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    The book‚ Call of the Wild‚ written by Jack London‚ and the movie Call of the Wild are very different in many ways. It could be the way a scene plays out‚ a character’s role‚ or even when a event takes place. First‚ in the movie Call of the Wild John Thornton played a role throughout the whole movie being a gold miner searching for Buck. In the book Call of the Wild John Thornton isn’t added to the story until Hal‚ Charles‚ Mercades and were about to cross over the lake‚ and John rescues Beck

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    The role of Inspector Goole in An Inspector Calls by J.B. Priestly. Inspector Goole is probably the most important character in An Inspector Calls. He creates big impressions and somehow reveals all about the Birling family and Gerald Croft. He interrupts their celebrations to question them over the death of Eva Smith/ Daisy Renton. In the process of doing this he makes some of the characters realise what they are really like‚ and how the small actions they had done in the past affected her and

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    An Inspector calls An inspector calls was written by J.B Priestley in 1934 and performed in 1945‚ 33 years after the war. But the play itself is set around 1912 just before the war broke out‚ the play is a neutralistic‚ mystery drama about a middle class family named the Birlings who all have a mischievous secret that involves the death of Eva Smith‚ which teaches people a lesson about social justice. When the play opens the Birling family are cheerfully celebrating the engagement of the beloved

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    David Fallon’s film‚ Call of the Wild‚ is movie surrounding the adventures of a young man and his dog. I watched the film on my computer on July 1st‚ 2015. The movie begins with a kidnapped dog‚ named Buck‚ being auctioned off. Buck immediately steals the attention of young Miles‚ the other protagonist in the movie. Buck initially works as a sled dog for a Yukon mail carrier. On his first job‚ Buck faces severe weather‚ wolf attacks‚ and a fight with Spitz‚ the team’s lead dog. The harsh conditions

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    An Inspector Calls was written by J.B. Priestley after the Second World War. It is set in the spring of 1912 at the Brumley home of the Birlings‚ a prosperous industrial family in the North Midlands. When the Inspector Goole first enters the scene‚ Mr. Birling is giving some ‘good advice’‚ as he calls it‚ “A man has to make his own way – has to look after himself…The way some of these cranks talk and write now‚ you’d think everybody has look after everybody else‚ as if we’re all mixed up together”

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    An Inspector Calls: Revision notes These notes are to help kick-start your revision of the play for the GCSE exam. Good Luck! Miss Stonehouse Introduction There are a number of references to external events within the play and these could provide the areas which could be developed further. Among these are:       The Titanic The emergence of Russia as a world power The outbreak of World War One The importance of the Women’s Rights movement The rise of Socialism

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    In my work on J.B Priestley’s ‘An Inspector Calls’‚ I am looking for evidence on who the inspector is. I believe that Priestley didn’t want us to know for sure the identity of the inspector; he just wanted us to speculate. First of all‚ I believe he could be a spirit‚ moreover‚ a ghoul. The definition of a ghoul in the dictionary is ‘a spirit interested in morbid things’. The fact his name is Inspector Goole‚ a homophone of ghoul‚ provides more evidence that he could be a ghoul. The fact he keeps

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    Throughout the play An Inspector Calls JB Priestly uses the characters to portray the different levels of society. He does this so as to give each class a moral belief and name. The play is called ’An Inspector calls’ and was written in 1946 by J.B. Priestly. It is set in the year 1912‚ in between the time in which it was set and the year it was written two world wars had taken place. In 1912 classes were very different and were socially divided. There was a lot of poor people and very few rich people

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    and the gospel of envy‚ its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery”- Winston Churchill Winston Churchill thinks that socialism is a philosophy of failure however John Steinbeck author Of Mice and Men & JB Priestly author of An Inspector Calls would say that capitalism creates the failure in society not socialism. Both authors create a microcosm to show us how society was like at the time. This is called social realism. The two texts show how rich people are quick to take advantage of the

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    In the book The call of the wild‚ by Jack London‚ a dog learns the cruelty and the freedom of the wild as he becomes a tough sled dog. This nonfiction book focused on Buck‚ a dog who was taken from his home in Southern California and sent to become a sled dog in the Klondike. Buck becomes a strong sled dog and is taken in by many dog sled owners‚ where he experiences the cruelty of man and the wild. When John Thornton‚ one of his owners‚ is killed by the Yeehat Indians he avenges him by killing several

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