Hannah Baker was a teenager who faced betrayal‚ violence‚ guilt‚ and given a bad reputation based on the rumors that were spread about her in school. She committed suicide because of the situations she encountered. Betrayal‚ false reputations‚ violence‚ and guilt are elements that drive adolescents towards suicide in the novel Thirteen Reasons Why. Thirteen Reasons Why is about a teenage girl named Hannah Baker who arrived to a new school. She faced a lot of horrible situations that drove her to
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The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini is inundated with the phrase “for you a thousand times over” (__). It plays a major role in the life of the main character‚ Amir. The quote first arises when Amir is young. Later‚ it resurfaces in the forms of dreams and an acquaintance that gradually change Amir for the better. In the final section of the book‚ Amir himself uses the quote and invokes a defining moment for his life. The saying “for you a thousand times over” fills Amir with first pain‚ then guilt
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The Most Dangerous Game The most obvious theme of "The Most Dangerous Game" is that which arises from the relationship of the hunter and the hunted. At the very beginning of story‚ Rainsford and Zaroff are presented as equals. Both characters are well-accomplished big-game hunters. As the story unfolds‚ however‚ their roles change. Rainsford is thrust into the position of the hunted. However‚ he tries to undermine the game by setting traps for the hunter. Rainsford’s form of hunting is passive
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Betrayed by my best friend‚ the more I thought about the title the more I decided that it was time to write about the betrayal that cost me so very dearly. She entered my life in August of 1978 with her three children‚ she rented the apartment on the other side of the old farm house my former husband and I had purchased. I was still young and naive then‚ and overly trusting. I thought she and her sons would be a blessing instead she used that friendship to betray me and my daughters. My former husband
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“in protecting her husband she betrays her sons” Do you feel this is a fair assessment of kate? The character of Kate has a central role‚ in this play by Arthur Miller‚ because the story is about her family and set in the mundane arena of her back garden. Kate is the wife of the main protagonist and her actions affect her sons‚ her husband and future daughter in law. Kate is a woman of enormous maternal love‚ which extends to her neighbors’ children George and Anne. Despite her instinctive warmth
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seems. “No more that thane of Cawdor shall deceive/or bosom interest: go pronounce his present death‚/ And with his former title greet Macbeth.” (The Tragedy of Macbeth‚ Act I:Sc II‚ lines 91-93) by receiving this title‚ it foreshadows Macbeth’s betrayal and eventual death. While Macbeth is killing Duncan‚ Macbeth believes he hears a voice. This foreshadows Macbeth’s paranoia which he experiences the rest of the play. Shakespeare uses many literary devices in his works‚ foreshadowing often being
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prison. Other times‚ it comes from within one’s own mind. Confinement can come‚ too‚ from other people‚ especially loved ones. Barbara Kingsolver’s novel The Poisonwood Bible explores these types of captivity in conjunction with themes of love and betrayal. Adah Price’s disability provides a strong example of physical captivity. She is trapped inside of a body which slants and drags‚ a result of her twin overcoming her in the womb. One of the clearest examples of how this confines her is during the
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parents received the news of his doings in “hushed‚ urgent tones of treason revealed.” Martel’s use of “treason” creates an implication that Pi’s family and friends perceive his love for God as an act of treason; an act of betrayal. This sense of betrayal is applied to Pi’s betrayal of his own beliefs; two monotheistic religions and one polytheistic religion. The teachings of Hinduism break a myriad of rules in Islam and Christianity‚ while Islam and Christianity have a long and
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Betrayal and Holy Retribution in Macbeth In the play Macbeth‚ author William Shakespeare tells the dramatic story of how a man‚ who becomes obsessed with his own fate and power‚ falls from grace and is eventually killed by his own obsessions. Written in 1606‚ this play follows historical figures during the mid 11th century in the struggle for power and the crown of Scotland. When this was written‚ the Tudor dynasty had just ended its nearly 120 years of ruling England and Shakespeare wished for
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When Joan states‚ “Marriage is the classic betrayal‚” (140) and that her brother only knows her husband as “Joan’s husband” it is the perfect example of showing unacceptance from betrayal of Joan marrying and switching names to adopt another family whom she would’ve never met for it weren’t for her husband. It makes Joan’s family seem jealous almost‚ that she’s found significant others to share the same passion of being “family” with and the betrayal feeling arises because that’s how close Joan
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