“I might be old‚ Florence‚ but I’m not stupid. You want to stick me in a home and be done with me. Well it won’t work.” Alice snapped “And don’t dart around the doorway like that‚ you know it makes my head ache” Florence stepped away from the door frame‚ a placating smile on her untiringly gentle face. Florence was made of smiles these days — she was an ’aged care worker’‚ after all‚ and it was her job to make useless old bats like Alice feel like they had hope. ’Big-hearted’‚ some people might have
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that lifestyle normal. But‚ wouldn’t his normal be a different normal? What defines the term ‘normal’? Lee guides us through his works of what that may have been. His culture and culture shock resonating with the reader enough to where one is left breathless by the powerful words on the page. The differences or similarities that many may have faced throughout their lives. Though he states that there many things that he didn’t quite understand as to what exactly was different‚ it was still obvious that
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Boekverslag Engels | Jasmijn Missler V5A Through the Looking Glass (and what Alice found there) by Lewis Carroll De naam van de auteur is Lewis Carroll. De titel van het boek luidt “Through the Looking Glass and what Alice found there”. Het jaar van de eerste uitgave is 1872. “Through the Looking Glass” is het vervolg op “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”. Terwijl Alice met haar twee katten speelt‚ vraagt ze zich af hoe de wereld er uitziet vanaf de andere kant van de spiegel. Als
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masterpiece of his short fictions. It is a novel with a predominant motif of love‚ even though it is neither passionate nor romantic but some sort of cruel and hysterical mixed with a strong sense of ambivalence. You can not help read the whole story with breathless interest and tend to read it one more time‚ also you are eager to tell the entire story to others though the ending is painful. And I intend to interpret the short novel from a feminist perspective and analyze the social roots that results in
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The Fly is the story of a person haunted for six years by the death of his son. It is the depiction of anguish. Mansfield’s technique in her stories was to make her characters show their thoughts by a kind of mental soliloquy ‘fluttering‚ gossipy‚ breathless with questions and answers.’ Moreover like Lawrence she creates an intense atmosphere through suggestive details. The character of the Boss in the story The Fly is represented through dialogue‚ monologue and symbolism. These are the three clear
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omniscient narrator to access various view points of the characters that represent different types of freedom suppression. This is depicted in the sentimental quotes by Curley’s wife who says “’I tell ya I could of went with shows’. … She was breathless with indignation” or Crooks who states "Cause I’m black. They play cards in there‚ but I can’t play because I’m Black.” Similar to George and Lennie‚ Chris desires freedom however‚ he does this by moving away from a lavish lifestyle to one of struggle
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Odysseus and Aeneas both visit the Underworld; in Odysseus’ case‚ in Book XII of Homer’s Odyssey‚ and in Aeneas’ case‚ in Book VI of Virgil’s Aeneid. In discussing the differences between the two treatments of the Underworld episodes‚ it is imporcant to first outline the similarities in the two situations: Odysseus and Aeneas both journey to the Underworld in order to receive knowledge. Previous mythological warrior-heroes went there to fulfill a more specific‚ tangible purpose eg. Heracles’
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Margaret Atwood’s theme in The Landlady is about the speaker’s prison-like living situation in what can be assumed to be a dorm. The landlady has made home‚ the place where we can feel free and comfortable‚ to a suffering sentence. The landlady is sin control‚ and the speaker‚ a young university student‚ cannot escape from the landlady‚ physically nor mentally. The Landlady is effectively written in free verse and is a run-on style of poetry‚ allowing the readers emotions and thoughts to carry to
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obsesses with making her home perfect‚ re-decorating often‚ replacing furniture and so on even just to have it destroyed again. Deirdre uses the knife to slash and destroy ‘fifteen yards of shiny‚ peach polyester’‚ hacking away at it until she’s breathless which represents the cosy domestic life from which Deirdre herself us excluded and revealing that Nora’s life is just a
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The world is going to hell. The world is always going to hell‚ soldier of fortune and diamond smuggler Danny Archer notes‚ well‚ archly in Blood Diamond -- no need to concern oneself overly about it; best to make the best of it you can and get out while the gettin’s good... and gettin’ out doesn’t necessarily mean for the long term. Danny is not a man worried about the future. Cigarettes‚ another character informs the chain-smoking Archer‚ will kill ya. "Yeah‚" he snarks. "If I survive." There are
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