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Terrible Places In The Chrysalids By John Wyndham
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Their Eyes Were Watching God By Zora Neale Hurston
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Their Eyes Were Watching God By Zora Neale Hurston
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Their Eyes Were Watching God By Zora Neale Hurston
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Regret In The Painted Door By Sinclair Ross
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Perseverance In Louis Sachar's Holes
352 Words | 2 Pages(Sachar 5) Stanley, a protagonist in the novel “Holes” by Louis Sacher, changes . Stanley shows a hopeful, yet stressful kind of person. Stanley shows perseverance from beginning to end in the novel “Holes”. The author demonstrates when it states, “He tried to jam it into the earth, but the blade banged against the ground..”
Olympia, Ways Of Seeing, By John Berger
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We Other Victorians By Foucault
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