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    The Wonder Years Satire

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    The Wonder Years: Television’s Most Rebellious Comedy Many shows struggle to capture the feeling of nostalgia and wonder that the The Wonder Years expertly tackled throughout nearly its entire run. The show follows it’s main character Kevin Arnold and to a lesser extent his friends Winnie and Paul as they go through Junior High and High School. The show starts in the year 1968 where the pilot introduces the audience to the Arnold family

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    ya Year of Wonders—Quotes ‘There were many people here with needs this past year‚ needs that you and your family were in a position to have satisfied‚’ p. 16. ‘Unlike most ladies‚ Mrs Mompellion did not scruple to toil with her hands‚’ p. 34-35. ‘Death is always hard‚ wheresoever it finds a man. And untimely death harder than most‚’ p. 45. ‘There was no doubt that she did good... yet her fornication and blasphemy branded her a sinner in the reckoning of our religion‚’ p. 55. ‘If all

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    Apple-picking Time "His hand is on the Bible‚ but he never opens it." p3 "A servant has no right to stay‚ once she’s dismissed." p4 "even Puritans should recall that pagans‚ too‚ are children of God." p.5 "It has taken less than a year to begin to reclaim [Nature’s] place." p11 Ring of Roses "I thought God had sent him. Later‚ there were those who would say it had been the Devil." p23 "Different from all those men who look you over like beef at saleyard." p.23 "She was a decent girl

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    "Timeless Tact Helps Sustain a Literary Traveller" (TTHSLT) by Geraldine Brooks should definitely be included in a booklet for year 12 students studying belonging. The text focuses on a plague-stricken Eyam who quarantine and sacrifice themselves for the wider community. It is suitable as it requires students to explore the ways in which the concept of belonging is represented in and through the text. TTHSLT relates to belonging as it explores the impact on an individuals life when discovering

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    “I wished to know how things stood in the world”. For Anna‚ the year of the plague is about a journey from ignorance to knowledge. Discuss. In the extraordinary novel‚ Year of WondersGeraldine Brooks exposes the difficult yet admirable life of Anna Frith‚ trapped in a community caught in desperate times. As the plague strikes this small village‚ ignorance and a fear of the unknown become dominant sensations in Eyam in 1666-1667. Anna is completely unaware of the opportunities to grow and succeed

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    Year of Wonders Essay Topics 1. “Anna is the embodiment of goodness while Mompellion is the embodiment of selfishness.” Do you agree? 2. “Year of Wonders explores how fear can tear apart the lives of individuals and society as a whole.” To what extent do you agree? 3. Who is the real heroine of the novel; Anna Frith or Elinor Mompellion? 4. “Year of Wonders illustrates that some people will react irrationally to people and occurrences that they do not understand.” Discuss. 5. “The characters

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    him a sour and menacing creature’. He dies from a storm after his misfortunate forgotten retrieval from the punishment of having knives hammered through his hands into mine stowes. Aphra The character Aphra in the novel by year of wonders written by Geraldine Brooks is portrayed as mean‚ wild and cunning just like Josiah her husband. Anna there step daughter ‘was always a pair of hands before I [she] was a person. Aphra was very much a bystander in Anna’s life‚ especially when it came to Josiah

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    Essay topic #2: Year of Wonders The plague compels the people of Eyam to explain and combat the disease in whatever ways they can‚ Discuss. Throughout the novel Year of Wonders‚ significant changes can be seen to occur in a variety of characters as they encounter this time of adversity. The town‚ now Anglican‚ is of a puritan background and holds religious beliefs in very high regard. These beliefs change context throughout the novel as we see characters such as Aphra resort to charms and

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    In Year Of WondersBrooks utilises the most pious figure‚ Michael Mompellion to illustrate how ones faith dissipates in times of crisis. Mompellion goes from being a leader to the plague stricken community‚ to a man who was eventually torn down by the ruthless power of crisis and had “given himself up to the darkness.” Indeed‚ it is seen that religion brings no comfort to Mompellion anymore as he deems God a “poor listener”‚ and it is the very fact that he clung so strongly to his religious beliefs

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    Year of Wonders Essay – Characters Encountering Conflict Year of Wonders is a deeply moving novel containing heartbreaking themes and stark reality. The novel is based in Eyam‚ a small English village‚ in 1666 and written from the point of view of Anna Frith‚ a non-affluent maid who lost her two young sons and husband to the plague which swept through their village. One of the novels primary themes is conflict‚ and throughout the book the responder can discover how each of the characters deal

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