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    Why Rebecca Is Not Crazy

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    No words can describe what goes on in this girl's mind. Some call her deranged, crazy, but others say she is smart and insane, but you really need to get into the mind of a deranged person. Before she met her maker, Rebecca was a well-rounded girl with a good head on her shoulders. She was smart, intelligent even a little nerdy, but she had a sweetheart/and would do anything for those of family or friends. Rebecca does have OCD so she is very picky on some things including everything has to be in

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    as funky, upbeat, and groovy. The artist is entertained and amused by this kind of music. So much so, that he expresses his joy by dancing along with his haunting motion photographs of dead soldiers. The pictures themselves are coming from another deranged individual who may be an artist himself. After the soldiers are pushed down from a tall structure they lie

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    Aside from their constant tendency to fall ill and die, Poe’s upper class characters are united by their portrayal as flawed. Oftentimes, the characters who are identified as being rude, deranged, immoral, overconfident, idolaters, and even cruel, are the ones who belong to the upper class. For example, in “The Cask of Amontillado,” Montresor wishes to kill the wealthy Fortunato because of a thousand injuries and an insult. While neither the injuries nor the insult is mentioned, Fortunato is shown

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    substance-less rhetoric posing as morality and just principles. All in all the book is a salad of greens that involve evangelicalism, conspiracies, war, politics, TV and the American people. Taibbi gives his interpretation of our represented by our deranged and broken political system. He paints a picture of the desperation of those trying to rekindle the sanctity of our country and the paranoia associated with the peoples crumbling trust of American

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    Ruth Rose Character

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    In the novel The Boy In The Burning House written by Tim Wynne-Jones, the main character Jim Hawkins discovers the truth about his father’s very mysterious death with the help of an unlikely friend. Throughout the course of the novel, Jim also learns a very valuable lesson: people are not always exactly who they appear to be. The two characters who really teach Jim this lesson are Ruth Rose and her step-father, Father Fisher. Without learning this valuable life-lesson, Jim would not be able to learn

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    contemporaries that evil can be perpetrated by even the most ordinary person. Kopfrkingl is immediately notably strange from his introductory spiel on vices and his eccentric explanation of work at the crematorium and mannerisms allow him to be labeled as deranged. Although Kopfrkingl hesitates to succumb to Nazi idealogy, partially due to his natural demeanor and romantic beliefs, he eventually submits as he realizes the benefits and advantages of joining the party. As Nazi’s encroach on Czech borders, and

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    confession. This short story is written in a first person narrative by unnamed character. Throughout this story the narrator is trying to convince us of his sanity by describing a murder he committed. Poe takes us deep into the complexed mind of a deranged person living with an old man, whom he calls a friend. This old man is described with a glass eye. As the days go by the the unnamed man believes there is something wrong with the old man’s glass eye, “for it was not the old man who vexed me, but

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    “the king of horror” himself Stephen King. The movie follows Jack Torrance, a struggling writer and his family as Jack becomes the winter care taker at an isolated resort. As time passes Jack begins to learn the dark past of the hotel and becomes deranged, as he tries to kill his family. Kubrick employs many fictional and dramatic elements to elevate his story telling ability and maintains the audience at the edge of their seats. To begin with, Kubrick uses both suspense and action to keep the viewers

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    writings were very significant due to the fact that some are still some of the most spine tingling stories to date. While many believe Poe was a mentally deranged man he still wrote some of the scariest stories to date. These stories have lived on since 1849 and will still live on for many years to come. While Poe was believed to be mentally deranged he still is one of the greatest authors to date. He had no parents, and lived with a foster family. He never finished college and fell into great debt

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    old man. He had never wronged me. He had never given me insult”(p 1). Therefore, the old man had never done anything to harm the narrator, nor had he ever wronged him in any way. The only reason the narrator killed the old man was because he was deranged in multiple ways; one of his significant reasons however, was because he felt the old man’s eye was threatening. Moreover, he says “Whenever it [the eye] fell upon me, my blood ran cold; and so by degrees -- very gradually -- I made up my mind to

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