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- 4191: Taronga - Victor Kelleher
- ... discussed are heroes, males, females, leaders and survivors. Ben, the main character of the novel Taronga, is a representation of a hero which reinforces my attitudes regarding this group, yet challenges the stereotypical or society's attitudes. Ben is constructed as being quiet and submissive, such as the fact that he stayed for a long time and put up with Greg using him for his telepathic gift, before finally coming into his own and running away. This is another example of Ben's submissiveness - he chose to sneak away from Greg quietly in the dead of the night, instead of a fight or a loud confrontation. He is also a humanitarian, as he cares for other animals, even ... best solution, and act on it. Society is always hoping for the more exciting hero, the one who would go out and beat up the villains and rescue the helpless girl. To look at Ben's appearance, he is around 14, small, wears old, ragged clothes and has bare feet. Stereotypical heroes, again using the well-known example of Superman wear loud, colorful costumes and have a muscley body and ...
- 4192: Never Ending Story
- Fantastica’s Endless Realm of Stories “Moo-oo-oon Child!” (Ende 225) Screams Bastian. His hopes of this endless story to rid its endless entity has nothing but created a nightmare in his and Atreyu’s world. From the Gnomics project of the mammoth-like Sphinxes to the rescue of the Child-like Empress to the Water of Life, Atreyu and Bastian are two separate characters who are parted by two ... do they live out tremendous and significant journeys but ironically have a comparable mission in which to save the life of the Child-like Empress, ruler and leader of Fantastica. Bastians’ peaceful character and Atreyu’s determination sets The Neverending Story apart from the classic scene of one character playing the role of a hero without distributing the accomplishments between the other characters. This book represents a celebration of unity ...
- 4193: Michael Jackson
- Michael Jackson Michael Joseph Jackson know as a man who many regard as the world’ s greatest all around entertainer. Even as a young kid he was a role model, as a member of the Jackson Five. Books for kids have been made and published by Scholastic Books. Schools for instance, elementary, colleges, and state universities has stated that the ‘ Jackson Five gave hope to the young’. Also when they appeared in s special commendation in the US Congressional Record for their contribution to music, stating that that the group ‘ became a symbol of pride among black youth’. In 1972 again the Jackson Five receives another special commendation ... at an NAACP fun raising dinner in Hollywood for children in need. Two years later they got an award from the organization for African Unity for ‘ Strengthening the status of African Americans’. In Michael Jackson’s childhood years has made an impact on kids. Around 1979 and Michael goes solo, but still with the Jacksons. He began to perform some of his solo hits in benefit concerts. For example, the ...
- 4194: The Ice Storm
- ... married working women, or single women. ii. Elena Hood and Jane Carver are stereotypical suburban wives. Jane is portrayed as a sexual person, her first three appearances show her cleaning spilt wine from Ben Hood s crotch, the next two in bed. She dresses provocatively, in fur, boots, and bangles, her long hair flowing about her shoulders. Elena is shown as a domestic, spending most of the film in the kitchen ... children are left searching for ways to occupy the idle hours. Sandy Carver spends his time blowing things up, while his brother ponders nature and the body of sexually curious Wendy Hood in a neighbor s empty swimming pool. Surrounding them all is the sour stench of a disgraced President Nixon on his last political legs and a nation withdrawing from an unpopular war in Vietnam. As they wont for nothing ... all but what is truly important. Elena knows that her husband is having an affair with Jane Carver, but even at the point of confronting him, she internalizes her dismay. She tells Ben, It wouldn t make for a pleasant evening, if that s what you re after ,as they depart for yet another cocktail party. As it is, they are unaware of what lay in wait for them this ...
- 4195: Rock Music
- ... Rock is a topic not often touched because of its complexity and its avoidance by conservative adults. Often viewed by them as “a bunch of noise”, Rock music is actually very complex. In fact, "It's stylistic scope is to broad to be encompassed by any single definition" ("Rock Music", Groliers, p.1). This music is characterized by using a heavy beat, with amplified guitars and drums. The nearest definition suggests that, in every era, rock speaks for the teenage society. We will focus on the evolution of rock over the 50’s through 80’s and the changes it made. The first section of this essay is Rock n' Roll of the 1950's, when Rock n' Roll was born. It emerged from rhythm and blues, music similar to ...
