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    Another image is a Dead tree outside the house making scary shadows every time it storms and also tries to eat Robbie. And in the closet there is a monster that takes Carol Anne and at the end of the movie the closet turns in to a Giant throat with a serpent coming out of it sucking the house in to the earth. So

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    always win. Or in the case of Beowulf the hero in the real world isn’t always honored in a grand fashion. Matt is a hero and heroes in the real world don’t get to enjoy those luxuries. Matt exhibits where a hero in our current society lies, in the shadows. A true hero such as Matt is willing to make the ultimate sacrifice for others knowing well that he won’t be given the

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    Scotland. The way Macbeth says this quote signifies that he does not want anyone to know the truth; he wants it to be laced in secrecy. Macbeth begins to think that the plan will fail, and Lady Macbeth suggests that Macbeth is not a real man: “What beast was ‘t then, that made you break this enterprise to me? When you durst do it, then you were a man; and to be more than what you were, you would be so much more the man” (1.7.53-8). Lady Macbeth is so captivated by her own desires that she insults his

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    All my failed attempts but I think this one will finally do the trick! Today is the day this all ends, I will put an end to Odysseus for good. I've let this weigh on my conscience far too long and have let it bother me enough. He won’t best me this time I am highly confident in what I’ll achieve against him. Swift Odysseus has gotten away far too much from me this has to end. As I sit here and plan for what’s to come I feel no remorse for my plan after all he did blind my son and put him through

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    gross hangnails, and shaken her up, before running away himself. "Have fun in Hell."      The shot echoed through the trees as the crackle of Hellfire swallowed the Revenant down.     "So that's how that works, huh?" Xavier Dolls stepped out of a shadow, gun still drawn cautiously.     Wynonna spun to face him, Peacemaker inches from his face; she was surprised when he didn't

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    a shark is going to take a bite out of you and you are going to die. Your imagination then turns that into a worst case scenario where things that are most likely not going to happen are going to happen or you turn the shark into a megalodon size beast. Your imagination comes up with these things because of your fear. Monsters are created in our mind by our imagination to give us a reason for fearing the

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    as if he were an actual pig. This illustrates the initial innocence of the dance and how the dance was initially a fun activity for the boys. Amidst the excitement of one of the dances, the boys see a shadow-like figure and it was Simon, but in their untamed state of mind they think it is the beast and they kill him. As the book progresses, there is a loss of excitement during the dance. William Golding expresses this when he says, “The movement became regular while the chant lost its first superficial

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    “Leave this place. Such a beast won’t be downed by brute force, you oaf.” “Do you know of whom you speak to?” Thor interjected, taking a few steps forward to tower over the Mage. The much shorter man scuttled away so as not to be crushed under the prince’s hammer, but the eldest son of Odin had not served a piece of his mind just yet. “I will not tolerate some strange little man in a dress slandering the future King of Asgard…” Loki was by his side in an instant, a shadow hovering over his shoulder

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    Home. I can't remember when that word meant a good thing. To others it may speak of a place of comfort and family, where you could always be safe. Never to be hurt by the outside world, which beheld unimaginable horrors. All I want is to go away from my home. The faded walls of Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria, which once held vibrant colors and smiling faces, now were cold and deceased from any contact. I traced my hand over the cartoon drawn figures of Bonnie, Chica, and Freddy. They seem so happy

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    to the lack of scientific knowledge and study, which lead society to gain faith in paranormal activities. Those cases of doppelgänger are referred to as, “evil twin” (Ancient Origin 5) which means that the identical other may seem as a favorable shadow, but in reality, is a malevolent and hostile being. Furthermore, these cases are considered works of fiction, where people experience actual scenarios of meeting their sinister

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