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- 7861: Less Than Zero Book Review
- ... desperation that takes him through the relentless parties in glitzy mansions, seedy bars, and underground rock clubs. This is illustrates the seamy world of L.A. after dark. This book is a teenage slice-of-death novel with no holds barred. This was one of the first books about success and wealth that was so frighteningly realistic. It was one of the most disturbing novels Ive read in a long ...
- 7862: Leggatt As An Independent Char
- ... managed to set the reefed foresail, which saved the ship and its crew. However, in setting the foresail, a mate helping Leggatt refused to follow orders, and Leggatt, exasperated by the storm and by facing death, "felled him like an ox" (Conrad147). The mate got up, wanting to fight, but Leggatt grabbed a hold of his neck and did not let go until he was dead, while the storm tossed the ...
- 7863: Fahrenheit51
- ... improves their thinking. All the while a war is going on and all of a sudden planes came swooping down and bombed the city. "The city rolled over and fell down dead. The sound of death came after" (160). Montag and his group are safe but the city is leveled. Montag and his group then decided to go back to the city and help rebuild hoping that people realize that their ...
- 7864: If Only Theyd Listened To Pig
- ... but Ralph and Piggy continue to be friends. In particularly, after the killing of Simon, Piggy tries as best as he can to support Ralph although he realizes they were a party to the violent death. He says, You stop it. What good are you doing talking like that. Although his is wise no one seems to listen to him except for Ralph, those who didnt respect him may wish ...
- 7865: Lord Of The Flies - Character
- ... curve round the sky and swept it in a great slant across the reef and the lagoon toward the mountain. (p.95) The dead parachutist, also known as the beast, is used to foreshadow the death of Simon, a small although intellectual boy. The parachutist shows the idea of one man slaughtering another as he dies in war. As Simon, returns to the other boys to inform them of his encounter ...
- 7866: Factors Contributing To The Su
- ... express thoughts and create pictures for ideas. When someone is being accused of something or tried for a crime, the words used by those in the legal arena have the power to give life or death. Sentences can have wide variations depending on the choice of one or two words. For example the sentence of involuntary manslaughter is much different from manslaughter. In for instance one confuses the word involuntary for ...
- 7867: Lord Of The Flies
- ... the figure believing it was the beast, an animal, which they believed was trying to hinder their rescue. Instead they find out that they were actually beating their friend Simon. Unfortunately they beat him to death. These were two examples that display the way in which Golding used the setting to foreshadow events. Golding also used setting to delineate values and the state of mind of the characters. For example, In ...
- 7868: LORD OF THE FLIES
- ... involved in the sacrifice at the time, carrying out a bizzare tribal dance in a wild frenzy. When the crowd see him, with mass hysteria they think he is the beast and club him to death. Piggy especially is ashamed because he was lured by the meat offered by Jack to join the ceremony and was involved in the clubbing. Now vastly reduced in numbers, Ralph's tribe is made up ...
- 7869: Emilia And Desdemona In Othell
- ... with these two, Desdemona stands as an icon of female purity. Her love for Othello is as strong (or stronger) as his is to her--indeed, she asserts it even as she goes to her death--and plagued by none of the insecurities and vulnerabilities that lay his love open to Iago s machinations. Unlike Othello, she bears no responsibility for the tragedy--she is the only blameless victim of the ...
- 7870: Lord Of The Flies By William G
- ... of the fire-watchers) glasses so that they may have a means of making a cooking fire. One of the more vicious hunters roles a boulder off of a cliff, crushing Piggy, and causing the death of yet another rational being. The story concludes with the hunters hunting Ralph (the head and last of the fire-watchers). After lighting half of the island on fire in an attempt to smoke Ralph ...
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