Book Reports

commentary on
Commentary on "Bartleby the scrivner" Commentary on "Bartleby, the Scrivener":  The character of the narrator might be identified as a rather self-centered man who would rather 'prefer not to' undergo a confrontation with any of hi

Comparison Of H
Comparison Of Huck Finn And Tom Sawyer Word Count: 250 Question 1: Compare and contrast the personalities of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer are two friends with very different personalities, each bringing their own uniq

comparison of macbeth and lord o
Comparison of Macbeth and Lord of the Flies Comparison of Macbeth and Lord of the Flies:  There are five similarities between Jack and Macbeth. Firstly, they were both leader of some kind.  Jack was a leader of a choir group while Macbeth was a c

comparisons between the movie an
Comparisons between the movie and play Hamlet Comparisons between the movie and play Hamlet:  Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet was originally written as a play, but as time has passed it has been produced, on many different occasions, as a motion picture.

COMPASSION FOR
"COMPASSION FOR THE SOULS WHO INHABIT HELL" Word Count: 713 Dante's Inferno is a 14th- century poem that seems calculated to cause the greatest possible pain to a 20th-century humanist, or to anyone who is attracted to Christianity because of its compassio

Congo
Congo Word Count: 1015 The book Congo is about a group of people who go to the African Congo to return a gorilla to her homeland and to find type IIb blue diamonds. On their journey they discover the lost city of Zinj and a new species of killer gorilla

Conrad is a Sex
Conrad is a Sexist Word Count: 559 In Joseph Conrad’s novelette Heart of Darkness, Marlow’s view of women embodies the typical 19th century view of women as the inferior sex. There are only three relatively minor female characters in Heart of Darkness: Mar

Copmparing Catc
Copmparing Catcher In The Rye And Pygmalion And Their Themes Word Count: 1884 Comparing Catcher in the Rye and Pygmalion and the Themes They Represent In J. D. Salinger’s novel The Catcher in the Rye, the main character, Holden Caulfield, muses at one p

Creative Managm
Creative Managment Word Count: 1231 Creative Management gives creative ideas of how a manger should present himself and how to approach different situations. Creative Management written by Shiegru Kobanashi, focuses mainly on the importance of teamwork, an

crucible
the crucible the crucible:  The Crucible" was written by Arthur Miller, a famous playwright of his time. Some of his other works include "Death of a Salesman" and "A View From the Bridge." Miller has received such awards as The Gold Medal Award for Dr

crystal cave
the crystal cave the crystal cave:  If the name Merlin were spoken, many would immediately connect the name to the legendary magician that served King Arthur. Many variations of this legendary magician have been passed down through the ages, but only

Cyrano De Berge
Cyrano De Bergerac Word Count: 540 Every generation has its own heroes that display, what they believe to be, ideal characteristics. While each is different in their own way, many of these role models share similar qualities. Most tend to have courage,

Dave Barry's Co
Dave Barry's Complete Guide To Guys Word Count: 1440 Wait, are you telling me that Dave Barry's Complete Guide to Guys addresses women's issues? If "women's issues" include understanding why guys spit, scratch themselves, and give each other noog

Dawn
Dawn Word Count: 2702 Dawn by Elie Wiesel Chapter 1 Takes place in Palestine. The narrator knows that he has to kill a man tomorrow. He doesn’t know who it is but he knows what he has to do. The man that was going to die was an Englishman. The reason t

Death Of A Sale
Death Of A Salesman Word Count: 859 In the first B.C dramatist known as Aristotle started to write a series of plays called the tragedies. They were as follows: the play revolved around a great man, such as a king or war hero, who had a tragic flaw. Th

delieverance
Delieverance Delieverance: Disorientation Leads to Knowledge:  James Dickey’s novel Deliverance is an action packed journey of four city men into the unknown. While on the journey, the men are faced with many life-changing obstacles. Each of the men t

Demian - Herman
Demian - Herman Hesse Word Count: 742 Herman Hesse’s novel Demian tells of a young boy named Emil Sinclair and his childhood growing up during pre-World War I. Emil struggles to find his new self-knowledge in the immoral world and is caught between goo

