The naive and innocent Jim Sadler is a stereotypical working class Australian youth at the beginning of the twentieth century. ... He is innocent, and realizes he has to experience things for himself; "no body would be able to tell him." ... The hellish conditions of war evidently bring out the worst in human nature, even in a mild, reflective person like Jim. ... Wizzer tests Jim's innocent character, drawing out his dark side, and only Clancy's intervention prevents Jim from being infected with his father's savagery, which Jim had until now been able to keep at a safe distanc...

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Holden either makes an excuse if he does act like that, or saying that he is in no way like that person. Holden believes that the adult world is made up of phonies; that children are the only ones who are innocent. He believes that by remaining innocent, he will not have to become an adult and become phony. ... The only person that Holden seems to really listen to and see as "true" and not phony is his sister, Phoebe. ... This is why he is scared to truly enter adulthood, to remain innocent. ...

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(pg. 131, paragraph 7) Right before he crashes into the car, he feels such fear for the innocent, little girl in the other car. He feels such guilt; he would be the one destroying the life of the innocent, little girl. In the same way, right before Macbeth is about to kill Duncan, he thinks about how innocent Duncan is, and how wrong it would be. ... (Act 1, Scene 7, line 16-20) He is saying that the heavens will seek revenge for killing such a good person like Duncan. ... He tries to cover his guilt of killing Duncan by lying to his wife and killing innocent people. ...

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There are hundreds of people in the hotel; tourists and people I work, innocent people." His masked captor stared at him. ... They"re innocent people." "We don't want to kill innocent people. ... However, if I don't countless innocent people will die." Once again, Ryan wiped the sweat off his forehead. ... The guards were busy checking every car and person entering the premises, because of the speaker due to appear later. ...

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Holden wants to be the person who stops the children from becoming adults. ... Holden does not like interacting with adults he prefers to talk with children because they are innocent and sweet to him. Whenever he talks with a person his age or older he always lies or doesn't like that person and calls them a phony. ... He wants to try to stay young and innocent forever. ...

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Songs of Innocence show life through the eyes of innocent children, whilst Songs of Experience demonstrate an older person's cynical view of the pain and terror in the world. Sometimes the innocent, simple perspective found in Songs of Innocence overlaps into the style of the poems in Songs of Experience, signifying perhaps that the two states of the human soul are even more intertwined than the poems originally suggest. ...

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The Puritans lived with the fear of their neighbours and their gossip, one small accusation snowballed in to nineteen innocent people losing there lives. ... When Corey refuses to name the person who stated that he heard Putnam declare that he intended to buy the accused's land he is arrested for contempt of court. ... During her short but relentless reign she managed to send 19 innocent people to their deaths, before running away with her uncle's life savings and becoming a common prostitute in Boston. ...

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Beautiful = innocent = good. ... Sin is a thing that writes across a man's face But you, Dorian, with your pure bright, innocent face, and your marvellous untroubled youth- I can't believe anything against you."" ... ("Does a person gain anything if he wins the whole world but loses his life? ... Once Lord Henry himself talks about the nature of influence: "All influence is immoral - immoral from the scientific point of view Because to influence a person is to give him one's soul. ...

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After taking into consideration the prejudice and ostracism a person faced when expressing different views to that of their surroundings the reader is able to better understand the way Holden felt in regards to a world he felt he was a stranger to. ... The age of Holden in being greatly significant to understanding the text is made evident through Salingers writing techniques , that include the novel being written in first person narrative. ... Holden recalls the innocent childhood memories of happiness that hinder him from maturing. ... Through Salingers use of first person narrative we are a...

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In Timothy Findley's Not Wanted on The Voyage Noah's wife asks " what else could heaven be ... but a world afloat ... nothing hard or real to fall against or stumble over; everything distant, everything benign," (pg 18) but at the end of the novel the Ark is hell where the innocent are shut in perpetual darkness and are devoid of God. ... The shunned demons are like innocent children who squeal with delight when they catch snowflakes on their tongue and are eager to help Lucy, Ham, and Mrs. ...

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Schacth the German in charge of finances and the Reichsbank considered himself to be innocent in the absolute. ... He said his proof of being innocent was that he served time in a German concentration camp for disagreeing with Hitler. ... (a) That persons of German blood were a master race (b) That war was a necessary and noble activity of the German people (c) That the Nazi party was a supreme power even over God (d) Implementing anti-Semitism and the master race policy - The Nazi s persecution of the various Religions of Germany - The Nazi s use of slave labor from countries they conquered...

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Owen Meany is a person who is unbelievably complex. ... The USA seems to think that they have a destiny to go to Vietnam, and sacrifice the lives of many innocent, young soldiers in a war that is not their own. ... I have never been a particularly religious person, and this made me more agnostic if anything at all. ...

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If it was not for Owen believing in God and the things that God had shown him, it is quite possible that the rescue of innocent children or numerous other events in his life would not have taken place. ... But instead of having surgery performed to be more like a "normal" person, Owen chose to keep his unique voice. ... (pg 5) The irony comes about when Oedipus was making fun of and rebuking the citizens of his country for not taking action, as well as reprimanding the unknown person who did this awful crime for not coming forward. ... As a small person, Owen could talk and act like he mea...

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He believes that she is beautiful, the only person in the world who understands him, "and what a help and strength would it be to him in his lonely toil if he could gain the sympathy of the only being whom he loved" (Hawthorne.275)! ... When his perfect specimen was innocently crushed by the curious infant he was able to look at the ruin of his life's work and realize that he had gained so much more in the pursuit of his dream than he had lost. ...

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After months and months of suspense, love has finally been discovered. Love was not discovered by anyone in the classroom. Two characters in Chekhov's "The Lady with the Dog- fell in love. It is such a romantic way to end the semester. Well, enough about school and on to the facts. In every sh...

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