To what extent do you sympathise with Marcus and the choices he has to make in About a Boy? Discuss the techniques the author has used and use examples from the text to support your answer. In the novel “About a Boy” by Nick Hornby‚ the character of Marcus has to make numerous choices which affect his life in a variety of different ways. Marcus is 12 years old and because of this‚ he is often naïve and hasty is his decisions but he makes them in order to protect himself. These choices that he makes
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Growing a sense of superiority because they possess more “knowledge”‚ people create this awful lack of empathy and an inability to relate and sympathise. In Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle‚ the two male protagonists live two totally opposite lives in an area separated by wealth‚ status and race. Delaney‚ a man living the semi-affluent “american dream”‚and Candido is a man homeless living in a canyon
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These productions’ purpose was never to evoke the audiences’ sympathy for Hedda‚ which I would like to achieve instead through the ideas of entrapment and the production elements that would deliver this message. Often‚ members of the audiences will sympathise with one character in a play over others and I believed Hedda deserves our empathy. In today society‚ people feel trapped by circumstances‚ by the expectations of others or the perceptions of success. They would like to have a different direction
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they carried out‚ he found allies in Lennie and George. Their friendship eventually extended to encompass him. He was part of something‚ united by the dream‚ had some purpose‚ ‘I could of hoed in the garden and washed dishes for them guys.’ I sympathise with Candy in his realisation that the dream would not be fulfilled. I think it is worse to have had hopes dashed than to have had no hopes in the first place. He is now conscious of what he stands to lose. Steinbeck describes him as ‘Old Candy’
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sense that this genre of play forces us to choose some characters over others‚ and Shakespeare depicts the fools in the play‚ both honest and loyal and willing to weather out the storm with those who are suffering‚ as the positive characters we sympathise with and ‘choose’ above the clearly selfish knaves. Lear’s very first actions in the play involve banishing Cordelia and Kent for being honest despite Kent’s pleas to “see better”. Cordelia refuses to “varnish the truth” (Shankar Vedantam) by
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sudden death of a hundred thousand people‚ even if they were "enemies"’. Hersey portrays the six characters not as enemies‚ but as normal people‚ with real values and attitudes which elicits resentment towards the Americans and encourages readers to sympathise with the Japanese
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pain and terror gangs can create. This is also effective as it creates a gruesome image in the reader’s mind of Andy in his current situation. Therefore we feel sorry for Andy as he cannot even call for help. Another way the author makes us sympathise for Andy is how the author uses the idea of Andy being isolated from the rest of the world. Andy is lying in the alley far from help and he can hear music but nothing or no-one is able to help him. We see this when the writes says‚ “He watched
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In this question I have been asked to explore how j.b. Priestley presents sympathy for Eva Smith in ‘’An Inspector Calls’’ In "An Inspector Calls"‚ J.B. Priestley uses the characters and attitudes of the Birling family‚ especially Mr. Birling‚ to make the audience feel sympathy for Eva Smith. The family is "prosperous" and "comfortable"‚ and Mr. Birling’s extensive posturing and blagging emphasizes their good fortune. In the opening lines of the play‚ he is found to be drinking and discussing port
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With Reference To Miller’s Dramatic Techniques‚ Discuss Your Response To Joe Keller. Arthur Miller’s “All My Sons”‚ is a tale of the contrast between human profit and human loss in the midst of World War II. The play was written during the war‚ but Miller set the play some two years after the war‚ in August of 1947 in Midwest suburban America‚ with the main plot set between Sunday morning and a little after two o’clock the following afternoon. Miller’s personal experiences of war influence
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Millers Presentation of Parris is interesting; he uses Parris as a symbol for the theme of power and conflict within the parameters of religion. As an audience‚ we can see that Miller makes an example of Parris: he is used to demonstrate some of the major flaws of society across the ages. Miller’s presentation of Parris towards other characters is very derogatory as we can infer from his remark to Tituba that he would ‘whip her’. This could be an example of how she was treated by people when
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