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    Animal Symbolism in Native Son by Richard Wright         Two rats and a cat are used as symbols in Richard Wright's Native Son.  The rats, one found in an alley and the other in Bigger's apartment, symbolize Bigger.  Mrs. Dalton's white cat represents white society, which often takes the form of a singular character.  "Parallels are drawn between these animals and the characters they represent at key moments during the novel" (Kinnamon 118).  These parallels help the reader identify with Bigger

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    the woods to get away from the puma’s crying. It is hear that he gets a good look at one of the deformities for the first time. “Then I saw it was a man, going on all fours like a beast! (pg. 38).” It is this sight that sends Prendick”s imagination wild. “The thicket about me became altered to my imagination. Every shadow became something more than a shadow, became an ambush, every rustle became a threat. Invisible things seemed watching me (pg. 39).” It is these emotions of Prendick’s that make the

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    sides fought against each other in a war. While examining the corpse, the sniper discovered that the enemy was his brother. Also “The Black Cat” narrates the process of the protagonist from normal to committing a crime step-by-step. Internal conflict moves the story’s plot, thought the short stories “Just Lather, That's All”, “The Sniper” and “The Black Cat” respectively. The border in “Just Lather, That’s all” struggled with person against self which moves the plot. As the barber thought over: “

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    sides fought against each other in a war. While examining the corpse, the sniper discovered that the enemy was his brother. Also “The Black Cat” narrates the process of the protagonist from normal to committing a crime step-by-step. Internal conflict moves the story’s plot, thought the short stories “Just Lather, That's All”, “The Sniper” and “The Black Cat” respectively. The border in “Just Lather, That’s all” struggled with person against self which moves the plot. As the barber thought over:

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    The cat (or domestic cat, house cat) is a small domesticated carnivorous mammal. It is valued by humans for its companionship and its ability to destroy vermin. A skilled predator, the cat is known to hunt over 1,000 species for food. Intelligent, the cat can be trained to obey simple commands, and has been known to teach itself to manipulate simple mechanisms (see cat intelligence). The trinomial name of the domestic cat is Felis silvestris catus. Its closest pre-domesticated ancestor is believed

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    that was called Coldwater, Curiosity really did kill the cat. Well, it did stop, that is up until about three years ago, a boy aged sixteen had the bright idea that he would go into the death trap called the forest. Now this boy had the life any teenage boy could possibly want, he had clear skin, perfect build, he was quarterback of the football team, the most popular boy in high school, and lets be honest, he had girls practically falling at his feet. Though it may not have seemed like it, he had

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    the Great Outdoors. There were even some years in which we traveled around living on commune farms. I remember the huge gardens where you could always find my mom, and where I earned my nickname "Beans". I recall the cats and goats that were always roaming around, and I remember falling asleep in rooms stacked to the ceiling with bunkbeds, where all of the kids on the farm slept. So what in the world does this have to do with a reflection of the first day of class? Simply put, it reaffirms the

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    “If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn’t. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn’t be. And what it wouldn’t be, it would. You see?” - Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland. Furthermore, a desire for one to bend the world as they see fit, even when what they see fit isn’t meant to be. There are many ways to read the novel “Alice in Wonderland”, it holds not one point of view, but many which can be interpreted in several

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    The short stories, The Scarlet Ibis, The Black Cat, and The Lady or the Tiger all show similar literary elements. One that will be shown in this essay is internal conflict. Internal conflict is when the main character faces their own emotions, such as going against themselves. All three of these stories give you a shock for what happens in these stories, or makes you curious of what happened. This is shown in The Scarlet Ibis, where the older brother is teaching his disabled brother to do things

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    Within the first six paragraphs of the story Alice is already falling down a seemingly endless rabbit hole (Carroll, 13&14). This rabbit hole stands as the archetypal Threshold. The threshold stands as "a gateway to a new world the hero must enter to change and to grow" (crsivels.com, 1). Alice enters the rabbit hole

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