L"Amour wrote more than one hundred books, including eighty-six novels, fourteen short story collections and one nonfiction-a chronicle of life on the American frontier. ... He was fighting professionally at the time, and knocked out thirty-four of fifty-one opponents during his light heavyweight career. ... There's no fun in their sex and nobody appears to be having a good time" (Long 265). ... He had no formal education, spent much of his youth wandering from job to job, and was over forty by the time he published his first novel. ... So many of L"Amour's heroes were kids bec...

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Officer Beatty was trying to explain the danger of books to Montag. ... People had and still have this need to be busy all the time due to the fear of being bored. ... The little details in life are neither noticed nor cared about in either society. ... Beatty was a very educated man, and he possibly could have seen the good in books. He led a double life. ...

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While in time this does become a part of the overall plot, there at the very start of the novel it seems to serve two purposes. ... Even if we are not completely aware of it, there is a likelihood that most people in the English speaking world have at some time seen a film written by Stephen King or adapted from a novel or short story. ... The way in which "The Green Mile" was released in many slim volumes over an extended period of time does nothing to distance King from the above image. ... His marketing department also presumably creates the taglines for his books. ... During his career,...

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Her books received many rewards and honors. ... Both books were selected as Honor Books in the Chicago Tribune Book World's Children's Spring Book Festival. Hinton enjoyed reading books as an adolescent, but was dismayed to find only a small segment of a teen-ager's life depicted in literature. ... "Hinton's fire-engine pace does not give the reader much time to manufacture doubts. ... Censored Books: Critical Viewpoints. ...

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Nabokov's novel communicates the authenticity of life in America at the time by staying to true to the circumstance and standardized living of that American environment which ultimately weaves the story together. ... Literary Paper Lolita, a novel by Vladimir Nabokov, is a book that appears on banned book lists time and time again. ... Books are a form of expression and not necessarily self-expression. ... " (Banned Books Week: Lolita). ... Instead this power is trying to censor our books, an actual sophisticated art form. ...

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The character Schoolteacher is a slave capturer and when Sethe sees a sheriff and Schoolteacher coming to her house, she runs to the woodshed without time to think about what she was really doing. ... The government in Fahrenheit 451 says that all books are bad and they should all be banned and burned. ... In Fahrenheit 451, the majority of society doesn't like the text they read within books so they burn them. ... The past and does haunt the present and self-sabotage is a thing that is hard to escape in life. It can stick with someone for their whole life until they learn to know that it...

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Cervantes portrays the character of a Don Quixote, a man deeply lost and overcome in his books of chivalry. ... The distinction between what class and worth representation between a person's class and a person's worth was one of the major ideas in Cervantes's time. ... Cervantes's emphasis on these disproportions between class and worth is a single reason that Don Quixote was such an innovative work in its time. ... Luring with public orders of honor can be taken to an extremity, dominating one's life and leading to wreck. ... The books and manuscripts that appear eve...

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They contain sub-sequential visual art in rectangular patterns much like comic books. ... The major differences between comics and graphic novels is that they are longer, and comics can cover stories over the course of many issues while graphic novels are just one or two books (Difference Between Comic Books and Graphic Novels, knowledgenuts.com). ... Persepolis is about the author's life in Iran before and during their revolution. ... This symbolizes the way Marjane felt about society at the time, and how there were so many restrictions forced upon the people that life became as mundane ...

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Given the monotonous grind of daily life, a grand adventure is a concept many people may only dream about. ... With these two supporting characters, however, one can also find a similarity between the two books. ... When one thinks of cannibals, one might imagine cartoonish eating machines with no regard for human life. ... Though both books offer readers a grand adventure to whisk them away from their daily grind, they take their adventures in two different directions. ... "Robinson Crusoe" presents a man who, in search of similar riches, found himself shipwrecked with nothing but time to ref...

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Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov is set in the time of 1947-1952 in unnamed locations in Europe and then all over the United States. ... To set the book off from other books about obsession, Nabokov gives Humbert possibly the most socially unacceptable obsession of all: paedophilia. ... She is taken away from her life by Humbert and is forced to live with him. ... "Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. ... After being able to afford a quiet country villa, he kidnaps a young art student, Miranda Grey who he has been obsessed with for a long time. ...

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Factors like the upbringing of a character, the time and place, and the environments a character is exposed to, are usually seen as being the most important ones. ... However, the articles of clothing that are mentioned in the books do play a vital role in illustrating the symbolical meanings that help explain the personalities of the characters introduced in the books. ... Here José Dias tries to get a taste of what his life would be like if he were to be a doctor, a situation that causes some confusion between him and Bento's father. ... Dona Gloria and Bayardo San Roman are tw...

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" This was the first time a novel was adapted into a major motion picture, and it certainly was not the last. Since then, hundreds of books have been adapted for the big screen with varying results. ... While films based on books vary in quality, there seems to be a consensus that the movies that stay true to the source material are often better than ones that stray away from it. ... In the story, seemingly unconnected events take place that happen to reunite these childhood friends who lost touch after some time of being apart. ... It ends with Jonesy able to move on with his life, full...

