never knew her mother as she died just ten days after giving birth. Literary theorists have suggested that this sense of loss and search for identity can be found in Mary's works, particularly in Frankenstein and the creature's search for his creator. Mary was just fifteen years old when she first met Percy Shelley. He was an ardent admirer of Godwin's works and politics and a frequent visitor to the Godwin ...

Number of words: 10353 | Number of pages: 38

Discourse On The Origin Of Inequality: Savage Vs Civil Men

... 16). The author is more partial to surviving like the savage man but I believe that we would all be better off existing like the civil man. The civil man brought about modernization’s that the writer might not have wanted to see modernized, but it all happened for the best. Without the development of the civil man we would be living in harmony but no one would be truly happy due to the lack of knowledge and communication. Being discussed in this essay will be the advantages and disadvantages of living as a civil man as opposed to sa ...

Number of words: 1470 | Number of pages: 6

Bram Stokers Dracula

... count is no normal human, but an evil, blood-sucking vampire, who can command animals and elements with the wave of his hand. Harker escapes but the Count has devised an intricate plan to move to London and exercise his evil forces on innocent people there. However, a group of friends, including an open-minded but ingenious professor, a psychologist, an American, a rich man, as well as Jon an Harker and his wife Mina, learn of the Count's sinister plan and pledge to destroy him before he can create an army of un-dead vampires. They ...

Number of words: 747 | Number of pages: 3

Hester Prynne: Learning And Changing

... circumstance, an evidence of her strength: "...when [a] woman has encountered, and lived through, an experience of particular severity. If she be all tenderness, she will die." (163) As her crime is revealed to the community and she is subsequently punished as a direct result of her pregnancy, the learnings of motherhood and of wearing the scarlet letter as a permanent reminder of her sin are inextricably linked. Also related are her thoughts and changes of perspective in regard to women in society, love, sexuality, and relationships betwee ...

Number of words: 644 | Number of pages: 3

The Adventures Of Huck Finn: Jim Is A Hero

... So I hollered again, and then Jim says: “De man ain't asleep -- he's dead. You hold still-- I'll go en see. “He went, and bent down and looked, and says: "It's a dead man. Yes, indeedy; naked, too. He's ben shot in de back. I reck'n he's ben dead two er three days. Come in, Huck, but doan' look at his face -- it's too gashly." This is an example of how Jim is a humane and loving person because he does not allow Huck to see his dead father's face once he sees and understands the position in wehich he is placed. Later, Huck wishes to ...

Number of words: 945 | Number of pages: 4

An Analysis Of Irving's "Rip Van Winkle" And "The Devil And Tom Walker

... Tom Walker" are two good examples. To start of with there all around feeling and theme. Now one can tell "Rip VanWinkle" is set in a fantasy world right of the bat by the way Irving sort of zooms in on the scene, first he tells of the mountains and then the town and down till he's in the room with Tom and his wife. In "The Devil and Tom Walker" the author gives some info on the situation and the charters and then just jumps into the story. In both of the stories you get the feeling of something supernatural is going to happen. Also in bot ...

Number of words: 482 | Number of pages: 2

Pages: 1 ... 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 next »

Essay Categories

» Get Book Reports Papers