this work I was able to learn many things about Adela as a reader‚ as a writer‚ and as a speller. As a reader‚ Adela had decent fluency when reading out loud. She read in two or three word phrases which allowed for a relatively easy understanding from a listener’s perspective. She was also very good at self-correction when reading out loud. When she misread or omitted a word‚ she would go back to the beginning of the sentence and start over. Adela was a much more confident reader than writer. She
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Esquivels’ pieces of literature portray the hardships and burdening lives while enduring restrictive love due to the oppressive female roles. Lorca creates the character‚ Bernarda Alba to act as the tyrant in his tale‚ leading some characters such as Adela and Maria Josefa to defy her and try to escape the tyrannical environment. Lorca expresses this uprising against Bernarda using colour as symbolism‚ while the house is symbolically used by Bernarda Alba as a means of repressing her family members and
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Suppression of women was a serious issue in several countries over the past few centuries. The women of Spain and Norway were suppressed at the time the two plays A Doll’s House and The House of Bernarda Alba were written. Although this issue has improved in most countries‚ it still is occurring in some countries. This issue was portrayed in the themes of these two plays. Both A Doll’s House and The House of Bernarda Alba portray the suppression of women and their lack of freedom in different ways
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was employed to justify the intense retributive violence of the so-called Indian Mutiny‚ is exactly what A Passage to India is designed to move beyond. You can also notice that Forster uses an older narrative form when he focuses on Adela Queste. However‚‚ Adela ’s story is a Victorian holdover Forster invokes in order to leave behind. Even as he borrows from the Victorians‚ he demonstrates his distance from Victorian culture by denouncing the femininity it held in high regard. In this way‚ Forster
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Muslim world. However‚ even this mercy‚ was not a mercy. These children‚ still with mothers‚ aunts‚ and uncles in the world‚ would be taken. Also‚ while the adoption could be for a new daughter or son‚ it could be a way for a free slave. The time Adela was born was a stepping stone away from the Holocaust. As you read this book‚ you can see the politics changing as they flee home to home. Even in Aden‚ where the buildings are taller‚ the ports bigger‚ and the buildings are bright‚ the Jews are restricted
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(Chapter 22). This illustrates the restriction between the English and Indian people in the novel; it is a metaphor for what is happening. Aziz‚ an Indian doctor‚ and Adela Quested‚ a young English woman traveling to India‚ exemplify this very idea. She meets Aziz and together they travel to the Marabar Caves outside of the city. Adela later accuses Aziz of sexual harassment in the caves‚ which leads to his arrest. The advancing storm‚ the English‚ is growing larger and larger‚ and more intrusive and
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"But there was always something. I was too young‚ or too little‚ or too fat. Usually I was too fat.” (Bow‚ Clara. St. Johns‚ Adela Rogers)soon enough‚ director Elmer Clifton needed a tomboy for his movie “Down to the Sea in Ships”‚ he saw Clara in Motion Picture Classic magazine‚ and asked her to audition. she tried to look older because she was always tooled she looked to young
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both races can be friends but never under the current circumstances‚ and represented less progressively in Mahmoud Ali who presents a stubborn anti-British attitude. The ignorance of the British arrival in India is not unnoticed in the characters of Adela
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indifferent scornful attitude towards the argument: "Why be either friends with the fellows or not friends? Let us shut them out and be jolly."Forster uses personal relationships between Mrs. Moore and Adela‚ and the Indians to examine the theme of friendship between Englishwomen and Indians. Adela and Mrs. Moore question the standard behaviors of the English towards the Indians and try to connect with the Indians at the Bridge Party and at Fielding’s afternoon tea. However‚ Mrs. Moore’s curiosity
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World Literature Essay English A1 SL Assignment 1: Comparative Study How does the role of men shape the tension among family members in The House of Bernarda Alba and Like Water for Chocolate? Name: Candidate Number: School Number: Words: 1437 Federico Garcia Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba‚ and Laura Esquivel’s Like Water for Chocolate‚ both illustrate the effects of oppression on daughters under the tyranny of a controlling maternal figure. Throughout the play and novel dominated
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