She says, "All I knew was I had to get my milk to my baby girl. ... When Schoolteacher arrived at 124, Sethe's plan was to kill all her children, but Beloved was the only one to die. ... For instance, when we read Sethe's monologue she explains how she had to keep her safe at the time she died and she said, "I'll tend her as no ever tended a child, a daughter," and "I won't never let her go." (Morrison, 236) She also says, "When I put that headstone up I wanted to lay in there with you, put your head on my shoulder and keep you warmbecause my m...

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"I would bawl and hurl myself at my mother and she would reach out her claws and seize me, though I could see I alarmed her ( I had teeth like a saw), and she would smash me to her fat, limp breast as if to make me a part of her flesh again"(Gardner 17). This quote directly demonstrates how Grendel as a child would feel so rejected and solitary that he would have to go to the only person in which he trusted,his mother, and, just lay against her and release his emotions. ... At first Grendel does kill plenty of people,although, this was Grendel's last, Beowulf rips his heart out...

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Although Lennie never reaches his dream, he dies with the thought of achievement. ... And the kids playing hide-and-go-seek were laying tricks on me and they were laughing at me too... I felt naked". ... Both leave Charlie heads to New York, with a last request for flower to be place on Algernon's grave, and Lennie dies, with picture of himself feeding the rabbits on his ranch. ... Lennie never had a chance to reach his dream, he died to soon. ...

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This made Grendel run back to his lair, where later on he dies. ... He walked with the she monsters sword and while walking he found Grendels body, laying there lifeless. ... "For this, this gold, these jewels, I thank our father in Heaven, ruler of the earth "for all this, which His grace has given me."" Before he dies he tells Wiglaf that he wants the Geats to build him a tall tower and burn him where all his people could remember who was and what he had done for his people. And then Beowulf dies. ...

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At first this seems absurd but it is made to work by Donne laying out plainly how he came to the conclusion that the flea is the same as sex. ... In lines 12-13 three more metaphors are stated as the flea is compared to "you and I", "our marriage bed", and "marriage temple". ... Donne goes on to plead the flea's case as he continues to use metaphors to show how terrible it would be if the flea died. ... The metaphor in this poem that I find especially engaging comes in line 25 when Donne compares the two lovers to a compass. ... Another example of these contradictions is in line 13 wh...

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Every time something dies, the dream seems more unrealistic. When the mouse dies, we are made aware of his strength and child like behaviour of being drawn to continuously touch soft things. ... However, at the end of the story when George is forced to kill Lennie, when his dreams seem most real, I felt that it was better for Lennie to die wrapped in an illusion than to live through one more disappointment. ... I felt excited for the three men. ... "I never seen a guy really do it" (70). ...

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Personally, I think that teens are more vulnerable to what others say and do. ... Juliet was not pleased at all with that decision; she"d rather die than marry someone other than Romeo. ... When Romeo sees her laying there he says, " O my love, my wife! ... He can't resist seeing his only true love laying there dead so he kills himself so they can finally be together forever. ... I personally feel like these situations can not be prevented because no matter how much you can talk to a person they are still going to feel like they are helpless in this world. ...

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'If I didn't have this curiosity, I would walk into enemy lines and let myself be killed, I would blow my own head off with these grenades.' ... I would kill them all if I could.' ... Stephen had watched comrades die in front of him during his time at war, and he used this as impetus to kill his enemies. ... 'At that time he had told himself that he had no wish to love any of these men more than any other, knowing what lay in store for them.' He is refusing to make friends with anybody again, as whenever he gets close to them, they die. ...

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But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue ( 1;2 L 164).". ... This lays a shadow on Hamlet's heart and it's the first time we hear him voice any suspicion of murder or "foul play". ... I don't think it's that easy however. ... We have too move past that urge to see blood flow and heads roll or else more innocents will die. ... The road where another king dies and Hamlet is the only one satisfied. ...

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Finally, Paul had made the statement: "I have everything I need." ... Once the person would die, their muscles would relax and not be tensed up. ... Finally Paul's phrase: "I have all everything I need" (271) is also suspected to play in Percy's death. ... And he tapped me lightly on the spot where, in an inside pocket I carry my cash. ... Paul could have used this against Percy and used it as a form of proof that Paul could lay his killing on. ...

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" I now possess the throne and all its powers. ... That she'll die but her death will kill another... " I know it myself- I'm shaken, torn. ... Lay my pride bare to the blows of ruin? ... I killed them, I, god help me, I admit it all!...

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He can't control the power of being over other people and he lets the power go to his head. " I now possess the throne and all its powers. ... That she'll die but her death will kill another... In the end Creon realizes that his pride has lead to the destruction of his life and his kingdom. " I know it myself- I'm shaken, torn. ... Lay my pride bare to the blows of ruin? ... I killed them, I, god help me, I admit it all!...

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And now I was raining apples at him and laughing myself weak.". ... "It is I." I say. ... "I tip a boulder and let it fall thundering toward him I lay the tree sideways, wait for the goat to be in better range, then shove Death shakes his body the way high wind shakes trees. ... I snatch up a stone.". ...

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The fancy sports car lay totaled as John, now with a large gash on his head, races to side of the car responsible. ... I think that if anything, this supports the idea of survival of the fittest. ... Well I"m sure everyone knows what happened. ... Now who has a better system, the mamma dog that leaves the tiger cub to die because it knows it will eventually grow up and kill off there food supply. ... I"m not sure, but I think I will trust my instincts, and not my compassion. ...

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The fancy sports car lay totaled as John, now with a large gash on his head, races to side of the car responsible. ... I think that if anything, this supports the idea of survival of the fittest. ... Well I"m sure everyone knows what happened. ... Now who has a better system, the mamma dog that leaves the tiger cub to die because it knows it will eventually grow up and kill off there food supply. ... I"m not sure, but I think I will trust my instincts, and not my compassion. ...

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Having everyone you love killed and having to lay in a pile of bodies of your own people, is something that will be in his mind for the rest of his life. ... His best friend dies right before his eyes. ... The same evening that Lemon died the platoon came in contact with a baby water buffalo. ... '"We will eat, Fanushka saidYou get to sleep early, and you get up early, and before you grab the first tit on that cow I want his throat slit Then with goose feathers flying, Tendler moved through the house. ...

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I wasn't going back there[Sweet Home]. I went to jail instead"(Morrison 42). ... So when I got here, even before they let me get out of bed, I stitched her a little something from a piece of cloth Baby Suggs had. ... I couldn't let all that go back to where it was, and I couldn't let her or any of em live under School Teacher. ... 'I should have gone on back there? ...

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