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The Natural: Fate
Number of words: 512 - Number of pages: 2.... because one night while
Roy's new so-called friend Bump leads him to a hotel room knowing that his
girlfriend Memo is lying buck-naked on the bed. When Roy notices her there
he doesn't stop and think,”Hold on a second their is a naked woman in my
bed mabey I should turn on the light and ask her what she's doing here” No,
he just jumps into bed and runs the bases. So one day Bump dies and Roy
thinks that Memo's all his, boy is he wrong. This new found passion
totally messes up his train of thought and guess what? Yup, you guessed it
another woman falls into his life. Strike two!
The .....
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“Playing Solo Through Life”
Number of words: 1278 - Number of pages: 5.... all of their attention and resources on me. (Salzman 4)
This is the first example of Renne being a soloist, in which he is the only child and his parents are going to keep it that way so he can be the best at his talent. In school he was different from other kids because he loved music and he wasn’t that interested in playing sports, his mother forbidden him to play. She excluded him from contact with other children after he moved to Germany with Von Kempen. Renne was forced to be alone and that is all he knew. It must have been real rough to be alone constantly. He was scared to .....
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A Midsummer Nights Dream
Number of words: 739 - Number of pages: 3.... Demetrius shows no love for Helena. (II i,line 227-228) Demetrius says, "I'll run from thee, and hide me in the brakes, And leave thee to the mercy of wild beasts." (II i,line 199-201) "Do I entice you? Do I speak you fair? Or rather do I not in plainest truth Tell you I do not, nor I cannot love you?" Demetrius clearly illustrates to Helena that he has no interest, but Helena persists. (II i,line 202-204) Helena says, "And even for that do I love you the more. I am your spaniel; and, Demetrius, The more you beat me, I will fawn on you." (II i,line 220-222) "Your virtue is my privilege. F .....
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All Quiet On The Western Front
Number of words: 1072 - Number of pages: 4.... were returned to the huts behind the lines, Himmelstoss appeared
and was insulted by some of the members of Paul's unit, who were then only
mildly punished. During a bloody battle, 120 of the men in Paul's unit were
killed. Paul was given leave and returned home only to find himself very
distant from his family as a result of the war. He left in agony knowing
that his youth was lost forever. Before returning to his unit, Paul spent
a little while at a military camp where he viewed a Russian prisoner of war
camp with severe starvation problems and again questioned the values that
he .....
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The Struggle Between Good And Evil In The Hobbit
Number of words: 1631 - Number of pages: 6.... is a fantasy world.
True it is an impossible world in which dragons talk, wizards perform
Magic, evil creatures lose their flesh - blood forms, and magic rings of
Power rule and corrupt (Evans145).
Magic comprises part of the fantasy aspects of the book. For example, when Gandalf is awakened by a scream, there is a flash of light and the goblin king falls at Gandalf's feet. "Bilbo's yell had done that much good. It had wakened him up wide…" (Carpenter 124). When Gandalf used his magic lightning command he killed the goblin king. When Bilbo encounters Gullum and plays a game of rid .....
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Hemingway's "The Old Man And The Sea": An Analysis
Number of words: 680 - Number of pages: 3.... "The moon affects her as it does a woman." (p.30) The sea was like a
second home for the man, who fished every day. La mar provided the man with
food, a living, an enemy, and a friend.
When he was out on the sea fishing, he was at home. The sea, la mar,
was like his mother. The fish in the ocean were like his brothers and sisters.
When he heard the dolphins playing in the night he thought, "They are
good...they are our brothers like the flying fish." (p.48) He had almost reeled
the giant marlin in when he realized what he was doing. "You are killing me,
fish. But you have a rig .....
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The Lord Of The Flies: Themes
Number of words: 1287 - Number of pages: 5.... 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 the leader he and Piggy his companion
keep order and maintain a civilized government. The strength of Ralph's
character was supported by the power of World War II. Jack, on the other hand,
rep .....
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Big Two-Hearted River - Part I
Number of words: 1188 - Number of pages: 5.... in In Our Time in which a character speaks in the first person. It occurs in "Big Two-Hearted River: Part II", an intensely personal story which completely immerses the reader in the actions and thoughts of Nick Adams. Hemingway's utilization of the omniscient third person narrator allows the reader to visualize all of Nick's actions and surroundings, which would have been much more difficult to accomplish using first person narration. Nick is seen setting up his camp in "Big Two-Hearted River: Part I" in intimate detail, from choosing the perfect place to set his tent to boiling a pot o .....
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Lord Of The Flies: We Hate Piggy
Number of words: 783 - Number of pages: 3.... thing to do but we
enjoyed putting him or her down.
Piggy is smarter than most of the survivors. You could see this because
he was aware of the situation around him whereas Ralph enjoyed the freedom. It
was Piggy's idea to write down all of the survivors' names and he knew where to
put the hole in the conch and what it could be used for. Piggy is also clever
in which when he is asked to do something physical, whether it would be
exercise or hard labour, he says he cannot do it because of his asthma, but
most people could see that he is lying. An example of this is when he was
afraid to swi .....
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Hamlet
Number of words: 769 - Number of pages: 3.... who collected an army to fight for his uncle’s land and honor, ’s maturity level for his time is low, especially for being a prince. Today ’s age group is more immature than during his own time so he relates to the youth of the 1990’s better than he does with the adolescents of his own time. Sarcasm, and blunt rudeness is often used by in order to offend people that, during his time, he should not have offended. often used the hasty marriage of his mother to offend Claudius. The first time that offends Claudius in the company of another person is when Claudius is supposed .....
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