... through looking back, she was able to find the means to establish structure on her experience - her negative suffering transposed into positive control. She commented on her own process, in a passage where she was inspired by her brother William's paper on the 'Hidden Self. In this he describes how "the nervous victim 'abandons' certain portions of his consciousness" ... the immutable laws" (149). She is no longer an creating an account of that period in the past, her first breakdown, but of the story of her life-the key she has discovered to her own autobiography. James' abili...

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... your own hands or by mine? Nothing can take away those years." (The Stone Anger, 292) She now recognizes her isolation and imprisonment. This is a key passage in understanding Hagar's character at the end because this passage fully reveals how Hagar actually sees life. While lying in bed, very close to death Hagar actually reveals her feelings to Marvin with a great deal of ... ...

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... ," is a story about a boy's attempt to buy his mother's love. The story represents the effects of greed, secrecy, consequence and the relationship between a mother and son. Materialism and money are key elements in the plot of the story. The story also explores the awakening and change of innocence of a boy to his obsession with winning to attain his mother's love. Paul ... symbolized by the phrase, "There must be more money!" The voices are also a symbol of the supernatural because only the children can hear it. These voices are one of the key factors that drive Paul to make money for t...

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... his creator, Victor, just as Satan was cast out of heaven by God. The creature related his feelings about his identification with the characters from Paradise Lost in the following passage; "Like Adam, I was apparently united by no link to any other being in existence; but his state was far different from mine in every other respect. He had come forth ... has excommunicated him; his true heroism in place of society's romantic view and the ignorance on which society's opinion of the monster is based. The books the creature reads are a key factor in the way he treats life as a whole. Fran...

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• Grade Level: High School