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An Analysis of the Play Away by Michael Gow (526 words, 1 pages)

KRISTY HEWITT 11BAWAY ANALYTICAL ESSAYThroughout Away many characters go through changes, Gwen changes from a nagging housewife into a sympathetic and more balanced individual. Roy goes from being very insecure about life to knowing how to deal with his problems and live life as it comes. Coral, is also very ... Read More

A Comprehensive Analysis of Darkness Be My Friend by John Marsden (1443 words, 3 pages)

Title Darkness Be My FriendAuthor John MarsdenPublisher Pan Macmillan PublishersPublishing Date 1996Setting This book is set in fairly modern times about 1990. I know this because the teenagers speak the same way my friends and I do and dress just like people do now. I also know this because of ... Read More

The Life of Poverty in New Zealand as Described in the Novel “The Thorn Birds” (1415 words, 2 pages)

The Thorn BirdsThe novel, The Thorn Birds, is a very well written story about a family living in a poorer section of New Zealand whose livelihood is shearing sheep. The money for the family depends almost solely on the sheep. In the family, there is Padraic Cleary (Paddy), the father ... Read More

An Analysis of the Character Interaction in The Riders by Tim Winton (638 words, 2 pages)

Good morning afternoon Miss Martin and fellow class students. Tim Wintons novel The Riders is a very deatailed novel about being a father and being a husband. The protangonist, Mr fred scully, more commonly known as Scully encounter and overcomes his main dissapointment of losing his beloved wife, Jennifer. Jennifer ... Read More

A Summary of Such a Good Boy: How a Pampered Son’s Greed Led to Murder by Lisa Hobbs Birnie (2390 words, 11 pages)

Summary18 year old Darren Huenemann of Saanich, British Columbia seemedto be a model student, friend, son and grandson. His mother Sharon calledhim the "perfect gentleman", as did most of the community around him.When his grandmother Doris made out her will in 1989, she made it so herdaughter Sharon would receive ... Read More

Australian Attitudes of the 1970’s Presented in David Williamson’s The Club (1964 words, 3 pages)

Part AIn his play The Club, David Williamson presents numerous Australian attitudes of the 1970s. However, many of these attitudes are still relevant and fairly accurate representations of Australian attitudes in the 1990s, although some of course have changed somewhat over the time since the play was written nearly twenty ... Read More

An Analysis of the Novel A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute (488 words, 2 pages)

A Town Like Alice DiscussionEven though cultures differ, people are basically the same.This is a statement that depends a lot on what you mean with basically. I thinkpeople are pretty much the same all around the world but and they definitelycould end up being almost the same if they was ... Read More

A Literary Analysis and a Comparison of the Club and the Removalists by David Williamson (1945 words, 9 pages)

David Williamson's "The Club" and "The Removalists"Part A In his play The Club, David Williamson presents numerous Australianattitudes of the 1970s. However, many of these attitudes are still relevant andfairly accurate representations of Australian attitudes in the 1990s, althoughsome of course have changed somewhat over the time since the play ... Read More

The Life and Works of Bruce Dawe (929 words, 2 pages)

Bruce Dawe, a well renowned Australian poet was born in 1930 in Geelong. Who was once portrayed as an ordinary bloke with a difference. Bruce Dawe writes about ordinary Australian people in the suburbs confronting their everyday problems. He observes and records the sorrow and hardships of average people struggling ... Read More

A Look at the Nature of the Australian Poetry (894 words, 2 pages)

As I walked into the lecture hall, I saw people ranging from the literary communitys elite to high school students. Taking my seat, the crowd hushed as a rather distinguished looking man walked to the podium. The man prepared his notes and I waited silently in awe of his presence, ... Read More

An Analysis of Homesis Suburbien, Drifters, and Life-Cycle by Bruce Dawe (961 words, 2 pages)

Homo Suburbiensis, Drifters and Life-Cycle, Bruce Dawe, a well renowned Australian poet was born in 1930 in Geelong. Who was once portrayed as an ordinary bloke with a difference. Bruce Dawe writes about ordinary Australian people in the suburbs confronting their everyday problems. He observes and records the sorrow and ... Read More

The Use of Sensory Details in A Killing Frost by John Marsden (432 words, 3 pages)

John Marsden's A Killing Frost passes all three of my tests (and please forgive my purposefully hazy focus on "good writing", but I must have some quirks as a book reviewer!). Sensory detail pervades this novel of war, told from the point of view of a teenager who, with her ... Read More

A Book Analysis of Darkness Be My Friend by John Marsden (1443 words, 3 pages)

An Analysis of the Novel The Thorn Birds of New Zealand (1415 words, 2 pages)

An Examination of the Book of Mormon and Its Chief Witnesses (3474 words, 14 pages)

An Examination of the Book of Mormon and its ChiefWitnessesJoseph Smith, the founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints claimedthat he received the Book of Mormon as a revelation from God. He said that theheavenly being Moroni appeared to him and directed him to some buried ... Read More

An Analysis of Character of Charlie Kaufman in Film Adaptation from the Book The Orchid Thief (596 words, 1 pages)

Our common perception of cinema, and more importantly, good movies, is that it is a reflection of reality. What movies which we find so amazing, and garner tons of money at the box office do so well is that such films immerse us, the viewers in the experience of watching ... Read More

Overcoming Challenges in A Child Called It and The Book Thief (841 words, 4 pages)

Everyone has issues that stand in our way and it must be surmounted. My independent novel called A Child Called It and The Book Thief emphasizes how to conquer problems. They have similarities in overcoming challenges but they also have similarity in terms of the causes of their obstacles. Liesel, ... Read More

The Power of Stories in The Book Thief (326 words, 2 pages)

In Mark Zusaks novel The Book Thief, the main character, Liesel Hemmeriage, tries to survive through World War 2 while trying to learn how to read and write. Throughout the book the author wants the reader to see that words are not just an idea or story, but a power ... Read More

Analyzing The Book Thief by Mark Zusak (1193 words, 4 pages)

The competitors took their marks. Butterflies fluttered through the stomachs of every runner, except for one who was very confident. The competitors got set. The confident man could feel the eyes of Hitler lurking upon him. The competitors took off. In the blink of a German eye, Jesse Owens had ... Read More

Time Victims in The Book Thief by Mark Zusak (895 words, 3 pages)

The Book Thief, by Mark Zusak, is a novel that portrays the struggles of a young German girl living in Nazi Germany during the Third Reich. This scared German girl, Liesel, fought and battled to survive in a war-torn society - holding her tongue when there was injustice and learning ... Read More

Published: Monday 28th of October 2013