Examples Of Deep Thoughts In Macbeth

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Macbeth:Deep Thoughts
To answer this prompt I have chosen three examples, all in books: The selection, Divergent, and the hunger games. With the decision of putting her name into the drawing of the selection, America singers life that she had imagined might not be the life she will have. For several years America had always thought she had her entire life thought out, she would marry Aspen and her status would transition from a five to a six. But one letter changed all of that. When the letter arrived her family was overjoyed except there was one problem, America did not choose to be put in the selection. Talked into putting her name into the selection by her mother and Aspen, America signed up for the selection and was chosen to be one of

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