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INTO THE ROOM in Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
SILENCE in The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
GLASSES in Lord of the Flies by William Golding
HEART in Anthem by Ayn Rand
PACK in The Call of the Wild by Jack London
SOCS in The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
STRUGGLE in Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
CHEERFUL in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
GOLD in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
GREASER in The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
FEATHER in The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
BEAUTY in A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
NATURE in Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
INSPIRE in Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
HOUND in Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
HOPES in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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BOXER in Animal Farm by George Orwell
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FOREST in A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
FOR A WHILE in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
PAINFULLY in Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
CONCLUSION in David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
STICK in The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
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MOVE in The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
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LIBRARY in Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
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INDIA in The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
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BILL in Lord of the Flies by William Golding
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LED in The Odyssey by Homer
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CONDITIONS in Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
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KING in The Odyssey by Homer
TRIBE in Lord of the Flies by William Golding
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ORANGE in Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
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WORK in Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
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