THE SECRET GARDEN Stage 3 ’We’re alike‚ you and me‚’ old Ben Weatherstaff said to Mary. ’We’re not pretty to look at and we’re both very disagreeable.’ Poor Mary! Nobody wants her‚ nobody likes her. Her parents have died‚ and she is sent home from India to live in her uncle’s house in Yorkshire. It is a big old house‚ with nearly a hundred rooms‚ but most of them are shut and locked. Mary is cross and bored‚ and lonely. There is nothing to do all day‚ and no one to talk to‚ except old Ben Weatherstaff
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After reading many novels throughout my life I would place‚ The Shadow Lines‚ by Amitav Ghosh‚ in my top 10 list. The novel is based on the narrator who was English educated but Indian born. The narrator illustrates and shares his views of foreign countries which he has never been to with other characters in the novel. Even though the narrator is English educated his values‚ ethics‚ and culture is more Indian than an American. Many of us now notice that when a person migrates from one country
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Student Lounge Studying can be hard and very frustrating. When I first stepped into the student lounge I noticed that there were many activities for students. There were computers for students to access the Internet‚ places for students to sit‚ and a coffee shop that put out a wonderful aroma throughout the student lounge. As I looked around‚ I saw people studying and reading books. Most of them all had some sort of beverage in their hands‚ and they seemed very relaxed. In the student lounge
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1. I was most worried about what might happen to Omovo when he ran after the lady through the forest and got to the river. It seemed like he was going to run into a lot of trouble by following the lady all the way to her cave with the rest of the people she was with. 2. I think Omovo’s feelings towards the solders were more of fear and hate than anything else‚ it seemed from the beginning that he didn’t like them. After he saw them at the bar and they spit in his face‚ I think he got the feeling
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Narrative Response 1 The Shadow‚ was written by Albert Camus‚ in the year of 1942‚ just three years after World War Two began. Even though throughout the book much of the war isn’t shown‚ Albert Camus‚ was still able to incorporate one aspect of the war‚ racism. While at his mother’s funeral the main character first notices the women sitting next to his mother’s coffin. “An Arab woman—a nurse‚ I supposed—was sitting beside the bier; she was wearing a blue smock and had a rather gaudy scarf wound
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Have you had a life changing experience? Well‚ Brian‚ Moon shadow‚ and Rachel had life changing event. First of all‚ Brian was lost on an island and thought that the pilot will look for him. Secondly‚ Moon shadow was a fear of American because of the heavy debt they have to pay off. Last of all‚ Rachel faced her emotions in the classroom that an ugly red sweater was her’s. As shown above‚ all the characters can have a life changing experience. Brian faced loneliness and hunger when he was stranded
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In the “Rocking Horse Winner‚” D. H. Lawrence explores the greed in humans and the extremities people will go to please others. The opening line‚ “there was a woman who was beautiful...” is very similar to many opening sentences in fairy tales. This is how D. H. Lawrence uses tradition to tell his story and gives the reader the sense of a fable‚ especially when he uses supernatural gifts like Paul’s seeing the winning Horse. D. H. Lawrence’s characters are symbols of Love and the lack there-of
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time allowing the reader to better understand the mind of the characters. This is demonstrated with the characters of Cinderella‚ in the different versions of Cinderella in the classic Fairy Tales‚ as well as with Isabelle Marie‚ in Mad Shadows. In Mad Shadows‚ the main character Isabelle Marie is deemed “ugly” by her mother‚ and for this reason is treated as virtually a slave and made to tend to the needs of her mother and more beautiful brother Patrice‚ who gets all of their mothers attention
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Botanical Garden Experience We went to Nezahat Gökyiğit botanical garden a day in a week for 4 hours. We had many kinds of experience related education of children. Firstly‚ botanical garden is attractive and mysterious area. Primary and secondary students visit the garden as a trip and observation with their class and teacher. It is possible children do activities and games. Stepping grass is free and touching soil provide students to learn with nature. There are 2 trainer‚ Sema Çevik
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How does Shadow of the Vampire appropriate the earlier texts of Nosferatu and Dracula and make or create something new? Blood sucking‚ darkness‚ gothic and death; all relate to this mysterious creature‚ the vampire. A film within a film is Shadow of the Vampire and it moulds together the texts Dracula and Nosferatu using post-modernist techniques. This creates for the audience a film that entertainingly doesn’t follow universal themes but focuses on gothic features‚ character transformations and
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