The History Boys is a play by Alan Bennett that talks about 8 English boys in the 1980s‚ originally having their high school life happily but the situation changes when the new teacher Irwin arrived and broadened their horizons. They start to have struggles‚ confusion and realize the limitations put on them in the aspects of education‚ sexuality‚ morale and initiation during the time they are preparing for their A level exam. At last‚ most of them have a successful life under the elite education
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1) She had met Grandfather as a young woman after one of her concerts and somehow he had persuaded her to marry him despite all his flaws.(Grandmother loves Grandfather) This shows that grandfather must had really strong emotions for grandmother when they were young. I think that since their relationship had fostered from a strong root‚ Their relationship must be even stronger now. Thus‚ we can conclude that grandfather still loves and respects grandmother very much. 2) Grandmother liked to think
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Austin Williams Film and Literature Austin Williams Film and Literature The History Boys: Literature Response The history boys is a short novel about a bunch of schoolboys who are in the midst of an English class where they are entwined in a discussion about the unruly topics going on in their life and their balance of school along with it. The discussions that take place range from English to French in language and sex‚ sports‚ school‚ religion‚ holocaust‚ politics‚ and art in topics
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A quote from the boy in the striped pyjamas “Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights‚ before the dark hour of reason grows.” This quote states that when you are a kid you do not know much about reason or understand sarcasm and things like that and so the other part of the quote means that instead of reason a child understands only what they see for themselves of what people have told them. This quote is not appropriate for the film because in the film Bruno goes and see a
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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 History Boys by Alan Bennett Notes on Key Themes Initiation Sexual charm is something that can be exploited as a declaration of power and dominance‚ and a way to build the sense of pride manipulate people. Dakin wants to make love with Fiona on the headmaster’s study floor and he believes that his performance in bed is better than the headmaster. This is a way to consolidate his masculinity and sense of superiority‚ as if he ‘wins’ the headmaster in a battle. Dakin’s metaphor comparing
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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas The title of the book is The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and the author is John Boyne. The genre is Fictional History and the setting is in Berlin in a big house and in a house in Poland near a Concentration Camp. This book is about a boy that is called Bruno. His father works for the Fury (Hitler) and gets promoted to General and has to go to Poland to work at a Concentration Camp. Bruno doesn’t know anything about the camps or the Jewish‚ so he thinks it is about
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To begin with‚ both the book and the movie were wonderful and I would read and watch it again‚ but the book‚ The Boy in the Striped Pajamas was more worth my time than the movie. I say this because after I watched the movie I realized how much more detail the book had than the movie‚ giving it more life and character. While watching the movie after I read the book‚ I realized that the book made it easier to remember certain events‚ because I had to think more about it when I was reading the book
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How does Bruno grow and change in the novel‚ if at all? Bruno does grow and change in the book but slowly; it is only in the end that he truly evolves. Does he change when he moves to Out-With? And the first time he sees the camp‚ does he see it for what it is? When he meets Shmuel that’s when he really changes. The writer has Bruno change so he develops personality. This is important because you need to get to know him when you read the book. Bruno does change a little bit when
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