Desirees Baby
Desirees Baby Word Count: 963 SIGNIFICANCES OF A LETTER "Désirée’s Baby" is a story of love, prejudice and rejection, a story with noble beginnings that slowly turns to reveal an uglier side of human relations. Armand, a wealthy landowner

DH Lawrence's T
DH Lawrence's The Rainbow: Quest, Passage, Awakening, And Change In Relationships Word Count: 522 The Rainbow is one of DH Lawrence's most controversial works. It was banned in Great Britain when it was first published. The Rainbow introduced sexual life i

diana
Diana Diana’s Role in Dunstables Life:  In the novel Fifth Business, the theme of rebirth is apparent. Diana Marfleet, a volunteer nurse, is responsible for tending to the injured. One of the injured she aids is Dunstable Ramsay, the narrator of the n

Doctor Dolittle
Doctor Dolittle Word Count: 371 My book report is on Doctor Dolittle. The author of this book is Hugh Lofting. Doctor Dolittle talks to the animals and is also kind of like a veterinarian. He knows most of the animal languages. He really calls himself a

Donkey Flip
Donkey Flip Word Count: 1492 Analysis of the Holocaust Of all the examples of injustice against humanity in history, the Jewish Holocaust has to be one of the most prominent. In the period of 1933 to 1945, the Nazis waged a vicious war against Jews an

Dover Beach
Dover Beach Word Count: 595 How can life or anything be so wonderful, but at times seem so unbearable? This is a question that Matthew Arnold may have asked himself one day, while writing "Dover Beach". This is a poem about a sea and a beach t

Dragonsbane
Dragonsbane Word Count: 424 Author-Barbara Hambly Publisher-Balentine Books Date of Publication-1987 The setting for Dragonsbane was in about the 1400¹s in a place called Wyr. Jenny John and Gareth are the main characters. Jenny is a wizard women

duke ellington
Duke Ellington Duke Ellington:  By the time of his passing, he was considered amongst the world’s greatest composers and musicians. The French government honored him with their highest award, the Legion of Honor, while the government of the United Sta

Dumpster
Dumpster Word Count: 309 Lars Eighner writes about his life as a homless person and his struggles to make a decent living at it. This consists in what he so properly calls "Dumpster diving". His essay depicts the variety of useful objects one c

dust in the great gatsby
Dust in the Great Gatsby Dust in the Great Gatsby:  In the novel The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald incorporates many different themes, but the most prevalent message is that of the impossibility of the American Dream. Fitzgerald writes of two type

Earth 2 puzzle
Earth 2 puzzle Word Count: 673 A. The main idea of this story is for the colonists that landed on the new earth to get out of the terrian's (an alien life that lives on the planet) underground city, that was thought to be built a long time ago. 1. One

East Of Eden
East Of Eden Word Count: 1658 East of Eden Some of the most aspiring and influential authors show to be American novelists. American novelists brought about a new style of writing, which became very popular. John Steinbeck shows this style of writin

Easter Wings
Easter Wings Word Count: 1576 The poem "Easter Wings" by George Herbert is a poem full of deep imagery not only in its words but also in the visual structure of the stanzas. In Herbert’s poem why does he use a shape poem? Because he wanted thi

Elephant Man
Elephant Man Word Count: 292 Elephant Man In literature, as in life, we encounter persons who have faults as well as virtues. In the novel The Elephant Man by Christine Sparks a man has faults. The character that has faults in this novel is Bytes who

Eleven
Eleven Word Count: 575 "Eleven" by Sandra Cisneros, uses many literary devices to characterize a complex eleven-year-old. Rachel, the ingenuous 1st person narrator, relates the details of her humiliating eleventh birthday. Although her diction

Elisa Takes On
Elisa Takes On Herself Word Count: 1532 "The Chrysanthemums" is a short story in The Long Valley, a collection of short stories by John Steinbeck. This story dramatizes the efforts made by a housewife, Elisa Allen, to compensate for the disappointmen