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Even though I believe the whole story, from the time Harry received the Treatise of the Steppenwolf, to the end, was a dream, I believe it was a spiritual journey for Harry, nonetheless. ... He scrutinizes every bit of his life, from his childhood to his day-to-day living. ... His way of thinking and his outlook on life has been changed. ... The fact that the room he rents is an attic room, which he keeps cluttered with books and cigar ash, in a nice house in the bourgeois society, sets up his whole way of life. ... The drugs were not a physical time or place to be in, but they allowed dif...

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No wonder that Henchard has the stubborn, hardy, rude and instinctive sprit of the old-time country. ... He manages his books in his head, conducts his business by word of mouth, and employs the aid of weather prophet---already obsolete in many parts of the country at that time, in order to determine the success of a harvest. ... In real life anywhere conversations are not invariably overheard, kind of good sailor does not appear at the right time to buy wife, the weather does not always change just at the proper moment Although I, as modern reader, seems unlikely to excuse such over-determine...

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At times the language was a little rough, however, this fact also added to the books authenticity. ... Meursault takes another walk along the beach, this time by himself. ... Upon receiving this, he, for the first time, shows that he misses and cares about her. ... He states, "I can honestly say that the time from summer to summer went very quickly. ... He lives his life for the moment, and he accepts the moment of his death, because during his life, he lived his live by his own values. ...

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This was eventually followed by 5 more novels, five books of short stories and a book of verse. ... He grows up with the understanding that "his kind of life was not what he had sought: it had been thrust upon him." ... Never completely understanding how force can lead to a better life for all of us. ... His affiliation with Sipnget gave him a more general overview of the real situation at the same time being his father's son made him understand their point of view as well. ... I can assure you- most of the time all they want are three meals a day, education for their children, medicine w...

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Vonnegut, over time, has developed a very defined writing style. ... Vonnegut used this novel to tell, in a creative way, the details of his own life during this time. ... Dresdon was not a military target at the time. ... "Slaughter house Five" was by far the most succesful of all the movies based on his books, primarily because the novel was so great to begin with. ... Vonnegut's war experience and his tragic memories of what happened in Dresdon, during his time as a prisoner of war, influenced much of his own philosophies on life and in the way he wrote. ...

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GCSE Prose Coursework: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein At the time Shelley was writing her novel, "Frankenstein", the world was discovering things daily, so her writings were relevant and justified at that time. ... His mother's death causes a morbid ambition in Frankenstein to create "life from dead matter", which he does eventually. ... Before he gives life to the monster, Frankenstein shuns the creature because of his appearance but he continues to give life to "the breathless horror" of the monster. ... Even if Frankenstein created life, would life from death be the same? ... The...

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Additionally, the novel won the 2002 National Jewish book award and the Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year award. ... Yankel wanted Brod to have a cheerful life. ... Brod could never be happy and honest at the same time. ... Brod says that she cannot be happy and honest at the same time because deep down she knows she is not happy. ... On his ninth time of asking her, Lista said "I have been waiting for you for so long " (Foer 118). ...

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An examination of the books I read, I found literature to be like a mirror to a great extent in many ways. ... The two women mirror each other in the sense that they both make difficult decisions to save and maintain a life. ... Mirror helps us see the details that we may not have realized in our daily life. ... 'It is about time I caught you doing things maids are not meant to do. ... Anorexia is a real-life example of such a situation. ...

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An artist must create a different universe, one that surpasses culture, time, and personal philosophies. ... An example of genuine art is Diego Rivera's painting "Mother's Helper- (Rivera), which displays the simplicity of life without technology. ... After his refreshing time, John was able to return to his home and continue life (McCarthy 3-6). ... McCarthy surely reveals the evil of men every time John and Huck encounter society. ... By means of his writing, McCarthy tries to change the philosophy of readers and impact all that read his books by exposing society's true co...

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by Judy Blume is one of the most challenged books ever written for teenagers. ... While they are away, Michael and Kath tell each other that they love each other for the first time. ... Soon after returning from the trip, Michael and Katherine have sex for the first time. ... She lives the life of a normal teenager. ... As she begins her relationship with Michael, she remembers a time in the past when she told Tommy Aronson that she loved him too soon in the relationship. ...

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Ordinary People explores the realistic struggles families' face every day while glossing each page with a distinctive style and inspiring life lessons. ... After spending time painting and attending writing seminars to improve her hobby, she came to terms with her next goal. ... Now, he is faced with assimilating himself back into school after being away for nearly eight months, where it seems he never has enough time to catch up with his peers. ... Conrad feels as if he should have been the person to die in the boating accident that took his brother's life. ... Michael Wood stated i...

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The characters and the setting are similar to other books of the time. ... She even wonders how many people live their whole lives behind the fear and shyness that she lived, never knowing how much better life is when you are confident and express yourself. ...

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