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1. On page 8, Conrad’s narrator in Heart of Darkness describes the scene, “Flames glided in on the river, small green flames, red flames, white flames, pursuing, overtaking, joining, crossing each other--then separating slowly or hastily.”
2. Like Beowulf, J. R. R. Tolkien’s character, Bilbo is “terrified of losing himself” and so rejects exile and embraces the warrior’s heroic code (Annotated Hobbit 226). Another work by Tolkien confronts the same issue. The character Frodo is told that he must resist going to a “cave, slowly to forget and to be forgotten” (365).
3. Magazine covers are often overtly political. Take the example of Time magazine’s most recent issue, which featured three swinging orange wrecking balls with yellow hair.
4. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, the character Dill is introduced primarily through narration. Dill was from Meridian, Mississippi, was spending the summer with his aunt, Miss Rachel, and would be spending every summer in Maycomb from now on. His family was from Maycomb County originally, his mother worked for a photographer in Meridian, had entered his picture in a Beautiful Child contest and won five dollars. She gave the money to Dill, who went to the picture show twenty times on it. (11) In the film, Dill must relate everything through gesture and dialogue, "I’m little, but I’m old. Folks call me Dill. I’m from Meridian, Mississippi, and I’m spending two weeks next door with my Aunt Stephanie. My mama works for a photographer in Meridian. She entered my picture in the Beautiful Child Contest and won five dollars. She gave the money to me and I went to the picture show twenty times with it."
5. The Modern Language Association advises that “[t]he curriculum of a major should present an integrated, progressive course of study with articulated goals for each course” (5).

Blogger 2/26

                  The letter order for the first paragraph should be B, D, A, C
                  The letter order for the second should be B, D, A, C, F, E, G