Reservation Blues: Book Response This novel can be described in many ways, a page turner, interesting, and even confusing. I admitt that I could not put this book down for the simple fact that it had me questioning thing constantly. As I read chapter after chapter, I started to not pay attention to the wonderful descriptions of indian culture, a just started really paying attention to the hidden meanings in certain sections and trying to keep up with the flip flopping it did alot at the end of the novel. ... The strangest part of this story was the chapter where Geo...

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Misunderstandings in Chapter 49 In Jane Austen's Emma, the title character is an unlikely heroine. ... George Knightley is the only character in the book who openly sees Emma for who she really is, and in this regard "he acts as a stand-in for Austen's and the reader's judgments of Emma- (spark notes). ... In this chapter Mr. ... Elton's comments to Emma about Harriet, this is the climax of the book, and contains the biggest misunderstanding of them all. ... As the chapter opens we find Emma outside as Mr. ...

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Exploration of "the Lord of the Flies" Via Book Club "Two heads are better than one: as the old saying goes. This holds true when the idea of having book club meetings over the novel "The Lord of the Flies" by William Golding. ... Tetyana noticed that every chapter had its own title and inquired on its significance. As a group it was decided that it provided foreshadowing and it gave clues about the hidden themes within that chapter. ... I fully enjoyed the book club experience and hope that in the future we can explore other novels in this fashion. ...

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A conventional book, or play, would have three parts, a beginning, a middle and an end, but "Enduring Love" Is not a conventional book and McEwan is not a conventional writer. ... Other obsessions which have lingered throughout the book are also cured. ... Chapter twenty four concludes the story of Logan. ... The book began with a picnic, so it's ending with a picnic is another factor which adds to the cathartic atmosphere of the chapter. ... There are many similarities between the final chapter and the first chapter, but the important difference, is the first chapter ends on a dark, pess...

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The book is divided into seven stories or chapters that are named Mattie Michael, Etta Mae Johnson, Kiswana Browne, Lucielia Louise Turner, Cora Lee, the Two, and the Block Party. ... The book displays the struggles of all African- American women. ... The first theme is in the chapter of Kiswana Browne. ... The last theme comes chapter of Mattie. ... In Cora lee's chapter, the point of minutia is her obsession with baby dolls. 7. ...

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However, in the chapters regarding all four girls, such as "A Regular Revolution", the point of view changes again, to 1st person omniscient. ... Each girl has her own heart, desires, and emotions which are only truly depicted in the chapters dedicated the them alone. ... Throughout the chapter, she longs for approval from her father. ... Throughout the chapter, she yearns for her homeland and who she was when she was there. ... Yolanda's identity is far more complex than the other girls, mainly because more of the book is devoted to her, and because the chapters that do reveal fragments ...

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Beginning in the year 54 B.C., the book proves itself to be a primarily historical novel. ... However, once characters are introduced, the book holds you captive. ... Each chapter contains its own time period and its own characters, although a few chapters overlap. ... Rutherford typically introduced a new generation of characters with every chapter. Therefore, in every chapter, he had to make every character memorable. ...

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When Wells wrote the book, Queen Victoria was still on the throne and the first and second world wars were yet to happen. ... In chapter one of the novel, Martians are watching the plant closely. ... Also in chapter one there are missiles sent from mars, heading to earth. ... In chapter two of the novel, a meteorite falls to earth and Oily goes to investigate, when Ogivly arrives, instead of a meteorite, Ogilvy finds a huge metal cylinder. ... In chapters four and five of the novel, the scattered groups on the common crowd around the cylinder. ...

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In the book they make it seem like everything Rat says is exaggerated, but the movie does not stress that fact. ... In the book, one may not feel for Fossie. ... A third character that is portrayed differently in the movie than in the book is Mary Anne, who is the main female character of the chapter. ... Throughout the chapter, the Greenies are expressed as hardworking soldiers who were always ready to kill. ... There was nothing gruesome as depicted in the chapter. ...

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What I was curios about, regards to Frankenstein and the Web, was how the novel changed (at least for me) based on its physical transformation from book to hypertext. ... Either I could begin at the Table of Contents and read one chapter at a time - read a chapter, back to the Table of Contents, read another chapter, back to the Table of contents. ... I could choose to begin and end with whatever chapter I so choose. ... First off, when I read the book 3 years ago, I found myself immersed in the story. ... I couldn't instantly flip between pages to compare a quote from chapter...

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Wells This book is a science fiction novel. ... The setting of this book is the late nineteenth century in England. ... The book started out good, but after the first three chapters it wasn't as good, but still kept my interest. So I recommend this book to anyone who like science fiction books. ...

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In this essay, these elements will be explored and critically analyzed, with examples from the chosen chapter extract. The chapter deals with the death of the Jesuit baron and Candide's subsequent escape with Cacambo. ... Parody also features in this chapter, although the reader could easily not notice. ... Satire is a prevailing and predominant element in Voltaire's work as is made clear in Chapter 15. All of the above features contribute to the satire in the book and define it; the use of humour, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or ...

