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    The role of Inspector Goole in An Inspector Calls by J.B. Priestly. Inspector Goole is probably the most important character in An Inspector Calls. He creates big impressions and somehow reveals all about the Birling family and Gerald Croft. He interrupts their celebrations to question them over the death of Eva Smith/ Daisy Renton. In the process of doing this he makes some of the characters realise what they are really like‚ and how the small actions they had done in the past affected her and

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    An Inspector Calls was written by J.B. Priestley after the Second World War. It is set in the spring of 1912 at the Brumley home of the Birlings‚ a prosperous industrial family in the North Midlands. When the Inspector Goole first enters the scene‚ Mr. Birling is giving some ‘good advice’‚ as he calls it‚ “A man has to make his own way – has to look after himself…The way some of these cranks talk and write now‚ you’d think everybody has look after everybody else‚ as if we’re all mixed up together”

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    social inequality. Powerless and horrified‚ Priestley watched as the world lapsed into its second great conflict. This second bout of suffering made Priestley realise that something had to be done. Within a week of the end of the war‚ An Inspector Calls was written‚ expressing the urgency with which change was needed through the Inspector and‚ more importantly‚ Sheila. At the beginning of the play‚ Sheila represents a typical middle-class girl of the time. She has been brought up to simply be a

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    Mid-term assignment American Literature ------------ How does Buck’s life change? How does the change affect him physically and spiritually? ( ‘The Call of the Wild’ by J. London – chapter 1) It will be a shortage if we do not mention about Jack London when talking about the American literature. In 1903‚ with the publication of The Call of the Wild the author was well-known all over the world. The novel is about the myth of the hero and the return to the life source which are around a

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    An Inspector calls An inspector calls was written by J.B Priestley in 1934 and performed in 1945‚ 33 years after the war. But the play itself is set around 1912 just before the war broke out‚ the play is a neutralistic‚ mystery drama about a middle class family named the Birlings who all have a mischievous secret that involves the death of Eva Smith‚ which teaches people a lesson about social justice. When the play opens the Birling family are cheerfully celebrating the engagement of the beloved

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    Title: The Call of the Wild Author Jack London Setting Life is good for Buck in Santa Clara Valley where he spends his days and nights including eating and sleeping in the golden sunshine. Characters: The Main Dogs * Buck –a proud and powerful dog‚ half St Bernard and half shepherd dog‚ who begins life on a comfortable Californian estate as a family pet‚ yet soon changes when he is stolen and sold to work as a sled dog in the frozen North. * Spitz- Buck’s archrival and original

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    perseverance. In Call of the Wild Buck has to persevere through tough times after he was taken away and shown his place in the wild. In contrast some people choose to join the army. In the army there is a place called ranger school. That is a very tough thing to do and persevere through mental and physical barriers. While my dad and Buck both endured pain and suffering they both got through it. Perseverance is a thing that everyone will have to do at some point in their life In Call of the Wild‚ Buck

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    In Act 1 of “An Inspector Calls” how does J.B Priestley use dramatic devices to convey his concerns and ideas to members of the audience as well as interest them and involve them in the play. “An Inspector Calls” was written in 1945 but the play was set in 1912‚ a few years before the First World War. The place it was set was an imaginary industrial West Midland town called Brumley. The play talks about the class structure in 1912. “An Inspector Calls” shows how big a gap there was between the

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    When decided on what show to analyze for this essay‚ I was stuck between “Ally McBeal” and “Better Call Saul”. I already regularly watch “Better Call Saul” and so I decided that I would try out “Ally McBeal”. I had heard many good things about the show in the past‚ thus I was excited to watch the pilot episode. In the end‚ I ended up watching more than the pilot. While I did enjoy the show‚ I noticed that it was very unrealistic in terms of the legal field. In the pilot‚ the titular character

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    The Constable Calls By Seamus Heaney A Constable Calls is the second in a sequence of six poems entitled ’Singing School’ which concludes Heaney’s fourth collection ’North’ (1975). The poem is a vivid description of an incident from the poet’s childhood - a policeman making an official visit to his father’s farm at Mossbawn to record tillage returns. There is something grotesquely bizarre about an armed representative of the law travelling by bicycle around the Ulster countryside to record agricultural

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