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HIMSELF in Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
DARK in The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
SCHOOL in My Antonia by Willa Cather
KILLING in The Odyssey by Homer
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HANDS in To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
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EYES in Macbeth by William Shakespeare
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