...Vernissage essay Have you ever peeped on your parents? Well Alex has. And he isn’t just peeping. He describes every little thing. Maybe that’s just how it is, to be a child, or maybe that is the stage where a child wants to show, that he turns into a teenager. Describing his banana sandwich as baby food normally means child food aren’t good enough for Alex. He wants to be a grown up and eat grown up food. Making projects about earthworms in Nature class is also one of the childish struggles, you have to go through, if your name is Alex. He even needs to have a babysitter for one single night, while his parents are out for something called a vernissage. All this means Alex hasn’t turned into a teenager yet, but he really wants to. It seems normally for the parents to contact a babysitter, like it happens pretty often. It means that his parents, often are out for something. But that’s not the real problem. The real problem is between Alex’s parents. Alex’s mum Frances sighs several times. She is unhappy with something. Her husband John is always working, and when he gets home, all he thinks about is the next thing he’s going to do. Frances feels used. And she doesn’t earn her husbands respect. She shows up in her new dress in front of John, and his response is “It’s very nice”. You can easily feel the ironic and sadness in the answer. When the parents are out for something, for instance the night in the text, John is not even out with Frances. He’s only at the vernissage...
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...An essay on Claire Anderson Wheelers “Vernissage” B When a child is growing up, the parents’ relationship affects the child a lot. A child views the world with fresh eyes. They have not seen many things before and their lives are about learning and exploring. As children grow into adults something changes, their thinking changes and it’s different how a child becomes a grown-up. “Vernissage” is a short story about Alex and his parents, from 2008 written by Claire Anderson-Wheeler. Alex is the main character and he is in the transition from a child to a grown-up person. In the beginning of the short story, there are several things that show us that Alex is a child. He asks many questions like children often do: “What’s in the bag?”, “What did you buy a dress for?” (l. 22-29) In the beginning, Alex shows signs of how he is about to grow out of his childhood, but first we see that his mother still picks him up after school and he asks a lot of questions. He also lets his childish imagination run wild by picturing a man by the name Vernie Sage every time he heard the word vernissage. Alex likes banana sandwiches, which he himself admits is a bit childish “There was something about banana sandwiches, sweet and soft, that made him think of babyfood.” (l. 48-49) and “Suddenly the taste in his mouth was sickly-sweet, and he gulped it down quickly” (l. 77-78). This is point of no return, the banana sandwich symbolises the childhood and the fact that Alex does not want to eat the banana...
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...Engelsk A Studentereksamen Opgave A 1. Actors usually hate themself when they make mistakes in front of a live audience. - Actors usually hate themselves when they make mistakes in front of a live audience. Fejl I det reflektive pronomen – Mangler fleretals form grundet i at actors er i fleretal derved skal det reflektive pronomien også bøjes i fleretal. 2. The old World War II veteran was moved to tears when he shaked the presidents hand. - The old World War II veteran was moved to tears when he shook the presidents hand. Her er der fejl i verbummet. Verbummet er uregelmæssigt og bøjes derved anderledes. 3. A friend from New York took me on a trip who took us all the way down to the coast. - A friend from New York took me on a trip, which took us all the way down to the coast. Fejl i det relative pronominer. Det relative pronomien fører tilbage til “trip” og derved skal det være which. Desuden sættes der et komma før which. 4. The older guest treated Mr. Smith very nice and offered him a seat at their table. - The older guest treated Mr. Smith very nicely and offered him a seat at their table. Fejl i adverbiet. Adverbiet beskriver verbummet og derved kommer ly-endelsen på. 5. His hosts felt extremely embarrassed when he because of an insulting remark from his dinner partner left. - His hosts felt extremely embarrassed when he left because of an insulting remark from his dinner partner. Forkert ordstilling. Left er placeret forket i sætningen...
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...ESSAY – VERNISSAGE In the short story “Vernissage”, written by Claire Anderson-Wheeler, we meet a young boy named Alex. Alex is facing the dilemma whether he wants to stay in childhood or move on and enter adult¬hood. Alex’s parents, John and Frances, are having trouble figuring out their marriage. These troubles affect their son, and make him decide, that he wants to grow up and become an adult. The coming of age is the dominating theme through the story. Alex is a young boy, which exact age we do not know, but trough the story he seems like a boy who is being at the crossroads between childhood and adulthood. In the opening of the story, we can trough comparison with his mother se that Alex is clearly on a different level. On page 1 Alex is being a child by thinking of the fact that he did not get the subject beetles, which he wanted but instead he got earthworms, as a problem. Frances does not manage to understand his problem, which illustrate the differences between them and their experiences in life. Alex is using his imagination very much, which makes him childish as well. Alex likes to think of the dad’s vernissage as a person, he stretches out the word and transforms it to a persons name: Vernie Sadge. In this quotation Alex describes what “Vernie Sadge” would look like and how he would be: It is obvious that Alex does not like “Vernie Sagde”. Alex knows that the vernissage is to blame for the troubles between his parents. Later on (page 2), Alex is eating...
