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In “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber,” Ernest Hemingway’s title character is both Hemingway hero and not. The reason behind this is because shows traits that describe Hemingway hero, such as bravery and the facing of death, and traits that are against the concept, such as cowardice and weakness. In the short story, the title character, Francis Macomber, shows some traits of a Hemingway hero, one of which is bravery as shown in this quote “you’ve gotten awfully brave, awfully suddenly.” This quote comes up in the part of the story where Macomber, Wilson, and Margot are hunting buffalo. Macomber is telling his wife what to do while also getting ready to hunt buffalo. Margot gets scared and retorts with the quote above. She is worried
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In the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Miss Caroline is treated poorly because some of her students think she is picking on a kid that comes from a poor family. It is the first day of first grade for Scout and Miss Caroline is her teacher. Miss Caroline's students do not realize that she is not trying to pick on a student named Walter when she tries to be nice by paying for his lunch but does not know that he would have to pay the money back. “You’re shamin’ him, Miss Caroline. Walter hasn’t got a quarter at home to bring you”.(Lee 28)

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In the story of Tom Brennan by J.C. Burke, the protagonist Tom experiences a traumatic catastrophe of his brother’s drink driving incident leaving his brother Daniel in jail, two dead and one paralysed which left Tom’s beliefs of his family shattered. Tom’s response to such a chaotic event in their social position is one of self-hatred, this is portrayed through the extended metaphor of darkness, “In the dark I could see the grime… I could feel it pasted crawling on my skin,” emphasising the despair and melancholy which fills Tom’s heart, and the sense of paralysis. The author demonstrates Tom’s progress of transition maturity throughout the physical motif of running, as Uncle Brendan quotes “Start running tomorrow, i’ve never seen you so..

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What McCandless Has Shown Me Chris McCandless was just a normal college graduate just like any other person but then he decided to go into the wild and go travel to all different areas before he went to Alaska. Chris decided to go to Alaska because in his head that’s where he thought there would be no one from society telling him what to do. He thought he wouldn’t have to follow the rules of society or people telling him what to do. He reached Alaska, but the reality of Alaska was different that the romanticized expectation that he had in his mind. He didn’t bring enough food for himself and all he relied on was eating plants and berries from the wild.

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Nick Martel Mrs. Schmit English 11 November 4, 2017 Doubt What is doubt? According to google “a feeling of uncertainty or lack of conviction.” Father Flynn is accused of a sexual relationship with a young boy named Donald, a young African american boy new to the school.

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Max Vandenburg impacted Liesel Meminger the most during her childhood because they were able to relate their lives and they shared interests. This made Liesel like being around Max, and she wanted the best for him because she knew the hard situation he was in. They looked out for each other like no other two characters in the book. Max’s background story was really hard. He lost his father as a child, he and his family were targeted by the Nazi’s because they are Jewish, and he has had to be cautious his whole life.

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Proverbs 24:6 says; “for by wise guidance you can wage your war, and in abundance of counselors there is victory and safety” (Holy Bible, New Living Translation). In the novel Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand, the story of Louis Zamperini is told from his troubled childhood, his record breaking running days, and to becoming a WWII hero, and living to tell his story. Louie ends his running career when the second world war started between the Americans and the Japanese. Louie faces many hardships through his time in the military, and after the war. Through Louis Zamperini’s suffering while striving to survive while being stranded at sea, becoming a Prisoner Of War in Japan, and his post war trauma, leads him to God, and finding his faith.

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Holden Caulfield is in love with Jane and he doesn’t know if she likes him back. The statements that Holden makes can be somewhat loving and caring about Jane. “Catcher in the Rye” by J.D. Salinger Holden is in love with Jane and every time he speaks about her to other such as Sladhater who Holden mostly talks about her to him. Holden and Jane haven’t talked yet so we don’t know if Jane likes him. In “Catcher in the Rye”, J.D. Salinger portrays Holden by being an outgoing, needing to grow-up, and corrupt innocence however when he is thinking about Jane he is sweet and likes to talk to others about her.

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“Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?” This quote was spoken on August 22, 1939 by Adolf Hitler over 20 years after the Armenian Genocide took place. Adolf Hitler then went on to plan and lead one of the biggest and most widespread human massacres of all time, The Holocaust. Adolf Hitler believed that no one would notice the Holocaust because no one had taken much interest in the Armenian Genocide. The historical fiction book Forgotten Fire, by Adam Bagdasarian, tells the story of a boy named Vahan Kenderian who lived through the Armenian Genocide.

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“Why I-I cannot give you his name.” This quote was made by Giles Corey in Act 3 of The Crucible. The quote was made by Giles showed his loyalty by not giving up a name in court when he promised he would not. Giles Corey was an 83 year old man who lived in Salem. He was known for suing many people to retrieve their land.

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Arthur Dimmesdale: Inside His Own Version of Hell In The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky spoke, “What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.” In Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, a rounded character such as Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, displays vital roles in the novel: a highly regarded Reverend in a Puritan society and the father of protagonist Hester Prynne’s child, Pearl. Through the well-written and three-dimensional character of Arthur Dimmesdale, Hawthorne exhibits the themes of guilt and suffering.

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Wyatt Stanley Mrs. Seifert English 10 9 April 2024. How Macduff’s Emotions Motivated His Revenge In Macbeth, a play by William Shakespeare, Macduff undergoes the greatest character arc in the story. Macbeth, the main character in the play, murders Macduff’s family. He flees to England to assist Malcolm in the assault against Macbeth. During the assault, Macduff gets his revenge and beheads Macbeth.

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Tom Robinson is a mockingbird in that he doesn't do one thing wrong. All he does is provide help to the people he interacts with. That is exactly how he got in trouble. Tom Robinson was helping Mayella with some chores. He was humming a melody and when he chopped up the dresser drawers.

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In the end of the story, Macomber overcomes his fear, and shoots a buffalo, proving his manliness. However, when he’s at his happiest moment, his wife shoots him, leaving the reader to question whether or not it is an accident. Courage is a very heavily focused topic in Hemingway’s story. Courage is to not show fear in the face of danger. Wilson is courageous because he faces these animals and kills them.

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This film, illustrates the liberation, redemptive power of hope and religious themes of freedom and resurrection, with the words “fear can hold your prisoner, Hope can set you free”. The Shawshank Redemption is about hope in hopeless place. In the first scene in the movie Andy look himself in the warden office, and plays Mozart over the prison loudspeaker. Hope: “A good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.” (Romans 15:1–4, 13; 1 Corinthians 15:51–58; Philippians 3:12–21; 1 John 4:13–18; Revelation 21:1–4)

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