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    The Last Night (from Charlotte Gray) By Sebastian Faulks Sebastian Faulks was born in Donnington‚ a village near Newbury in Berkshire on April 20‚ 1953. He was the younger son of Peter Faulks (1917-1998) and Pamela‚ née Lawless (1923-2003). Peter Faulks was a partner in the local law firm Pitman and Bazett. He had interrupted his legal training in 1939 to enlist with the Duke of Wellington’s‚ a Yorkshire-based infantry regiment. He fought in Holland‚ France‚ North Africa‚ Italy‚ Palestine and Syria

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    AUSTON INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT FACULTY OF BUSINESS‚ ENVIRONMENT & SOCIETY DIPLOMA IN BUSINESS A141HRM MANAGING PEOPLE AT WORK COURSEWORK Individual Assignment STUDENT NAME : AISHATH HUSSAIN STUDENT NUMBER : T11300875 SUPERVISOR : SUBMISSION DATE : 9TH MAY 2013 TABLE OF CONTENT Job description of Human resource manager.....................................................Page 1 Job description of Accountant...

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    Compare and contrast the ways in which adults and children are presented in the extract. The adults and children are presented differently in the extract through their actions‚ reactions and feelings. This extract deals with the helplessness of being sent to a concentration camp‚ conveying the effects of the departure on them‚ the adult’s powerlessness to the event‚ and the children’s resistance. In the extract‚ the adults are presented as being aware of what was going on‚ and of their current

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    BIRDSONG: Critical Analysis: Language: Throughout the novel‚ Sebastian Faulks makes use of poetic language and tools to create atmosphere and give his descriptions more power and imagination. He also uses symbolic language to subliminally inform or remind the reader of certain points of interest. An example of this can be seen right at the beginning of the novel in the description of the house in which the Azaire family live. Faulks tells us that it is a ‘strong‚ formal’ building‚ behind which hide

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    ‘The Last Night’. Wilfred Owen was an English poet and soldier‚ one of the leading poets of the First World War. While he was recovering at a hospital he met Siegfried Sassoon‚ and that was when he found his passion for poetry. His shocking‚ realistic war poetry on the horrors of war and the effects it has on people such as‚ solidarity‚ loss of hope‚ pessimism‚ nostalgia‚ isolation and disillusionment. In this essay I will be focussing on one of his poems called ‘disabled’. Sebastian Faulks

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    1) THE LAST NIGHT1 (FROM CHARLOTTE GRAY) by SEBASTIAN FAULKS André and his brother Jacob are two orphaned boys in France in the 1940s. They are waiting to be taken to a concentration camp.2 André was lying on the floor when a Jewish orderly came with postcards on which the deportees might write a final message3. He advised them to leave them at the station or throw them from the train as camp orders4 forbade access to the post. Two or three pencils that had survived the barracks search5 were passed

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    Out and The Last Night “The Last Night” is a passage about two young boys being transported to a concentration camp‚ it is described through many devices using death and despair. Similar to “Out‚ Out” which is a poem describing a boy who’s hand gets cut off by a buzz-saw‚ it was written in 1915 and takes place in 1910‚ similar to the time when “The Last Night” takes place‚ also it is similar to “The Last Night” as in many ways it refers to war‚ death and despair. In “The Last Night” and “Out‚

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    How do Sebastian Faulks and Robert Frost present the plight of children in “The Last Night” and “Out‚ Out-“? Compare and contrast the methods of the two authors. In the two pieces I will be analysing how the two writers use different methods in order to get emotion out of reader and in what light do they portray the children’s’ unfortunate fates. Both of the writers make the reader feel sympathy for the main characters because the main characters are both still in their youth and they both face

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    contrast Auden’s and Faulks’ use of detail establish a feeling of alienation in ‘Refugee Blues’ and ‘The Last Night’ Both Sebastian Faulks and W. H. Auden write about the tales of Jewish refugees living in the time of holocaust during WW2 in their two pieces‚ ‘The Last Night’ and ‘Refugee Blues’. By using literary techniques such as imagery and tone both writers‚ Auden and Gray create a sense of alienation for the characters portrayed in their writing. Both Auden and Gray create a sincere illusion

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    The Last Night At the beginning of the passage it is instantaneously established that the circumstances in which the two brothers‚ Andre and Jacob‚ are currently residing in are appalling. These would be the same conditions that most of the Jewish people would have been residing in prior to being taken to concentration camps. We are aware that the conditions are poor as Faulks tells us that ‘Andre was lying on the floor’ which implies that he has nowhere else to sleep‚ it also shows how exhausted

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