Summary Of The Andromeda Strain By Crichton
.... in the town, everything goes silent, he
knows something has gone very wrong, and calls in the problem. The systems
that have been set up to take over in the event that something that like
this happened start to take over, and certain people are contacted. Years
before, a group of biologists proposed to the President that, in case of a
unknown biological agent getting out into the country, an underground
secret base should be set up to study the organism, and possibly try to
find a cure. It would be five levels, each successive level more sterile
than the other, from level 1 being non-sterile, to level 5 being as sterile
as poss .....
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The Apprenticeship Of Duddy Kravitz: Duddy
.... the
sly scammer person without even realising that he had a decision in the
matter.
Simcha, Duddy's grandfather, was the person whom Duddy looked up to
and wanted to please because he was the only one who truly respected and
loved Duddy. It was also Simcha who planted the dream for land into Duddy's
head when he said to him, "A man without land is nobody." (p.101) In
Duddy's apprenticeship, Simcha is one of his masters who teaches Duddy
about striving for something and having the determination and perserverence
to achieve in life. What Duddy failed to hear or understand was that the
achievement of a dream would mean nothi .....
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The Awakening Vs. A Doll's House
.... to
Nora. He calls her his ³little squirrel² or ³little skylark² and requires
her to ³do tricks² to please him. In addition, he treats her like a child,
a ³feather head² who can't understand anything important. In The Awakening,
Leonce is more subtle in his mistreatment of his wife. He tries to control
Edna by pushing his point until she does what he wants. He also tries to
make her feel bad about herself. For example, he tells her she isn't a
good mother to their sons. Although this type of behavior is condemned in
both of these stories, just characterizing this behavior as normal sends a
bad message. If young men are repe .....
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The Beast In The Jungle: The Beast Of James
.... relationship?
The author could tell us exactly why John Marcher does not marry May
Bartram. The narrator tells us that Marcher's situation "was not a
condition he could invite a woman to share" and "that a man of feeling
didn't cause himself to be accompanied by a lady on a tiger hunt" (p. 417).
This is nonsense. Marcher won't marry May because he doesn't want to
inconvenience her with his condition or endanger her life on a tiger hunt?
First of all, he inconveniences her right up to the day of her death with
his condition, and as for the metaphorical tiger hunt, what exactly does
that refer to? What is it here that James w .....
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Hemingway's A Farewell To Arms
.... up in a tragedy. The main character's wife got
pregnant and she was off to have her baby when problems started occurring.
They had to have a caesarean, and the baby dies, and when the mother of the
child starts to hemorrhage Henry knows that it was over for his wife and he
was right.
From the beginning of the book until the end, the action was up. Ever
since the front page Henry was traveling around to different towns so it
was not boring for the reader. That made it very interesting for the
reader because it was always a new town coming up so they were being
introduced in the new characters quite often. As the story goe .....
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The Caine Mutiny: Willie Keith - A Life Changed
.... Willie then had to push himself to be
on top of everything. The 48 demerits were not just going to go away and
he couldn't have his mother do something about it. Willie had to be the
one to get himself out of the mess he had created. Even when his father
came to tell Willie that he could probably get him transferred to the army
Willie said, "Will you do me a favor, Dad?….Tell Mom, as nicely as you can,
to call off Uncle Lloyd." His Uncle Lloyd was in the army and could have
gotten Willie transferred but Willie decided to say with the navy. Little
by little he was learning to become more dependent on himself, instead o .....
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The Catcher In The Rye: Chapter By Chapter Summary
.... the shower curtains and disturbes him by picking up and laying
down everything in the room and asking stupid questions. Finally,
Stradlater, Holden's roommate comes in in a big hurry and makes Ackley
think of leaving the room.
Chapter 4 ---------
Stradlater tells Holden he's going out tonight with Jane Gallagher, who
used to be Holden's neighbour when she was young. While Stradlater is
shaving, Holden sits next to him and he's turning the tap on and off, as a
nervous habit. Stradlater asks Holden to do him a huge favour by writing a
composition for him. Holden isn't interested but says that he might do it.
They start tal .....
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The Catcher In The Rye: Holden
.... returning
to his parents' inevitable wrath.
Told as a monologue, the book describes Holden's thoughts and
activities over these few days, during which he describes a developing
nervous breakdown, symptomised by his bouts of unexplained depression,
impulsive spending and generally odd, erratic behaviour, prior to his
eventual nervous collapse.
However, during his psychological battle, life continues on around
Holden as it always had, with the majority of people ignoring the 'madman
stuff' that is happening to him - until it begins to encroach on their well
defined social codes. Progressively through the novel w .....
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The Catcher In The Rye: Holden; A Teenager With Definite Moral Values
.... ‘Fuck you' on the wall. It damn near drove me crazy”
(201). Holden wiped it off because he wanted to protect the children form
seeing it. In fact, the title of the book deals with Holden wanting to
protect kids. Holden told Phoebe, “...I have to catch everybody if they
start to go over the cliff... I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all”
(173). I believe the cliff represents innocence, and Holden wants to keep
the kids from falling off and losing it.
Salinger stresses Holden's feelings about phony people and honesty
more often than any other value Holden holds. Holden values people that
act the way the really fee .....
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All Quiet On The Western Front: "The Cause Of Death"
.... change from idealism to disillusionment is really the driving
force behind the novel. From young school boys, listening to their
schoolmaster asking "Won't you join up comrades?"(11) to "weary,
broken"(294) men, idealism and disillusionment play a major role on Paul's
decisions and thoughts. For example, on the second page of the novel,
Paul says, "It would not be such a bad war if only one could get a little
more sleep." (2) Later in the book, a disillusioned Paul says of the same
war, "I see how people are set against one another and in silence,
unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay one another."(263)
Even th .....
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A Review Of "The Cay" By Theodore Taylor
.... father was offered
a job in an oil refinery nearby. Williamsted is very quaint and the harbour
is always full of black people on their fishing boats, called schooners.
One day a German U-boat is spotted near the harbour. The whole harbour is
on edge . When everyone calms down, the first tanker in a week sets sail
with gallons of crude oil on board. The whole population is shocked when
the tanker blows into pieces and scatters shrapnel all over the sea.
Phillip's mother becomes anxious and she brings Phillip on a small cargo
ship back to Central America. Phillip's father thinks that they will be
alright. The ship is torp .....
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The Fountainhead
.... you?"
As two men on the extreme sides of conformity and independence, it is hard
for Keating to understand how someone could be so sure of himself, whereas
it is incomprehensible for Roark to believe that Keating could have so
little self-assurance and such a lack of resolve regarding the decisions he
chooses to make. In this regard, Howard Roark is greater than Peter Keating.
Often times in world affairs, smaller nations adhere to a state of
Finlandization; they buckle under the pressures of a larger nation because
they lack the strength to strive for independent thought. Howard Roark, is
a man who refuses to succumb to that gr .....
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