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    Scout (Jean Louise) Finch is a young girl in Alabama who learns great life lessons from her hometown, Maycomb County. She gets a taste of how cruel and hard life can be, but also the better sides of life. She even learns to be empathetic to others. Throughout To Kill A Mockingbird, Scout showed various examples of empathy to other characters. Three that come to mind are Mayella Ewell, her Aunt Alexandra, and lastly, her neighbor Boo Radley. Mayella Ewell is one of the antagonists within To Kill

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    Frank tries to use pity as a blackmailing technique to accomplish his own egocentric needs: “It is nothing to you that I go back to the cold and the gloom, the lonely, lonely streets…” (130). The Lady does not budge, and Frank vanishes without succeeding in his selfish ways. Lewis goes on to emphasize that the damned that choose Hell cannot be pitied, and should not use their choice of afterlife as a way to make those in Heaven

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    Analysis of William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” In “A Rose for Emily”, William Faulkner uses symbolism, imagery, simile and tone. Faulkner uses these elements to lead his characters to an epiphany of letting go of out-dated traditions and customs. The resistance to change and loneliness are prominent themes within “A Rose for Emily”. Faulkner uses “A Rose for Emily” to caution his readers that things are not always what they appear to be. The tone of “A Rose for Miss Emily”

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    These two men jump into the Salinas River. There is this Lady that is in a red ripped dress and running after these two figures named George and Lennie. The hook in the movie is very different from the book. It brings a lot of tension to the audience. George is a protective and caring friend. Lennie is really generous and sweet but also forgets a lot of things. Curley is a very angry and selfish man. Curley’s wife is sympathetic and lonely she doesn’t get to talk to anyone besides her husband Curley

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    against Mrs. Wright. The irony is that Mrs. Peters (the Sheriffs wife) and Mrs. Hale (Mrs. Wright’s neighbor) are the ones that discover the evidence to put Mrs. Wright in jail. The evidence that the ladies find are also major items of symbolism throughout the story. The first clue that the ladies find is the bird cage with no bird inside. The bird cage represents how Mrs. Wright lived her life. Her husband trapped her inside the house, the same way one would trap a bird in a cage. She was kept

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    not all that attentive to our performance. They tend to take the opportunity to take an afternoon nap instead. One time, there was a frail, old lady in a wheelchair in the front row who looked sad and lonely when she was wheeled in. There was a moment, at the end of our performance that I caught this lady’s eye. Then, out of no where, this sad, lonely lady gave me the biggest smile she could manage. Then, there was the Answers for Patrick Foundation. This foundation was created to raise funds to pay

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    “Jury of Her Peers” “Jury of Her Peers” by Susan Glaspell is telling of a wife snapping after a horrifying incident with her husband. The peers seek to find the true behind the killing. The women characters are talk as they are not as important as the men characters. The women hide the bird because, they feel for her due to her husband not allowing her to interact with others and taking what she loved away. The women finding the bird is resolving the fact that Mrs. Wright did kill her husband. The

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    who displayed loneliness. One reason that caused him to be lonely was his strength. He was a very strong guy and because of his disability, he did not know he was hurting anyone. When Curley's wife invited Lennie to brush her hair, he started hurting her. She said, “You stop it now, you’ll mess it all up’’ (91). She said “let go,’’ she cried. Lennie says “Don’t you go

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    story Of Mice and Men loneliness affects even the happiest people. One example of loneliness shown in the book is Crooks, the black stable buck. Crooks is lonely because he isn’t allowed to go into the bunk house and he has to sleep in a little shack because he is black. “Cause I’m back. They play

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    is first introduced in the novel, she is presented as “jail bait” (32). The first image of Curley’s wife is a woman whose “face was heavily made up” (31). The men classify her as a “tart” (28). As the only female on the ranch, she inevitably feels lonely and craves attention. Whenever she tries to converse with the men, they try to avoid her because she is known to flirt; the men do not want to cause trouble and lose their jobs. After Crooks told Curley’s wife to return to her house, she said, “Well

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