EMERSON
EMERSON Word Count: 339 "Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other." Although written long ago these words by, Ralph Waldo Emerson still hold true today. Everyday in society people are making improvements, however,

Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson Word Count: 643 Emily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830 in Amherst Massachusetts. She had a younger sister named Lavina and an older brother named Austin. Her mother Emily Norcross Dickinson, was largely dependent on her family a

ENDURING ENDEA
ENDURING, ENDEARING NONSENSE Word Count: 596 ENDURING, ENDEARING NONSENSE by Andrew Green Did you read and enjoy Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland books as a child? Or better still, did you have someone read them to you? Perhaps you discovered them a

Ernest Hemingwa
Ernest Hemingway Word Count: 1656 "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" was published by Scribner's Magazine in March of 1933, but it was not until 1956 that an apparent inconsistency in the waiters' dialogue was brought to Hemingway's attention.

Escape From A D
Escape From A Dollhouse Word Count: 1763 Escape From A Doll House We have all felt the need to be alone or to venture to places that our minds have only imagined. However, we as individuals have always found ourselves clutching to our responsibilities a

ETHAN FROME
ETHAN FROME Word Count: 646 Ethan Frome’s Selflessness and Affects of his Responsibilities By Neil Mehta Ethan Frome is the main character of Edith Wharton’s tragic novel. Ethan lives the bitterness of his youth’s lost opportunities, and dissatisfactio

Ethan Frome2
Ethan Frome Word Count: 893 Ethan Frome is a story of ill-fated love, set during the winter in the rural New England town of Starkfield. Ethan is a farmer who is married to a sickly woman named Zeena. The two live in trapped, unspoken resentment on Etha

Everything That
Everything That Rises Must Converge Word Count: 468 There is an absolute theme of integration in "Everything That Rises Must Converge" by Flannery O’ Connor. Through the experience of reading this short story, we can depict the characters’

Explanation Of
Explanation Of The Poem From Snowbound Word Count: 407 Explanation of the poem from Snowbound The main theme of Snowbound is that no-matter what happens, family will be there to help and comfort. This theme is demonstrated widely throughout the poem and

Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451 Word Count: 1396 Book Title: Fahrenheit 451 Author: Ray Bradbury Original date of publication: 1953 Part A.) The Author. Visit the reference section of a library. Drawing from at least two sources, share the life story of the author. Disc

Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury Word Count: 356 One of the themes which happens to be the biggest one is burning books because they conflict with each other and the ideas of society. The firemen don't fight fires, they start them when they find books. Re

falling
Falling Falling:  Falling is a book that contains many complex scenarios and interpersonal relationships. The plot is set on the strong bonds between characters due to shared opinions and emotions. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

FAMILY IN CHARL
FAMILY IN CHARLES DICKEN’S NOVEL Word Count: 5476 University of Latvia Faculty of Foreign Languages Foreign Literature Department FAMILY IN CHARLES DICKEN’S NOVEL "DAVID COPPERFIELD" Natalya Artjuh 3d year student Mat

Far From The Ma
Far From The Madding Crowd Word Count: 542 Thomas Hardy Adam Gates Far From The Madding Crowd centers around the beautiful Bathsheba Everdene, and the three who love her and try to win her over. Gabriel Oak, Mr. Boldwood, and Sergeant Francis Troy fi

Farenheit 451
Farenheit 451 Word Count: 1139 "Guy Montag enjoyed his job. He had been a fireman for ten years and he had never questioned the joy of the midnight runs, nor the joy of watching pages consumed by flames...never questioned anything until he met a seven

Farewell To Arm
Farewell To Arms Paper Word Count: 1315 Hemmingway has a unique style of writing. It works on multiple levels. A person could read Farewell to Arms and enjoy it as a tragic love story. Hemmingway’s concise writing style allows a literal interpretation. At

