INTERNATIONAL STUDIES SBLE 1043(GROUP D4) TITLE: BACK TO THE DREAMTIME LECTURER: MADAM HAZNUR NADIN BINTI HASSAN PREPARED BY: TEOH BOON KHAI (219673) The two main characters in the novel ‘Back To The Dreamtime’ were Richard and Tom. This novel is talking about how a boy complete the mission that given by his father who had died when he was two years old and how a family maintain their relationship although Richard is adopted by McDonald. Richard Oenpelli McDonald was a smart‚ rational and filial
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In The Devil and Tom Walker‚ Tom Walker meets a Black Man in the forest and the man tells of buried treasure‚ and Tom can have it for a price. Tom agrees to swindle people for the Devil‚ and agrees to give the Devil his soul. While he quickly gained many riches of this world‚ he began to worry about the next and regretted making the deal with the Devil. Finally he tells one of his customers‚ "The devil take me if I have made a farthing!"‚ and so the devil took him. This short story is an American
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Relationships with an animal is important to a lot of people for several reasons. An Animal can be the best friend of a person. Kids can learn a lot by having an animal as a pet . Old people need pets to stave off the feelings of loneliness in their homes. Some people keep pets as a hobby or for doing sports. Animals are good for people of all ages. While kids are young they are able to learn‚ especially if they have an animal. They can learn and understand that animals have feelings‚ and how
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King‚ Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ and Washington Irving are certainly no exception. However‚ they each demonstrate it differently in their short stories. In each short story‚ the protagonist is a portrayed differently. In Irving’s “The Devil and Tom Walker”‚ Tom walker is a stingy‚ cheap man who fights with his wife constantly and only cares for himself and money. In the story he’s described as “a meager‚ misery fellow”. He differs from the other two protagonists simply because when he encountered the
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of marriage In “ The Devil and Tom Walker”‚ by Washington Irving marriage is ridiculed by Irving using satire. Satire is used in the story to attempt and ridicule marriage to cause awareness or change. Irving makes fun of marriage by including statements that show how bad Tom and his wife’s arguments get‚ how Tom will do anything to not please his wife and how he uses the loss of his wife for comfort. One of the first marriage flaws Irving used was that Tom showed signs of physical abuse.
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The novel‚ To Kill a Mockingbird‚ by Harper Lee includes the contradictory characters Tom Robinson and Boo Radley. These characters have identifiable similarities and differences. Tom and Boo and similar in many ways. One similarity is they are both compared to mockingbirds in the book. Another similarity is they both just try and help out. A couple examples of this is that Tom helps out Mayella to try and be nice‚ yet he goes to prison and eventually dies for it. Another example is that Boo kills
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nature‚ the inner world of human nature and the past. Even though Romantic Literature is concerned with nature‚ the inner world of human nature and the past‚ Washington Irving only focused on the past and nature in The Devil and Tom Walker. Irving expresses nature when Tom meets the devil in the forest. He depicts the forest by saying “...a gulf of black‚ smothering mud; there were also dark and stagnant pools‚ the
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teacher. However‚ at a point in one’s life that sense of independence takes over and one finds his or her will to learn more and in their own way. Frederick Douglass and Richard Rodriguez are two great examples of people whose process of learning impacted their lives from childhood to adulthood. Who dares to compare the two? Between these two great men are some similarities even though they grew up in different times and being minorities. From reading the two reading pieces one could focus on how Douglass
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Relationship of two main characters in the story book “Back To The Dreamtime” Two main characters that I choose in this book is Richard and Tom because went I read this book until the end there are many thing that Richard and Tom doing together. Richard is an aboriginal descent. His father died when he was two years‚ now Richard staying in McDonalds’ family as an adopted son. Meanwhile‚ Tom is a Joe’s daughter and older than Richard. The relationship between Richard and Tom is very closely because
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even the rich and famous. Just like Pi when he acted like a animal when he was at sea all alone with Richard Parker. But in the world that we live‚ we can definitely see the resemblance of how we could act like animals like Pi did. When Pi was stranded with Richard Parker at sea it was hard to keep calm because he had to make sure to distract Richard Parker from eating him. Richard Parker marked his territory by peeing around
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