Gorge shot Lennie in order to rescue him from the pain and suffering that would come as soon as he everyone would have found him. George did not want thaf and therfore shot him instead. The imaginary rabbit tells Lennie George does not care, George shooting Lennie shows he does. The way I know that George was doing what was best and saving Lennie is because in the story George tells Lennie, "Ever'body gonna be nice to you. Ain't gonna be no more touble. Nobody gonna hurt nor steal from em." George
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he New Kind and its Culture ''No Country for Old Men'' (2005), writer by Cormac McCarthy is a police story set on the border between Mexico and the United States. It is the story of Llewelyn Moss, a veteran of the Vietnam War that finds, in the scene of a bloody massacre in the desert, a briefcase with several million dollars and decides to keep them. Soon, a mysterious assassin, Anton Chigurh, and veteran sheriff Tom Bell, along with drug traffickers and other criminals in a violent and savage persecution
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The different levels of composure of Captain Torres and the barber demonstrate, create a clear contrast between the two. Captain Torres’s calmness and the barber’s anxiousness dictates their actions and the results that they are each able to achieve. Captain Torres’s calmness allows him to carry out his work in an efficient and swift manner and he maintains his composure even at the thought of death. On the other hand, the barber’s anxiousness causes him to panic at the thought of killing someone
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deaths and so many wakes and funerals. Here I sit outside looking out , thinking of my past, of that dreadful town and why I left there . Wish I could have solved the murders myself , to put an end to the misery for everyone to sleep in peace at night . Me going back there for my mom’s funeral , I will stay a while to keep a look out on dad , the thing that puzzles me , there hasn’t been a murder there in ten years , why start again ? I now see flashbacks of the first time in 1982 , it was a cold
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As the great author Richard Connell once said “sometimes I think evil is a tangible thing--with wavelengths, just as sound and light have. An evil place can, so to speak, broadcast vibrations of evil. Connell and Browning use characterization and imagery to show mankind can become so attached to something or someone that they could become psychotic. General Zaroff shows imagery by talking about his house on his island and saying that nobody shall leave. Connell uses the characterization of Zaroff
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The Wife of Bath is a feminist because she confronts three serious social issues that exemplify the extreme oppression women faced throughout the Middle Ages. Firstly, The Wife of Bath addresses the negativity associated with women and sex. She begins by informing her audience that she is sexually experienced because she has been with five different men. During the Middle Ages it was widely believed that women were not allowed to have sexual relations outside of marriage and if they were convicted
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Tell-Tale Heart “TRUE!—nervous—very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses—not destroyed—not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell. How, then, am I mad?” Upon reading the very first paragraph of the Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe, many, if not all, readers can imply that there is something peculiar about the narrator. If
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Edgar Allen Poe was known for writing mysterious horror literature works, but his biggest mystery seems to be how he died. We believe the theory of him dying from cholera and mercury poisoning is the most believable for many reasons. To start off, we believe Poe died from cholera and mercury poisoning because Edgar Allan Poe himself claimed, in numerous letters he wrote in 1849, to have cholera, which is a deadly bacterial disease, typically contracted from contaminated water. In his letter Poe stated
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The narrator of the story “The Tale-Tell Heart” did undergo some psychiatric problems of his mental health. Even though he denied it by saying he wasn’t crazy during most of the story, it was obvious he really was. His mental illness was shown through his actions towards an old man with an eye that vexed him badly. Experts would say that his state of mind is not normal, there is some illness. The person narrating the story had a lot of things that was wrong with him. In the story, he says, “The
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Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado” is a story told by an unreliable narrator, Montresor. The narrator tells of his devious plan and insanity that lead to the murder of his enemy, Fortunato. However, despite Montresor’s apparent bitterness, the two could’ve worked something out, avoiding the unnecessary death of Fortunato. Our first impression of the main character and narrator, Montresor, is that he is cunning and unreliable. When he speaks of what Fortunato had supposedly done to him,
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