mindset of the character. The drawback is it just spotlights on the individual contemplations instead of others leaving space for sentiments. For the reasons expressed above it is anything but difficult to see the likenesses and contrasts between A Long Way Gone and Blood Diamonds. Both give an extraordinary knowledge of life as a child fighter and demonstrate the serious issues to the audience that we neglect to address. This issue influences numerous families around the
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turn into tyranny.” - Stefan Zweig… The author of Gone‚ Michael Grant‚ uses a unique setting to establish chaos and insecurity. A world where all adults disappear and kids are isolated from reality and the whole world. One universal idea that this book represents is that When people no longer feel safe and secure they will give their freedom to anyone who can establish Authority or Control. Throughout the beginning part of the book‚ the kids in Gone were very clueless and most were looking for someone
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The Long Way Home: An American Journey from Ellis Island to The Great War is a riveting tell-all of the hardships twelve immigrants endured on their journey‚ arrival‚ and duration in America during the Great War. Author‚ David Laskin‚ a Harvard graduate with a degree in history and literature‚ expresses his take on the “forgotten” war‚ justly representing the traumatizing immigration over to America‚ the fight to survive upon arrival and the milestone in their journeys‚ with the conversion into a
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afraid to fall asleep‚ but staying awake also brought back painful memories… These days I live in three worlds: my dreams‚ and the experiences of my new life‚ which trigger memories from the past” (Beah 19). Quoted from Ishmael Beah’s memoir A Long Way Gone‚ is an example of post-traumatic stress disorder‚ one of the many themes and effect of war and violence present in this book. According to the Journal of Controversial Medical Claims‚ post-traumatic stress disorder is an anxiety disorder that
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Suicide and humor are two words not often associated with each other‚ but Nick Hornby takes the pair on in his novel A Long Way Down‚ a dark comedy about suicide and life after a failed attempt. The book is narrated by four characters taking turns telling the story in their voice. The resulting hodgepodge gang includes Martin‚ a quasi celebrity who loses everything after an affair with a fifteen-year old girl; Maureen‚ the middle-aged mother of a severely disabled son; Jess‚ an obnoxious teenager
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The first literary element in Since You’ve Been Gone is irony. In this book Emily‚ the main character‚ is left behind all summer without knowing where her best friend‚ Sloan‚ went. The only thing she has is a list of 13 tasks Sloan left that are extremely out of Emily’s comfort zone. Throughout her attempt to complete the list‚ Emily meets a guy named Frank and they become friends. One night they show up to Emily’s house to find her parents‚ two playwrights‚ in need of two actors to play parts in
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This statement by Momaday is very thematic for the book‚ The Way to Rainy Mountain. “A time that is gone forever‚ a landscape that is incomparable‚ and a human spirit which endures.” When this statement is broken apart‚ it precisely relates to the three focal points of the overall theme of the book. “A time that is gone forever‚” describes the Kiowa culture dying out. Second‚ “a landscape that is incomparable” is the Rainy Mountain‚ which is of great spiritual importance to the Kiowa and the author
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The age of the actor has long gone: we are now in the age of stage effects’ We have moved towards more modernised performances‚ but this does not necessarily mean ‘the age of the actor has long gone.’ It means audience members now expect more from the performance‚ rather than just rely on the actor as they did in Elizabethan times. Still in our 21st century‚ we would not like to go to a play whereby the actors are poor at acting likewise an Elizabethan audience would not like that either. The
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How fitting‚ that A Long Way Home - a chilling memoir of Saroo Brierly‚ should evoke Charles Dickens opening line in A Tale of Two Cities “It was the best of time‚ it was the worst of time”. The best of time when Saroo ultimately is adopted into a good-hearted family in Australia‚ the worst of time when Saroo’s family in Khandwa is engulfed in the lugubrious belief that their beloved son is gone forever. Notwithstanding growing up with devoted parents in Australia‚ Saroo is still manacled into the
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individual on the planet must grapple with this moral confusion in an attempt to find unique solutions to everyday dilemmas. In Affleck’s drama Gone Baby Gone‚ two very notable philosophies collide head on‚ and the protagonist must choose between the two to find the solution that he feels is ‘right.’ In Affleck’s brilliantly rendered drama Gone Baby Gone‚ a young girl is abducted from her mother‚ in a blue collar area of Boston‚ Massachusetts. Patrick Kenzie and his girlfriend are private investigators
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