1 - 7 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, pursuing, overtaking, joining, crossing each other-- then separating slowly or hastily." (Conrad 8) 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 ( Tolkien J. R. R. 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. (Times cover image) 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 sp...
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