|
ESSAY TOPICS |
|
MEMBER LOGIN |
|
|
|
Book Reports Essay Writing Help
1984 Reading Journal
Words: 3000 / Pages: 11 .... 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, including parents. Winston is revolted. He returns home and writes a couple more minutes before going back to work. He remenbers a dream where O'Brien tole him he would meet him in a place wher there is no darkness. He washes his hands and hides the diary
Reaction
Major ideas, conflicts and themes are introduced. We are shown how the earth has changed, into 3 main contenients. we are also introduced to the main chara .....
|
The Canterbury Tales: The Monk
Words: 263 / Pages: 1 .... a dishonest
monk.
The Monk was a man who looked as though he enjoyed the good life.
He was fat, and obviously enjoyed good food as well as fine clothes. He
wore a fur cloak adorned with fancy decorations, and other expensive
apparel.
It was required that a man go to school to become a monk,
and the Monk had attended school to become part of the religious order.
However, he was more interested in hunting than studying. He was good to
his horses, and had greyhounds as well. His friends were hunters also.
The Monk even preached against ideas and traditions that called hunters
unholy.
The Monk used church money for his own personal use. H .....
|
Roles In Frankenstein
Words: 1629 / Pages: 6 .... also afraid of him because people are afraid of things they know nothing about. The character of Justine can be used to display societies affect on people. Society doesn't kill her, but the ignorance of people does. Society can't kill a person, but it can influence the actions of its people. She is held accountable for a murder she didn't commit. Judgment is passed on her prematurely. I'll admit there was evidence against Justine, and we have the advantage of knowing that she didn't do it. Justine was not exactly a pillar of the community, so some reasonable evidence and the fact that human behavior tends to view people that are in the lower- .....
|
Something Wicked This Way Comes" Supernatural Forces
Words: 1093 / Pages: 4 .... down her hands to feel the bumps of
the world, touch house roofs, probe attic bins, reap dust, examine droughts
that blew through halls and souls that blew through people, draughts vented
from bellows to thump-wrist, to pound-temples, to pulse-throat, and back to
bellows again (Bradbury 143).” The carnival selects her because of her
unique ability to sense emotions and feel the body’s reaction to the world
around it. After the boys thwart her first attempt to find them and give
them to Mr. Dark, the old witch went in search of them during the parade,
but encounters Will’s father instead. During their confrontation Mr.
Halloway’s lack of fe .....
|
Gatsby 2
Words: 562 / Pages: 3 .... away to have Daisy. Also his eccentric cars were the center of attention because of their high price and extreme beauty. All of these examples of prosperity represent the lives of the people of this novel to a point. Together, the citizens of this book are more concerned with their possessions and money, than their health and lives. Subsequently, the people at his parties show careless recklessness with their abuse of alcohol and their bodies. First of all, the people at Gatsby¹s balls drank all night and showed no respect for Gatsby¹s house or possessions. Also the participants of the parties held at Gatsby¹s mansion are audacious enough to driv .....
|
The Evolution Of Ellen Foster
Words: 645 / Pages: 3 .... marriage. The reader only sees what Ellen tells so there is no way of knowing if the couple is ever in love. Ellen “walks on eggshells” in order to avoid confrontation with her father. Avoiding confrontation is a major trait she learns from her parents. She also gains the role of caregiver while taking care of herself and of her mother. She protects her mother from her father. She becomes an adult over night after her mother’s death, shopping for herself and practically being her own parent. Fear and loneliness are emotions felt by Ellen after her mother dies. No child should be afraid in its own home, yet Ellen always takes this in .....
|
The Little Prince: An Analysis
Words: 430 / Pages: 2 .... the story is trying to convey. Young adults will most
likely read or listen to the book and ask, “why?. And look for reasons or
meaning because of their curiosity and ignorance.
There are many instance where an adult might possibly pass possible
significant reflections off as nothing and a young adult would find meaning.
In the desert when the pilot is fixing his plane, there is a time when the
little Prince is about to embark to an unknown well of water. The pilot
sees the Prince wondering off and says, “Where are you going?” The little
Prince replies, “to the well”, with great contentment. An adult might pass
that off as simply just .....
|
The Awakening: Edna Pontellier's Spiritual Awakening
Words: 432 / Pages: 2 .... Edna bought the house around the corner in order to go and be away from her children and paint. Towards the end of her life, Edna realizes that she is becoming consumed by her family. They are taking over her soul. “But she knew a way to elude them.” (p. 115) Her actions around her suicide greatly symbolize everything she hope to achieve in her life, and finally found in her death. As she walked down to the beach for the last time she put on her bathing suit. When she arrived at the shore, “she cast the unpleasant, pricking garments from her.” That symbolized the shedding of her “unpleasant” and “pricking” life. “For the .....
|
The Lord Of The Flies
Words: 1287 / Pages: 5 .... between darkness and light, the defects of human nature, and a philosophical pessimism that seals the fate of man. Golding's work are, due to their rigid structure and style, are interpreted in many different ways. Its unique style is different from the contemporary thought and therefor open for criticism.
The struggle between darkness and light is a major theme in all the works of William Golding. Strong examples of this are found throughout Lord of the Flies. The most obvious is the struggle between Ralph and Jack. The characters themselves have been heavily influenced by the war. Ralph is the representative of Democracy. Elected as t .....
|
Time Machine Book Report
Words: 1164 / Pages: 5 .... been compared with a combination of Charles Darwin and Mary Shelly. Wells coined the phrase "the shape of things to come" and warned people of the dangers of the future in the literature that he wrote. Wells' prophecy of "the shape of things to come" is accomplished in The Time Machine. His ideas about the future are surely detrimental. As the Time Traveler is standing on the shore of a dead sea, he thinks to himself, I cannot convey the sense of abominable desolation that hung over the world. The red eastern sky, the northward blackness, the salt Dead Sea, the stony beach crawling with these foul, slow-stirring monsters, the uniform poisonous-looking .....
|
|
|