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    story’s protagonist is Maître Hauchecome. He was wrongly accused for stealing a pocketbook with five hundred francs and some business papers. Every time people saw him, they harassed him. He can also be a dynamic character. From being a simple and innocent man, he was suddenly ruined by injustice. Another character is Maître Malandain. He was certainly identified as the antagonist of the story when the author stated that he was the enemy of Maître Hauchecome and

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    To start with, in the novel The Stranger, by Albert Camus, the protagonist and the narrator, Monsieur Meursault is hated and feared by his community for murdering an innocent man. Meursault is known for being heinous and lacking sentimental value. He is only known as a hero in his best friend's eye’s considering his trust in him. Meursault rarely cares for people. Although Monsieur Meursault is loyal to his loved ones, he almost never shows affection in any friendship or relationship. All through

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    novel in which Paulo Coelho describes Santiago as a young boy who encounters people that help him and stand in his way which motivates him to discover and understand his inner-self. In the film The Hundred Foot Journey, Hassan is portrayed as a young man with a passion for cooking who has to experience many conflicting changes and adjust in order to accomplish his goal of becoming a prominent chef. Both characters are displayed with strong personalities as well as determined minds throughout their life-changing

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    abundance of innocent people and animals being maltreated. The words, “ don’t do one thing,” suggests that Mockingbirds don’t do anything dreadful, they harmlessly live life. Tom Robinson during the trial said, “She’d call me in, suh. Seemed like every time I passed by yonder she’d have some little thing for me to do- choppin’ kindlin’ totin’ water for her... I felt right sorry for her, she seemed to try more'n the rest of 'em-"(191) This quote establishes that Tom Robinson was a good man, because he

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    Montag lives in a selfish society where everyone thinks solely about themselves. When Montag says this is the age of the disposable tissue, he is not really referencing the handkerchief someone would blow their nose with. He is enlightening the reader on how people in his society only utilize other people for the goods and services they contribute. Someone in his society would be friends with another person merely because they could benefit them in some way. An example from the book that would prove

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    The Wars Analysis

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    War is a dangerous game, many people would likely agree to this, however, very few have ever seen a battlefront. The truth is that war, no matter how awful we can imagine it, is always exponentially worse. In Timothy Findley’s The Wars, Robert Ross, the protagonist,­ faces a situation that he finds difficult to come to terms with, and when faced with a similar situation later on in the novel, he must take drastic measures to reconcile the uncertainties of the past situation. Timothy Findley suggests

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    Good morning friends, family and all those of you who are here today to celebrate the life of a great man, Victor Chang. Before I begin, I would like to offer my deepest sympathies to the Chang family for their unfortunate loss. This was a senseless and wasteful murder of such an innocent man. When I remember Victor, three words come to mind; Compassion, talent and persistence. Victor Chang, born on the 25 November 1936 in Shanghai, China was a very talented and naturally gifted person. Victor

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    overcoming adversity. To overcome adversity is to accept your fate, and admit to your consequences, or wrong doing to face an issue that is ahead of you , to choose what path you will take in life. Overcoming adversity is one of the biggest hurdles we face. As Havelock Ellis wrote, "Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself." Problems, large and small, present themselves to us throughout our whole existence. Throughout these two texts, there are two very different

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    The man woke with a long and pleasant groan, his naked form twisting within the silken embrace of his expensive cotton blankets. His toes curled into the softened sheets beneath him, his muscles contracting as he stretched slowly outwards, feeling the draped hand of another sliding warmly down his chest. Careful not to rouse his sleeping companion - whatever her name was - he sat into an upward position, feeling the warm grasp of evening sun filtering through the curtain’s crack. He slipped out

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    The Innocent Man Analyse

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    An Innocent Man by Billy Joel- This song really connects with The Innocent Man. The lyrics strongly represent how witnesses of certain crimes would rather keep their mouths shut then get involved. The Innocent Man could have had a lot of good within it if people would have spoken up, but no one did. An innocent man ended up accused of murder because “Some people [ran] from a possible fight” and “Some people [figured] they [could] never win” (Billy Joel). The book and this song both represent how

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