With the character's actions revolving around her death, William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying reveals the truth about the people who surround a person may take advantage of him or her. ... Addie is foremost the prominent abuser of her upcoming death in As I Lay Dying. ... "Addie is the one who is dying, but she makes revenges run throughout the family and extend beyond" (Wadlington 35). ... Darl, one of Addie's least favorites, is rejected by his mother which "injured him psychologically" and led him to burn the barn where Addie's coffin lay resting in peac...

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As I watched my grandfather die, less than a foot away from me, I realized that he had taken with him my fear of dying and replaced it with a peaceful understanding and acceptance of death. ... Inches away from me my grandfather lay on a rented hospital bed dying of cancer. My grandfather did not even look like himself as he lay in bed. ... I was afraid to die because, like most people, I am afraid of the unknown. ... Through that window, at the moment after my grandfather died, we saw two deer running freely through the snow-covered woods that lay beyond the house. ...

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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 was adopted by my aunt and uncle when I was 6 years old. ... Or at least I did. ... For example there was this one time were the house phone was moved and it died because it wasn't on the charger. ... And there was not a single memory I have of him every laying a hand on my younger brother, Nathaniel. ... But I do not think I can ever forgive my mom in particular. ...

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One day I was driving home from work and I realized I had forgotten something I was going to let my friend borrow. ... The worst memory that Barry ever had was when his had to watch his youngest brother die of disease. ... This meant that he was going to die. ... "This comforted me." says Barry, "It was the same relief we all came to accept when mom died." ... Out of all the things that have happened to him in his life, he is willing to lay his credibility on the line to help improve my life. ...

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He said I would stay forever. ... Ever since his mother had died when he was four, he had depended on his father much as any child would. ... "I know. ... Her eyes were still wide open, as she lay motionless upon the blood stained floor. ... "I love you, too. ...

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Saida had one good dear friend, she was like a proper sister to her, Saida then asked Aisha her friend, if she would look after Sajda for until she comes back, Aisha thought to herself well I couldn't not accept to look after her for awhile, Aisha pleasingly said yes I"ll look after her. ... That night Saida didn't know what to do and was feeling very depressed, she got out of bed and went into the bathroom, opened the cabinet up and took some pills out, she was saying to herself shall I or shall I not? ... That night Sajda went to the toilet, she tried to open the bathroom door but...

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Grandmother still continuing her fake cries exclaims, "I just know you"re a good man, you"re not a bit common! (Gwynn 355)" After he carefully considers the grandmother's last sentence the Misfit states "Nome, I ain't a good man, but I ain't the worst in the world neither (355)." ... The Misfit returns with a comment acknowledging the fact that he is all right by himself, "I don't want no hep, I"m doing all right by myself (357)." ... The description of the newfound scenery, "No cloud in the sky nor any sun, nothing around her but woods (357)," symbolize the clear view of h...

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The boy pleaded to his father to not take all he had but the father refused, "I don't think he should have anything" (McCarthy 149). ... Before the wife dies, she kept insisting of migrating to avoid the terrible cannibalistic people that hunt for weak. ... On the mattress a man lay with his legs gone to the hip and the stumps of them blackened and burnt. ...

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