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    Loneliness is something that the old man‚ Santiago experienced throughout his life‚ one of the most painful things he must have felt was losing his wife. Having the reminder of her in his shack came to a point where he had to take down the picture because it made him more lonely‚ but he still kept the pieces that reminded him of her. As it says “On the brown walls of the flattened‚ overlapping leaves of the sturdy fibered guano there was a picture in color of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and another

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    Steinbeck’s main topic is loneliness‚ he shows how different characters in the story are lonely by telling how and why each character is lonely. The author makes the story exactly how it would be if it were real. The story shows how people are lonely because of the conditions they have. They all have a problem that causes them to be lonely. Thesis- Steinbeck shows several of his characters as lonely‚ including Lennie‚ Curley’s Wife‚ and Candy because they all have different people that leave them

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    Grendel was in the gabled hall where the warriors slept. The only sound coming from the hall was the deep snores of the knights‚ but soon it would be there cries and lamentation. He strode under the clouds‚ seeking eagerly‚ till he came to the wine-hall‚ the treasure-hall of men seeking Hrothgar’s home. There was fire in his eyes‚ they were as red as Macintosh apples‚ freshly picked. So‚ there I was watching him kill innocent people without a second thought. Of course the ferocious beast had no clue

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    To Kill a Mockingbird takes place in Maycomb County‚ Alabama‚ during the early 1930s. The Great Depression had taken over the town‚ leaving the people of Maycomb with little to no hope. The prejudice environment was typical for them. Scouts difficulty in growing up has to do with all the prejudice she is surrounded by. Her innocence is exposed to the hatred against people of other races such as Tom Robinson‚ an African American man accused of raping Mayella Ewell‚ a white woman. Seeing the juror’s

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    My Grendel It is something that sticks with you through the day and keeps you up at night.A creature taking its form as a thought in your mind. A looming monster‚ magnificently terrifying‚ corrupt at is very core‚ and persistent beyond belief. Monsters take many different forms for all different people‚ but what makes a monster unbearable is that it is perfectly suited you. Magnifying your insecurities and weaknesses to a point where they become the embodiment of who you are‚ a flawed human being

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    Salinger is sure to stress the importance of his loneliness all throughout his novel. Going to Mr. Antolini‚ a favorite teacher at a previous school -- seeking comfort‚ Holden receives the opposite. Before writing the name of a psychoanalyst‚ “Wilhelm Stekl‚” Antolini tells him‚ “this fall [he] think[s]

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    poem in Old English and one of the earliest European epics written in the vernacular‚ tells of the journeys of the fictional hero Beowulf. The first part of the story tells of Beowulf’s adventures in Denmark‚ where he battled the monstrous creature Grendel and his mother (also a creature) on behalf of King Hrothgar‚ the King of Danes. The second part of the story narrates his later life‚ including his fight with a fire-dragon while he reigned as King of Geatland. A translator of Beowulf‚ Burton Raffel

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    Grendel Chapter 1: Chapter one is mostly about Grendel’s problems: why is he the way he is? why he should kill in order to survive? and why everybody are so stupid for him? “And so begins the twelfth year of my idiotic war. The pain of it! The stupidity!”(p. 5) I wonder why did Grendel have a war with humans. He is very rageful and angry character but at the same time he is reasonable in his thoughts. He hates everything that surrounds him: “Him too I hate‚ the same as I hate these brainless

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    The Grendel in my life The day had been in its adolescence‚ and the afternoon sun rose yonder the mountainous region of the vicinity. The misunderstood and oddball of a child stood erect; depressed and troubled by his own perception of reality. On a daily basis‚ he felt as if no one would ever come to understand him‚ and people became no more than brains piloting slabs of meat. Some would call him sociopathic or even psychotic in his nature due to the fact that he had lost the ability to distinguish

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    I ascend from my stunning‚ horrid swampland while the darkness covers the mysterious‚ gloomy lake I call home. The night seems to match my soul as the darkness consumes around me and the moon hides behind the misty clouds. I march forward on the path that will guide me to my fate with monstrous‚ heavy steps. The very thought of those men‚ drinking and laughing and carrying on all night long at the great hall made me so full of blind‚ red fury. It spread throughout my body. I can already

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