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FLOWER in War and Peace 1 by Leo Tolstoy
SCAR in Lord of the Flies by William Golding
DETERMINATION in Gulliver's Travels 1 by Jonathan Swift
ARREST in The Trial by Franz Kafka
HARRY in The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
SMART in The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
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