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Welcome to Paradise Sector 9. This anthill is part of the paradise sector because there is a great river that flows once a day causing the land to be fertile and the surrounding landscape to stay green and fruitful. This middle-aged ant is named Charles.
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Charles serves as a worker ant for his colony.
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His job is to remove rubbish from the colony and bring it to the dump. He has served in this capacity longer than most of his fellow worker. He is a strong 45 days old. The elders of the group may have lived up to twice his life as an average worker ant lives around 90 days.
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Charles has kept quiet and has done what he has been told for his whole career. But he is going through a midlife crisis and beginning to question a few things.
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He remembers when he was just a young bug and how Father Bruce (a wise elder) brought him to a pile of trash and told him that the king of the anthill needed him to move this trash to the dump. Being ambitious and zealous for serving the king Charles worked diligently and moved trash every day, all day long. Charles was happy to serve; after all it was for the king.
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Charles also remembers Betsy, the know it all. She would go on and on about all of the different jobs that it took to run Paradise Sector 9, their ant colony. Betsy spoke of how the king was the one who kept everyone on task. She also told him about the queen and how beautiful she was. It was the king and the queen that kept the survival of the colony in tact.
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Then there was Snap, one of Charles’ best friends. During work hours he was known as Kernel Snap. He was three times the size of Charles and was not an ant to cross paths with. His job was to protect the colony,...
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...e and is a part of everything we do. Go search through the kingdom and you will find him. He has watched you as you have grown and helped you make decisions over these long 45 days of your life.”
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Finally, Charles felt like he had an answer. He thanked the queen and was off to find the final player in this game, the king. He was a bit confused on how he missed him, he thought for sure that he would had noticed if the king was at the dump with him. But the queen was so sure that the king had the answers and so he would go and find him. It seemed that everyone else had met the king and knew why they existed and worked.
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So the search began… He looked for the king
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And looked
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And looked
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And looked
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“WHERE IS THE KING?” “WHO IS THE KING?” “IS THERE REALLY A KING?”
Being a war correspondent people describes Charles as being quite a dull person but also accurate, papers such as ‘The Age’ and ‘The Argus’ started to stop publishing Charles’ stories as for it had an “unappealing” style
Charles Halloway, a passive inactive seed, chooses not to grow. He resists the urge to flourish, to change and become the greater man he unknowingly could be. This becomes evident when Halloway, employed as a janitor at the library, is staring out the window and spots the boys. The time is three in the morning, yet he does not call out to them to so he can walk home with them. “ “Jim!” called the old man. “Will!” But not aloud. The boys went away toward home. Charles Halloway looked out into the country.” (54)
But the ants that showed up at our experiment were total morons. You'd watch one, and it would sprint up to a Cocoa Krispie, and then stop suddenly, as if saying: "Yikes! Compared with me, this Cocoa Krispie is the size of a Buick!" then it would sprint off in a random direction. Sometimes it would sprint back; sometimes it would sprint to another Cocoa Krispie and act surprised again. but it never seemed to do anything. There were thousands of ants behaving this way, and every single time two of them met, they'd both stop and exchange "high-fives" with their antennas, along with, I assume, some kind of ant pleasantries ("Hi Bob! "No, I'm Bill!" "Sorry! You look just like Bob!"). This was repeated millions of times. I watched these ants for two days, and they accomplished nothing. It was exactly like highway construction. It wouldn't have surprised me if some ants started waving orange flags to direct other insects around the area.
Charles Halloway shows that self acceptance defeats evil towards the end of the book. Once he realizes that self acceptance can defeat the carnival, he knows he must be strong against all the tricks the carnival will try on him. Charles represents strength in this book because he is comfortable with himself and stays strong while the carnival throws their tricks at him. Charles is a symbol because he changes from the beginning of the novel to the end. In the beginning, Charles is a man in his mid-fifties that is sad about both himself and his life. Towards the end, he transforms into a self-accepting, confident man who is not afraid to stand up to the carnival. An example of Charles showing self acceptance is when the witch is about to stop his heart. He realizes that he must be comfortable with himself and then laughs at the witch. This is enough to defeat her because the carnival feeds off of evil, and anything else, such as laughter, can defeat it. Bradbury says, “He opened his mouth very wide, and let the loudest sound of all free” (258). When Charles is in the mirror maze he almost falls...
