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  • Achilles

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    Archilles is the Son of Peleus and Thetis, the only prince of Phthia, and he is also the leader. In this book, he is the main hero. Also, during the Troian War, he was called the best and unstoppable warrior. Battlefield is his power; it is even said that he can conquer all the enemies…

  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Essays

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    One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Introduction Primarily a novelist of the 1960s, Ken Kesey had close affiliations with the alternative culture that was at variance with the social norms that dominated the decade. The novel is an allegory of creative unique personality versus repressive conformity. Kesey makes important and even… 846 words One Flew…

  • Beowulf Study Guide

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    Beowulf Study Guide Author: Unknown Original title: Beowulf Characters: Beowulf, Grendel, Hrothgar , Onela, Unferth, Breca Published: February 17th 2001 by W.W. Norton & Company (first published 975) Setting: Denmark Geatland (Sweden) Blank (Denmark) ISBN 0393320979 (ISBN13: 9780393320978) Beowulf is definitely a must read as one of the oldest Anglo-Saxon poems written around 700 A.D.…

  • Noah Joad

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    This boy is the eldest child in the family. He left the impression of being the child that was born unpredictably. He was born like a normal boy everything was okay with his head, his body, his legs, and his mind; but no misshapen member could be recalled. Once when Pa Joad was left alone…

  • Duke of Albany

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    The Duke of Albany is the husband of King Lear’s eldest daughter, Goneril. At first, he seems like someone who’s henpecked, powerless to resist the wishes of his wife to kill her father. He is her complete opposition. The brutality and pragmatism of Albany’s spouse compensate with his charity and benevolence. In comparison with her,…

  • Snow Falling on Cedars Summary

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    The story starts in the winter of 1954, more than ten years ago after the attack on the Pearl Harbour during the World War II. The events take place on the imaginary island of San Piedro in Puget Sound in Washington. The main character of the story, Kabuo Miyamoto, half-Japanese half-American born and raised in…

  • Beowulf

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    An exciting warrior who made his name after dozens of fights with creatures. He was faster than the sea monster, stronger than any demon, more powerful of any dragon you can even imagine. He was a noble individual, the hero of the poem with the strength of 30 in his hand-grip, later he came to…

  • Elwin “Leper” Lepellier

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    In John Knowles’s “The Separated World,” a boy named Leper is actually called Alvin Leper, though his mother calls him in the novel only under her own name. History never explains why he is called Leper, although of course not because he has Leprosies, a disease associated with the flesh. Most likely, just because his…

  • The Farmer

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    Exploring the new country — Brobdingnag, Gulliver with his companions was found by a giant farmer, growing up 22 meters (in Lilliput, all the sizes are 12 times smaller than ours, in Brobdingnag — 12 times larger). Farmer treats him as a wonder and shows him for money. At the hotel, ‘Green Eagle’ Gulliver gives…

  • Watership Down Study Guide

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    Watership Down Study Guide Author: Richard Adams Original title: Watership Down “Watership Down” is a 1972 fantasy novel by Richard Adams. It is positioned to be a children book, but it’s read and loved by adults all over the world. It’s common for literature works to use anthropomorphized animals as characters. They walk, talk, do…