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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?”
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"Charles" by Shirley Jackson shows how Laurie used Charles to cover his troubles. First Charles starts his day by choosing bad clothes over good, like how in the text in states "My sweet-voiced nursery-school tot replaced by a long-trousered, swaggering character" (Jackson 1).By this first quote you can see Laurie is already making a transformation from a sweet lovable boy to a swaggering character like how Charles is. After that Charles had to stay after school for getting in trouble but laurie had to stay too! It states “Charles had to stay after school. And so all the children stayed to watch him.” What interests me about this quote is how Laurie said all the children stayed too even though they weren't in trouble. Finally, They
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Charles grew up in a wealthy family and had everything pretty much going for him. He was always full of curiosity coming up, always wanted to know how different things worked, and would try different experiments. "Charles always tried various experiments. One of these, after he'd read the New Testament account of Jesus walking on water, was an attempt to walk on water. He didn't use faith or magic, but science, with the help of a mechanical device he made out of two planks held together with hinges." (Josepha Sherman, page 16) Aside from the wealth they had poor health, in London there was pollution everywhere and all kinds of toxicants in the air. This caused Charles siblings after him to die before they reached to age of one. "Even so, the air wouldn't have been to clean, thanks to carelessly tossed garbage, horses in the street, and poor sewer...The Babbage’s decided that the wisest thing to do was send Charles away from London, out into the cleaner countryside." (Josepha Sherman, page 14) At the age of
...ant is so rapid in growth that it would cause the United States to only be forty states if there wasn't a winter season. (Hower)
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
Foreshadowing convinces us that Laurie is Charles.For example,Laurie takes delight in saying a bad word to his father.Laurie’s mom explains,”His father bent his head down and Laurie whispered joyfully’’(14).Charles told a little girl to say a word and she said it and the teacher washed her mouth out with soap and Charles laughed.This reveals Laurie is Charles because,Charles laughed when he told the girl in his classroom to say the bad word and when Charles told his parents what had happened, he joyfully said the bad word to his father in his ear.Lying is dangerous because it is not a good habit to have and when people lie to each other it can get them into serious situations and unfortunately they will have to suffer consequences for their
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He was a character that sort of followed Immanuel Kant’s categorical imperative where a person cannot be used as a means to an end. In other words, a person should not be used in order to achieve something else, such as higher rating like the producers and TV network wanted. This was apparent in the film when he was questioned by the producers after they had invited him to be one of the contestants on the show. In that scene, the producers, who had previously had asked him about his family background and job, bring up the offer of him being on the show and winning over Herbert, the current winning contestant who is in on the cheating conspiracy, by being given the answers. This offer then has Charles reevaluating his morals and ethics, especially after the producers offer to pay him a large amount of money to play in the show and just answer all the questions, which he will be given the answers to, right. A part of Charles’ true moral values shows as he rejects the offer. But when he finally goes on the show he is stuck choosing whether he should say the right answer that he had already known beforehand or say a wrong answer to once again reject the producers’ offer. Though it takes a while he does say the right answer, causing Stempel, who answered wrong in return for being on a different show, to lose. Charles choosing to
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.
Charles had a very unstable relationship with Parliament. Earlier in his reign he needed money for one of his wars. Parliament refused to support this war. Charles desperate for money
At any time in our lives, we can have a loving relationship with God. Many people choose not to accept God because they are walking in the dark, which is why we say God is the light. The ...
Today's Gospel reading shows us that the Lord is with us through times of trial… or when the storms of life get to be too much to handle. Whether He calms the storm as he did for the disciples, or asks us to let him walk through the storm with us, as Paul talks of in 2 Corinthians, or gives us the strength to fight against it, as He did for David while up against Goliath; he is always with us. He does not ignore the cry of the afflicted.