the Drover’s Wife In “The Drover’s Wife‚” Lawson acknowledges the hardships of Australian women living in the bush. This story was unique in its time‚ as a female protagonist was uncommon. Stories from this period focused on the men living in the outback; the drovers and their struggle‚ they dismissed the life of the woman waiting at home suffering in silence during their husbands’ long periods of absence. The Drover’s Wife In The Drover’s Wife‚ Lawson sheds light on the life of such women‚ allowing
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Hello Mother and Father how are you doing? I haven’t been doing too well in the trenches. As you know I have been assisting the French in the trenches for nearly two years. The trenches are horrendous; I never thought I would be more petrified at the horrific conditions than the actual war. Every day we face rats‚ hundreds of millions of rats‚ scurrying through the trenches. Since we don’t have a proper waste disposal system‚ the rats eat the trash that lay on the floor and the soldiers who have
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The day was vivid and clear. Snow had fallen through the night‚ and when Nikk emerged it was gently and silently. The Menagerie had shed from this perfect realm‚ this white pristine world if not for just a moment‚ and as Nikk stood in the snow she felt a hint of magic as she had when she was a child in Pavek; in Russian. She allowed herself a small‚ stolen moment and leaned her head back to the blackened skeletons of the sleeping trees and brilliant blue skies. Her brown eyes closed‚ and for the
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Cheyenne McDermott Mrs. Albuquerque AP Language and Composition 25 September 2014 The Zookeeper’s Wife In The Zookeeper’s Wife‚ readers are exposed to the story of Jan and Antonina Zabinski’s life through the second world war and the Nazi reign over Poland. Throughout the course of the novel‚ the audience is exposed to the two sides of the Zabinski’s family: Jan’s side and Antonina’s side. Jan’s side‚ full of action and physical risks‚ is equally as important as Antonina’s side‚ which is full
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and Menâ: In a letter .John Steinbeck Wrote of Curleyâs wife: âSheâs a nice girl and not a floozy.â Discuss and explain your own impression of Curleyâs wife. In âOf Mice and Menâ John Steinbeck describes Curleyâs wife as a character of many contradictions she is shown as both a nice girl and a floozy; lonely yet vindictive; Motherly but also seductive. In this essay I will try to discuss both of her sides. Throughout the novel Curleyâs wife acts and dresses as a floozy; in the very beginning when
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Curley’s wife is a character in the novel “Of mice and men” set in California and written in 1937 by John Steinbeck. She is the only woman on a ranch of itinerant working men‚ and because of this she gets treated by each man in a different manner. Most of the men treat her in a negative way‚ therefore causing different degrees of sympathy from the reader. Sympathy implies that the reader feels an emotional connection towards the character. Her unhappy marriage to the boss’s son causes her great loneliness
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Dear diary‚ My parents are not happy with me. I went to school and there’s just a matter of time until something goes wrong. It will obviously go wrong where I hate to go‚ Mrs. Hawthorne’s art class. The bad things started when Mrs. Hawthorne won’t help me. I got steaming mad and I broke her potters wheel into three pieces I felt really sorry but she didn’t believe me. I could feel every one laughing and smiling at me. When mrs. Hawthorne got mad she stormed out of the classroom. The boys started
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He burns the skin off layer by layer watching it slowly filter away‚ until finally there is none left‚ and the only thing left to do with them is throw their bodies into the fire. These thoughts infiltrate my mind. I continue to write in this diary as it’s the only thing keeping me sane. I rarely think of Julia. I find it hard to fix her imagine in my mind. A force pulls inside the bottom of my throat‚ pulling its way upward‚ slowly trying to draw back down as I inhale‚ then pulling itself
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Diary entry from Pip’s point of view. 08/12/2012 Saturday Dear Diary‚ Today was a new day for me again. I went alone to the churchyard where the tombstones of my parents and my 5 brothers are in the marshes near my house. I live with my sister Mrs Joe Gargery and her husband‚ Joe Gargery‚ a blacksmith as a burden as she never likes me and always tells me off for everything. I stayed there near the gravestones until afternoon was returning back home‚ when I heard a terrible voice which told
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VVVB 2483 LITERATURE IN ENGLISH FOR MALAYSIAN SCHOOLS THE DROVER’S WIFE by Henry Lawson LECTURER: MR. NACKEERAN SIVAPUNNIAM LISA KWAN SU LI A 123040 The Drover‟s Wife The Drover’s Wife is a story that many people can identify with. I‚ for one‚ can relate to the main character – „the drover‟s wife‟. The most interesting and thought-provoking aspect in the short story is the fact that the drover‟s wife‟s name is never mentioned throughout the text. Her identity is nothing but that which is linked
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