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Elephant Man

In literature, as in life, we encounter persons who have faults
as well as virtues. In the novel The Elephant Man by Christine Sparks a
man has faults. The character that has faults in this novel is Bytes who
is a greedy man and a circus owner.
Often people have a fault of virtue of another person. Bytes made
Merrick, the Elephant Man, live in the basement. Merrick lived in Bytes'
basement for more than two decades. The basement was cold and all
Merrick had an old dirty brown blanket to keep warm. Bytes whipped the
wall so that Merrick would obey.
When people have a bad character they often show it by what they
say. When Bytes put Merrick in the freak show he was trying to get
money. That proves he is greedy. He was getting people's attention by
saying "' A wicked birth...monstrous...evil...'" (Sparks 1). Bytes was cruel
to Merrick. In the circus Merrick received his named the Elephant Man.
People who have fault take it out on other people......

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