Dark after realizing that Charles is using a smile to stop him and his army of evil. The carnival people, who were thriving off Charles's misery are weakening. In these moments, Charles decides to be happy so that he can save himself. On page 258, Ray Bradbury show’s us Charles moment of freedom while he sees himself in different stages of his life. This moment is described as: “For only a moment long he looked at all of themselves, at Will. A small sound escaped his mouth. A little larger sound escaped his mouth….He opened his mouth very wide, and let the loudest sound of all free. The Witch, if she were alive, would have known that sound, and died again.” This quote shows the reader how happiness is keeping Charles alive and strong. His sound that he is making is laughter and it is resonating throughout his entire body. He is now capable enough of not letting the Carnival people take
Ooka Shohei named the last chapter of Fires on the Plain “In Praise of Transfiguration.” Through the whole novel, readers witness the protagonist Tamura transform from an innocent soldier to a killer. Readers watch him go from condemning the practice of eating human flesh to eating human flesh for his own survival. At the end, Readers see Tamura’s redemption as he shot Nagamatsu who killed and ate his own comrade Yasuda. What was the difference between two men who both killed and ate human beings? To Tamura, the guilt of eating human flesh distinguished himself from Nagamatsu who cold-bloodily killed Yasuda. As Tamura recalled, “I do not remember whether I shot him at that moment. But I do know that I did not eat his flesh; this I should certainly have remembered.” (224) The fact of him shooting at Nagamatsu had no importance to Tamura. However, his emphasis on not eating
Typically ants include three castes: winged, fertile, and females or queens; wingless, infertile females or workers; and winged male. Those ordinarily seen are workers. In some colonies ants of the worker type may become soldiers or members of other specialized castes. (The Columbia Encyclopedia, 2004)
Characters begin to develop, and we learn that Charles Wallace and Meg Murray are very close siblings, and Charles seems to have the ability to know whenever Meg or her mother is upset. He can also answer questions directed at him by his sister, but were not actually spoken, almost as if he can read their minds.
When Ralph blows the conch, Jack is introduced to the reader for the first time. He is represented as an audacious and selfish boy who likes to order others around when he says "I ought to be chief, because I'm chapter chorister and head boy"(Goldberg p.22). It also confirms his hunger for power and wanting control over everything. His choleric and petulant personality can be seen when he says "Shut up, Fatty."(p.23), also revealing that he is rude and inconsiderate of others. Despite his obnoxious personality, his conscious of civilization keeps him from killing the first pig they see. He even recommends that the boys should have rules to keep things in order.
The ants of the colony can be seen as beings who have had their “individuality and personhood” trampled because of the grasshop...
The one who sent Me is with Me; He has not left Me alone, for I always do what pleases Him.” John 8:29 NIV
Charles is actually Laurie which means that Laurie is arrogant because he talks about himself a lot. Every day, Laurie comes home and tells his parents about the day’s events, the topic that always comes up is Charles. The way Laurie talks about Charles makes him sound like he is someone who makes a great friend or that he is actually popular among other school children but his parents think that Charles is made up of “toughness and bad grammar” (1). Laurie talks about Charles to the point that it has become a “routine” (2). When children talk about someone very much, it usually means they either admire that person or the complete opposite like a child would go on and on about a superhero. The language he uses to describe Charles to his parents also suggests that he thinks Charles is not a bad influence. He mentions to his mother that even though Charles gets into trouble and the teacher warns the class not to play with him, everybody still does. Laurie makes it sound as if everybody thinks Charles is likable enough for everybody else t...
Stadler, B. and A. Dixon. 2008. Mutualism: Ants and Their Insect Partners. Cambridge University Press, New York.
… Did he aske for me? How parted he wit thee, and when shalt thou see him again? Answer me in one word.
They are all related to the colony because the queen ant is the mom to all of the ants. In the colony, every ant works for the welfare of the whole community. Each ant has its own work, and does it very well. Ants are everywhere, they can be a big problem for people when they invade the timber of a house, causing the wood to collapse. They even nest between walls.