About a Boy is clearly a text about growing up. Discuss the ways in which Marcus and Will help each other grow up‚ and relate your discussion to some defining realisation you’ve had in your own life about aspects of growing up (the end of innocence‚ need for conformity/individuality‚ social pressure to conform‚ bullying‚ self-discovery‚ dealing with parents). Use examples from the text and form your own personal experience of life to support your response. About a boy is a novel which follows the
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Marcus Brewer is a 12-year-old boy who is unusual‚ but very considerate. He is a vegetarian‚ lives with his mother‚ Fiona in a flat‚ but they are not wealthy. Marcus is different‚ and is having a hard time both at home and school. Marcus seems to be sensitive‚ dejected and awkward. First‚ Marcus is sensitive because when Fiona tells Marcus that she loves him in front of kids at Marcus’s school‚ even though it is embarrassing for Marcus‚ he still tells her “I love you too” (10). Marcus also
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syringes the size of basketball jumps and confined to their beds with leather straps -- and you give them an open space where they can all go in any of thirteen directions at once. Is that asking for trouble or what?” Interspersed are salient comments about traveling on European trains. “There is no scope for privacy and of course there is nothing like being trapped in a train compartment on a long journey to bring all those unassuageable little frailties of the human body crowding to the front of your
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About a boy A novel written by Nick Hornby. It’s a tragicomically book. It’s a funny story written in an entertaining way but in the same time it describes some peoples quite tragically destinies. There is the hippie inspired mother‚ Fiona‚ who is depressed and "trying to take her life"‚ her 12 years old son Marcus‚ trying to live a normal life but always feels like an outsider because of his weird mother‚ Will a 36 years old teenager‚ a rootless man spending his life doing nothing respectable.
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Norbert Sackey Social Theory Kajsa Hallberg Adu The Ideology of Liberalism Liberalism as a term can perhaps be tracked back as far as to early agricultural societies‚ when people started living in settled communities and were forced‚ for the first time‚ to find ways of trading and living with strangers. Nevertheless‚ liberalism as a developed ideology was a product of the breakdown of feudalism in Europe ‚ and the growth in its place‚ of a market or a market or a capitalist society. In
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Quotations Suggestions Explorers‚ or boys messing about? Either way‚ taxpayer gets rescue bill Title ridicules ’explorers’ and makes them seem immature through the use of ’boys’ Helicopter duo plucked from life-raft after Antarctic crash Use of ’plucked’ makes the explorers seem useless and helpless. Aims to embarrass them and make the reader scoff at how humorous it sounds for someone to be plucked from a crash Their last expedition ended in farce when the Russians threatened to send in military
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The film "About a boy" by the Weitz-Brothers is about a boy who has got social problems in school and at home and a man who gets involved in the life of the boy and finally helps him and at the same time himself to get along better in life. Will‚ Hugh Grant‚ has got nothing serious to do in his life. He lives of the money the song of his father makes. His life seems to be based on getting to know women. To get his aim he starts to invent children only to get more sympathy from the single mothers
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About a boy‚ a man and a duck. We all need to feel valuable. We also need friends to support us through hard times. Everybody will do the necessary to survive‚ which you can see in this text. In the text “About a Boy‚ a Man and a Duck” we get to see a man who will do whatever it takes to survive. The story is set in Great Britain in the Midlands. The Midlands is an area in the central England. The Midlands was a very important location for the Industrial Revolution of the 18th and 19th centuries
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The film ‘About a Boy’ directed Paul Weitz goes through the ups and downs of a 12 year old boy called Marcus Brewer (Nicholas Hoult). Marcus has started at a new school and is attacked and harassed by bullies. His mum Fiona Brewer (Toni Collette) battles through life raising Marcus by her own while fighting depression. Will Freeman (Hugh Grant) a thirty six year old man with no job‚ wife and kids becomes close friends to Marcus; he helps out Marcus problems with the bullies and assists with Fiona’s
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[pic] About a boy is story about Marcus a boy who lives in London. This is a story that tells you how he copes with his life when living with his mother only because she and his father had divorced. Also‚ the story also tells how Marcus tries to find a guy who’s rich and wants him to marry his mother so that they can live happily without having to worry about money until he finds Will‚ a 36 year-old guy who acts and behaves the opposite of Marcus as well as does thing that seems to be for
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