Jeppe Højmark‚ 1.d ! English: Clara’s Day 06.05.2011 Clara’s Day: Analysis and interpretation “Clara’s Day” by Penelope Lively takes place in a school in London‚ approximately in the mid 80s. 15 year old Clara Tilling takes her clothes off in morning assembly one day‚ and walks naked through the crowd into the form-room‚ where she put on a science overall. Moments later a teacher brings her clothes‚ and Clara continues school. People are patting her back and giving her attention‚ which
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Essay on Black Dog By Penelope Lively Brenda Case is a mid-age housewife with personal problems. The English modern short story “Black Dog”‚ written by Penelope Lively‚ portrays Mrs. Case as being a frustrated woman with a peculiar manner‚ besides this she has difficulties to adapt within the society’s norms. This is probably because Brenda Case is going through the largest crisis in her life; the mid-life crisis. This gives Brenda some difficult factors to deal with. She is going through this
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Four. Clara‚ her mother‚ Stan and the head mistress. Who are they and what do we learn about them? (age‚ appearance‚ family‚ situation‚ background‚ education‚ feelings‚ thoughts and so on) Clara: Clara is a teenager who went to the high school. I don’t think that she have many friends‚ I do not even know if she has. Often she hangs out with two girls from her class. But are they real friends? Her parents are divorced and she lives together with her mom and her mom’s boyfriend. One day she takes
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Both Sylvia Plath and Penelope Lively explore situations that evoke the primal fear in all of us. They use various images and different symbols to explore these fears through neurosis‚ nightmares and hallucinations. “The blue capes all dissolved and vanished”‚ just like their childhood’s innocence. The whole dreamy fantasy world of the two main characters (Sandra‚ from ‘The Darkness Out there’ and the little girl from ‘Superman and Paula Brown’s New Snowsuit’) burnt into ashes by the antagonist.
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-Make notes on health -Make case study notes on hydrology and coasts -Do past questions on coasts & hydrology -Do poem essay -Plan kinder transport essay Commentary: Moon Tiger‚ 1987‚ by Penelope Lively This monologue depicts the thoughts of an elderly woman who is dying in a hospital. She gives us a her views and description of language which shows us the importance it holds in her life. She talks about the history of language saying ‘we open our mouths and out flow words whose ancestries
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In the excerpt from the novel “Moon Tiger” by Penelope Lively‚ a brother and a sister are searching for fossils while their mother waits nearby. The speaker uses an array of literary devices such as imagery and dialogue to dramatize the complex relationship among the three characters in the except. Lively illustrates to the readers that situations are translated differently to different people. The author introduces siblings as they are outside looking for fossils. The conflict is initially presented
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paintings and poems such as Penelope of the Odyssey‚ The tale of Penelope is about a brief time when she is longing for her husband to come back one day. When Odysseus was gone for the Trojan War for a long time‚ she had hope that her husband will come back one day. Penelope represented hope as one of the most hopeful women in form of themes that comes from many epic works on her. In the painting Penelope and the Suitors‚ John Williams Waterhouse uses the Suitors of Penelope to show that when people
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Odyssey Essay‚ Penelope. Penelope one of the most important characters Homer presents to us in his book of the Odyssey. She was the daughter of Icarius and Polycaste and is in a role in the work in which he is forced to wait for her husband‚ the main character of the book‚ Odysseus. Stopping us to analyze this character‚ we can see that the figure of Penelope represents different values. Penelope also presents a series of contradictory characteristics which I would like to focus attention. You
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Odyssey Essay‚ Penelope. Penelope one of the most important characters Homer presents to us in his book of the Odyssey. She was the daughter of Icarius and Polycaste and is in a role in the work in which he is forced to wait for her husband‚ the main character of the book‚ Odysseus. Stopping us to analyze this character‚ we can see that the figure of Penelope represents different values. Penelope also presents a series of contradictory characteristics which I would like to focus attention. You
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Penelope‚ the wife of Odysseus‚ can be compared in various ways to the other characters in Homer ’s poem The Odyssey. Many are the ways Penelope exemplifies the ideal woman‚ in that she conforms to the values and beliefs of her society. These include faithfulness‚ loyalty‚ willpower‚ pride in one ’s home and family‚ and generosity and openness to foreigners (Kline‚ 2004). The role women in ancient Greece had were reflected as inferior to men as they were never seen as heroes or fought in wars‚
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