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    Tribe Boys

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    rain forest. One of the Dr.’s even takes a tribal drug that helps with erectile dysfunction. The Dr.’s are taken hunting for crocodiles. They are successful in find and trapping one. They bring it back to the tribe and they watch the tribe boys chop it up. Then the crocodile is cooked. They love the crocodile and believe that if they could stay in the jungle‚ that they would soon be filled with crocodile meat.

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    The Blue Boy

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    The Blue Boy Summary: In Gary Stephen Ross’ excerpt‚ “The Blue Boy‚” he describes Vancouver through the eyes of the main character. The character recounts a story of his travels that he would take with his father and brother from Toronto to Vancouver. The character highlights the ongoing transformation of the city and describes how it has evolved over time. In the beginning of the excerpt‚ he describes what he saw Vancouver to be in the 60s: a small city with little to offer. Contrastingly

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    Friedman gives a message of the innocence stripped away by the Holocaust. He uses the metaphor of a butterfly to portray such a loss of innocence. His use of adjectives also emphasizes his view of the scene. The statement “Butterflies don’t live in here‚ in the ghetto” is the most cogent line of the poem. Children cannot survive in the ghetto‚ just like butterflies cannot survive in an enclosed area for too long. In other words‚ the butterfly is a metaphor for childlike innocence. Friedman accentuated this

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    of his crimes and more of a victim of his fate. Oedipus was not knowing about his true origins when he defeated his father‚ Laius‚ and wedded his own mother‚ Jocasta. He is morally blameless and so destitute of his offenses. If the basis of his innocence was his willingness to do the crimes‚ then he could be seen as not guilty at all. He had committed the unethical wrongdoings unknowingly‚ it was not his intention to do it so.

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    wants to maintain? In the book Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger‚ the theme of innocence becomes an important aspect of this teenager’s identity. This particular teenager’s name is Holden Caulfield‚ and he is a desperate‚ depressed youth with purely innocent intentions‚ figuratively and literally. He holds on to the image of innocence and the maintenance of that trait‚ but his depression causes him to seek for innocence at an extreme level‚ to where it affects his everyday “adult” interactions. Holden

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    The Lost Boy

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    “The Lost Boy” “The Lost Boy” is an emotional non-fiction story‚ an autobiography‚ of Dave Pelzer’s difficult trials of child abuse and experience in foster care. It is a tale of a young boy who lives in isolation and fear searching for a place to call home‚ for a family. “The Lost Boy” encompasses themes of love‚ hate‚ and ultimate triumph. Dave’s life at home was one of constant terror and “lifeless existence.” He was his mother’s scapegoat and the outcast of the family. His father loved

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    A Cricket Boy

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    The Cricket Boy (A Chinese Tale) A long time ago‚ cricket fighting caught on inthe imperial court‚ withthe emperor leading the fad. A local magistrate in Huayin‚ who wanted to winthe favor of the monarch‚ tried in every way to gethim the best fightingcrickets. He had a strategy for doing so: He managed to geta cricket thatwas very good at fighting. He then made his subordinates go to theheads of each village and force them to send in a constant supply of fightingcrickets.He would send to the

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    Funny Boy

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    Funny Boy‚ a novel by Shyam Selvadurai‚ tells us a story through the eyes of a growing Tamil homosexual boy‚ Arjie. By using a first person narrator‚ Selvadurai vividly describes Arjie¡¯s struggle to negotiate life in Sinhala-dominated Colombo. Besides‚ the horrible ethnic violence between Tamil and Sinhalese in Sri Lanka was also highlighted throughout the novel. Selvadurai developed the theme of ethnic violence by telling various incidents and facts through the narrator of Arjie‚ beginning with

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    Black Boy

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    Things seem to be looking even more bleaker for Richard in Black Boy. It has gotten to the point that Richard has basically become dead to all of his family except his mother. This is due in fact to not believing in God or “not being able to feel his presence‚” thus making him shunned basically by his family. Because of the poverty that the family live in and also the strict religious backing of the house‚ the amount of food has always been scarce. Richard tries to find ways to get money‚ but he

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    The Merriam Webster Dictionary defines innocence as “freedom from guilt or sin through being unacquainted with evil”. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird‚ Harper Lee defines a “mockingbird” as someone or something that does nothing to bother or harm others. When Scout and Jem Finch get rifles for Christmas‚ their father Atticus warns them not to shoot at mockingbirds. The children fail to understand at first‚ but their neighbor Miss Maudie informs them that mockingbirds do not do anything but make

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