Dune
.... now came into the picture. He was the leader of the Atreides Family. He
seemed very established and perceptive. The Atreides family represented good
and honesty while their enemies, the Harkonnen's, were ruthless killers.
The Harkonnen home planet, Gedi Prime was very desolate and dark. It
represented the immorality and darkness within the Harkonnens. Their leader
Baron Vladimir Harkonnen was very obese and inhuman. He killed his own slaves
for fun and hated the Atreides with a passion. He hated their peaceful and
honest ways. Most of all he despised their coming to Dune. This Harkonnen
leader appeared the typical .....
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Jarassic Park: The Dinosaurs Were Not To Blame For The Destruction Of Jurassic Park
.... become
able -- through an entrepreneurial combination of audacity, technology, human
ingenuity, and fantastic outlays of capital (mostly funded by Japanese investors,
who are the only ones willing to wait years for uncertain results) -- to clone
dinosaurs from the bits of their DNA recovered from dinosaur blood inside the
bodies of insects that once bit the now-extinct animals and were then trapped
and preserved in amber for millions of years. (This is, by the way,
theoretically possible.) The project is the dream of John Hammond, a billionaire
capitalist with a passionate interest in dinosaurs, who comes across in the
novel as a b .....
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Matilda
.... were both so warmless and so wrapped up in their own silly little lives
that they failed to notice anything unusual about Matilda. Afterward, Mr.
Wormwood decided to take Matilda to school; in school Matilda found lots of
friends and two special teachers, Miss Honey the gentle teacher and Miss
Trunchbull the head teacher, a harsh and ruthless woman. Miss Trunchbull treated
the kids awfully in her school, so Matilda with her extra powers decided too .
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Those who carry out the most important actions in a story are considered
main participants. Matilda is the only main personality in this story, sh .....
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Tales Of The City
.... of Tales of the
City. The development neatly meshes the character's lives with one another,
till ultimately the product is a mass evolution.
It is interesting to note that the writing style Mr. Maupin uses to guide
the story forward is consistent throughout the book. Chapters inevitably
commence with a character's response to the given situation. There are several
departures from this style, which are explained further on in this book report.
The chapters are suited for the readers of a newspaper. Each is short,
usually between two and four pages in length. This makes the reading simple to
digest. Each cha .....
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Frankenstein: Technology
.... began
to move with voluntary motion," (Joseph vii). The extraordinary means forms the
basis for Frankenstein. Many people also believe that a nightmare that Mary
Shelley had could also be partly responsible for the creation of the novel.
At the time the novel was written, England was on the brink of leading
the Industrial revolution in Europe. The experiments of Huntsman (crucible
steel manufacture), Newcome (steam-powered pumps), and Cochrane (coal tar
production) throughout the eighteenth century in England were decisive in the
initial transformation of England into an industrialized country (Burke 137, 173,
195). The emerg .....
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Critique Of The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari
.... mind and soul. A beautiful woman is carried off by evil, a play on the
Beauty and the Beast themes that would become so popular in horror films.
Used expressionism, films that explored dream, nightmare and psyche and
that found their narrative shape determined less by action than emotion. Used
angular sets and heavy shadows to develop a macabre and horrific atmosphere for
its tale of murder and madness. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari intentionally uses
sets that look artificial. The deliberate distortions were meant to portray
what a tormented soul might perceive. German expressionism, known as dada, and
surrealism re .....
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The Great Gatsby
.... until he
reveals it to Nick. One thing Tom Buchanan finds out about Gatsby is the he is
a swindler and that is how he has amassed his fortune. The main character is
Nick Carraway a man who objectively stays the same through out the whole book,
keeping his friendship with Gatsby to the very end. This book wouldn't be the
same if not for the Giant house that Gatsby lived in.
Most of the novel takes place at Mr. Gatsby's grand mansion in East Egg,
New York. This mansion just adds to the mystery about Gatsby and were he got
all of his money from. This huge home was perfect for holding giant parties
every weekend for hundreds .....
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The Canterbury Tales: A Character Sketch Of Chaucer's Knight
.... service in Egypt, Lithuania,
Prussia, Russia, Spain, North Africa, and Asia Minor where he "was of [great]
value in all eyes (l. 63). Even though he has had a very successful and busy
career, he is extremely humble: Chaucer maintains that he is "modest as a maid"
(l. 65). Moreover, he has never said a rude thing to anyone in his entire life
(cf., ll. 66-7).
Clearly, the knight possesses an outstanding character. Chaucer
gives to the knight one of the more flattering descriptions in the General
Prologue. The knight can do no wrong: he is an outstanding warrior who has
fought for the true faith--according to .....
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The Queen Of Air And Darkness
.... the least well adjusted of the
four. He tends to be sadistic and self-centered. The children were told the
tale of the King of Ireland by St. Toirdealbhach; the tale where the king gets a
head wound and can not be excited, but then he dies while trying to defend his
savior. Agravaine does not see any point in putting one's self in danger to
protect any one else. He says “It was silly, it did no good,” because he does
not understand the principal behind the story. He does not understand that
there are things other than yourself worth dying for. Agravaine's sadism is
evidenced in the Unicorn episode. After the boys agree to .....
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Black Elk Speaks
.... or holy man like his predecessors. Black
Elk's childhood vision stayed with him throughout his life, and it offered him
aid and wisdom whenever he sought it. It is from the strength of this vision,
and the wisdom in his heart that Black Elk eventually realized his place as a
leader and wise man in the Ogalala band of the Sioux.
The wisdom possessed by Black Elk is immediately present in his
recollections of various lessons learned by himself and by others. These stories
ran the whole gambit of life experiences from the most innocent acts of a boy in
love, to the hard les-sons learned from the treachery of the whites. Through .....
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Fahrenheit 451: The Hope Of The Phoenix
.... Mildred pulled the alarm and had told the firemen
that Montag had books. To Montag, the books was like a sweet piece of candy.
He did not know why he liked them, but he always wanted more. But when Captain
Beatty forced Montag to burn his own house, Montag's soul had died, but then
resurrected. His life which was suppose to be happy was burning right in front
of his eyes. How ironic, that Montag was a fireman himself but like the phoenix,
Montag rose from his own ashes. Montag was now reborn, because he knew his life
was wrong, and that the world was wrong. He did not know why it was wrong, but
he knew that he had to do som .....
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Stephen Crane's "The Open Book": Cosmic Irony
.... of importance. Those little
things that are insignificant mean nothing to the universe. In "The Open Boat,"
the sea against the universe is symbolic of insignificance in cosmic irony. The
sea represents something which seems very large to mankind, but is actually very
insignificant in comprison to the universe. The universe would still go on
without that sea, just like the universe would still go on without mankind.
The third form of symbolism in cosmic irony is isolation. Isolation is
being held in captivity or lack of contact with the world or universe. The
little boat in a vast sea versus the people on the shore is s .....
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