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    Mayella Quotes

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    white girl who lives in an old run down house on a pig farm next to a trash dump. Because of her social status and gender, she is sometimes powerful and sometimes not. “class” “What papa do to me don't count” Mayella Ewell chapter eighteen quote link This quote represents what kind of relationship mayella had with her father's. And what I mean by this is that Mayella and her father life together in the rundown house. In this house is where Mayella gets physically and sexually abused daily. This is

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    Creon Quotes

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    it.” This quote makes Creon a tragic hero by Creon asking the purp if he/she is going to admit to doing the crime. This quote also makes Creon a tragic hero by Creon trying to get a confusion out of the purp. On page 274 line 594 Creon says to Antigone that “A good man does not wish what we give him to be the same an evil man receives.” The quote develops the theme because Creon begins the story hot headed and by the end of the story he is cold headed and he starts making laws. The quote develops

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    Ishmael Quotes

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    “I had heard from adults that this was a revolutionary war, a liberation of the people from corrupt government. But what kind of liberation movement shoots innocent civilians, children, that little girl?” (Beah 14) Comments on Chosen Quote: I don’t know why this quote spoke to me, but it did. I find it ironic how every time these rebellions start, the people end up getting hurt. I’m not saying that you shouldn’t rebel, because sometimes it’s necessary for us to progress as human beings, but it’s just

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    Divergent Quotes

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    The quote,”Character is what you are in the dark” is a very complex and unique quote. The idea the quote portrays is very interesting because it explains that people show their true colors when no one is watching. One book that applies to this concept is the young adult series knows as Divergent. The book Divergent is about a girl who has to make a decision between siding with the social norms or what she believes is right. Throughout the story, she meets a guy named Four who agrees with her beliefs

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    Outsiders Quotes

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    gotten over not going to college.” This quote shows he is smart and how he could go to college. However for some reason he was not able to.Another example is “You know the only thing that keeps Darry from being a soc is us.”(126) Is a true example of how he is smart . He could be a soc.A soc is a person who is smart, drives nice cars, and has an abundant amount of money. Darry has money and is smart.He makes good grades and does good in school.Last quote is “He does know anything that is not hard

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    Hatchet Quotes

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    food but later on in the novel he gets better at it. This is shown throughout the book like this quote, “he could not stop and kept striping branches and eating berries by the handful”. This quote shows that at the start of the novel Brian

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    Friendship Quotes

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    Consequently, these Quotes about life also remind us of what we have forgotten. To live life in a simple way. As French philosopher and scholar Jean Jacques Rousseau once said "All beings live long when they live in their natural states." Or simply, we can survive better if we live in a more environmentally friendly manner or a manner which is in a state of equilibrium with nature and its resources.Human Life is like a river and Human Beings the Boat, and Quotes about life are the fisherman/captains

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    Nathan's Quotes

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    IMAGERY “The sound of old winters was in his voice.” ~Maida, speaking about Nathan When one thinks of winter, the cold weather that makes your throat dry comes to mind. The purpose of this quote is to show how upset Nathan feels, and to convey the sound of hoarseness of his voice to the readers. Furthermore, the skating party took place thirty years ago, so the tone of Nathan’s voice also shows the grief he still feels when speaking of the skating party. “His eyelashes were sooty with field dust

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    Anonymous Quotes

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    My quote is “Failure is not defeat until you stop trying,” Anonymous This quote has been in inspiration in my life since the beginning of this year. The quote is anonymous but still has a story, a story with my life. The story this quote has with my life is inspirational and helped me though a tough time. This year for volleyball I got dropped down a level of completion from the Freshman 1 team to the Freshman 2 team. This disappointed me because I had worked so hard all summer to get on high

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    Unbroken Quotes

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    This is the quote I have chosen, because it just sounds cool. Just kidding I heard this quote in the movie Unbroken. It was a good movie and was based off a true story about Louis Zamperini’s life and the things he had to go through like, World War Two. I think this quote best is used in the story when he was in the war. He was in a prison camp and ,Mutsuhito Watanabe was the corporal. Mutsuhito Watanabe’s favorite punishment was making his sufficers punch prisoners in the face ,and thats what he

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