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Chinua Achebe’s novel Things Fall Apart tells the story of the African Igbo society which was dominated by European imperialism. Achebe uses his own personal knowledge of African culture to portray the Igbo tribes as a complex society with well-established beliefs and traditions. The heart of this novel is not in its context, however, but…

Have you ever been forced to move from one home to another? If you have, you know what it feels like to be uprooted away from everything you know and love, and move miles away to something completely new and unknown. Even if you cannot relate to experiencing something like this, try to imagine what…

Have you ever dreamed of a place where you will have to hide your true identity to survive. “ The Chrysalids” by John Wyndham shows the reader exactly that. In this novel there are many different themes but the main themes are ; Survival to live in this community, discrimination, and punishment. Survival in this…

This also proved to Awoken that he was nothing like his weak father. Awoken is then able to attain a position of wealth and gain a good and respected reputation, even though his father was shameful and poor. Numb- Linking Partake song Numb is about a person having to live up to someone else expectations….

Crime and punishment has changed constantly throughout our history. From the earliest records we can piece together what types of crimes there were, and how they were punished in the United Kingdom. There have also been many changes which have helped mould our current legal system. From very early on in the United Kingdom, the…

Chapter 11 In conclusion, the primary reason why people did not want to see poor Linda was her appearance. She was overweight, had aged, had bad teeth, a blotchy complexion, and an unattractive figure. Observing her would make anyone feel sick, undoubtedly sick. The woman is overweight, no longer young, and has unattractive physical features…

The setting of a gothic novel has been described as, “usually a large mansion or remote castle which is dark and foreboding: usually isolated from neighbors” In Wuthering Heights, Bronte has used Thrushcross Grange and Wuthering Heights to depict isolation and separation. The dark and foreboding environment described at the beginning of the novel foreshadows…

Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner is a affecting narrative of an Afghani boy’s upbringing. Despite holding a supporter brought up in a civilization unfamiliar to most North Americans. the book has found widespread readership. One of the many grounds for the book’s popularity is the development and credibility of the father-son relationships that we are…

1. What do we learn about the character of Heathcliff in this extract? (Chapter 15, vol. 2, page 284-288)This extract whilst confirming and extending many of the character traits that we have previously seen in Heathcliff, also presents us with other sections of his persona that have not been revealed before in the novel. We…

The movie “The Island” takes place in the year 2019, where rich people can buy a “life-insurance” in form of a clone. The clones live separately under the earth in an old military site, where they have no acces to the real world. They have been told that they are the only survivors of a…