p> Act three opens with Bart pounding on Milhouse's door and Bart telling him ,"You win" (Archer, 1995). Only a robot answers and says Milhouse is at his grandmother's with Bart's soul. In the meantime, Moe erupts over the demands of children and their families, swearing at children and losing his customers. Bart's bike is destroyed by a steamroller and he jogs to Milhouse's grandmother's house. Bart arrives at 2:00 a.m., only to discover Milhouse has traded his soul to the comic book dealer for Pogs. Bart sleeps at the comic book dealer's store, only to discover he sold his soul to someone most interested in "having possession of a little boy's soul" (Archer, 1995). Bart walks home in the rain, goes to his room and breaks down while praying to God for his soul. Lisa gives the paper to him she bought from the comic book dealer, telling him one must earn a soul through suffering and thought and prayer, like he did the previous evening.
There are many opposites in Robinson Jeffers' (2009) Bloody Sire, a poem which maintains there would be no values if there were not "stark violence" (p. 1). To demonstrate why violence can sire its seeming opposite, values, Jeffers uses other opposites
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