Crossing the River A desperate foolishness The crops failed I sold my children This is how Caryl Phillips begins his novel of suffering and slavery that spans whole continents and centuries The author uses several narrative voices throughout his novel covering a two hundred and fifty year time period of a father waiting patiently for his three children Nash Martha and Travis to return home however they wont make it We as readers are never told who the father is but from narrative voices we can
Their Eyes Were Watching God In the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston there is an African American woman Janie Mae Crawford who goes on a journey to find the woman who is trapped within herself Janie returned to her homeland where she was seen with eyes of treachery because she had abandoned everything she owned for an absurd reason However there was one person her best friend Pheoby who was there to listen and not give in to the rumors being spread about her The novels t
Analysing Act 2 Scene 1 and Act 4 Scene 3 in The Taming of the Shrew will cover various features of the clever language Shakespeare has used in the play in order for it to appeal to all audiences This will include humour in the form of sexual innuendo slapstick comedy and puns because the play is a comedy I will also point out animal imagery and different 16th century themes Shakespeare has included in the play some of which still exist today i e sexism men versus women power and appearance ver