A key but subtle difference between these two novels is that, while Crusoe finds a bible and uses it to gain an understanding of God's plans and lessons for him, the pirates in "Treasure Island" actually use a page from the bible as a scratch piece of paper. ... Another key difference between the novels is the passage of time within them. ... Even more interesting is that both of these characters discover a way home by helping ship captains overcome mutinies in exchange for safe passage home. ...

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Emma also does this and shows so during a passage of conversation between her and Rodolphe: " Do you love me?' ... This passage explains the extent that Charles was affected with her death. ... Anna also committed suicide in the same fashion. " There, she said to herself, looking into the shadow of the carriage, at the sand and coal dust which covered the sleepers " there, in the very middle, and I will punish him (Vronsky) and escape from everyone and from myself.- It is in the passage that Anna admits her reason for killing herself is to ensure that Vronsky suffers. ... Thei...

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One of the most striking passages in "The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings" by James Baldwin, edited by Randall Kenan, appears in the 1961 essay "From Nationalism, Colonialism, and the United States: One Minute to Twelve: A Forum," Kennedy told Baldwin that one day a black man could be president. ... We can see "Baldwin as a key figure who opened up possibilities for African American writers in terms of love, desire, and sex" (Thorsson 628). ...

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The key word here is "perceptible", a word colored with connotations of strained and imperfect vision. ... As Nathaniel Hawthorne puts his audience through the wringer of suspense, he chooses to place these moments of terror among the most realistic passages of the novel. ...

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