Smith‚ one of the main characters‚ Archie‚ leaves me a deep impression. Archie is a white English man who attended the World War II‚ during the war he gets to know his best friend‚ Samad. And after the war‚ Archie returns to London and retired from the army. Honestly speaking‚ Archie is a soldier; however‚ he leaves readers the impression that is totally opposite to a soldier should be. He is indecisive‚ shortsighted and timid. All those attribute makes me loath Archie‚ but still that makes him who he
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“Archie is a scheming and manipulative character who controls the ‘entire school in the palm of his hand’ Do you agree?” In The Chocolate War‚ written by Robert Cormier‚ Archie Costello is the main antagonist who enjoys torturing his victims psychologically. In the novel he is portrayed as a manipulative and cunning person. Archie Costello is a character who is powerful enough to control the entire school. The novel shows how Archie can turn a bad situation for him into a good one – demonstrating
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Discrimination against genders is an arguable topic. When Archie thinks by himself waiting for Obie‚ he realizes that he’s been so busy with his work that he “doesn’t seem to have any time to himself anymore‚ not even time for girls” and he thinks back to the days when “you could let your eyes devour some luscious sights and usually talk one of [the girls] into the car‚ for a ride home” and usually stop once in awhile for some detours. In my opinion‚ Archie treats girls just as eye-candy. He doesn’t care about
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dark night when Archie got home from his baseball practice. He was so tired that he quickly jumped in his pajamas and went to sleep without even taking a bath yet! As he was snoring‚ two little shiny lights flew into his bedroom. "Is he the one?" asked one of the lights‚ what are they? They are fairies. "He must be‚" answered the other fairy‚ knocking over a bat which knocks down the yo-yo which was beside it and made a loud noise. The two fairies quickly flew out the window as Archie woke up because
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known as Gallipoli was ironically more focused on the two main characters‚ Archie and Frank‚ rather than the significant historical events taking place around them. Being that Gallipoli is a film‚ it is designed to keep folks interested‚ which helps support the fact that the film is about mateship and honour rather than that of a war drama explaining the horrific and terrible events of which occurred. The plot about Archie and Frank‚ the two “heroes” in the film‚ was designed to symbolize and glorify
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Gibson as Frank Dunne and Mark Lee as Archie Hamilton. The film is about several young men from rural Western Australia (WA) who enlist for the Australian Army in May 1915‚ around the time that Australia first entered the great war. The film has three main settings and three main acts. Act one is set in WA‚ act two is set in Cairo‚ Egypt during the Australian Army training camps. And the third and final act is set in Gallipoli. During the course of the movie Archie and Frank slowly lose their innocence
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of life demonstrates two themes at which Archie the fighter and Ainslie the dreamer display: the attempt to foster new values will doom you to failure and resisting your religion will only let you yearn for
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opinions of what it is to be considered masculine. It is continually reinforced in our society by the constructions of the male character in movies‚ just like Archie and Frank‚ in Gallipoli and particular male figures within our nation’s history‚ such as Ned Kelly. Peter Weir’s reflection of masculinity through the use of his two main characters Archie and Frank‚ in his 1981 film Gallipoli‚ helped to perpetuate this construction of the Aussie male stereotype and the era’s particular values of how one is
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for ww1 was a huge mistake in which talented young men lost their life for an impossible mission which was the Gallipoli campaign. At the start of the movie it shows Archie running against the man on the horse. This shows that Archie is willing to take risk but also have fun at the same time. Also through the start of the movie Archie shows roar talent and speed at the carnival where he wins the 1st place prize against his competitor frank. This roar talent could of help him on a better path to really
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at each other Willie started running. He ran faster than he has ever ran in his life. Archie chased Willie then Wilie ran into a park Archie chased after him Willie hid behind a tree. Jimmy saw him go behind the tree so he went behind the tree too. Willie was breathing heavily. Jimmy came up behind Willie. Jimmy grabbed Willie bye the neck and said‚ "Look what I found boys." The first one to speak up was Archie‚ he said‚ "Let me take him down boss I will teach him a real good lesson." "Wait!"
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