‘Anita and Me’ is a first person narrative novel published in 1996. It was written by a British Asian actress and writer Meera Syal. The author grew up just outside Wolverhampton‚ where the novel Anita and Me is set‚ around the 1960s and 70s called Tollington. The novel is mainly focused on Syal’s own life and what was happening around her at that time. Moreover‚ life in the 1960s – 70s was rough for people who were immigrating and also people of Tollington as industrial were getting closed; which
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journeys we will have to overcome. This journey is not only physical but mental as well. These journeys take us from childhood and go through the necessary means to adulthood. Both the novel ‘Lord of the Flies’ by William Golding and the film ‘Stand by me’ by Rob Reiner explore this concept. They expose us to a world we haven’t always seen before and explore the reactions and perspectives they leave us with. In ‘Lord of the Flies’ we start with a clear innocence in Ralph‚ ‘…he stood on his head and
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In "Lean on Me" Morgan Freeman plays the role of a high school principal with a policeman mentality and vigilante behavior who is hired to reinstall order and education in the drug-infested Eastside high school in New Jersey in 1987. Mr. Joe Clark‚ magnificently played by Freeman‚ first takes control via discipline and then by instilling hope. Wearing heroic white through the whole length of the movie he one-sidedly expels all of the instigators and the problem-causing students as his first official
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SELF-HELP CLASSICS • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • James Allen As a Man Thinketh (1904) S Andreas & C Faulkner (eds) NLP: The New Technology of Achievement (1996) Marcus Aurelius Meditations (2ndC) Martha Beck Finding Your Own North Star (2001) The Bhagavad-Gita The Bible Robert Bly Iron John (1990) Boethius The Consolation of Philosophy (6thC) Alain de Botton How Proust Can Change Your Life (1997) William Bridges Transitions: Making Sense of
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In the adventurous and comedic film‚ “Stand by Me” directed by Rob Reiner‚ follows the tale of four close friends‚ all around twelve years old‚ who live in the small fictional town of Castle Rock‚ Oregon‚ in 1959. Vern Tessio‚ known as the childish one‚ overhears his brother discussing a dead body of Ray Brower located just outside of town who was supposedly came in contact with a train. The four friends decide to leave Castle Rock with hopes of becoming heroes for finding Ray Brower’s body. On their
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Marley and me: life and love with the world’s worst dog is a New York Times best-selling novel written by John Grogan ‚ a journalist and also a non-fiction writer in America. The book ‚ published in 2005 ‚ is more a autobiographical book than a novel because the whole story is based on the author’s personal experience with his beloved dog Marley. So ‚ the author John Grogan and his wife Jenny ‚ are also the leading characters in Marley and me . The book is such a hit that in 2008 a movie was adapted
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In the film “Stand By Me” by Rob Reiner‚ Chris Chambers inspired an important idea of the importance of justice‚ which may seem hard to achieve but will inevitably lead to good outcomes. In contrast‚ injustice always leads to bad consequences. Reiner set Chris to show viewers that this idea is important because everyone in the modern society faces injustice in such way as lie‚ bribery and corruption whereas many people try to pursue the justice at all times. The events he undergoes‚ such as when
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This is a comparison between the book The Body‚ by Stephen King‚ and the movie made based on it‚ Stand By Me. It talks about whether or not the movie captures the essence of the book. Have you ever tried to interpret or describe another person ’s dream they have told you about? Oppositely‚ has anyone ever tried to interpret or describe one of your dreams to another person after you have told them? If so‚ how did it turn out? More than likely‚ their description and/or interpretation of how they viewed
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Stand by Me This movie contained the growth and development through physical and emotional stages of middle childhood boys. Their ages were around twelve years old and they were just starting junior high. In this movie we learn the background of each of the four boy ’s lives and how his development has changed over the impact of a fellow boy ’s death. We first look at Gordy‚ who is them main character of the movie. He has a hard life due to the death of his older brother in a jeep accident. He
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Chris Chambers is a good-hearted kid that lives in the distasteful shadow of his father‚ a petty criminal and dreg of society. Although Chris wants people to judge him individually and fairly‚ he is pigeonholed by society as a troublesome punk from a family of losers. Chris Chambers is the brother of a hoodlum who goes by the name of Eyeball‚ who is a menace to many people. Chris‚ although he is a good kid‚ is always blamed when bad things happen. Everyone expects him to turn out like his older brother
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