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    Although there has been other genocides, the Holocaust has been the worst event that took place in history. Two million Jews and other minorities were targeted and killed. The Holocaust was successful in carrying out all the atrocities they did under the regime of Hitler, because Hitler and his followers were organize and tactical when caring out their reign of terror. Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic memoir, Maus, written by Art Speigelman’s (1991). The author writes about his father experience…

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    Dracula, Abraham Van Helsing is a classic example of this behavior. Throughout the novel, Van Helsing seeks to gain power over others believing that he is to carry out God’s message by ridding the world of evil. This is exemplified in his killing of Lucy Westenra, leading the other men to destroy vampires alongside him, and in introducing Catholicism into the lives of the English. By integrating himself into the circle of characters, Van Helsing seeks to exert power over the others as the…

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    led you into another dimension? Peter, Lucy, Edmund, and Susan are children who get sent off to an orphanage to be protected because of WW11 was going on so they could be safe. Lucy the youngest, was playing hide and seek with her siblings and she secretes herself in a closet that seems very out of the ordinary. It is an endless closet and she finds herself in a place called Narnia. Lucy meets a half human and half fawn named Mr.Tumnus. Mr.Tumnus explains to Lucy that Narnia is very hazardous…

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    have a strong inside moral compass and I don’t try to rationalize making the wrong decision. Out of all the Pevensie children, the most part of me is as lively, curious, sensitive and faithful as Lucy. Like Lucy, I am honest and I fight for what I believe I know to be true. Just as…

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    In C. S. Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe the action begins when Lewis’s quote “And then Lucy saw that there was a light ahead of her; not a few inches away from where the back of the wardrobe ought to have been, but a long way off. Something cold was falling on her” (Lewis 7). The four young English siblings referred to as “The Pevensies” moved to a friend’s house in the country due to WWII. The sibling’s parents wanted them unharmed during the war. The four siblings traveled to…

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    >< mortal, old >< young, ill >< healthy and inhuman creatures >< humans. A more abstract dichotomy, the text presents, is Lucy’s inexpiable preference for garlic. It is a well-known fact that vampires are disgusted by garlic, why it is strange that Lucy suddenly likes garlic: “I never liked garlic before, but to-night it is delightful! There is peace in its smell; I feel sleep coming…

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    children explore their new home and grope their way through a magical wardrobe into the cold, wintery world of Narnia. Here -- as in the ancient myths that had captivated C. S. Lewis' heart -- animals talk, witches bewitch, curses turn flesh into stone, and the veil between physical reality and spiritual fantasies fade away. Myth and truth merge into more compelling illusions, while good and evil are redefined to fit the new story. Within its own spectrum of reality, we find that there is…

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    In this fantasy story, Isle of the Lost by Melissa De La Cruz, there are 4 friends that have to satisfy their parents in different ways but they have one thing in common which is the Dragon’s Eye. That might sound weird but it is really powerful. The 4 friends are villains from all the fairytales. For example, Mal, daughter of Maleficent, Evie, daughter of Evil Queen , Jay, son of Jafar and last but not least Carlos, son of Cruella De Vil. All these are parents of villains of what you might have…

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    Susanna goes to Gallows Hills, that is where the hanged all the accused witches, and it is really freaking her out. It’s time for Susanna’s meeting with Mary, Jonathan brought her. Mary is a sweet old lady but it takes a little while for Susanna to warm up to Mary. She wants evidence Mary isn’t a witch which Mary supplies a lot of. Here are some of the things she tells, her, William and papa have known her for years. Mary’s dream is to sail and climb up to a crow’s nest, and that is…

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    In the movie, “The Chronicles of Narnia: the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.” Four Children flee war-torn London and arrive at their safe haven home. Upon arrival they realize the house is strict and they become troubled. While playing games to make themselves feel better about their predicament they find a magic wardrobe that takes them to a new land called Narnia. Throughout the story many themes present themselves, two of which being that good can come from misfortune (shown mostly in the…

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