Discursive Limits of Sex. New York: Routledge‚ 1993. Print. Kay‚ Jackie. Trumpet. London: Picador‚ 2011. Print. King‚ Jeanette. “ ‘A Woman’s a Man‚ for A ‘That’’: Jackie Kay’s Trumpet.” Scottish Studies Review 2.1 (Spring 2001) : 101-108. Print. Morrison’s Jazz and Jackie Kay’s Trumpet.” Trauma Fiction‚ Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press‚ 2004. 140-62. Print. ‚ Peterson‚ V Rose‚ Irene. “Heralding New Possibilities: Female Masculinity in Jackie Kay’s Trumpet.” Posting the Male: Masculinities in Post-War
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becomes a subject rather than an object. Like Cliff‚ Scottish born Jackie Kay also presents the same issues in her 1984 novel —“Trumpet.” “Trumpet” is a perfect novel to address society’s view of male and female through the protagonist‚ Joss Moody. Joss is a famous jazz trumpet player who is anatomically a woman but passes as a man. The people in society does not openly judge Joss‚ but through the employees of society it is seen. Kay explores this perception through the doctor: She got her red pen
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Tree‚ the calf is very ill and will die in a matter of hours. While Granpa watches from a distance‚ Little Tree‚ eager to take advantage of the deal‚ buys the calf with the money he had been saving for the whole month. Later‚ as Granpa and Little Tree are walking home to their cabin‚ the calf lies down and dies. Little Tree is distraught‚ but Granpa explains to Little Tree that he would not have learned from the encounter if Granpa had intervened. If he had told Little Tree to not buy the calf‚ Little
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Essay comparing In the Nursery to New Baby New Baby by Jackie Kay and In the Nursery by Ann Stevenson are two poems about babies. In the Nursery is about a mother comparing her 7 month old son to a plant or flower which shows her love and affection for him. In contrast‚ New Baby is about the poet adopting a child’s voice and expressing its anger and annoyance for their baby brother. This essay will compare the two poems’ use of language‚ poetic devices‚ perspective of speaker and structure
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“Explore the way that Kay portrays family relationships in Trumpet. In what way does this theme relate to the struggle for identity?” Joss Moody the protagonist of Jackie Kay’s novel Trumpet lived in a world full of contrasts – internally Josephine but to all who knew him the famous trumpet player Joss. Having to deal with so much contrast so close to home can make a person wonder who is right and what to believe leaving them struggling to figure out who they are amongst it all. Being that the novel
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adventures of Peekay‚ an English-speaking South African boy‚ from age five to age seventeen‚ from the year 1939 to 1951. After his mother suffers from a nervous breakdown‚ the five-year-old Peekay is brought up by his Zulu nanny Mary Mandoma and his Granpa on a farm in the province of Natal. Soon after‚ he is sent to an Afrikaans boarding school‚ where--as the youngest of all the students‚ and the only English-speaker--he is brutally tortured by the other boys. The Judge‚ a senior boy called Jaapie
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Sidekicks always want to be around each other‚ and the two sidekicks in the story are no exception. When Lil-T wakes up because he misses his dog who stays in their shed‚ he wakes up the whole family. Granpa T says: “We’re all tearing around the house in the dark because you’re dreaming about that dog? Granpa T says.” Tanya nods. “He died‚” she says‚ and the lightning flashes all over the room. “In your dream‚” I say” (48). Furthermore‚ the sidekicks want to be together all of the time because they need
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1. Try to summarize the plot. What happens in the book you have read? The book is about Charlie‚ who is a poor little boy. Charlie is living with his parents and his grandparents. They all live in a small wooden house on the edge of a great town. One day it was written in the newspaper that the chocolate maker Willy Wonka would let five children come in to his chocolate factory. But to get in to the chocolate factory you must found a golden ticket. Willy Wonka has hidden the golden tickets in Willy`s
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Krystal Giffen The Grapes of Wrath Part 1: Literary Analysis 1. A. “…‘What’s this call‚ this sperit?’ An’ I says‚ ‘It’s love…” (page 23‚ Chapter 4). This quote is an example of an metaphor. The use of this metaphor was to show the reader why the preacher doesn’t preach anymore. The effect the metaphor had on the reader was‚ for them to see how the preacher really viewed ‘the sperit’. B. “One cat’ takes and shoves ten families out. Cat’s all over hell now…” (pg. 8‚ Chapter 2). This quote is
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