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After reading the popular novel, The Call of the Wild, written by Jack London, it was apparent to me that he should his life story through the life of the main character in his book. ... Buck, the main character of Jack London's novel, loses his family in the first chapter of the novel; similarly Jack London began living on his own at the young age of fourteen. ... Both Jack and Buck lived in an environment where there was a struggle for survival in the second chapter of Jack London's novel. The title of the chapter was "The Law of Club and Fang" which refers to how much fighting t...

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Written by Virginia Woolf, the book echoes her poetic style of writing, standing as one of her most revered works. ... " The book waxes poetic in style, creating realm of sensory imagery and a grasp of the wonders of nature. ... Like Jinny, Woolf uses the other characters in the book to represent important points of their own. Another important note is that the book is written entirely through soliloquy. ... The book is not divided by chapters, but by scenes of the sun setting and rising. ...

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The initial chapter has Doctor Iannis curing Stammatis's from deafness only to discover that a pea is lodged in his ear. ... The following chapter(2) uses single narrative in the monologue of Mussolini. ... The humourous image of a self absorbed dictator is purposely created, and his feline encounter later in the chapter ends up as a bloody mess and an early siesta. Satire is present in the chapter involving Corelli and the mine on the beach(43), with the smug engineer being decapitated shortly after declaring that Corelli was going to be killed. ... This theme of loss of faith regarding ...

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All Quiet On the Western Front is a great book for several reasons. One excellent thing about this book is the foreshadowing. ... Meissner 2 Another great thing about this book is the imagery. ... It has abundant foreshadowing in every chapter. Imagery is found in many places in the book. ...

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The characters in each book would take after some role in his life. ... The shadowy characters that Francis Scott starts his novels with start to come to life with their personalities unraveling with each passing chapter. ... His writings had a think sense of history behind every page and chapter. ...

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The killing of innocent people is common-place in this period of time, and Crichton describes it very well in the book: "...inside, they saw a woman, hacked to death, lying face down by the fire; and a young boy of six, staring at the sky, his innards sliced open"(362). ... Because of how the chapters are set up, the novel is packed full of suspenseful situations; from Kate hanging on a wall, while knights stand right below her; to Professor Johnston being lowered into a pool of black oil. ... It has everything a reader needs in a book, but because of the use of language and gore, I...

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Discuss the characterization of Emma Woodhouse in the first chapter of Jane Austen's Emma. ... The characterization of Emma Woodhouse The first chapter of the book introduces the protagonist of the story, Emma Woodhouse, a twenty-one-year-old girl. ... This is also a bit where the book is about, the importance of marriage. ... Jane Austen almost immediately gives us an appraisal on the main character of the book, Emma Woodhouse. ... That's what the book is about in fact. ...

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For example, Flaubert spends almost an entire chapter describing Emma's and Charles" wedding using meticulous details to paint a picture of her wedding dress, the cake and the feast that followed. In contrast with, at the end of chapter four, he ends it with, "When they left Tostes in the month of March, Madame Bovary was pregnant." Emma's pregnancy is not mentioned again after several chapters. One might think that Emma's pregnancy would be a major event in the book, but Flaubert doesn't describe it in nearly as much detail as he does with, for example, the wedding dress o...

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It is a chapter in which Paddy and his friends are in a gang. ... Roddy Doyle said when interviewed that when he wrote this chapter I was reaching back to my childhood for the memories and inspiration to write the book, the gang thing seemed important because there was always a gang. ... In the chapter The Family Outing' he knows something ahs happened when his mum gets out of the car away from their father in the pouring rain. ... In chapter two paddy and his friends try to put fuel into his little brothers mouth, so they can light it, Kevin pressed the fuel against his mouth but...

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Many aspects of writing catch a reader's attention and keep one interested in a book. ... He creates great story lines for his books but it takes a reader six or seven chapters to ever understand what is going on. ... The entwining of character can happen as the book goes on and the plot thickens. ... That becomes very boring; and when it goes on for six chapters, it almost becomes never ending. ... I feel he needs to jump straight into the book and then introduce his characters the same way he has done and his writings would be superb. ...

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From page one of the book till the very last sentence, the novel projects a constant interest in the story of Nitta Sayuri and of her memoirs. ... One of the things that amazes the reader the most, is the fact that the book is written by a man yet, portrays the woman's point of view. ... After terminating the book, the reader tends to be disappointed after discovering that the character of Sayuri and her story are completely invented. ... After witnessing the life of Sayuri, from her young and innocent age until the final chapter of her life, the reader feels a great connection to this...

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I laughed and cried within the first chapter. The entire book makes you think long and hard about life, how precious it is, and how quickly it can be taken from you. ... The book opens with the story of the death of the five-year-old who is adored by her family. ... John is not as prominent a character in the novel as his wife and son, but in the first chapter he is mentioned as a devoted, loving husband and father. ...

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Written in 1929, the book is about Paul Baumer, the narrator, and his fellow classmates who enlist in the German army during World War 1. ... In chapter 7, the narrator speaks, "It is I of course that have changed in the interval but now I see that I have been crushed without knowing it. ... " (CHAPTER 7 QUOTE). ... Remarque's use of comradeship throughout the book emphasizes how the men could conceive that in the outcome of war all people are equal and share the same aspirations. ...

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