Craighead George‚ Jean. Julie of the wolves. Harper Publishers. 1972. New York‚ NY. Julie of the Wolves is a fiction novel that would be appropriate from children ages 10-14‚ or grades 5-8. It is a captivating tale about a young Eskimo girl who runs away from home and finds herself lost in the Alaskan tundra. The story depicts Julie’s fight for survival as well as the fight within herself. She is torn between two sides of herself‚ and must decide whether she will be know as Julie‚ her white people
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“Precious” is a tormenting yet hope-filled story of “Precious”‚ based on true accounts adapted from the Novel ’Push’ by Sapphire. This film comprises all the main elements: main characters‚ plot‚ setting‚ dialogue‚ formatting‚ momentum‚ and genre. The theme covers rising from the pits of despair to the heights of self-fulfillment and triumph. This plot-driven movie is set in a poverty-stricken Harlem neighborhood about 1987. Often tough to watch‚ it is a dreadful and heartrending story of a poor
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“When the Emperor was Divine” is an exceptional book. It is a historical novel: powerful‚ deep and human. The author of the book‚ Julie Otsuka‚ takes a reader on a richly detailed tour through landscape of this historical narrative. And she is a superb guide: lucid‚ erudite‚ and witty. She touches several themes and issues such as injustice‚ racism‚ and integration. Injustice and racism are represented at least some significant part of the book. These issues have been tied up with Japanese cultural
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The Patriot The film The Patriot directed by Roland Emmerich follows Benjamin Martin‚ a hero of the French and Indian War‚ and his service in the American Revolution fighting against the British. The Patriot is a film that romanticizes the fact that freedom is not free. The intended purpose of the film is to make Americans and those who fought for freedom to feel good about their country. In fact‚ freedom is a continuous theme in the movie from start to finish. This can be seen at the start of
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new film Halloween. The film follows a group of young females as they are stalked‚ tormented and inevitably killed by an escaped lunatic wearing a Halloween mask and wielding a knife. The film was revolutionary for the many themes and concepts it introduced‚ (including the concept of the final girl) things that have been so often repeated they have become tropes of the genre. However the initial praise heaped upon Halloween for it ’s portrayal of a previously unheard of strong female character may
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posterior text as a point of departure to investigate how Cunningham manipulates and transforms the anterior texts and‚ accordingly‚ establishes a two-way relationship between himself and Woolf. The critical term of intertextuality was coined in 1966 by Julia Kristeva‚ who -- following Mikhail Bakhtin -- writes in her ground-breaking essay "Word‚ Dialogue‚ and Novel" [1] : "[E]ach word (text) is an intersection of word [sic] (texts) where at least one other word (text) can be read . . . . any text is constructed
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CHARACTER ANALYSIS – To Kill a Mockingbird Character | Characteristics/Qualities | Important Quotes | Additional Information | ATTICUS | Atticus has integrity and believes that abiding the law (courthouse and humanity) is necessary.He demonstrates the qualities: * Humbleness/ modesty: he does not want attention for his good deeds. * Integrity * Loyalty: to his family and courthouse. * No prejudice: with regards to the coloured people. * Honesty: he was prepared to turn in Jem as a murderer
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In particular‚ the movie “The Incredibles” will be analyzed to discuss the issues of violence‚ gender roles‚ and racial representation found in the film. When thinking back to some of the cartoons that I enjoyed watching as a child‚ most of them contained violence. I would say that maybe only 20 percent of the cartoons that I enjoyed did not contain violence‚ however‚ these cartoons were often meant
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literary elements including plot‚ characters‚ and setting. As the film produced substantial differences in both the characters and setting revealed in the short story. A major distinction between the two works is in the characters. In the film‚ the main characters are Melanie Daniels and Mitch Brenner‚ who stay together in the town Bodega Bay with a majority of their time spent in Mitch’s mother’s home during the attacks on the city. While in the story‚ the main character is Nat Hocken who focused on
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Lantana is a 2001 Australian film‚ directed by Ray Lawrence set in suburban Sydney. The film’s central event is the disappearance and death of a mystery woman whose identity isn’t revealed until the end‚ despite her body being shown in the opening segment. The motif of the lantana‚ a weed prevalent in suburban Sydney is used to represent key ideas central to the film. The lantana consists of dense interlaced branches that spread quickly‚ producing brightly coloured flowers. It chokes and engulfs
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