In Stephen Crane's naturalist story, 'The Open Boat' the repetition of the term "sacred cheese" invokes the idea of seeming powerless and caught in a trap.
Sacred Cheese refers to the food that a hungry man sees and something or other prevents it to have that food. Similarly when the narrator's ship is destroyed, upon seeing the land in front of him he is in despair that he cannot reach that land. Therefore, there is something preventing them to save themselves from death.
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1. In chapter 1 i learnt maycomb is a small southern town in Alabama.
2. The town is segregated by both colour and, to an extent, socio-economic class.
3. Atticus is a Lawyer who is bringing his two children up and Atticus was related by blood or marriage to nearly every family in the town.
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The animals were not sure what the word meant, but Squealer spoke so persuasively, and the three dogs who happened to be with him growled so threateningly that they accepted his explanation without further questions. The passage suggests that Napoleon is driven by a passion for control over the farm.
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The correct answer is A. Even if something is cruel, people have the tendency to follow the crowd and participate.
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One of the main themes of "The Lottery" is tradition, but understood from an uncritical perspective and the impact of blindly conforming to traditions without questioning them. The consequences of following traditions in The Lottery are cruel and fatal, yet the crowd conforms to it because "it has always been done that way".
Jackson criticises that traditions, especially cruel ones, sould not be blindly perpetuated or followed by the crowd.