- 4196: Of Mice And Men
- ... and Men, was a disturbing tale of friendship, and animosity and immoral nature of the human race. Along the Salinas River and underneath the Gablian Mountains of California during the Great Depression of the 1930’s this novel takes place. A famous writer by the name of John Steinbeck, who was also born in California, is the author of this book. He has also has written many other good books such ... troubled by its ending. I can see why it is an excellent novel, but at the same time it left me with a kind of unpleasant feeling in the back of my mind. I can’t see how an author could write a book with such a short and sudden ending. The last images he leaves the reader with is George and Slim walking off as Curly says “ Now what in the hell is eating them?” thus the book ends on a harsh, cruel note, topped off by the lack of understanding and compassion of an extraordinarily immoral and cruel man. Whatever Steinbeck’s intent for writing such a jarring ending, he leaves the reader with a powerful sense of the world’s immorality. In this book there were several characters, but only a few had significant roles. ...
- 4197: “Bartleby The Self-Reliant Scrivener”
- ... reading “Bartleby” you first think he is crazy, a little out of touch with society. You think who is he, why does he always say, “he prefers not too”. It is confusing, because you don’t quite know what to think of Bartleby. “Self Reliance” by Emerson helps to explain why Bartleby may be the way he is. It sheds light to the fact that Bartleby may just be following his own beliefs and not worrying about the consequences. He doesn’t seem to care what people want him to do, or what people expect him to do. He doesn’t live by societies’ rules, but rather his own set of rules, where he only does what he feels he should do. Bartleby is unaffected by other people and their ways, he is unaffected by ...
- 4198: To Kill A Mocking Bird 3
- The theme of Harper Lee s To Kill a Mocking Bird is the existence of racism and prejudice in the 1930 40 s. Harper Lee succeeds in presenting the topic in a manner that is not overly simplistic and thus achieves the task of allowing the reader to fully appreciate the complex nature of unjust discrimination. Harper Lee s inclusion of characters such as Tom Robinson, Boo Radley, Dolphus Raymond and many others, aid the reader to grasp the concept of racism and its central role in the town of Maycomb. To Kill ...
- 4199: A Violent Illumination of Salvation
- ... is strangely capable of returning my characters to reality and preparing them to accept their moment of grace" (qtd.in Bain 407). Dorothy Walters, Associate Professor of English at Wichita State University, believes O'Connor's single theme is the battle between God and the devil "dueling for the human soul in the ancient clash" (105). The illumination of salvation through violent means is essential because "both O'Connor and her ... weaknesses are not tolerated and the faulty soul is damned or violently returned to reality (Walters 72). In The Habit of Being, O'Connor emphasizes: "My devil has a name . . . His name is Lucifer, he's a fallen angel, his sin is pride, and his aim is destruction of the Divine plan" (456). The grandmother is extremely prideful and identifies herself as a "lady" as O'Connor reveals in the clothing description: The children's mother still had on slacks . . . but the grandmother had on a navy blue straw sailor hat with a bunch of white violets on the brim and a navy blue dress . . . trimmed with lace . . . In ...
- 4200: Tortilla Flat
- ... Henry James wrote that the novel is to be experienced--therefore the reader must completely understand what happens in it. You should appropriate comparisons, contrasts, draw analogies of what is in the novel and one's own experience. While the elements of fiction are important in isolated ways, relating the parts is most important. A novel should show, "a direct, personal impression of life." The form of the novel is so ... reported is the point of view. What do the viewing characters perceive in Tortilla Flat? Is there omniscience--an all-seeing, all-knowing narrator? The shifts in point-of-view is also common in Steinbeck's novel. The theme is the personal and direct impression of life which Steinbeck projects. The setting in Tortilla Flat shows the story took place in a certain time and place. Setting also reveals character. Symbols, ideas beyond the object itself and images, perceptible to the senses--the novelist's use of concrete objects and events is most important in letting the reader know what is meant and how the writer wants the reader to feel about what is going on. Tone is the ...
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