How does the writer explore the themes of tolerance and empathy in chapters 2 and 3? In chapter 2 Miss Caroline is introduced. She has come across as a very sweet and innocent lady. “She had bright auburn hair‚ pink cheeks and wore crimson finger- nail polish. She looked and smelled like a peppermint drop”. This quote highlights her innocence and exaggerates the difference between Miss Caroline‚ who is very clean-cut‚ to the rest of Maycomb‚ which is less educated and poor. Miss Caroline states that
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How does Bennet use dramatic comedy to offer criticism of contemporary attitudes to education in The History Boys? In this essay I am going to explain how Alan Bennet uses dramatic comedy to criticise the contemporary attitudes towards education in the History Boys. The contemporary attitudes that are criticised are Utilitarianism‚ Humanism and Pragmatism. He does this by using a range of satirical devices. Satire is the use of humour‚ irony‚ exaggeration‚ or ridicule to expose and criticize people’s
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The fence in the boy in the striped pajamas represents the imaginary barrier between the two different worlds that the two boys belonged too. It was the crossing point from a life of privilege to a life of torment and confinement. It represented the irony in the fact that a simple object such as a fence could separate 2 completely different lives.The fence divides the jews from the germans and the fortunate from the unfortunate. Because the boys don’t understand each other’s lives they think nothing
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The novel The Outsiders by SE Hinton is a novel about teenage boys that are trying to live their lives to be like the rest of the community. These kids feel like they are the outsiders. Atul Gawande once said “Outsiders tend to be the first to recognize the inadequacies of our social institutions. But‚ precisely because they are the outsiders‚ they are usually in a poor position to fix them.” In this novel the outsiders would be the Greasers because they are poor‚ violent‚ and they don’t have parents
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Truth is an important theme in both Oedipus and the Outsider as it changes the fate for both of the characters. I will talk about how the characters find out about the truth. I will also talk about how this theme is presented to us similarly in both the play and the text‚ as both the characters stick to the truth of their crimes which leads to both their downfalls. As Oedipus and Meursault based in different settings‚ this contributes to how the truth is presented. In the play Oedipus‚ he seeks
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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is about a boy and his family that move from Berlin to Poland‚ a young boy befriends a boy who lives on the other side of the fence‚ unaware he’s a Jewish Prisoner. Throughout the movie‚ many Catholic Social Teaching themes were depicted. However‚ the two Catholic Social Teaching themes that stood out the most are Respect for Human Life and Human Equality. Both themes deal with respecting others despite their race. Respect for Human Life is human life at every stage
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The History Boys and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Character Connections Name of Characters Similarities Quotes to Illustrate Similarities Hector and Miss Brodie Both are teachers who display somewhat extravert and unusual teaching methods‚ which may be deemed as inappropriate by some. HISTORY BOYS JEAN BRODIE “I would call these lessons A Waste of Time”- doesn’t follow/agree with the school curriculum. “The hitting never hurt. It was a joke. None of us cared. We lapped it
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Boys and Girls Theme In her story‚ Boys and Girls‚ Alice Munro depicts the hardships and successes of the rite of passage into adulthood through her portrayal of a young narrator and her brother. Through the narrator‚ the subject of the profound unfairness of sex-role stereotyping‚ and the effect this has on the rites of passage into adulthood is presented. The protagonist in Munro’s story‚ unidentified by a name‚ goes through an extreme and radical initiation into adulthood‚ similar to that of
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|Related Text Overview: Novel | |Title of novel |The Outsiders | |Author |S.E. Hinton | |Date published
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Boys In The Boat by Daniel James Brown is a book that has many themes and it is a book that can give you advice on nearly everything. All that is required is to read it. Boys In The Boat was a very tense book. This book is about a rowing team that took time during 1920/1930s and it explains their journey from when they were just born to when they passed. The thing that made this book interesting is that the team had there ups and downs. One day the best thing would happen to them and the next not
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