Essays on Family Page 52

As longtime ambassador to the land of children’s imagination, Maurice Sendak has conjured visions of places where wild things dwell. He has painted a chimeric culinary skyline where a nude little boy made an airplane from pastry dough and nose-dived into a high-rise pitcher of milk. Considered the leading visionary of children’s literature, Sendak has…

‘An inspector calls’ is a moral play about the Birling family and their guest Gerald Croft who are having dinner in celebration of the engagement of Sheila Birling and Gerald Croft. They are all happy and gleeful until they are suddenly interrupted by an inspector who is investigating the death of a girl named Eva…

In act one of ‘An Inspector Calls ‘how does J.B.Preistly use dramatic devices to convey his concerns and ideas to the members of the audience, as well as interest and involve them in the play? The play ‘An Inspector Calls’ was written by J.B. Priestly in 1945, which was just at the end of the Second World…

The play feels like a formulaic tale that’s been constructed around ideas, rather than a story of flesh-and-blood people. For instance, the storyline blanks out any other things outside this main story like:  The Carbone’s childless marriage  Katie’s birth father  Eddie’s side of the family. Miller covers some taboo issues and irony that make it more interesting and intriguing,…

Examine the settings which the writers have chosen for their stories in the Signalman and The Man with the Twisted Lip. Consider the effects that each writer has created and how they contribute to the atmosphere. Both The Signalman by Charles Dickens and The Man with the Twisted Lip by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle use…

‘The Children of Dynmouth’ by William Trevor, written in 1970 about a small seaside town, is based upon his own childhood home. The opening introduces a story of murder and intrigue. The novel, which I am comparing it with, is ‘Hard Times’ be Charles Dickens written in 1854. This introduces us to Coketown, a newly…

In this essay I will endeavour to explore all various phrases, words, metaphors and diction that contribute towards the portrayal of images regarding family and country life. I shall analyse two of Heaney’s poems to gather these images, the two poems being ‘Mid – Term Break’, taken from ‘Death of a naturalist’ (Heaney’s first collection),…

The poet Seamus Heaney is describing to incidents from childhood. “Mid term break” depicts the sombre affair of a child’s death. “Death of a naturalist” on the other hand tells us of a happy event. Although the two poems are written by Seamus Heaney they are not alike, death of a naturalist for example is…

Before publishing ‘Far from the Madding Crowd’ in 1874, Thomas Hardy’s novels were known, by readers at the time, to be rather vulgar because of their concentration on country folk and not members of high society. This was an unusual choice for an author at the time, whilst other classics by Jane Austen and the…

Dickens uses the Cratchit family to increase the readers’ empathy for the underprivileged. This situation is parallel to that of today’s first world/third world struggle, where the rich are encouraged to help the poor. Dickens’ description of the characters increases the readers’ sympathy and pity for the family. “They were not well dressed; their shoes…