Method used in Limbo.
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Compare My Grandmother and Long Distance - Best Words
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English, poems from different cultures
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"The Hero" Diary Entry
Dear diary: Another dreadful day in war has finished. I'm tired of arriving every night here to my dormitory in the front line and having to write letters to tell families that their relatives have died in war and then having to delivery them. My job unfortunately consists of damaging peoples feelings and lives by doing this but is the only useful thing I can do in the war due to my physical incapacity. Having only one leg since the start of the war has been very hard for me but I've learned to control this terrible situation. One week ago another young soldier died and I had to write to an old lady telling her that her only son, Jack, died in war. This is very hard for me because he was a defenceless, young soldier who wasn't really prepared for the war and I feel guilty for making him fight in the trenches and die blown up into little pieces by a mine. In other words he was a coward; he felt angry towards the war and didn't want to fight for his country but I couldn't tell that to the woman. Last night my challenge started. I had to leave the front line to take the letter to Jack's mother in a nearby county. The journey was long but I had to do this myself because it is my job and was partly my fault. After a long painful ride in horse and then in car, finally I arrived at the old lady's house, it was strange but I felt confident. I couldn't imagine the old lady's
One's Self I Sing
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Compare & Contrast The Presentation Of The Child In William Blake(TM)s Poems The Chimney- Sweeper In Songs Of Innocence & Experience
Essay Question Compare and contrast the presentation of the child in William Blake's poems `The Chimney- Sweeper` in `Songs of innocence` and `Experience`. In William Blake's era children as young as 4 to 5 years of age were bought from parents who couldn't cope, and also orphans were bought and taken into a world of work and cruelty as chimney sweepers. In Blake's poems `Songs Of Experience` and `Innocence` it is written about how young children were bought and taken into being a chimney sweeper. In Blake's time Chimney sweepers were children of four to five years of age who had to be skinny and small to fit in the chimneys. Blake strongly disapproved of the chimney sweeping at such a young age, because then in the future for the 4 to 5 year olds they would have growth and lung problems because of all the dust they had to breath in. The chimney sweepers also had to be cramped up in a small space all day until the job was done. The children had to stay in a small dark space in the chimneys all day until they have finished there work with all their tools with them. In Blake's poem `Songs Of Innocence` shows that the little boy's mom has died so he is left all on his own with his father who then later sells him as chimney sweeper, "And my father sold me". The boy was small and young and barely could speak properly like when he says "Weep!weep!weep!weep!" and he was meant to
I will be comparing The hunchback in the park and The clown punk and how the poets of the poems present isolated characters.
Jason Swalli 11A 36-mark question Q: Compare the ways poets present isolated characters in “the hunchback n the park” and one other poem from characters and voice. In this essay answer, I will be comparing “The hunchback in the park” and “The clown punk” and how the poets of the poems present isolated characters. I will compare them in terms of the context, language, structure and moos/tone of the poem. “The hunchback in the park” is about a homeless man that gets bullied by a small group of boys because of his hunchback and the fact that he lives in the park. He tried to keep away from the boys and the park keeper. This creates that he is isolated as is kept away from everyone, possibly because of his appearance. The poet is trying to create an isolated character here by explaining how he tries to keep away from the boys. Similarly, in “The clown punk”, is about a homeless man. However, The man in this poem is trying to wash the windscreen of a car to earn a few pence. He appears to be heavily tattooed which could be the reason why he is isolated to everyone. Similarly, the poet of “The clown punk” presents an isolated character by describing him as “heavily tattooed”. This makes the reader think that people don’t see him as a human so he is therefore isolated form the rest of humanity. The poet also uses language to present an
Much Ado About Nothing
Much Ado About Nothing- How Does Shakespeare Present Difficulties In Relationships In Much Ado About Nothing? 'Much Ado About Nothing' was written in 1600 by William Shakespeare. The play is set in Messina, Sicily however it shows typical English comedy characteristics for that time. I find this unusual because not many people travelled far from home. Relationships are shown in various ways throughout the play using themes such as love, romance and patriarchal society. The main relationships which are portrayed are between Hero and Claudio and Beatrice and Benedick. Act two scene one is the masked ball. Conversations take place between a number of couples; this makes the scene seem lively and gives a sense of movement. The character Beatrice is attracted to Benedick. However Shakespeare confuses the audience by having Beatrice pass insults to Benedick, "masking" her real feelings. Beatrice says to Benedick "why he is the Prince's jester, a very dull fool; only his gift is in devising impossible slanders". Beatrice is teasing Benedick so that her real feelings towards him are concealed. Don John appears to deliberately try to cause problems in the relationship between Hero and Claudio by claiming "how canst thou cross this marriage?" Don John is showing his distaste for the marriage his brother arranged. This is because Don John is jealous of his brother's higher status