(Miss)understood

Miss Congeniality is an action comedy film that came out in the year 2000. This film starred the very well- known actress Sandra Bullock, who plays an FBI agent who has to undergo a transformation in order to become a contestant in the Miss America pageant. Bullock was later nominated for Best Actress at the 2001 Golden Globes, for her performance in Miss Congeniality. From its opening weekend till now Miss Congeniality has made close to a hundred and seven million dollars. The director of this…

Parker Driggs Mrs. Turner Honors British Literature 7 December 2016 “Growth” Expectations Potential is the inherent ability or capacity for growth, development, or success in the future. Young people are often labeled with having immense potential, sometimes creating an immense burden on them as they try to fulfill those expectations. The potential these people possess can mark the beginning of a great period of growth and development if they learn to nurture their potential appropriately as…

Pip was helped throughout the book by countless side characters in both positive and negative ways such as Jaggers and Herbert or Estella and Miss Havisham. Whether the influence of the character towards Pip is positive or negative all interaction is beneficial for Pip, Herbert bunks with Pip and is a positive influence towards him, teaching him edicate, dancing, manners and even sharing advice…

Taking Marting Chuzzlewit as the referent work for the present essay and the main features of Realism previously presented, it is possible to state that, Dickens reflects all these features in this novel making it one of his most characteristic works. Introducing the range of linguistic registers previously mentioned, Dickens places each character in a different social status depending on each character idiolect1. On this basis, it is also essential to point out the importance of Dickens' use of…

Historical accuracy is extremely important while both reading and writing a piece of literature. Especially when one is constructing a work that is centered around an important historical event, such as the French Revolution in A Tale of Two Cities. Throughout the first chapter of his novel, Charles Dickens provides an excessive amount of information regarding France and England, along with the condition of their citizens during the time period. With his often cryptic descriptions of the late…

First of all I concentrate on formal element of Great Expectation, putting a question: how far does Dickens want us to be conscious that a novel is what we are reading? It can be answered in a way is, it depends on the specific episode. Dickens’s novel brings the conventions of nineteenth century in ‘realism’ through a fiction that is nevertheless sufficient like the real worlds to convince us that it is. To forget that realism is a particular fictional technique to ignore the pre-eminent role…

SETTING: Pip is just settling into London for the first time, and he takes into notice how miserable London is.The setting here we see is changing from Pip’s old, poor town in the marshes to a more upscale city, and it was not what he was expecting. This seems to correlate with modern day situations, for example, New York City. Supposedly it’s a place you have to visit to see the square, but it’s just really dirty and not that impressive. CHARACTERIZATION: Here we see Pip meeting Mr. Jaggers…

The Bourgeois Sweeper Within "The Chimney Sweeper" by William Blake readers are exposed to the unfortunate story of a young boy who is marketed by his family and forced to sweep chimneys. Like many social conditions, social issues are met through sometimes desperate means such as marketing your own child to make a barely tenantable income. The poem appears to be one depicting the sad life of a lower-class family, but it is much more complex and barely touches the surface of inequality when…

The poem tells a sad story about a boy who works at a saw mill. His sister calls him for supper, out of excitement, he jumps up and partially slices his hand off. The writer uses various literary techniques and structure to describe the way in which the boy died and the aftermath of the death. The poet mentions a saw which is portrayed to almost be alive. Firstly, the writer uses 1st person narrative voice to convey his views towards the boy’s death. His perspective shows that he knows what is…

How does the poet convey his central ideas, themes and message in The Island Man-By Grace Nichols? The poem Island Man by Grace Nichols is about the struggles and the agonising transition for a man who lived all his life free and peaceful on a Caribbean island suddenly being forced to live in London, a big city that is noisy and busy all day long. He doesn’t even have good English (is there evidence in the poem to justify this?. He dreams of his homeland and the wonders that are there, finding…