Fathers and Son
Fathers and Sons Word Count: 778 Arcady: His Voyage Towards Individualism In the novel Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev, Arcady plays a major role both in his own life and the lives of others. Arcady, despite the shield he surrounds himself with, is no

Faust
Faust Word Count: 791 The hero that never was In Faust, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe builds a dramatic poem around the strengths and weaknesses of a man who under a personalized definition of a hero fails miserably. A hero is someone that humanity models

fear and loathing in las vegas
fear and loathing in las vegas fear and loathing in las vegas:  Where do I start ? This book left me with so many questions and so many things to think about. Was this journey real? Was Hunter S. Thompson drawing off real life experinces to create thi

Ficciones
Ficciones Word Count: 553 Jorge Luis Borges possesses writing styles unlike others of his time. Through his series of works, he has acquired the title of "the greatest living writer in the Spanish language." The particular example of work that I

Fight Club Comp
Fight Club Compared To Siddhartha Word Count: 645 Since the beginning of time, man has been on a quest to find his inner self. This topic has been the theme of many books and researches. This is no exception, in the 1959 book, Siddhartha by Hermann Hes

Figure Of Chris
Figure Of Christ In "Lord Of The Flies" Word Count: 693 "CHRIST" IN LORD OF THE FLIES Many critics have compared the character of Simon in the book Lord of the Flies to a Christ figure. After reading this book I also found out that Simon and Chr

Flowers For Alg
Flowers For Algernon Word Count: 593 Melissa Jackson 10-17-99 Exploratory Thinking Period 3 "Flowers For Algernon" Report "Flowers for Algernon" is about a man named Charlie Gordon who is mentally retarded. Charlie signs up for an experiment that

Flowers for Alg2
Flowers for Algernon Word Count: 644 Medical operations are carried out everyday, but for some, an operation can change a person's life. One experiment was done on a mentally retarded person to try to raise his intelligence. The experiment worked, but a

Frankenstein
Frankenstein Word Count: 695 It has been questioned by people, honored by people and revered since the beginning of time. Yet even today not one person can say what is morally right. It is a matter of opinion. It was Dr. Victor Frankenstein's opinion t

Friday
Friday Word Count: 356 FRIDAY A handsome, in about 26 years old, with straight and strong limbs, tall and well shaped fellow who bare name Friday which he got for the memory of a day he was rescued. The native who was saved from a certain death by Robin

gatsby
Gatsby Gatsby:  Gatsby was stupid for pursuing Daisy for many reasons, first of all; in their short history together Daisy had already turned him down, they had not seen each other in five years, and Gatsby was only going on the assumption that Daisy

Glass Menagerie
Glass Menagerie Commentary Word Count: 511 First of all, I liked the way that The Glass Menagerie was not specifically dated. What I mean by this, is even though the play was written in the forties, today we (people in general), can still relate to some

Go Ask Alice
Go Ask Alice Word Count: 1101 Go Ask Alice This book is actually a real diary, written by a 15 year old American girl who is tossed into the world of drugs. The girl has the "perfect" life but is forced to change from a child to an adult vir

Grapes Of Wrath
Grapes Of Wrath Word Count: 659 Grapes of Wrath Explain how the behavior of the Joads shows Steinbeck’s view of the responsibility of the individual to society as a whole. Chapter 14 made an interesting point. At one point in the chapter it was stated t

Grapes of Wrath2
Grapes of Wrath:Dustbowl Disaster Word Count: 295 In the 1930s, drought and horrific dust storms turned the once-fertile agricultural lands of mid-America into virtual dust bowls and wastelands. Thousands of destitute farmers packed their families and b

Great Expectati
Great Expectations Word Count: 637 Great Expectations The novel, Great Expectations, presents the story of a young boy growing up and becoming a gentleman. He must learn to appreciate people for who they are, not shun them for who they aren’t. Nickn

Great Gatsby
Great Gatsby Word Count: 384 Gatsby meets a woman and falls in love with her. However, Gatsby does not have the fame and fortune a classy lady like Daisy desires. Gatsby decides to devote his whole life to achieving the material goods with which to satisfy

