English-language films

Animal imagery In advance: I won’t go in very much detail with each individual character because of the limited amount of space ☺ Enjoy! In a play saturated with the nature motif, one central aspects stands out. The Animals. Nearly all characters in the play are represented in some way or another by a kind of animal or at least portrayed as having animalistic behaviours. I find it interesting because the animals are used as a delicate way to uncover the emotions of the characters in a play…

This poem dramatically explains how glory and fame can come crashing down in an instant for an athlete in this particular scenario. In the first stanza, the author was describing the runner’s most joyous moment after a race he had just won. “Man and boy stood cheering by, and home we brought you shoulder-high,” paints the image in your mind of a whole town in awe of his performance. When reading in later stanzas, we are at the athlete’s funeral where the author says, “smart lad, to slip betimes…

My Puppy “Hanna, get ready, we’re going to see your uncle.” said my mom. I was extremely excited, my uncle was selling English Mastiff puppies and I wanted one very bad. They were so cute, I begged and begged my parents for one, but they said no every single time. I even did chores for weeks on end that my parents didn’t ask me to do, just so I could possibly have a chance to get the puppy. The puppy I wanted was the biggest male of the litter, he was a beautiful tan color with black around his…

Have you ever felt so low you want the world to swallow you up? You want the earth to split beneath you because it's the better way out? Have you spent days stuck in bed due to the absolute worry of the day ahead and the challenges you have to overcome? Have you ever cried yourself to sleep for endless nights because you feel strange, there's a difference inside your head, your heart, your whole entire body and it makes you feel sick. It feels like a piercing pain shooting around you. Its…

Siblings can become the best of friends in the home. However, it is more common for them to fight each other. One moment they can be adoring to one another and the next moment they can seem to be the worst of enemies. There is sibling rivalry as children grow and start competing for toys to attention and everything. Their needs also evolve as they reach different stages of development and affect their relationship with one another. Sibling rivalry has been happening since biblical times like…

My Opinion on Colours Written by: Nesta 7T “Colour is a power which directly influences the soul” ~ Wassily Kandinsky Can you imagine what life would be without colour? Thinking of it gives me chills of a nightmare. Well in “The Giver”, pretty much all the people in Jonas’s community can’t see, or even know of colour. In my opinion, being able to see colour is an extremely remarkable, and is an important physical trait that most humans have. It is important in things such as physical…

realized that the city would be saved. Another movie with a happy ending is The Beauty and The Beast. In the end Belle breaks the spell and all the dishes and furniture turn back to humans and the beast turns back to a prince. Throughout the whole film the prince was an arrogant ugly beast and in the end he learned how to be kind and to love. It also taught the young audience a lesson, that being nasty and arrogant never gets people anywhere in the world. Monsters Inc. also has a happy ending.…

From Dalton Trumbo’s novel, Johnny Got His Gun, a 15-year old boy and his father travel to one of their most cherished places during childhood, a lake 9,000 feet above sea level. This time, though, rather than spending every moment with his father, the boy now wishes to hang out with one of his friends, Bill Harper, instead. The special bondage between the young man and his father is now steadily quieting itself as the young teen feels a sense of abandonment and guilt towards his old man. With…

The presented passge provides an ideal character study of the lawyer, the narrator in Bartleby, the Scrivener. As the man walks home and analyzes the occurrence of the previous day, he envisioned in details and quickly self-rationalized his success in discharging Bartleby, his scrivener, from his office. The narrator’s syntax and diction demonstrates a character of sophistication and precision, while the rich observation and self-conglaturatory tone in his analysis and reveals his nuanced,…

My Thesis: “A Rose for Emily” Emily was a mean old white lady who ‘s heart had been broken in the past. Emily avoided everyone and anyone. Rule never matter and were never obliged by. Seemingly the story will give you an image of how in the early years of the 1900’s a now fat white woman is stuck in time. Ms. Emily live is a house that is rid of junk, history, hatred and odors lingering all through the city, and years to decades of build up everywhere. Story “A Rose for Emily” was the best…