Top Ten Quotes 1. “On the day they were going to kill him‚ Santiago Nasar got up at five-thirty in the morning to wait for the boat the bishop was coming on.” (Chapter 1‚ page 3) In the opening line of the book‚ García Márquez reveals the ending of the story: Santiago Nasar is killed. The rest of the story unfolds in reverse‚ as readers learn more of the details of how and why Santiago is killed. This tantalizing sentence provides a good example of García Márquez’s baroque writing style. Three
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English External: 91098- Analyze specified aspects(s) of studied written text(s) supported by evidence. Quotes to be used Bath: • “Difficulty arise as it had last time she bathed she would have some way of rescuing herself” • “Now seemed more like the edge of a cliff with a deep drop below into the sea.” • “She leaned forward feeling the pain in her back shoulder.” • “Faster‚ her breath came more quickly‚ her mouth war dry.” • “She began to call out but as she had predicted there was
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recounts the loss of his innocence‚ his faith in God‚ his sense of time and his sense of self. Night describes how the Nazis dehumanized the Jews at every stage through the war years. And in the process‚ they lost their own sense of humanity. Dehumanization usually involves members of one group asserting the inferiority of another group through acts or words. But during the Holocaust‚ the Nazis did not stop at simply asserting their own superiority over the Jews; they stripped them of their sense
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leave the novel more aware of the culture‚ dispositions‚ and history of the time. Balewa’s novel depicts a past world in which dehumanization
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simile 7. “ Women fought each other like polecats over certain men.” (page 47) -simile 8. “ The wall street crash had a terrible effect on us. Many of the horses had to be taken over by the military. “ (page 48) - 9. “ From the grandstand you could watch them leaving like ants a good hour before the last race‚ having lost all their money.” (page 49) - 10. “Gambling was so crucial to the economy of certain household that semi-respectable women slept with
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Claire’s character has the most prominent role in the progression of the dehumanization of all the characters in this play. Through comparing the antecedent action and the events that occur over the span of the play‚ there is a point of revelation that appears to connect both timelines. Though‚ not only is Claire affected; ultimately‚ she spreads her repressed spite to the towns people‚ ultimately resulting in Ill’s death and the foremost corruption of the town. The events that Claire had gone through
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occupants of this society seem like robots‚ completely devoid of any strong emotion with love being the most abhorred of all. Being brainwashed from their synthetic birth‚ no matter what class they are in‚ has left them acting ignorant of the world and only able to run on spoonfed information. They are treated more like experiments rather than humans. Dehumanization is unethical and therefore harmful to a society when trying to achieve utopia. Stripping humans of their emotions and their individuality
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operation of his law office. In Melville’s “Bartleby‚ the Scrivener‚” he argues that work in a capitalist society dehumanizes its employees because the upper class regards them as working tools instead of as people. One way Melville shows the dehumanization of workers is through the lawyer’s introduction of his three initial employees. In this introduction‚ the lawyer describes how he sees his workers‚ which mainly consists of how useful they are to him at certain times. For example‚ he explains
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treated as things and not treated as a human should be treated by comparing babies as targets. “You must get completely undressed... Run as if the devil were after you! Don’t look at the SS. Run‚ straight in front of you!” is another example of dehumanization. In this part of the book Jews were ordered to strip and run in order to pass a test for survival. This is an example of how Elie‚ his father and his fellow Jews were humiliated. A final example of how Elie and other Jews were dehumanized was
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Quote #1 “The birds did not understand Snowball’s long words‚ but they accepted his explanation‚ and all the humbler animals set to work to learn the new maxim by heart. FOUR LEGS GOOD‚ TWO LEGS BAD‚ was inscribed on the end wall of the barn‚ above the Seven Commandments and in bigger letters (3.10‚ 3.11)” Big words bad‚ small words good: it’s easier to understand rules when they’re simple‚ but simple rules tend to gloss over the complexities of human society. Like‚ "don’t tell lies" is all well
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