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Humans are cruel to things that fascinate them.

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"Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself a s a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger (Joyce 5)."

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Myop is nearsighted and when she literally steps into reality, she sees how messed up it is.

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Hook:Between 1882 and 1962 there have been 4,745 lynchings.

Re hook: It took a 80 years to pass the first anti-lynching laws in America

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It may be tough, but you have to grow up.

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Dialogue
"'It's well for you,' she said.
'If I go,' I said, ' I will bring you something'"

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"By twelve o'clock, her arms laden with the sprigs of her findings, she was a mile or more from home. She had often been far before, but the strangeness of the land made it not as pleasant as her usual haunts."

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“The Lord will send upon you curses, confusion and rebuke, in all your undertake to do”

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There’s no dialogue, so we did a quote.
“Myop saw that he’d had large white teeth, all of them cracked or broken”

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There were fewer than 350,000 enslaved in America

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In the Bible, Revelations 9:5, they speak of the plague as able “to torment them for 5 months, but not kill them, and their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it stings someone.

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Dialogue from “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings”

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Dialogue from “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings”

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They called the neighbor woman who knew everything about life and death to see him... “He’s an angel,” she told them.

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Through the symbol of angels, we get much deeper religious ideas from the short story, and while there are many grander themes to “The Very Old Man with Enormous Wings”, there are much simpler ideals, one being “Don’t judge a book by its cover.”

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The people came to the courtyard from far an wide to see the mysterious winged man. All were under the impression that he was an angel and expected a miracle of some kind. Most were disappointed.

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It 1911, "73.8% of all Irish were Catholic"