have relatives to leave his money to. Well‚ he could always leave it to a deserving charity. Chapter 3 Isolation And when they were gone‚ Candy squatted down in the hay and watched the face of Curley’s wife. "Poor bastard‚" he said softly. (5.112) Not "poor girl‚" but "poor bastard." We get the feeling that Candy knows who the real victim is here: not Curley’s wife‚ who he thinks brought it on herself‚ but poor‚ dumb‚ innocent Lennie. Chapter 5 Innocence • Candy • > • Quote 5 "Well‚ Curley’s
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In the novel Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck‚ the character Lennie Smalls is a large man who is physically fit but immature emotionally. He poses a danger to the other characters‚ as he is responsible for the death of various creatures‚ the accidental injury of Curley’s hand‚ and the gruesome murder of Curley’s wife. Although the outcome of the situations was unintended‚ innocent lives were lost as a result of his lack of fast reaction and childish mentality. Through the actions of Lennie and
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saying‚ “Harry has been confined to a cot because of a severe gangrene infection in his leg‚ and the putrid smell of bacteria has wafted into the air. When his wife tells him that he is not going to die‚ Harry replies‚ ’"I’m dying now. Ask those bastards" ("Snows" 40). His response suggests that Harry is convinced these vultures are here solely for him.”
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That good they escaped. At least they can warn the planet. BOOOM! A laser fire from the Black ship and destroys mine Jay: NOOOOO! The bastards. I just sent them off to their deaths and it is my fault. they bastards need to die. a laser comes in and they blow a hole in the satellite. several aliens with black suits. They have wings and tails. They also have some sort of gun. One of them points a gun at me and speaking some
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Gloucester stating that Edgar was never his son anyway‚ and Edmund is a "loyal and natural boy"(King Lear 2.1.85). The detrimental effects of this reversal is that Edgar is cast out of the castle and loses everything he once had‚ and now Edmund the bastard son receives all the things that were not once originally his‚ which in this case is against the natural order‚ because Gloucester was manipulated by Edmund because of his desires to have
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“Hans! Die Juden sind entkommen!” (Hans! The Jews are escaping!)‚ then the deep guttural barks of their bastard Shepherd dogs. I shoved my small white mouse into my beret‚ my hands clawing the air as I ran towards the woods‚ slowly numbing to the cold. I heard Paltel’s blood curdling scream‚ and I skidded to a stop‚ turning just in time to see his skeletal form being pounced on by one of their bastard dogs. He fell face first‚ a vibrant splash of red splaying out across the greying slush that was once
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Annalise Harvey 22 September‚ 2014 College Writing Prof. Robinson The Fault in Books are a way to escape reality. To leave the real world and step into another‚ for one hundred pages or for 300 pages. The most important thing about a book are the elements that make it whole. John Green portrays examples of symbolism and theme in his best selling novel‚ The Fault in our Stars. Symbolism is important in all novels‚ movies‚ and songs. It shows the importance that can be picked out of all little
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Etymologically Utopia means “nowhere” but in reality it means everywhere. It starts at the personal individual level to reach the community and beyond. Someone once said “everybody wants to change the world‚ nobody wants to change himself”. We all remember Martin Luther King: “I have a dream”. We recall Cervantes with his famous Don Quixote de la Mancha. We also have the worst with Hitler and the Holocaust . Jesus himself came up with his own utopia: “my kingdom is not of this world" ( john 18:36)
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Hyong Du Lim Professor Art Schuhart English 241 20 March 2013 “Now‚ Gods‚ Stand Up for Bastards”: Reinterpreting Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography Shurr emphasizes that “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin has been judged as one of the most important and influential of American books” (Shurr 435). American people have admired Benjamin Franklin as a role model‚ for his self-improving mindset and his remarkable service during American Revolution‚ but the untold truth lies beneath his cowardly
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How does Carol Ann Duffy challenge the “familiar cultural stereotypes” of women in ‘Mrs Beast’ ? One construction of feminism in the poem is female dominance over men. The Beast is shown as the weaker of the male culture due to his unappealing image “ugly as sin”. The Beast sees the narrators seeming interest in him as a miracle and is portrayed as desperate to keep her attention even it means living with her neglect. Here we see that the there is a reversal of gender stereotype as the Beast takes
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