Grendel
Grendel Word Count: 546 Authors often have to choose between concentrating on either plot or social commentary when writing their novels; in John Gardener's Grendel, any notion of a plot is forgone in order for him to share his thoughts about late sixti

Gulliver's Trav
Gulliver's Travels By Jonathan Swift Word Count: 1361 Many authors write books about events, their lives and their environment, and their corrupt government. One satirical author who wrote a novel about living in a corrupt society is Jonathan Swift who

Hamlet
Hamlet Word Count: 574 In the first section of the passage, Hamlet is filled with self-loathing. His feelings of worthlessness are made quite apparent as he questions himself with statements like "What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be

hamlet1
Hamlet Hamlet:  n the play, "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare, many aspects contribute to the tale of tragedy, but of these there is one thing that is purely essential to this famous story : the ghost of King Hamlet. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Hamlet and King
Hamlet and King Lear Word Count: 473 There are a lot of similarities in two Shakespeare stories HAMLET and KING LEAR. I guess its because of the style in which Shakes peare wrote. William Shakespeare wrote three kinds of stories: comedy, tragedy and hi

Hard Times
Hard Times Word Count: 1513 Utilitarianism "Quadruped. Graminivorous. Forty teeth, namely twenty-four grinders, four eye-teeth, and twelve incisive. Sheds coat in spring......" A perfect example of a product of utilitarian education, Bitze

Hatchet
Hatchet Word Count: 288 In the book Hatchet by Gary Paulsen, the main character Brian Robeson is a thirteen-year-old boy from Hampton, New York. Brian's parents just got a divorce. Brian is on his way to visit his father in Canada when the pilot has a hear

Hawthorne
Hawthorne Word Count: 461 Andrew Mr. Wing English III, Period 4 November 23, 1999 Breaking out of Prison Hawthorne’s view on life is wrong. He says that in the depths of human nature there is an inner world in which every human being is alo

Hawthorne To Fa
Hawthorne To Faulkner: The Evolution Of The Short Story Word Count: 1623 Hawthorne to Faulkner: The Evolution of the Short Story Nathaniel Hawthorne and William Faulkner’s short stories "Young Goodman Brown" and "A Rose for Emily" use a moral to endorse

Heart of Darkne
Heart of Darkness Word Count: 1651 The framing narrative of Heart of Darkness is presented by an unnamed, undefined speaker, who is one of a group of men, former sailors, now professionals, probably middle-aged, on the deck of a yacht at the mouth of t

Hill House
Hill House Word Count: 1278 Ever do something stupid to impress someone? Throughout a person’s life they will do something very ignorant or say something very stupid hundreds of times. Most of the time it is because they are trying to impress somebody or c

Hindsight
Hindsight Word Count: 735 To fully know one’s self and to be able to completely understand and interpret all actions and experiences one goes through is difficult enough. However, analyzing and interpreting the thoughts and feelings of another human bei

Hoop Dreams
Hoop Dreams Word Count: 765 Hoop Dreams is a story about two young men who want to become basketball players in the NBA. The author Ben Joravsky wrote the book. The idea for the book came from the documentary movie, Hoop Dreams, which is a true story.

House Of Spirit
House Of Spirits Word Count: 645 THE SUCCESSES AND FAILURES OF ESEBAN TRUEBA Esteban Trueba's triumphs and defeats Isabel Allende documents The House of the Spirits. After leaving, his mother and sister, and starting a new and independent life, Esteban

huck fin
Huck Fin Huck Fin:  The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, is a book about a young boy's coming of age in the Missouri of the mid-1800's. The main character, Huckleberry Finn, spends much time in the book floating down the Mississippi Rive

Huck Finn-Indiv
Huck Finn-Individual Vs. Society Word Count: 2824 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The conflict between society and the individual is a very important theme portrayed throughout Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Many people see

Huck Finn
Huck Finn Word Count: 854 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The conflict between society and the individual is a very important theme portrayed throughout Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Many people see Huckleberry Finn as a mischievous

