In the office of Meacon Dead Freddie testifies that a ghost killed his mother. ... She was thought to be dead years before and should not have naturally survived long enough to meet Milkman, having given birth to decades worth and generations of children. ... But Circe is dead. ... That was as far as he got, because although the woman was talking to him, she might in any case still be dead-as a matter of fact, she had to be dead." ...

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Rat infested trenches, constant mud, always wet, and dead bodies are a common sight. ... 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 dammable business, but what has it to do with us now - we live. (124-125 All Quiet on the Western Front) This quotation also shows how the narrator is becoming more and more desensitized by the war. ...

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Macon Dead III, nicknamed "Milkman," is a very symbolic character throughout the novel. ... Seeing that Pontius Pilate sentenced Jesus to death, the name Pilate seems to coincide with her father, Macon Dead's, opinion. ... It is the character and the name of Milkman Dead that enlighten readers of these highly significant facts and symbols throughout the novel. ... She also uses these symbols to help depict the complex characters of Pilate Dead, Milkman Dead, and Guitar. ...

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She shows strength when she rebuffs the men who come to collect her taxes, even though her source of proof has been dead for several years. ... But this is another situation where her underlying mental problems intercede and she goes to far to protect herself, killing Homer with arsenic then sleeping with his dead body every night until her death. ...

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She had been dead for a year, but he had always kept his feelings to himself. He calls his friend Vicky and tells her about his mother and how he feels that he "has a responsibility to the dead". ... When he remembers what his mother had told him before she died, he starts to believe that he has a responsibility to the dead. ...

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The present day life is filled with the living dead. ... During the time of the vampire takeover, he spends his days killing the already dead. ... Since the superior force is now the living dead, a mere human is looked down upon. ... The rest of life is the living dead vampires. ...

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Shears, the owner of the dead dog. ... Christopher discovers the neighbor's dog dead on the ground. ... And in the dream nearly everyone on the earth is dead. [...] ... Christopher does not seem sad about his father being dead, it almost seems that he is appreciating it. ...

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His land is dead, and his house is cold and falling apart. The dead trees seem to gather around Ethan's house, further adding to the inhospitable nature of his land, bringing out the theme of naturalism; the way that Ethan's land is set up is almost a parallel to Ethan's character, isolated and oppressed. ...

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However, later in the novel after Hepzibah discovers Judge Jaffrey dead, she senses that a "stifling atmosphere of dread fill[s] the house with a death-smell" (251). Although we are not told for certain that Jaffrey is dead for another fifty or so pages, this clue sets our suspicions on the right track; nevertheless, because of our previous experience with red herrings, we are unsure whether or not to trust this nugget of potential evidence. ... By the time we have reached Chapter 18, Hawthorne has already planted enough trigger words to cause the reader to at least suspect that Judg...

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While Hank was examining the plane inside, he found a dead pilot and a sports bag full of hundred-dollar bills totaling over 4 million dollars. ... The series of plans to cover up their involvement results in dead bodies of people, they never expected to kill. ... The dead pilot in the plane was partially eaten by them when Hank, Jacob and Lou found the crashed plane. ...

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The narrative starts off with a quote that is utterly contradictory, "I am dead, but it's not so bad". Using simply eight words, R captivates what it means to be a zombie, by expressing how zombies live in an eternal state of dispiritedness, not alive, not actually dead, however just there. ... The novel captivates R's perception on being alive, being dead and the hazy line in between. ...

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At one point Armistead said that god may strike him dead before he would have to fight against his companion. ... Shaara also kept Longstreet occupied mentally and emotionally by trigging memories of all his dead children. ... Every time he talked about a dead man I felt a piece in me sadden. ...

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I think she is dead" (p. 47). Beatty tells Montag that Clarisse is better off dead. ... He says, "There's Beatty dead, he was my friend once, and there's Millie gone, I thought she was my wife, but now I don't know. ...

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When they found out that they could have double the portions they all were happy and stuffed their faces while half their company lay dead. ... The only friend left in the army was dead. ... Most of their friends are dead and instead of going to school they were persuaded to fight a war. ...

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Firstly the section that I feel that is least credible is the part where as soon as The Pigman finds out that Bobo had died he just drops dead just like that. ... He went to grab hold of the railing, but let out a tiny cry almost like a puppy that had been stepped on by accident. " Mr Pignati was dead" (page 134). ...

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In the pawnbroker's case, Raskolnikov believed that she was a detriment to society and the world would be better off if she were dead. Raskolnikov overhears a conversation between a man and a police officer where the man actually says that the world would be better if she were dead. ...

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In "Frankenstein," Victor Frankenstein becomes mad and determined to give life to the dead, Victor goes to extraordinary measures to seek it through, "I collected bones from charnel-houses and disturbed, with profane fingers, the tremendous secrets of the human frame." ... Shelly follows it up with Victor finding his wife dead in her room adding to the gothic nature of the novel. ...

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The knowledge that these photos show history brings up the idea of the past, of things long gone, or long dead. ... This loss refers to death and connects with Hell, which is supposedly where the (damned) dead wind up. ...

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In the movie and the short story, "The Devil and Daniel Webster", there is a battle between the forces of good and evil. Although the story allows the reader to mentally picture the scenes and the movie does the depicting for the viewer, there are several similarities in each script. Some of these s...

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" Charlie also relishes the opportunity to bind with Eliza as in the hideout he says, "She and I, use to go to the glade in the dead of night, like Jasper and Laura before us." The visual imagery used in both of these displays Charlie and Eliza escaping their routines as we see in "the dead of night" and "Eliza and I hold each other," communicates a sense of solace and peace that they both feel when they are together. ...

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His mother's death causes a morbid ambition in Frankenstein to create "life from dead matter", which he does eventually. ... Thus Frankenstein begins his morbid craft, he "collected bones from charnel-houses and disturbed, with profane fingers, the tremendous secret of the human frame", and this morose degradation of the science shows how far Frankenstein will go to create "life from dead matter". ... As many people were trying to make this gloomy discovery, Shelley played upon this and used a character that eventually does go on to create "life from dead matter". ... William cries out, d...

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Thomas Hardy was born in Dorsetshire, England, in 1840. His first job was an architect and he worked in London and Dorset for ten years. Hardy began his writing career as a novelist and was soon successful enough to leave the field of architecture for writing. His novels Tess of the D'Urbervilles a...

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The novel Night Father, by Carl was a non-fiction. In the book, Carl tells stories her dad told her about the consecration camps. She tells of people hiding in attics or closets. But they kept hope that things would get better. For instance, people in hiding were forced to hide in terrible places, ...

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In the novel Obasan, the protagonist goes through a dream sequence. There are three dreams that she experiences that are inter-realated. The dreams have a relationship between the loss of her parents, and the fears about the war that is taking place while the story is being told. This essay will ...

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For example, when Sam wakes up one day on the Abrolhos islands smelling his dead father right beside him, he knows that there are spiritual forces at work and yet he cannot tell "which way the shadow's fallen". Thus, he goes to work as normal, thinking "today wasn't his day to be worried", and is "dead wrong", losing the fingers of his hand. ... When Fish drowns and is apparently raised from the dead, the fact that their miracle turns sour as Fish is now mentally retarded causes them to lose their faith in God, as Oriel blames God for the tragedy. ...

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