Call on Me

messaging, and finally Skype. She asks, “what’s wrong with picking up the telephone and just talking to someone? Your old grandma likes to hear your voice.” She tells me that when she talks to her neighbors about the weekly phone calls she receives from my brother and I, they get a little jealous. They are lucky if they get monthly phone calls. All they receive is the occasional text message that, sometimes, they have trouble opening. Everything keeps getting faster in the attempt to bring…

How does Priestly present Inspector Goole in An Inspector Calls? The most perplexing character in J.B Priestley’s play An Inspector Calls is Inspector Goole. Priestley introduces Inspector Goole as a realistic straight forward police inspector. He presents the Inspector into the play using different methods: the language he uses, stage directions, mannerisms, and name through his entrance into the play and his political views and beliefs. Priestley introduces the Inspector as very commanding and…

Responsibility in An Inspector Calls by J.B. Priestley J.B Priestly wrote 'An Inspector Calls' just as the 2nd World War was coming to an end in 1945. The play was based in the time just before…

I was truly passionate about. The surge of adrenaline I felt before my first show in front of a live audience and the excitement of being someone else onstage was exhilarating. It was patently clear that acting would become a lifelong interest. For me it is not only thrilling and expressive, but a foray into the life of the character I am playing and an opportunity to experience something new. I love many aspects of acting. I appreciate the relative fame and recognition I get from being a…

supposed to be fast asleep in bed until Mama came to wake me at 7:00 for school. Also Mama is insisting that I go to school again!!! When I tried to reason with her she didn’t even speak, she just stared into the distance with such a sad expression that I caved in and said that I’d go. Then, when I got home from school and walked into the kitchen I saw Mama crying. I rushed to her and asked what was wrong and at first she wouldn’t tell me but then she said in a sad, defeated voice- “Yellow…

care for, he taught me patience. Timmy taught me love, his love was unconditional. Even when Sebastian or I had him and our parents pulling out their hair, he showed love and kindness. Fast forward to January 2008, we moved to South Carolina. Timmy was not thrilled to be leaving Florida. Although he was born in Illinois…

Priestley's “An Inspector Calls” is a dramatic play that investigates the case of a poverty-stricken girl, Eva Smith, who commits suicide. A rich family, the Birlings, and Gerald Croft are inspected by Inspector Goole to find their link to the death of Eva. Each character has a different reaction when they discover they are responsible for Eva’s death, which reveals their personality traits of egocentricity, denial, and naivety; hence, the personality traits show some of the attitudes of wealthy…

Left in despair Envy is the desire to have or wanting something that belongs to someone else. The Cuckoo’s Calling, by Robert Galbraith, takes place in the 21st century in London during the end of winter. It is a fictional story where a detective investigates a mysterious suicide. One detective with the help of his partner work to gather information to find the truth about who the famous black supermodel at the time of her death. The closer the detective comes to finding the truth, the more…

There are three types of identity crisis: a temporary change of identity; no change at all, and a permanent change that isn’t reverted. Looking at the classic novels An Inspector Calls by J.B Priestly and Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, we can see these are present in their characters.Of Mice and Men was first published in 1937, it is a poignant tale of a remarkable friendship between two peripatetic workers in the Great Depression years of 1930’s America. George is a small hardworking man…

John B Priestley’s play, “An Inspector Calls’ was written after the Second World War during the Victorian and Edwardian period. During this period was when division between the behaviour of the older and younger generations could be clearly recognised. The older generation consist of Mr and Mrs Birling whom throughout the play fail to admit that they had any part in the death of Eva, as their reputation is the only thing that concerns them. Conversely the younger generation, Sheila and Eric feel…