Emily Bardman Blue 3 6-2-11 _Lord of the Flies_ William Golding uses symbolism many times in his book _Lord of the Flies_. He uses numerous representations all throughout the book to get the reader to recognize the theme which is that human nature is inherently evil. When a group of British boys get into a plane crash during World War II‚ they establish rules and a chief. But‚ later in the book‚ they start to turn savage. Golding uses a conch in the book to represent order. He uses a pair of
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spiritual fallouts in a typical ignorant village. Obviously the tone is satirical. Pungent yet Horatian; Subtle and biting‚ the tone is that of a wronged person who sees the futility of a protest in the face of an ignorant army. The author recounts the night‚ a scorpion driven by continuous rain hidden beneath a rice sack stung the poet’s mother and ran off after the attack. The villagers tried to search for the insect in order to immobilize it so that the poison doesn’t spread since according to their
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to immediately fall asleep and wake up to a better day. That night I dreamt of a place where the sun was always shined so bright it almost glowed‚ a place where everything there was no noise apart from the occasion sounds of nature‚ and the water was so still it could be mistaken for ice‚ a place surrounded by luscious green trees and colorful flora and when the sun set there was complete silence across the entire countryside. That night I dreamt of a place where I could feel connected and at
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The City at Night I step forward into the deep‚ soft snow and hear the sound of a muffled packing of frozen wetness. All the sounds are muffled‚ yet somehow amplified by parentheses they fall hard but slow‚ despite the weight. I look at the cloud they fall from and think how the snowflake seems like a frozen flake of a billowy cloud. Its cold and the snow that falls on my upturned face froze on my eyelashes until I blinked and now the warmth of my cheeks melts the snowflake and its
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It was a misty night. The fog was all I can see. I stumbled‚ got up and stumbled again. Fear was screaming inside my head like the menacing roar of an angry lion‚ it felt like I was trapped in a never ending nightmare where all my greatest fears came to life. Frantically I felt the ground‚ finding for some clue to where I am. Wet grass. That is what I felt. The earth below me felt like ice all of a sudden when I recalled what happened. The picture of our car crashing through the divider and the screams
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the fruit fly‚ Drosophila Melanogaster. A Cinnabar Brown female was crossed with Wild Type male. The flies were mated in a jar containing a nutrient medium and then placed in an incubator. The experiment was conducted over a period of 5 weeks. Cinnabar (cn) and brown (bw) are two loci in Drosophila with recessive eye colour mutations. Mutations in cn cause a bright red eye and mutations in bw cause a brown eye. Double mutants have white eyes. As predicted‚ all the F1 generation of flies were wild
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realistic towards the end of the play. The part Egeus tries to play with Hermia’s life is God because he said‚ “As she is mine‚ I may dispose of her‚ which shall be to this gentleman or to her death‚ according to our law immediately provided in that case.” (Shakespeare 42). This line shows us that Egeus thinks he owns his daughter Hermia. The Elizabethan Era did allow that if the daughter had not been married then she was owned by the father. Hermia was not the only one that had to go through that
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The Sacrifice of Humanization When people are told they are something over and over and over‚ they may begin to believe that it is true‚ and indeed they begin to become it. In the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel there is a use of a heavy symbolism. The most redundant and most important symbols that are used throughout his memoir are those of animals. In this memoir the constant comparison of the Jews to animals is used in a negative connotation and so that we see how the Nazi’s really were dehumanizing
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The book Night‚ was written by Elie Wiesel. He was held hostage at a concentration camp for 15 years. Elie had a strong bond with his father‚ but it changed throughout the story. After being a “slave” for a long time changed him. I’m going to tell you how. First‚ Elie and his family got kicked out of their house and got moved to the ghetto. Elie felt horrible that his family had to leave. He also was upset about how families were being shot and getting kicked out of their homes. When Elie and his
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Sam Woods is a very important character in the novel In the heat of the night. He is a racist‚ and throughout the novel you will notice many changes in his attitude towards Negro’s. Sam Woods is a middle-aged man‚ who works for the city of Well’s police department. Until Chief Gillespie had arrived in town‚ Sam Wood had been rated as a big man‚ but Bill Gillespie’s towering size‚ made Sam look a normal size. Sam takes a lot of pride into his work‚ and has read up on everything you need to no
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