... careful enough to avoid actually hitting the boy with his stones. Jack, obsessed with the idea of killing a pig, camouflages his face with clay and charcoal and enters the jungle to hunt, accompanied by several other boys. On the beach, Ralph and Piggy see a ship on the horizon-but they also see that the signal fire has gone out. They hurry to the top of the hill, but it is too late ... in some rocks and flaps in the wind, while his shape casts fearful shadows on the ground. His head seems to rise and fall as the wind blows. When Sam and Eric wake up, they tend to the fire to make the f...

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• Grade Level: High School

... selfishness. When Paul D. calls into question her thinking, Sethe still refuses to see her own role in what has come to pass: 'What you did was wrong, Sethe.' 'I should have gone on back there? Taken my babies back there?' 'There could have been a way. Some other way.' 'What way?' 'You got two feet, Sethe, not four...' (165) Sethe's problem is rooted ... from their pasts. In meeting a few of those individuals and learning how and what they are running from, it becomes obvious that no one can deal successfully with the burden of past memories alone. Those who attempt to face their troubl...

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• Grade Level: High School

... the announcements on the radio and takes on board all the advice given. He checks all the food supplies in the house but there is not much because shopping day was tomorrow. However they had enough flour for another loaf of bread. When Nat went outside he saw that thousands of gulls had risen and were trying their strength against the wind ... . Nat realized that they were getting stronger, all the time that they were rising and circling. He knew that they were preparing for attacking and felt that someone should ... on they were on their own; there was no one else to seek advice from ev...

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• Approx Pages: 18
• Grade Level: High School