In this respect, her act is that of love for her children. ... Simple: she was squatting in the garden and when she saw them coming and recognized schoolteacher's hat, she heard wings. ... She loves her children to much to let them be tarnished by slavery. ... Love is, then, Sethe's primary motivation for killing her baby. ... Sethe kills her daughter to demonstrate her love. ...
His need for love and warmth are understandable, but he searches for these traits only in beautiful objects, thus creating a childish avarice. ... Gervayse loved his daughter, but he loved himself twice as much. ... Hepzibah only wanted the "opportunity to devote herself to this brother, whom she had so loved". ... He loves her as a child might have a crush on one his own age, despite his notice of her "blossoming virginity". ...
It's hard to think about that day. Who knew it would be the last day I would spend with her. It still feels like a fresh nightmare that just happened last night. But it didn't. It happened over two years ago and I was still struggling with this new reality. I didn't like it. I hated it. How could th...
Summary Ralph hides in the jungle and thinks miserably about the chaos that has overrun the island. He thinks about the deaths of Simon and Piggy and realizes that all vestiges of civilization have been stripped from the island. He stumbles across the sow's head, the "Lord of the Flies," now merely a gleaming white skull-as white as the conch shell, he notes. Angry and disgusted, Ralph knocks the skull to the ground and takes the stake it was impaled on to use as a weapon against Jack. That night, Ralph sneaks down to the camp at the Castle Rock and finds Sam and Eric guarding the entranc...
