O'Connor, "Good Country People" -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "'And you needn't to think you'll catch me because Pointer ain't really my name. I use a different name at every house I call at and don't stay nowhere long.'"
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Shakespeare, King Lear Acts 1,2 -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study)
"O, reaon not the need! Our basest beggars
Are in the poorest thing superfluous.
Allow not nature more than nature needs,
Man's life is cheap as beast's."
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Zunder, "Shakespeare and the End of Feudalism..." -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study)
"And it immediately establishes a parallel, by displacement, between action of the play, firmly placed in the British past, and the current times in which Shakespeare and his fellow Londoners were living."
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Card, Ender's Game Ch 1-6 -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study)
"Then he settled down to the serious business of designing a security system for his desk, since the safeguards built into the system were obviously inadequate. If a six-year-old could break them down, they were obviously put there as a plaything, not serious security."
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Card, Ender's Game Finish -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "If we had kissed, it would have been the miracle to make us human in each other's eyes. Instead we killed each other."
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