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Down: 1) Strategy, control, and life’s battles.2) Moral resistance and personal integrity3) Utilitarianism (greatest good for the greatest number)4) epresents public pressure and loss of individual freedom.5) Orwell acts against his conscience to avoid looking weak.7) Authority figures can be controlled by those they appear to rule.9) People often have inner lives unknown to others15) Individual conscience vs. collective happiness Across: 5) Women’s ambitions and indepen6) The morality of sacrifice 8) Represents the Burmese: powerful but ultimately doomed to Imperialism .10) Chess mirrors life and family relations11) Truth and individuality hidden beneath appearances.12) Pride, control, and rebel13) A “perfect” society built on injustic14) The hidden cost of societal prosperit16) Growing up means balancing personal identity with cultural and family expectations. A young Chinese American girl, Waverly Jong, becomes a chess prodigy under her mother’s strict guidance, leading to tension between independence and family expectations17) Damages both the oppressed and the oppressor.18) An autobiographical essay (maybe) about Orwell’s time as a British police officer in colonial Burma. He feels pressured to shoot a tame elephant to satisfy the expectations of the local crowd—even though he doesn’t want to. Imperialism traps everyone involved, forcing people to betray their values.19) The city of Omelas is a perfect utopia—except its happiness depends on the permanent suffering of one abused child locked in a basement. Some citizens accept this; others walk away. Can True happiness exist if it depends on injustice?20) American independence vs. Chinese obedie21) After a woman named Angela dies, her husband discovers her private diary and learns she had a secret life devoted to political and social reform—far more complex than he realized.We rarely fully understand the people closest to
 

 

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