To Kill A Mocking Bird
Unseen Prose The giver excerpt is possibly from the beginning of a literary work. Lucidly divided into two distinct paragraphs the author demarcates his ideas in them respectively. In the first paragraph the author describes the physical aspects of Maycomb County, while the latter one is described with the outlook of the citizen and their 'vague optimism'. This structure of the extract brings out the free flow of the author's ideas. This story is narrated in 1st person narrative. This person is not necessarily the author; and in this case it is Scout. Since it is in 1st person narrative we could be seeing the story from a biased perspective. They have a limited point of view. Scout is a child and children can be naïve, hence they have limited knowledge and understanding. But innocence makes them have a refreshing and truer perspective of people. The extract starts directly, 'Maycomb was an old town', this start clearly brings to the readers the central subject of the passage. The use of personification in the form of words like 'old' and 'tired', puts human qualities in the town. 'When I first knew it' states the relationship between the town and the persona of the passage. Visual imagery is used to depict the physical features of the town such as the grass on the sidewalk. The recurring sound of 's' emphasises on the monotony of the life in Maycomb through the words
To kill a mockingbird
How Scout Changes and Develops in To Kill A Mockingbird Scout changes and develops during the course of 'To kill a mockingbird' and one of the main progresses is Scout's growing up and the lessons she learns. There are many things that Scout discovers as she grows up through the novel. Her character and maturity develop during the book. Some of what she gains is quite important. Scout is taught to see things from the other person's point of view. When Atticus advises her in the second chapter that, 'you never really understand a person until you climb into his skin and walk around in it', Scout does not take much notice. Later on in the novel she starts to see things from Boo's perspective because she says, 'I don't think it would be nice to bother him,' when Jem and Dill try to send a letter to Boo. She argues, 'how would we like it if Atticus barged in on us without knocking, when we were in our rooms at night?' Towards the end of the book her understanding becomes clearer when she is standing on the Radley's front porch after walking Boo home. She realises that 'she had never really seen the neighbourhood from this angle'. With an enhanced understanding, she comes to recognise that Boo is entitled to his privacy. Scout also learns what 'a compromise' is about. When she begins to dislike Miss. Caroline's way of teaching, she immediately decides that she wants to stay
The Truman Show
The Truman Show Thomas McGrail The Truman show was made in 1998 by Peter Weir. Peter picked Jim Carrey to play Truman Burbank because he is an excellent actor and he is incredibly funny. Peter Weir looks at a new, bigger, better reality television show idea. The Truman show is about a man called Christof who had an idea to watch a baby until it turns one year old but due to the ratings being so high (and an amazing profit) he decides to carry it on until the baby goes through old age and dies. Truman (the star of the show) doesn't know that his world is controlled by the television show and he wasn't suspicious until he turned 29 where he comes close to knowing the secret. Peter Weir looks at a new, bigger, better reality television show idea. In the opening sequence Christof (the creator), talks about "The Truman Show" and telling the audience about the show. This is an intercut with interviews with the "actors" Meryl and Marlon saying how great their lives are with Truman. At the beginning of scene 2 Truman is speaking into his bathroom mirror which creates a lot of sympathy immediately for Truman as it shows he is being watched 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. He is being watched in his bathroom this creates sympathy as it is the most private place in a house. Truman seems to be the only "real person" which is like his name True Man. In the next sequence Truman is on
The strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
"The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde" Using chapter 4 from "By this time it was about 9 in the morning..." to "wait for him at the back to get the handbills..." and examples from elsewhere in the story. Discuss how Stevenson uses language to create a sense of dread. Gothic novels at this time were generally focused on horror and romance, Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is based on the former. Gothicism was a dogma that valued extreme emotion against the clarity and rationalism of the enlightened establishment. At first glance what makes Stevenson's novella stand out from other gothic titles is that it is set in London as the gothic scene trend was that of Yugoslavian countryside with large castles, he uses imagined science to create science horror based on drug-induced mutation. At the beginning of the passage "A great chocolate-coloured pall lowered over heaven" giving the city a dark, gloomy presence. "pall" is also used to describe coffin cloth coverings as to possibly imply that London has been covered likewise and that those under it are a sort of living dead. The smog is so thick that the naked eye is unable to even see the twilight of sunrise "Mr Utterson beheld a marvellous number of degrees and hues of twilight....and here, for a moment, the fog would be quite broken up, and a haggard shaft of daylight would glance in between the swirling
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
"'The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde' has more to do with Gothic tradition than late 19th Century psychology". Discuss this statement with reference to Victorian morals and society as well as the writer's craft. "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" is set in a gothic genre of suspense and mystery. The novel was written by Robert Louis Stevenson set in Victorian England 1886 and at a time when scientific experiments and knowledge was expanding, including the theory of Charles Darwin. The first Gothic novel was 'The Castle of Otranto' written by Horace Walpole in 1794. Other eminent authors include Matthew Lewis famous for his novel 'The Monk' and Ann Radcliffe, who was well known for her novel 'The Italian.' The novel was compiled at a time when most people in the 19th century were concerned with the doppelgänger (double self), death and rebirth, urbanism, decline of the Empire, sexual revolution, and sexual epidemics. "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" was written during the period in history where there was a huge gap between the modern and respectable community in contrast to the other side, which was well known for its brothels and shadiness. Victorian society was divided into divisions. Such divisions included men against women, rich versus poor, and science versus art. Gothic literature, around from 1790-1820 finishing with Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein', was influenced from the late
