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Thesis Sentence: In the Victorian Era, his novel displays the importance of how religion and superstition made the people of the Victorian-Era feel safer.

Topic Sentence #1: Members of the Victorian-Era used the crucifix to keep evil away from them.

CD #1: ""Keep this near your heart'- as he spoke he lifted a little silver crucifix and held it out to me."(266)

CD #2: "She then rose and dried her eyes, and taking the crucifix from her neck offered it to me." (7)

CD #3: "When we started, the crowd round the inn door, which had by this time swelled to a considerable size, all made the sign of the cross and pointed two fingers towards me."(14)

Topic Sentence #2: The members of the Victorian-Era practiced superstitions such as placing garlic around their necks and houses, to hide from evil.

CD #4: "He came back with a handful of wild garlic from the box waiting in the hall, but which had not been opened, and placed the flowers amongst the others on and around the bed." (179)

CD #5: "What meant the giving of the crucifix, of the garlic, of the wild rose of the mountain ash?"(23)

CD #6: “First he fastened up the windows and latched them securely; next, taking a handful of the flowers he rubbed them all over the sashes, as though to ensure that every whiff of air that might get in would be laden with the garlic smell. Then with the wisp he rubbed all over the jamb of the door, above, below, and at each side, and round the fireplace in the same way.” (158)

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