Confined within the box at the side of the bridge, the on-looking soldier silently inspects his surroundings through the glass prison. He glances at the shiny car which gradually rolls by past the guards on duty.
In the novella, Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck demonstrates the effect of isolation through prejudice, broken dreams and the setting. All of these aspects of the story lead to the characters suffering from isolation which inevitably result in the… Continue Reading →
Steinbeck uses the characters’ actions and reactions towards prejudice, dreams, setting and foreshadowing to show the audience the effects of isolation. Introduction Foreshadowing Prejudice Dreams Setting Summary Conclusion
“Ain’t I got no right to talk to nobody.” Curley’s wife admits to Lennie that she is being prevented from talking to people on the ranch. Curley’s wife suffers from sexism because she is the only female on the ranch… Continue Reading →
Carlson, one of the workers on the ranch, represents the average, common American worker during the Great Depression. Carlson is described by Steinbeck as a powerful, big-stomached man, which is what a man doing physical labour everyday, should typically look… Continue Reading →
Carlson “He ain’t no good to you, Candy. An’ he ain’t no good to himself. Why’n’t you shoot him, Candy?” A powerful, big-stomached man came into the bunk house. “You take it, Carlson. When you see ‘um, don’t give ‘im… Continue Reading →
Wilfred Owen’s poem, Futility, is a poem about war, in which he questions whether war is right or not. War in the early 1900s was seen as a way to have glory and honour, however, Owen states all that happens… Continue Reading →
Hawk Roosting by Ted Hughes is all about nature and how nature works. In this poem, the example he uses is a hawk and its in the first person viewpoint of the hawk. The story goes from the hawk sitting… Continue Reading →
Text messaging and spoken language can be very creative in many ways. There are specific features that can be used to add creativity in a conversation and I am going to talk about them in my essay. Both text messaging… Continue Reading →
In spoken language, paralinguistic and linguistic features can add enormous amounts of creativity to a conversation. Paralinguistic features are non verbal communications that are used while having a spoken conversation for example, body language or facial expressions Linguistic features are… Continue Reading →
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