While honor and self realization may be ideological terms often associated with a war cause brutality and self scarification are perhaps more realistic descriptors The brutal and ferocious atmosphere of war often forces its young soldier constituencies to sacrifice any childish views of life and mature Walter Dean Myers novel Fallen Angels details the tragic loss of innocence of group of young soldiers who surrounded by the unspeakable horrors of the Vietnam War are forced to prematurely journe
In the play Blood Brothers Willy Russell makes it possible for the audience to sympathise with Mrs Lyons despite the dreadful deeds she does in the end The play is a story about twins who are separated at birth One is kept with his original family and the other is brought up in wealthier surroundings The boys end up meeting and becoming good friends However the adoptive mother thinks her son is going to find out that she is not his birth mother and fears he will leave her This causes her to dev
Wide Sargasso Sea Summary Wide Sargasso Sea begins in Jamaica after the Emancipation Act of 1833 under which Britain outlawed slavery in all its colonies The first part of the novella is told from the point of view of Antoinette Cosway a young white girl whose father a hated former slaveholder has died and left his wife and children in poverty The familys estate Coulibri is quickly falling into ruin and Antoinettes mother Annette is rapidly sinking into a deep depression Since her mother freque
Treasure Island The Journey of Jim Hawkins For the duration of existence people undergo the physical and mental stages of growing up During this phase people establish through their dealings who they actually are in addition to what they are worth For instance Treasure Island is an adventure tale but it is also the story of one boys Jim Hawkins coming of age On the outset of the voyage Jim was a timid adolescent but by the closing stages he had matured incredibly In his novel Treasure Island au
Chapter 15 of Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe is a very significant part in the story It is important in showing how much Okonkwo has changed since being exiled from his village and going to live in his motherland We heard in the previous chapter of his first couple of days but this chapter is set 2 years later when he has become accustomed to the very different atmosphere of the village of Mbanta During this chapter is his first contact with Umuofia his old village which comes in the form o
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
Amy Tans Joy Luck Club provides a realistic depiction of Chinese mothers and their Chinese American daughters struggling in relationships strained by tragedy lack of communication and unreasonable expectations Tan criticizes mothers who intend to instill Chinese values while supplying American opportunities The result is daughters becoming too Americanized and materialistic Living in America demands a particular way of life that dictates the rules of success socially and professionally These co
1997 AP Question Novels and plays often include scenes of weddings funerals parties and other social occasions Such scenes may reveal the values of the characters and the society in which they live Select a novel or play which includes such a scene and in a focused essay discuss the contribution the scene makes to the meaning of the work as a whole William Shakespeares Macbeth is a tragic play involving a man so driven for power that the lengths he will go to achieve it will drag him into a pit
Greed has and always will be our most deceptive emotion In William Shakespeares Macbeth this thought was proven in most of the main characters There own greed blinded them played tricks on their minds and deceived them into death Sheer ignorance in the face of evil brought these characters an unexpected death The chief disturbance to our outlooks on life is security the way we react to the personnel around us In this play mortals are in most danger when amongst their closest friends It is the o
The Lord of the Flies The man must have standards in order to control his wild side William Golding carries out this theme in the novel The Lord of the Flies There are many characters in the story that help to demonstrate how the man must have standards in order to control his wild side Ralph is the boss and that represents civilization and its rules Ralph is Piggys trustworthy and intellectual Both Ralph and Piggy represent the struggle for order Jack represents wildness which later gets in co