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...Example of an essay: Vernissage Vernissage Alex is the story’s protagonist and it’s told from his point of view (3rd person limited). He’s described as a normal young boy in his early years, somewhere at the age of 10 years old. This can be seen as he got a lot in common with other kids, such as asking his mother a lot of questions (p.1 ll. 22-30), getting picked up by his mom after school, and being stubborn about small things (p.1 ll. 14-15) “I wanted beetles.”, things that’s normal considered as a childish acting. He also requires a babysitter (p.2 l.75) “Anne-Marie was the babysitter”, which tells us that he’s not old enough to take care of himself either. He also plays with the food at (p.2 l.55) “Alex! Stop messing with the food”. Alex’s mother and father have a distant relationship, (p.3 ll.107-108) “…The two pair of legs kept their distance…” they’re not saying ‘Hi’ by giving each other a kiss or some other gesture; instead they stay at distance and having a cold dialoguing. The mother also constantly thinks about impressing her husband by dressing up and putting on make-up, but in failure. (p.4 ll.138-140) “…That voice Alex knew. It was the same voice that he heard when he showed his father something he’d made in school.” This is a confirmation from Alex that his father don’t really care about his wife’s’ dress, and that he’s maybe not that into her as she is in him. The way Alex’s father keeps denying his wife when she tries to be sexy towards him (p.4 ll.148-149)...
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...Vernissage essay This short story is called “Vernissage.” And the author is Claire Anderson-Wheeler. This story is about a young lad named Alex. The readers follows the story from Alex’s point of view. Since this story starts in the middle of an action, and we get nothing beforehand, means that there isn’t any introduction to where we are, such as country or city, or who we are dealing with, except for Alex and his mother. In the text, it says that Alex hides under his parents’ bed, because he doesn’t want to do his homework. From under the bed, Alex witnesses that his mother is trying to get his father’s attention, but it isn’t going too well, since all he cares about at that moment is the vernissage that they’re going to at the evening. In the text, we also read about how his parents affects him growing up, in a bad way. Reading the text, it seems like Alex is maybe, in the very early teens, over maybe even a bit younger than that. I would say between 9 and 14 years old, which is a bit of a gap, but it is not easy to know, since we’re never told how old Alex actually is. I have estimated his age to be right before the teens, because of the way he acts. It seems like he wants to be like a grown up person, but yet again, stay back as a kid, and instead of taking those important decisions he just wants to stand back, and stay with his safety and his norms. It says in the text, “Maybe he was getting too old for banana sandwiches. He thought about saying that he didn't...
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...Our vision is to enhance the quality of life of our citizens by bringing arts and culture from the margins to the mainstream of the economy and society through culturally sustainable policies and actions that will lead us to the status of the first Artistic & Cultural Island City in the World Table of contents Page Message of Prime Minister…………………………………………………………. 3 Message of Minister of Arts and Culture …………………………………………... 4 Introduction…………………………………………………………………………. 5 Executive summary…………………………………………………………………. 7 Chapter 1: Overview of the Arts and Culture set-up ………………………………. 19 Chapter 2: The Music industry……………………………………………………... 23 Chapter 3: The Arts sector …………………………………………………………. 30 Chapter 4: Publishing, Reading and Writing ………………………………………. 39 Chapter 5: The audio-visual sector ………………………………………………… 43 Chapter 6: Heritage Management and Promotion………………………………….. 47 Chapter 7: Mauritius, an Artistic and Cultural Island City- ACIC………………… 51 Chapter 8: Developing synergies…………………………………………………… 56 Chapter 9: Arts and Culture: the cement of our nation …………………………….. 61 Chapter 10: Conclusion - Arts and Culture make Mauritius a haven ……………...63 Message of the Prime Minister Culture is connecting with development and is poised to become a fundamental component of sustainable development. This White Paper sets the stage for...
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