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Comparing The Beast N The Jungle And The Figure In The Carpet

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Other than being the main characters, John Marcher from The Beast in the Jungle and the Narrator from The Figure in the Carpet have something in common. Both John and the Narrator spent a lot of time thinking, wondering, and trying to find out some sort of secret- but the answers, there or not, are negative in both stories. The Narrator’s curiosity of the secret behind Mr. Vereker’s wonderful writing was slowly destroying his life, because he wasn’t getting any answers, and whether he knew or not, never would. John Marcher almost lets his fear of the ‘Beast’ in his future run his life because (In the end, the Narrator suffers from a loss of time and no answer to his painfully curious question, and John suffers from the waste of his life, and

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