Essay Response To “The Reader” To what extent does Schlink in his novel “The Reader”‚ show that it is impossible to escape one’s past. In his novel “The Reader”‚ author Bernhard Schlink through the use of techniques such as structure‚ setting and characterisation reveals to an immense extent that it is impossible to escape one’s past. Schlink utilises the main protagonists of the text‚ Michael and Hanna‚ depicting their relationship‚ along with the idea of post war German guilt to further
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During his early childhood Charles Dickens travelled Great Britain due to his father’s job. H lived in mainly coastal towns as his father was a naval clerk and therefore became familiar with the scenes reflected in Great Expectations. Dickens has used memorable scenes and characters from his childhood; the marshes representing one of his youth time homes and many of the characters being written in the reflections of family members. Great Expectations seems to have been produced using the memories
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What themes and ideas does Gwen Harwood explore in her poetry and how does she communicate her ideas to the reader Gwen Harwood poems such as The Glass Jar and Prize-Giving illuminate concerns fundamental to human experience including life‚ death‚ spirituality and human fall from innocence explored abstractly through the prism of childhood experience. The use of binary opposites‚ metaphors‚ similes‚ musical motifs and biblical allusions allow for a multiplicity of responses and readings highlighting
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and sends Edmund looking for Edgar of who is sent away by Edmund to hide until Gloucester calms down. Edmund enters this scene reciting a soliloquy. In this soliloquy the reader is able to understand why Edmund’s character acts and thinks the way that he does‚ being the malcontent of the play. First and foremost‚ the reader gets the impression that Edmund’s actions are of natural impulses‚ ‘Thou‚ nature; my services are bound.’‚ showing animalistic tendencies in going by his primal instinct to
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Living in his little hobbit-hole in Hobbiton‚ Bilbo Baggins is not the adventurous type. He is content with his normal life: eating good food‚ which a favorite past-time of hobbits‚ sipping piping-hot tea and serving it to his guests‚ and strolling through the rolling hills watching the sun set. Little did Bilbo know‚ that one bright morning in May‚ his life would change as a result of a few unexpected guests. Journey with Gandalf the Grey‚ a mysterious wizard‚ thirteen dwarves‚ and a hobbit that
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Christmas Carol What is Charles Dickens moral message and how does he communicate it to the reader in “A Christmas Carol”? Christmas carol is a novel written by Charles Dickens (1812-1870) during the Victorian times in London. For me to explore the moral messages I feel it is important to acknowledge exactly what the message is. Charles Dickens throughout the novel communicates; Charity‚ goodwill‚ family‚ kindliness and humility as moral messages‚ however‚ I personally feel Charles Dickens most
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The extracts I will be analysing are from the novel Great Expectations written by Charles Dickens. I am going to be describing how Dickens has succeeded in making the reader feel sorry for Pip. Dickens used his own experiences as a boy to help him write sympathetically of being a young child‚ his family had no money and got transferred from city to city until he was ten years old‚ his father was also sent to prison for six months over debt. He based the character Pip in remembrance of himself as
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In the break down of Kate Atkinson’s Behind the Scenes at the Museum‚ we learn as the reader‚ that the protagonist who is the narrator is to an extent unreliable. The footnote that are included in the novel‚ provide time shifts‚ which flash back‚ into times as early as her Great Grandmother. This then leads the reader into thinking whom it is possible that Ruby has access to the information and description seen in these footnotes. The Narrator also provides elements of the future in her speech‚ the
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Why do Conan Doyle’s readers find his Sherlock Holmes stories effective and engaging? In the Sherlock Holmes series‚ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle managed to create one of the most famous fictional characters in the whole of English literature. So engaging and evocative was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s writing‚ that many people believed that Sherlock Holmes actually existed and wrote to him to ask him to solve their cases. Even after Conan Doyle killed off the character in the Hounds of Baskerville‚ the
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the authors capture the readers’ sympathy for their eponymous heroines. The two authors of the novels ‘Tess of the D’Urbervilles’ and ‘The French Lieutenant’s Woman’; manage to evoke sympathy for their two eponymous characters to the reader through a variety of themes and characterization techniques. While both characters experience tragedy in their lives‚ the differences and similarities between the portrayals from the authors is what may or may not capture the readers sympathy. The very
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