... by watching the boy die, but their symbolic play before hand. Before Chicken Little appeared, the girls had been playing in the mud digging separate holes. Without even speaking, both suddenly began trying to make their individual holes a larger single hole (p 65). It was here when they lay down on the mud at a "180-degree angle" from one another that they formed ... stimulation: "Just as the water closed peacefully over the turbulence of Chicken Little's body, so had contentment washed over her enjoyment." (p.170) This passage reveals that the original binary opposite characters is no ...

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• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Nel and Sula as a Dual Self In her novel, Sula, Toni Morrison uses the archetype of the dual self through the friendship of Sula and Nel: the two characters are a part of each other. A pattern occurs in the novel because Sula and Nel are co-dependent. Nel and Sula were so close that they often knew what the other ... was thinking. For example, one day they were out playing in the grass and they dug holes about the same exact size, and not once did they look up at each other: "Sula lifted her head and joined Nel in the grass play. In concert, without ever ... ...

• Word Count: 1308
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School