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Lord Of The Rings Black Riders
1,103 words... etter for a certain Frodo Baggins, which Butterbur forgot to send to the Shire. Frodo and his company seem to match the description Gandalf gave to Butterbur, so he gives the letter to Frodo. Among other things, this letter contains Gandalf's advice to accept the help of a friend of his, a man called Strider (with the true name Aragorn), should they meet him. Thus Frodo decides to accept his help as a guide to Rivendell. Merry, who has earlier gone out to get some air, now returns and tells ...
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Hundred Years War Canterbury Tales
1,128 words... r to Chaucer's position before he left. Chaucer's next occupation was serving as the clerk of the kings works just a few months after King Richard II began running the government for himself. This job was a challenging one for Chaucer, with many responsibilities such as overseeing building repairs, paying wages, obtaining materials, and recruiting workmen. After that job was finished, he stayed in Kent and wrote his Canterbury Tales, his most highly acclaimed, most beautifully written and mo...
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Life Of Arthur Conan Doyle
1,198 words... Doyle met a new student by the name of George Budd. George Budd was a key part in Doyle's literary career, because he was amazed at Budd's extraordinary thinking while they were having conversations. Doyle explains that Budd could, 'at a moments notice take up any subject with intense enthusiasm, weave the most amazing theories, carry his listeners away with him until they were gasping with excitement, drop the subject suddenly, take up another, and repeat the process. ' (Pearson 19) He then...
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Lonely Mountain Lake Town
850 wordsBilbo Baggins is a hobbit, one of a race of short, timid creatures who live in cozy tunnels and who prefer to keep their lives ordered and predictable. One day, he unexpectedly finds himself playing host to Gandalf the wizard and thirteen dwarves. The dwarves, with Gandalf's help, plan to travel to the Lonely Mountain to recover the treasure that a dragon named Smaug stole from their people long ago. Gandalf has selected Bilbo to be their burglar. The dwarves are not too happy with the wizard's ...
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Lord Voldemort Sci Fi
489 wordsThese books would be classified as fantasy, but could be classified as also romance, action, adventure, mystery, and sci-fi. It has romance when Harry falls in love with Cho Chang, a girl in Ravenclaw, another house at Hogwarts, Harry^aEURTMs school. There is action and adventure in every book (Harry fights Voldemort, discovers a werewolf, joins a tournament, etc, ). Mystery rises when a mysterious person rights with blood on the wall about murder. It has a lot of sci-fi like dragons, trolls, we...
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African Congo Book Type
303 wordsTitle: Congo Publisher: Ballantine Books City of Publication: New York Year of Publication: 1993 Number of Pages: 313 Type of Literature: Science Fiction This story takes place on June of 1979 in the African Congo. The main characters of this book are Dr. Karen Ross, supervisor of Earth Resources Technology Services, Dr. Peter Elliot, a zoologist who trained a gorilla named Amy how to speak using sign language. Another main character is Charles Munro, whom leads the troop through the Congo. This...
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Enkidu And Gilgamesh Hold Back
1,640 wordsThe story of Gilgamesh begins in the ancient Middle East, a land that was mainly war-faring and used "take by force" tactics to gain leadership, power, and fame. Since this was the prevailing opinions, the authors, few may it be, tended to define their heroes as men of quick, vicious action. Those who hesitated were run over by those who didn't. Character was built based on one's ability to act quickly and without uncertainty. Gilgamesh was involved in several situations in which he could choose...
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Huck Finn A Journey
886 wordsHuck Finn The Hero's Journey Joseph Campbell describes a hero's journey as a cycle where the person is a hero from birth. This holds true for the character of Huck Finn because he fits the description of a hero in the book Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. There are different parts of the hero's journey that can be applied to Huck, such as the first stage which is known as the Innocent World of Childhood. A stage further on in the journey is the Initiation while the last stage is known as the Free...
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Don Quixote And The Ethical Self
1,302 wordsDon Quixote and the Ethical Self By far, book Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra is the most famous and respected book in the Spanish literature. Originally Cervantes intended to present this work as a derision of the popular ballads, but it appeared that he also made a parody on the chivalry romances of the time. as a result of Cervantes ambitions, he created a book that became one of the most entertaining adventure stories of all time, presenting two most interesting characters of the...
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Forbidden City Civil Rights
640 wordsThe book The Forbidden City is written by William Bell and contains 299 pages. The theme in this serious, fiction adventure novel is about a seventeen-year old boy named Alex Jackson, his father, a CBC news cameraman, and their adventure in China and how they survived the worst of times during China s history. The place is Beijing, China and the time is 1989, a year that Chinas Government tries desperately to cover up and keep buried forever. It starts with Alex Jackson, the main character, and ...