Huck Finn And R
Huck Finn And Racism Word Count: 717 In the novel Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, Huck goes through many adventures on the Mississippi River. He escapes from Pap and sails down the Mississippi with an escaped slave named Jim. Huck goes through the

Huckleberry Fin
Huckleberry Finn - Racist Novel? Word Count: 933 There is a major argument among literary critics whether The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, is or is not a racist novel. The question focuses on the depiction of Jim, the black slave, and

huckleberry finn
Huckleberry Finn Huckleberry Finn:  Huckleberry Finn provides the narrative voice of Mark Twain's novel, and his honestvoice combined with his personal vulnerabilities reveal the different levels of the Grangerfords' world. Huck is without a family: n

i stand here ironing
I Stand Here Ironing I Stand Here Ironing:  The short story by Tillie Olsen, I Stand Here Ironing, is an example of a mother daughter struggle. From what I understand, the young mother initially has a rough life, and can barely keep track of herself a

in black boy
Black Boy In Black Boy, by Richard Wright, Wright is able to recollect the struggles of his life. Beginning at an early age, he was faced with the problems of hunger. His hunger starts off as a hunger for food, but later becomes a hunger for knowledge. -=-

Inherit The Win
Inherit The Wind Word Count: 816 The Truth about Stanley Kramer’s Inherit the Wind History is consistently used in films as a technique to teach the values and morals of events that occurred. But what’s the point in teaching history through films when t

Into Thin Air
Into Thin Air Word Count: 557 Into Thin Air By Jon Krakauer Jon Krakauer is the author of three books including Eiger Dreams and the acclaimed best seller Into the Wild. He is also the contributing editor of Outside magazine. He and his wife live in S

Irony Of The Me
Irony Of The Metamorphosis Word Count: 1107 The Metamorphosis I have chosen The Metamorphosis as my subject for this paper; I will take a close look at how the death of Gregor Samsa opens the doors to understanding the story. I will give examples of iro

Island
Island Word Count: 416 I came to the conclusion that Langston was writing about te struggle to freedom for blacs. Lanston Hughes wrote about racism often in his poems, and this particular poem seems to follow that pattern. Hughes gives the feeling of l

Jack London
Jack London Word Count: 1745 Jack London fought his way up out of the factories and waterfront dives of West Oakland to become the highest paid, most popular novelist and short story writer of his day. He wrote passionately and prolifically about the great

Johnny Tremain
Johnny Tremain Word Count: 483 Imagine being back in the colony of Massachusetts before the Revolutionary war. As you walk down the streets of Boston, you meet a young man named Johnny Tremain. After listening to his story, you think of the different w

julius
julius julius:  There have been many great leaders in our history, one of who is Julius Caesar. Julius Caesar was born a leader and died a leader. From his uprising triumphs, which he had many of, to his tragic down fall. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar Word Count: 293 In William Shakespeare’s play, Julius Caesar, there is a major difference between two of the characters, Brutus and Mark Antony. Brutus was very honorable and Antony was very persuasive. When Brutus spoke at Caesar’s funera

Jurassic Park
Jurassic Park Jurassic Park:  Jurassic Park, the novel by Michael Crichton had many rich, and interesting characters. Crichton seemed to be able to make them come alive and jump out of the pages into three-dimensional people. One such character was Jo

Jurrasic Park
Jurrasic Park Word Count: 1118 Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton Kevin Number of pages: 399 Block B Plot Summary Introduction The Story takes place on an Island off the Coast of Costa Rica. Where A very wealthy man, John Hammond, Has set up A G

killing mr
Killing Mr Killing Mr. Griffin:  I read the book Killing Mr. Griffin, by Lois Duncan. There was an English teacher, Mr. Griffin, which nobody liked. Especially one particular group of friends. They disliked him so much that they wanted to try and scar

King Lear
King Lear Word Count: 1800 King Lear is a detailed description of the consequences of one man's decisions. This fictitious man is Lear, King of England, who's decisions greatly alter his life and the lives of those around him. As Lear bears the status o

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