Collins‚ published in 2001. In this passage a young apprentice called Simon is stuck in a grave and tells the reader about him and his family as the narrator of this extract. What observations can be made about the narrator? The narrator of this passage is a boy named Simon‚ probably aged between 10 and 15. His grandfather and father are both experienced grave diggers and the employer of this graves is called Mr Jackson. The boy Simon is an unpaid apprentice “ learning a trade”. He is following in his
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Analysis of a Newspaper This tabloid article about the death of Simon uses exaggerated language in the title‚ ‘’Killed by friends?” in my opinion‚ this instantly attracts the reader‚ because there are two words which are not used to be seen together: “Killed” could mean violence and chaos where “Friends” relate to peace‚ this suggests that there is something shocking going to happen in the article. When we look at the article we notice the sub title “Ignorance of younglings” the word “ignorance”
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In George RR Martin’s “Sandkings‚” the protagonist‚ Simon Kress‚ is extremely sadistic. Some examples of Simon Kress being sadistic is‚ he starved the sandkings so they would fight each other‚ he like to kill the sandkings‚ and he invited his friends over just so they could be killed and fed to the sandkings. After Simon Kress purchased the sandkings‚ he grew very impatient with them because they were not fighting each other‚ “the sandkings did not war. He was getting upset. Finally‚ he stopped feeding
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instructs Simon to tell him which finger he sees move or both if they both move. After Simon fails to see the finger on the left side move‚ the doctor slowly begins to move his hand in. Only when his hand is in the middle of Simon’s vision does Simon see it. He continues to get the fingers correct‚ but fails to see them move at the same time. The doctor performs another test with Simon‚ showing him a straight line drawn on a piece of paper. The doctor asks Simon to mark the middle of the line. Simon mark
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Wiesel’s Night and Simon Wiesenthal’s The Sunflower. Both accounts of the Holocaust diverge in the main concepts in each work; Wiesel and Wiesenthal focus on different aspects of their survivals. Aside from the themes‚ various aspects‚ including perception‚ structure‚ organization‚ and flow of arguments in each work‚ also contrast from one another. Although both Night and The Sunflower are recollections of the persistence of life during the Holocaust‚ Elie Wiesel and Simon Wiesenthal focus on
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individuals‚ such as Simon from Lord of the Flies and Jesus Christ from the Bible‚ manage to resist being immoral in the midst of a corrupt world through traits of selflessness and knowledge. These similar qualities between Simon and Jesus suggest that despite wrongdoing running rampant in society‚ one can still withstand it. To go further‚ the difference between the outcomes of Simon and Jesus’s deaths show the negative effect on people in civilizations when these attributes are missing. Simon and Jesus’s
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there. The boys slowly begin to lose their minds and start turning into animal-like savages. Golding uses symbols throughout his story‚ most of them having biblical similarities. The three most important symbols in the novel are The Lord of the Flies‚ Simon‚ and the Beast. The boys believe a monster lives on the island which they refer to as "The Beast." The boys fear the beast and their fear puts them into an animal-like rage. The beast symbolizes the savage instinct within all the boys. The more they
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Without the support of others and the security of place‚ a sense of belonging cannot be achieved” Belonging is a sense of enlightenment felt when an individual gains an understanding of themselves in relation to others and the wider world. The gift of protection and security is vital for the individual to develop a sense of belonging‚ and help prevent alienation. ‘ The Simple Gift’ is a free verse novel written by Steven Herrick which features a protagonist‚ Billy‚ who feels a great disconnection
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Fangirl’s main character writes fanfiction about Simon Snow and his friends from a book that is fictional to her. Carry On is about Simon Snow and his friends‚ but in Carry On‚ they are not fictional. These books are similar in relation to several of their characters‚ but their depictions of those characters (Simon Snow‚ Agatha Wellbelove‚ Penelope Bunce‚ Tyrannus Basilton Grimm-Pitch) is drastically unalike. In Carry On the main character Simon Snow or “the Chosen One”‚ is a realistic and complex
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The best example of this is when Jack encourages his tribe to participate in the slaughtering of the angelic Simon (Golding‚ 140). While the tribe is having a wild‚ demonic ceremony‚ Simon crawls out of the woods disorientated after suffering a seizure. Mistaking Simon for the beast‚ the crazed tribe‚ including Ralph‚ brutally rips Simon apart with their bare hands and teeth. Simon falls off of the cliff and onto the beach below‚ where his body washes out to sea. In comparison‚ evil is also
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