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World Of Reality Amanda And Laura
714 wordsThe Glass Menagerie The play The Glass Menagerie, by Tennessee Williams, Williams uses many symbols which represent many different things. Many of the symbols used in the play try to symbolize some form of escape or difference between reality and illusion. The first symbol, presented in the first scene, is the fire escape. This represents the bridge between the illusory world of the Wingfields and the world of reality. This bridge seems to be a one way passage. But the direction varies for each ...
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Ernest Hemmingway Oak Park
858 wordsHemmingway's Literary Influences As one of Americas greatest writers, Ernest Hemmingway recounted his personal life experiences to create his novels. Hemmingway lead an interesting life, filled with romance, travel, and adventure. It was this lifestyle that provided him with much of the material that he used to write his greatest novels. Writing was more of a story telling exercise for Hemmingway, because he had firsthand experience at most of what he wrote about. Hemmingway was also influenced ...
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Amanda And Laura World Of Reality
956 wordsIn Tennessee Williams play The Glass Menagerie, Williams uses many symbols which represent many different things. Many of the symbols used in the play try to symbolize some form of escape or a link to a world of illusion. Just a few of these are the fire escape, the movies, and even more important, Laura's glass unicorn. Williams uses numerous representations in his play to create a more elaborate story for the reader. Some are very subtle such as the blue roses flashed across the screen. These ...
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Aunt Abby Frado Starts Bellmont
787 wordsIn Frado- Our Nig FRADO In Harriet E. Wilsons only known work, Our Nig; Or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, I read about a young black girl who grows up as an indentured servant to a large Bellmont family. In the readings I read, the young girl has three names: Frado, Frado and Nig. In this essay, Ill refer to her as Frado. Although Our Nig is an actual fictitious novel, our literature book only gives us three chapters. Each of these small chapters tells us a great story. In Chapter IV A...
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Pieces Of Literature Connecticut Yankee
559 wordsKing Arthurs Britain, a vastly different Britain than we know today, is revealed through many timeless classics in literature. Two of these pieces of literature are Thomas Malorys seriously toned Le Morte Darthur and Mark Twain's satirical A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court. These works show distinctly different visions of the Arthurian legend. King Arthurs Britain in Twain's A Connecticut Yankee and Malorys Morte Darthur may be compared through the unique portrayal of living conditions,...
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Thanksgiving Dinner Rich Kid Mother
982 wordsThe worst movie I have seen lately has to be Dutch. A less than heart warming movie about a misunderstood little rich kid and his mothers working class boyfriend traveling home for thanks giving dinner. They go on to a have a not so exciting adventure with a totally ridiculous story driving this train wreck. Not only is everything that happens in this story totally unbelievable. Each event gives you another reason to dislike one of the characters a little more. By the end of this movie I found m...
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Coffin Without Removing Coffin Without Removing One Nail Tom
1,004 wordsTHE GLASS MENAGERIEA PLAY ABOUT FREEDOM Tennessee William s play The Glass Menagerie isa play in my opinion focuses on Tom Wingfieldsdesperation for a better life. Tom is portrayed as the person who holds the household together, but throughout the play he is crying out for freedom. Many people whereas this play may have thought that Amanda or Laura were the victims of the play, however I seemed to think that Tom is the real victim. Even though all three ofthe characters are victims of the harsh ...
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Sir Walter Scott King Richard
531 wordsReview of Ivanhoe By Sir Walter Scott The Jackal 2 / 22 / 99 Ivanhoe is an adventure story set in 12 th century England during the Holy Crusades of Richard the Lion-Hearted (King of England). This novel is one of great suspense and action, which elicits out great emotion such as valor and love. The author, Sir Walter Scott can be considered a historical storyteller. He brings together characters of his imagination and places them in the harsh environment of the medieval world, which gives the re...
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Darkness Be My Friend Leader Of The Group
1,448 wordsTitle: Darkness Be My Friend Author: John Marsden Publisher: Pan Macmillan Publishers Publishing Date: 1996 Setting: This book is set in fairly modern times about 1990. I know this because the teenagers speak the same way my friends and I do and dress just like people do now. I also know this because of the way they describe the country town they live in. It sounds just like the average country town in our time. I think it is set is in a country town in Australia away from the cities. I think th...
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Darkness Be My Friend Leader Of The Group
1,421 wordsTitle: Darkness Be My Friend Author: John Marsden Publisher: Pan Macmillan Publishers Publishing Date: 1996 Setting: This book is set in fairly modern times about 1990. I know this because the teenagers speak the same way my friends and I do and dress just like people do now. I also know this because of the way they describe the country town they live in. It sounds just like the average country town in our time. I think it is set is in a country town in Australia away from the cities. I think th...
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