World War 1

Hannah's Monologue I, Mattie's widow, Hannah. Regret the fact that I let him go on war. He lost his life. He lost his family. He lost everything. He lost everything, when his life was flourishing, when it was the time of his life, the prime time. He never met his son, John and... John never met his father, a brave and courageous warrior. He will never know his father and how much his father sacrificed. But, when I look at John, I see Mattie. The blond-red hair, nice clean skin and green eyes like fiery emeralds. Sometimes I think John's a clone of Mattie. He has Mattie's good habits and bad. John is my last memory of Mattie. So I can't let go of him because he's the only person I have in life. I don't want my son to grow up because I know he will want to follow his father's footsteps. When I think about Mattie, I just imagine him in the clouds during the day, following us... shadowing us. During the night, I imagine him in a gleaming and glistening star seeing us. I know for sure that he's always there for us in a state of euphoria because me and John have moved on and have been strong and brave like him (a brave, fearless and valiant warrior). However, I'm really angry and livid with Mattie because he didn't listen to me. He ignored me. He was so stubborn. The outcome of him being as stubborn as a mule was that he lost his life. This is what he got for standing by his

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  • Level: GCSE
  • Subject: English
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Woman In Black

Susan hill uses various techniques to create tension in the first few chapters. One of the most obvious ones is that she frequently refers to the weather in her story, which, like it usually does in gothic genre stories, reflects the mood of the main character at the time. This is shown at the beginning where the weather is described "We had had rain, thin, chilling rain and a mist that lay low above the house," which implies that something should be happening soon. The weather at the start of the horror story is much worse, and it begins with an exaggerated, but surprisingly effective description of a London fog. "Fog was outdoors, hanging over the river, creeping in and out of alleyways and passages, swirling thickly between the bare trees of all the parks and gardens of the city," this goes on with more dire and evil descriptions but basically sets the scene and like most genre gothic writing, it includes one of the key elements - which is the strong atmosphere. It also shows not so much the character's mood, but how he has changed since these events occurred, and how different his personality has become. The description gives the reader a sense of isolation and the sibilance used makes the setting more eerie and makes it feel like as if the fog is moving towards you (the reader.) She basically builds up the tension by giving the fog human characteristics (personification)

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  • Subject: English
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War Of The Worlds

War of the Worlds Coursework How did the changes in the narrator reflect the writer's concerns for humanities' future? The narrator at the beginning of the book was a happy, well fed and servant supported man. The attack of the Martians changes the narrator's life enormously. The changes of the narrator show the struggles of a man trying to avoid being exterminated by the Martians. The writer purposely leaves the man unnamed as he represents the struggle of mankind during the invasion of the Martians to create the feeling of empathy. Each change in the narrator shows how the writer has concerns for humanities' future in the world. I will describe all the main changes in the main changes in the narrator and explain how this reflects the writer's concerns for humanity with quotes relating certain changes in the narrator. The first change of the narrator is significant. It is one of the biggest changes in the narrator which shapes the rest of the time in which he avoids being exterminated. The narrator was a man that was content with his present circumstances and change was not necessary but after the invasion, it seemed difficult not to. He went from this to a situation where he was struggling for survival. This is a lot for a man to handle. His world of being content and living was destroyed due to the invasion of the Martians; he had to abandon his home and quickly became

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  • Level: GCSE
  • Subject: English
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