One day Finny and Gene decided to go to the river and do a dangerous stunt which was to jump of a limb into a river. ... Finny told Gene that it wasnt his fault and it was nonsense to think it was During the time World War II was going on the forces are recruiting people. ... When Leper returns Gene goes to visit him at his home. ... Leper brings up the incident of Finny shattering his leg. ... Finny couldnt take hearing that and he ran out of the room and fell down the steps, breaking his leg again. ...

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"A toad the power mower caught, Chewed and clipped of a leg, with a hobbling hop has got" expresses a lack of peace and reinforces the feeling of injury to the toad. ... In lines 11 and 12, the speaker says that the toad is listening to some monotone which conveys a feeling that the toad has some sort of consciousness of what is going on. ...

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Unfortunately, both of his legs were cut off by a stray streetcar. ... A ghost of an Indian with no legs, according to Maximiliano. ... After the incident occurred, Langston came home and found a police investigation going on. Eventually, he and his father's friend decided to go to the jail to visit the brewery master. ... Since he could not have her, he had decided he was going to kill the both of them. ...

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"Just as we turn into animals when we go up to the line so we turn into wags and loafers when we are resting . ... Kemmerich is dead, Haie Westhus is dying Martens has no legs anymore, Meyer is dead, Max is dead, Beyer is dead, Hammerling is dead it is a damnable business, but what has it to do with us now "we live."" ...

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He is referring to the anguish that he was forced to go through during his days at Devon, and ended up with him killing his best friend. ... His paralyzation leads to his death when he falls down the stairs and breaks his leg another time. ...

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(Revising Life, pg 48) There has been reference made to the black shoe in the first stanza, "Anymore black shoe in which I have lived like a foot" as representing her fathers amputation of his leg from complications of diabetes. ... She can now go to her own death much easier. ...

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Analysis of "Shiloh" in Bobbie Ann Masson's "Shiloh" In Bobbie Ann Mason's story "Shiloh" she presents Norma Jean as a strong willed person but having emptiness within. Norma Jean is presented as a strong character on the outside in the opening of the story. "She lifts three-pound dumbbel...

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• Grade Level: High School