V For Vendetta

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Charles Lee 2/8/2012 English 4 The selection I chose for this assignment is V for Vendetta it’s a graphic novel so I wont be able to pull larges passages out to dissect but I selected a portion of dialogue from the text. Enjoy! 1. : [V enters Evey's field of vision as she walks into the Shadow Gallery, directly from the prison] Hello, Evey. Evey Hammond: You. It was you. V: [quietly] Yeah. Evey Hammond: [gestures behind her] That wasn't real... Is Gordon - ? V: I'm sorry, but Mr. Deitrich's dead. I thought they'd arrest him, but when they found a Koran in his house, they had him executed. Evey Hammond: [whispers] Oh God... V: Fortunately, I got to you before they did. Evey Hammond: You got to me? You did this to me? You cut my hair? You tortured me? You tortured me! Why? V: You said you wanted to live without fear. I wish there'd been an easier way, but there wasn't. [Evey whispers, "Oh my God...?] V: I know you may never forgive me... but nor will you understand how hard it was for me to do what I did. Every day I saw in myself everything you see in me now. Every day I wanted to end it, but each time you refused to give in, I knew I couldn't. Evey Hammond: You're *sick*! You're *evil*! V: *You* could've ended it, Evey, you could've given in. But you didn't. Why? Evey Hammond: Leave me alone! I *hate* you! V: That's it! See, at first I thought it was hate, too. Hate was all I knew, it built my world, it imprisoned me, taught me how to eat, how to drink, how to breathe. I thought I'd die with all my hate in my veins. But then something happened. It happened to me... just as it happened to you. Evey Hammond: Shut up! I *don't* want to hear your lies! V: Your own father said that artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself. Evey Hammond: No. V:

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