This is brought out in the next to last chapter of the book, `` A Hero's Funeral '', written in the form of an impassioned prose poem.

When Bobbie Evans smashed up his car, the Jaguar his wife Linda had given him for his last birthday, and himself quite thoroughly with it, driving back from an afternoon's golf at Oakmont, it seemed to mark the end of a long, miswritten chapter in the social life of the community.

* A Clockwork Orange last chapter

The first section of the last chapter is organized as an outline of various skeptical arguments.

Almost everything that is known of Bede's life is contained in the last chapter of his Historia Ecclesiastica, a history of the church in England.

), with an appendix, the last connected prophecy of any length, in chapter 35, treating of the fidelity of the Rechabites and of the unfaithfulness of Judah.

Another example of text from the last chapter or epilogue of Job can be found in the book The Dead Sea Scrolls: A New Translation, showing examples of how fragments of The Book of Job found among the scrolls differ from the text as now known.

He is among the first writing prophets, and the last chapter of Hosea has a format similar to wisdom literature.

Ironically, the relentless God demonstrated in the first chapter becomes the merciful God in the last two chapters ( see 3: 10 ).

* coco – In the last chapter, the epitaph of Don Quijote identifies him as " el coco "

This story was reprinted in the last chapter of the manga Book 6.

This opened the last chapter of Flores's long career and marked the entrance to power of García Moreno.

" And, " Mr. Locke, in his chapter of power, says that, finding from experience, that there are several new productions in nature, and concluding that there must somewhere be a power capable of producing them, we arrive at last by this reasoning at the idea of power.

In the last chapter of Darwin's Black Box, Behe goes on to explain his view that irreducible complexity is evidence for intelligent design.

In the last chapter of the Social Contract, Rousseau would ask " What is to be done?

" This name actually refers to a special " ceremony ": the last weekly Torah portion is read from Deuteronomy, completing the annual cycle, and is followed immediately by the reading of the first chapter of Genesis.

Harris believes that the tradition that John lived to old age in Ephesus developed in the late 2nd century, although the tradition does appear in the last chapter of the gospel, though this debatable tradition assumes that John the Evangelist, John the Apostle, the Beloved Disciple mentioned in John 21 and sometimes also John the Presbyter are the same person.

In the last chapter of the Book of Acts, widely attributed to Luke, we find several accounts in the first person also affirming Luke's presence in Rome including Acts 28: 16: " And when we came to Rome ..." According to some accounts, Luke also contributed to authorship of the Epistle to the Hebrews.

In dealing with atheism Cudworth's method is to marshal the atheistic arguments elaborately, so elaborately that Dryden remarked " he has raised such objections against the being of a God and Providence that many think he has not answered them "; then in his last chapter, which by itself is as long as an ordinary treatise, he confutes them with all the reasons that his reading could supply.

Pattern of racketeering activity requires at least two acts of racketeering activity, one of which occurred after the effective date of this chapter and the last of which occurred within ten years ( excluding any period of imprisonment ) after the commission of a prior act of racketeering activity.

However, in the last chapters of Benjamin Major, written later than the Minor, Richard almost abandons his topic and the discussion of the teaching of mystical theology takes up a good portion of every remaining chapter.

In the last chapter of The Dispossessed, we learn that the Hainish people arrived at Tau Ceti 60 years ago, which is more than 150 years after the secession of the Odonians from Urras and their exodus to Anarres.

The only exceptions are the first and the last chapter which include both worlds and are, thematically, chapters of transition.

In chapter one, we are basically in the middle of the story, while the plot of the last Anarres-chapter ( i. e., the penultimate chapter, or, chapter twelve ) ends at a point before the plot of the first chapter begins.

In this novel's precursor, Ender's Game, the last surviving member of ' the Buggers ' contacts the lead character ( Ender Wiggin ), who had unwittingly wiped out the rest of the species.

Richard Adams quotes a portion of the novel's last sentence for the epigraph to Chapter 50 in his Watership Down ; the reference to the General is felicitous, as the villain in Watership Down is also a General.

" The phrase is used again in the novel's last sentence: " How green was my Valley then, and the Valley of them that have gone.

In the novel's last sentences, he explains that he and Fielding cannot be friends, at least not until India is free of the British Raj.

The novel's two storylines increasingly converge in the last chapters ( the intersecting lines forming a V-shape, as it were ), as Stencil hires Benny to travel with him to Malta.

The book's title comes from the novel's famous last lines.

The Wimsey Papers were a series of articles published by Sayers during World War II, purporting to be letters written between the various Wimseys during the war ( similar to Busman's Honeymoon, Sayers's last completed Wimsey novel, the novel's prologue consists entirely of selections from these letters ).

Asimov's short story " Gold ", one of the last he wrote in his life, describes the efforts of fictional computer animators to create a " compu-drama " from the novel's second section.

