... original curse on the house, but the curse that the Pyncheons have continued to bring upon themselves". It is not Maule's death which needs avenging, but the anguish caused by the Pyncheon family's greed. "Lust for wealth has held the Pyncheon" in its inflexible grasp". What Hawthorne saw handed down through the generations were not material unreality's such as gold and family position ... has saturated the forgotten "children", making them unfit for human contact. As Phoebe uses her light to help them, Jeffrey's dark influence threatens to steal the innocent beauty that Phoebe possesse...

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• Grade Level: High School

... to speak to him, telling him that evil lies within every human heart and promising to have some "fun" with him. (This "fun" foreshadows Simon's death in the following chapter.) In this way, the Lord of the Flies becomes both a physical manifestation of the beast, a symbol of the power of evil, and a kind of Satan figure who evokes the ... Chapter 2, their instinctive drive to play and gratify their immediate desires undermines their ability to act collectively. As a result, the signal fire nearly fails, and a young boy apparently burns to death when the forest catches fire. The constr...

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• Approx Pages: 45
• Grade Level: High School

... going to tell my dad? He was away on vacation having fun. How was I going to break the bad news? There's no easy way to deal with death, especially when death has become your very own mother. But I had to call him. I dialed his number carefully, 7-1-8.and soon it began to ring. "Hello." My ... on anyone. I wanted to protect him from this terrible pain. Unfortunately, I couldn't. "I, I, I don't know how to say this but mom died." I gulped for air as if the words were killing me. They were killing me. "What? What happened?" He tried to hold back his tears but was unable to. "I ... It was ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... door. Nature is a much stronger race than humans; it has no feeling at all. Take for example the birds. They do not care that they are killing themselves as long as they know that they are hurting humans in some way or another. After narrowly escaping death, Nat goes around the house to make sure that he has properly boarded the windows. Outside ... first part of this sentence. The word "thud" imitates its own meaning so we can actually hear the bodies falling onto the floor in the darkness. Thud is a loud and heavy noise and so is perfect to use in this sentence. The same happens with ...

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• Approx Pages: 18
• Grade Level: High School