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    Family is most importance voice in Australia voices‚ which is highlighted in the film‚ the castle The Castle by Rob Sitch. This film is about the Kerrigan’s family‚ they live next to the airport. The father is a track driver‚ and he is a centre of the family‚ and the mother is also very important‚ and she loves cook and craft. Sitch use a lot of techniques to convey the family voice in this movie. In Dale’s monologue to the audience‚ " If dad is the backbone of the family‚ mum is the other bone

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    familiarity with the land fundamental and innate. In her recent body of work constructed over the course of 2009-2010‚ Castle of My Skin signifies a re-identification and sublimation into the power of archives‚ literature and‚ in its wake‚ the weight and value of history. The title is borrowed from the conscious and pioneering right-of-passage novel by George Lamming entitled In the Castle of My Skin. Kambon culled and appropriated daguerreotypes from Harvard’s Photographic Archive‚ which were in marked

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    No two childhoods are exactly alike. Some children are lucky to be born into wealthy families‚ while other families struggle to make ends meet. In the memoir‚ The Glass Castle‚ by Jeannette Walls she described the events in her childhood which lead her to become independent at a very young age‚ made an effort to make the most of the education offered to her‚ and learned to appreciate what she had. Her unusual upbringing and lifestyle as a young child shaped her into the successful woman she is today

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    The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls tell about young Jeanette’s life living with her family. They’re poor‚hungry and living in bad conditions. It tells about how she get’s out of the life she’s living‚ and makes something of herself in New York. In this excerpt‚ Jeannette’s family moves into a new house in Welch‚ after Jeanette’s father’s mother kicks them out of her basement. Jeanette’s mother tries to use her positive thinking to help her children deal with the poor conditions they live in‚ but

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    In this passage from The Glass Castle‚ the Walls family moves into a new house in Welch which is even worse than some of their other houses‚ having no running water or electricity. Jeannette Walls conveys the central idea that even though people may not be great parents‚ they could still have good intentions. The author uses imagery to show that even though her parents tried to come off as good parents‚ they were not living in good conditions because of choices they’ve made with their money. In

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    constantly at battle with their economic situation and having to take care of themselves and/or their family. If there is no hope and no way out‚ there is no way to be able to take anything away from the hardships that are being faced. In The Glass Castle‚ the only reason Jeanette became a successful writer is because she wrote for her school’s newspaper. This is where she learned her talent and love for writing. In this example‚ she was able to overcome the adversity she faced by expressing herself

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    The memoir‚ The Glass Castle written by Jeannette Walls has been converted into a movie in which was released on August 11‚ 2017. The movie also called The Glass Castle was written and directed Destin Daniel Cretton. In the movie Jeannette Walls was being played by Brie Larson‚ Rex by Woody Harrelson‚ and Rose Mary by Naomi Watts. My expectations were set high for the movie due to me having the background knowledge of the book and it’s fine details. Therefore it did not meet my expectations as much

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    George Lamming‚ author of In the Castle of my Skin. Lamming presents exile as a complex idea. He uses the main character‚ G.‚ to portray a layered definition of exile. Through G.’s interactions with his family‚ friends‚ and community‚ there is a constant sense that G. is an outsider. Exile is complex‚ and cultural and personal exile is likely to lead to inevitable physical exile‚ as illustrated by the character G. and his consciousness in Lamming’s novel‚ In the Castle of My Skin. G. lives in a small

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    Can a castle‚ a palace‚ a mansion or simply a house be in love? Can it want only good things‚ prosperity and happiness for someone or something? Can it desire to be close‚ just next to and participate in what’s happening to the other being? So‚ can it? Why not? Just because it has no living arms to hug and no mouth to pronounce its feeling? Or maybe‚ because it can’t move of its foundation to go for a walk in the moonlight with the object of her feeling? Or his feeling? Well‚ this is a story

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    Several lands to the north of the Callaghan’s Kingdom‚ stood a massive ironstone castle‚ embedded in a mountain‚ encased by a vast forest of twisted cherry oak trees with leaves the color of charcoal. The people of this land-name after their beloved Queen‚ Rosemore‚ hold the castle as a beacon of hope that represents the paragon of their late King‚ and the sacrifice he made to protect them. KING CAXTON WYLIE sat at his late father’s desk‚ staring intently at a deed for an abandoned land in a dismal

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