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Brighton Rock is a type of candy stick sold at sea-side resorts in Britain, it has a pattern or some words embedded in it which remain all the way through the stick. We learn in the novel that Pinkie's gang kills Hale with a Brighton rock candy stick. The principle reason for Greene to have chosen this title is that it is an analogy to human nature. Ida, when Rose says that people can change, she retorts "Oh, no they don't....I've never changed. It's like those sticks of rock: bite it all the way down. That's human nature".This pessimistic view, suggests that the only good people are the ones those who are good to begin with. Whether one is saved or damned, in terms of Ida's simile, depends on what God has written on one's character or soul

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