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STANDING in Lord of the Flies by William Golding
LAKE in Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
PAINT in The Trial by Franz Kafka
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MOTHER in The Odyssey by Homer
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CORNER in The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
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