The novel The Orenda by Joseph Boyden follows the lives of three different characters at the point of first contact between the Europeans and Native Americans. The story follows Bird‚ a Huron war-chief‚ Christophe “Crow”‚ a Jesuit priest‚ and Snow Falls‚ an imprisoned Iroquois forced to live amongst the Huron. During the main events of The Orenda‚ two groups of Huron join for the Creator’s Game. The portrayal of the Creator’s Game‚ now known as lacrosse‚ is shown through the purpose of the game‚
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BROTHER IN THE LAND Character Sketch of Rhodes In the play script “Brother in the Land” by Robert Swindells and adapted by Joe Standerline‚ Rhodes is portrayed as a sadistic P.E. teacher who is an active member of the MASADA and participates voluntarily in tasks which are set up‚ in order to overthrow the Civil Defense Team. Unfortunately at the end he turns out to be a selfish person who deceives the MASADA. Rhodes proves to be a good strategist as he prepares the students and tells them about
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It presents the tragedy of war‚not only in the loss of life‚ but also in the loss of those who survived and their suffering.The presentation of the soldiers in the novel shows them internally suffering‚ with the overwhelming sense of warfare in the trenches‚ compiled with the loss of their brethren‚ but also with a lost sense of purpose once the fighting is over. These themes of tragedy‚ loss of life‚ as well as loss
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Power Games Surveillance and Visibility in the Harry Potter Novels The narrative of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter novels talks about the discourse of the origin and distribution of power through an effective use of the strategies of visibility. The Harry Potter narratives use the dynamics of visibility to show how subjects of visibility attain power and the objects of visibility become subjugated by the power induced over them. These narratives divide characters into two categories of power relation:
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How do you change the young adult reading selection of the 1960’s from fake sugar-coated novels to actual real-life issues? Ask S.E. Hinton because she did exactly that at the young age of 15. Hinton wrote the life-changing young adult novel The Outsiders‚ about things that she witnessed as a teenaged girl whom some would call a “Greaser”. How much courage it must have taken Hinton to write a book that was the first of its kind‚ and at such a young age! Truly‚ S.E. Hinton is a woman full of inspiration
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The novel Boy21 was written by author Matthew Quick. The story takes place in the broken down city of Bellmont. The author organizes the novel in chronological order to keep the time frames in correlation with when the events occurred. The setting is critical to the story because the school he goes to generally has a direct effect on events that occur during the story. The story has both a humorous but serious tone throughout different parts of the story. The protagonists of the book are Finley‚
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Achieving happiness on your own requires a simple and immediate method of dealing with the truth but trying to satisfy other people’s happiness requires a more difficult approach. In the novel “Brave New World”‚ main characters John the Savage and Bernard Marx struggle to fit in a world which has achieved happiness and refuse any form of change. The World State also declines the need to have any other truth than its own. With the use of technology‚ they use a hallucinogenic drug‚ called “soma”‚
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An exploration of the innovative methodologies requires an awareness of the goals and objectives of teaching literature in general and the novel in particular‚ the advantages of teaching novels and teaching methodologies. It is very difficult to agree on the goals of teaching literary texts. In the past‚ teaching literature was viewed as a way of making people better human beings and better citizens. The purpose of making English Literature a course of study at University College‚ London in the
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Speak is a short 208 page novel focusing around a highschool girl named Melinda Sordino‚ a school outcast who doesn’t speak at all. She lost all of her friends after she broke up a party that had occurred over the previous summer by calling the police. Now in high school she is completely isolated and never speaks‚ though since the book is from her perspective we see that her internal personality is sarcastic and slightly rude. On the first day a girl named Heather attempts to speak to her but she
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Jeanette Walls‚ is a novel about the hardships throughout her life and the several lives of her family and how they overcome those hardships. Within the novel‚ Jeanette goes into detail about some of the incidents that her parents made and how they each chose a different parenting style. Her father‚ Rex Walls‚ was very hands on with his parenting‚ while contrasting her mother Rose Mary was very relaxed in her parenting technique. In each of the tiny stories Jeanette told during the novel‚ they each revealed
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