Importance Of Emotions In Edgar's Loneliness '

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In this chapter you will learn about Edgar's emotions and how he handles them. Girls emotions change throughout the text it went from happy to sad to hate and then neutral and charming. That's what I am going to teach you.

Edgars emotions changed throughout the text. It went from happy to sad to hate to neutral and to charming. For example, he said “You're a really mean guy I hate you.” (Page 113) because Sir Phineas took Edgar's book so he had a lot of hate towards him. Another emotion that Edgar had was a sad emotion when Edgar said “All I wanted in life was that book and you stole it from me!”

In the story he found a book when he was climbing the rocks and it was written from his dad he never met and he wanted to see what is said. He wanted to climb to the highlands because he didn't know how to read and he got Samuel to read it. When he was getting Samuel to read his book then Sir Phineas took his book so he can’t read what going to happen to the world.
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On page 340 Samuel met a guy and gave him food. In the book the house house of power there are a lot of stereotypes like people being better than each other and people being worse. Sir Phineas is a very bad man because he is a very stereotypical man by making people have no money and money go down and

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