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His name: Shiftlet - Is he shifty in his actions/motives? Or is he capable of making a shift (exercising free will).

"The world is almost rotten."

"Drive carefully. The life you save may be your own,"

He claims to have a "moral intelligence"

Mr. Shiflet tells Mrs. Crater, "the spirit lady is like an automobile: always on the move, always"

Shiftlet "felt the rottenness of the world was about to engulf him," exclaiming, "Oh Lord! Break forth and wash the slime from the earth!" The rain finally breaks, with a "guffawing peal of thunder from behind and fantastic raindrops, like tin-can tops, crashed over the rear of Mr. Shiftlet's car." (Evil being cleansed)

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deviant
manipulative
beastly
nefarious
diabolical
perverse (Assef)
sadistic (Assef)
brutal
unscrupulous
immoral
evil
villainous
vicious
vile
heinous
insincere

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Shiftlet's "figure formed a crooked cross"

“He seemed to be a young man but he had a look of composed dissatisfaction as if he understood life thoroughly.”

dressed in black

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“Gonna get you, baby.” (first words)

“The place where you came from ain't there any more, and where you had in mind to go is cancelled out. This place you are now—inside your daddy's house—is nothing but a cardboard box I can knock down any time. You know that and always did know it. You hear me?”

"She recognized most things about him [...] even that slippery friendly smile of his, that sleepy dreamy smile that all the boys used to get across ideas they didn't want to put into words. [...] But all these things did not come together. "

"Soon as you touch the phone I don't need to keep my promise and can come inside [...] anybody can break through a screen door and glass and wood and iron or anything else if he needs to, anybody at all, and specially Arnold Friend." (He never physically coerces her; he keeps talking and his words as a powerful as a pull or knife.)

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"About Hitler. Now, there was a leader. A great leader" (p.39).

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page 75

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He knows Connie's name without her having offered it.

He knows her family is out for a BBQ, leaving Connie alone at home.

He threatens her family's safety.

He manipulates her into submission.

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His name - Is he a friend, or fiend?

"He was standing in a strange way, leaning back against the car as if he were balancing himself."

"One of his boots was at a strange angle, as if his foot wasn't in it. It pointed out to the left, bent at the ankle."

"He wobbled in his boots."

"She watched this smile come, awkward as if he were smiling from inside a mask. His whole face was a mask, she thought wildly,..."

"... he had shaggy, shabby black hair that looked crazy as a wig and he was grinning at her."

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Meinkampf look

neat moustache

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I never could talk to you./The tongue stuck in my jaw.

You do not do, you do not do
Any more, black shoe
In which I have lived like a foot

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Baba to Rahim Khan (about Amir): "A boy who won't stand up for himself becomes a man who can't stand up to anything." (p.22)

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When he arrives at Crater's farm, he notices the car in shed.

He stays on the farm to help, in exchange for food and board

He offers to marry Lucynell (deaf/mute)

He takes the car/cash for a weekend getaway with Lucynell

He abandons her at a highway diner (The Hot Spot) and takes off in the car.

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"I had one last chance to make a decision. One final opportunity to decide who I was going to be..." (p. 77)

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Carefully devises a plan to destroy Othello in various ways (uses Roderigo to vilify Othello, plies Cassio with alcohol in order to lessen his inhibitions, manipulates Othello into thinking his wife is unfaithful, plants Desdemona's handkerchief in order to prove her false..)

Gains the trust of many characters through careful persuasion

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Why, there's no remedy; 'tis the curse of service,

Preferment goes by letter and affection,...1.1.35

I follow him to serve my turn upon him:...1.1.42

Demand me nothing. What you know, you know. From this time forth I never will speak word...5.2.309-310 (He'as at a loss for words now that he has been found guilty)

And what's he then that says I play the villain?...I"ll pour this pestilence into his ear...2.3.306-330

Work on,/ My medicine, work! Thus credulous fools are caught...4.1.44-45

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instigate
manipulate
assault
coerce
deceive
trick
mislead
abuse
stalk
abandon
persuade
avenge
devise
murder