The novel's protagonist, Tod Hackett ( whose first name likely derives from the German word for death and whose last name refers to a common epithet for Hollywood screenwriters and artists, who were pejoratively called " hacks "), is a set painter who aspires to artistic greatness.

Toward the novel's end, Ellis writes the ' last ' Bateman story as a way of confronting and controlling the character, as well as the issues Ellis created Bateman as a means of countering.

This was the last of MacLean's classic sequence of first person narratives which began with Night Without End, and represented a return to that earlier novel's Arctic setting.

Like her estranged husband before her ( whom she purportedly assisted in relegating to a hole in her backyard ), Jane takes a turn at narration, providing for the novel's conclusion ; addressing her husband with ultimatums and effrontery, the reader sees life from the last member of the core Marcus-family trinity, at which point the reader is left to draw her or his own conclusions.

The novel's title comes from a line in the Gettysburg Address: " It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

This album was mentioned in the last chapter of Gravity's Rainbow, where it is suggested that one of the novel's characters went on to play with the band.

Adeline's Catholic mercy, on the other hand, fails to redeem her husband, and her children are similarly powerless – as Victorin finally admits on the novel's last page.

This part of the story is yet to be told in the novel's last volume, and Donnie's death by Yomiko's awakening power is the only known factor, why Yomiko killed him is unknown.

If we thus spent our very first day in the midst of a large number of your people honoring a new hero and a great national achievement, our last day, to us at least, was equally impressive and very moving, even though the crowds were absent and there was almost complete silence.

It looked like a 3 – 2 win for England with Hurst as the hero with the winning goal but in the last seconds, as the Germans were pushing everyone forward to seek the equalizer, Moore cleared his lines with a long ball over the German defence.

In his play En Idealist, for example, the " hero " is King Herod whose fight to maintain power is the motive behind all of his acts until he is at last defeated by a show of kindness to the Christ child in a weak moment.

In some stories, Prometheus is freed at last by the hero Heracles ( Hercules ).

Stevenson did not use television as effectively as his Republican opponent, popular war hero Dwight D. Eisenhower, and was unable to mobilize the New Deal coalition for one last hurrah.

" Costas added: " In the last year of his life, Mickey Mantle, always so hard on himself, finally came to accept and appreciate the distinction between a role model and a hero.

Their form seriously dipped in 1998 – 99 as they were rooted to the bottom of the table for much of the first half of the season, but they again avoided relegation on the last day of the season after a late run of good results, helped by the intervention of Latvian Marian Pahars and old hero Le Tissier ( The so-called " Great Escape ").

In the Song of Roland, Ganelon is also the stepfather of the main hero, Roland ; and on the last page of The Hand of Oberon, Zelazny's Ganelon is revealed as Oberon in disguise.

He scored the game-winning goals in the sixth, seventh and eighth games, the last of which has become legend in Canada and made him a national hero.

* In a Bulgarian epic, the hero Marko is promised in marriage a " weird widow " if he can " construct a tower, but cannot finish the building for want of one last building stone.

Ordinary Guy almost went spinning helplessly off into space, but he was rescued at the last second by Darkwing, who told him a true hero saves the villain.

The state of mind produced by that shock is reflected in his novel Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis ( The Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis ) ( 1798 ), which was described by the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica as a more politicized version of Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther, " for the hero of Foscolo embodies the mental sufferings and suicide of an undeceived Italian patriot just as the hero of Goethe places before us the too delicate sensitiveness embittering and at last cutting short the life of a private German scholar.

Originally, the wizard's name was Shazamo, the last letter standing for the hero of magic, Oggar.

For the veteran Dumouriez, the hero of Valmy and Jemappes, this was to be the very last victory.

Their last two or three remaining friends are usually killed near the end of the film, while the hero triumphs the killer and is saved by the police / help / adults.

In the last book of The Chronicles of Prydain, Dallben reveals to the hero Taran that he is a foundling ; in a story set in the same world, " The Foundling ", Dallben himself proves to be also a foundling.

The Pescadores Campaign was the last campaign of Admiral Amédée Courbet, whose naval victories during the war had made him a national hero in France.

Kamal Haasan ended the decade by starring in his last original Malayalam film as hero to date, titled Chanakyan.

Narrative structures are very common, many of them long epics which claim to be the last song of a famous hero, such as in the Last Song of Rinchin Dorzhin.

According to IGN, " he is probably the most famous hero in the history of the Final Fantasy series ," and although " his star has faded somewhat over the last decade and change, maybe it's just a consequence of overexposure.

Although popular, having had a great career and after his death considered a war hero, von Döbeln lived his last years forgotten and impoverished.

A renaissance man, the character is a top neurosurgeon, particle physicist, race car driver, rock star and comic book hero, and probably the last hope of the human race.

She explained in an interview that Jesus tops her hero list and the last book she read was the Bible.