...The short story takes place during WWI and deals with a twelve-year-old boy, Charlie Stowe, who wants to smoke a cigarette in the middle of the night. His father owns a tobacco shop which is placed underneath their house and from this shop he gets the cigarette. By doing so he does not only defy his parents he is also in fact stealing. This obviously makes him feel uncomfortable and throughout the story he is bouncing between being afraid and being brave. Moreover the short story is about the relationship, between Charlie Stowe and his parents, which on the one hand is very good as to his mother, however; on the other hand he barely has a relationship with his father. Theme In “I Spy” several themes can be discovered. However, the theme which our group noticed right away was the “Parent-child-relationship” and more specifically the “Father-son-relationship”. In the very beginning of the text we are told that the boy does not like his father (notice p. 534, lines 22-25) Several times in the short story it is outlined that Charlie is actually terrified of him. In contrary to this he adores his mother (see page 534, lines 25-27). Not until the father is taken away Charlie feels that he loves him (537 bottom). In our group we believe that this sudden feeling of love for the father is due to Charlie wanting his mother to himself. When talking about this with the other groups it led to a discussion whether or not this is a picture [jk4] of Freud’s Oedipus complex. Some did...
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...In “I Spy” several themes can be discovered. However, the theme which our group noticed right away was the “Parent-child-relationship” and more specifically the “Father-son-relationship”. In the very beginning of the text we are told that the boy does not like his father (notice p. 534, lines 22-25) Several times in the short story it is outlined that Charlie is actually terrified of him. In contrary to this he adores his mother (see page 534, lines 25-27). Not until the father is taken away Charlie feels that he loves him (537 bottom). In our group we believe that this sudden feeling of love for the father is due to Charlie wanting his mother to himself. When talking about this with the other groups it led to a discussion whether or not this is a picture [jk4] of Freud’s Oedipus complex. Some did not agree on this since the complex occurs much earlier in life. Besides this some argued that Oedipus did not know his parents which Charlie does. But since Freud was just showing the main idea of the myth instead of using it literary,[jk5] the claim that the short story is also about “Freud’s Family Romance” is still supported. The fact that Freud was becoming very popular in England at that time could furthermore speak for this being the right interpretation. Therefore some agreed that Charlie could just be in the middle of an unsolved Oedipus complex. Another theme within the short story could be manhood. This theme is, however, slightly connected with the abovementioned...
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...I Spy To be young, and not knowing where you stand with your parents can be hard, really hard, the boy in this story don’t know where he stands with his father, his father is not a role model, a good father or anything positive. This text, I Spy, is a short story with a third person narrator. There are a lot of difficult words to understand, and that’s one of the things that can make this short story, difficult to understand. And as we got many difficult words we also got a difficult language. The structure of this text is chronological time, no flashbacks, and it is in medias ras, the story don’t have a introduction, the ‘’action’’ starts from first sentence. This story takes place during World War 1, and deals with the boy Charlie Stowe, who is twelve years old. It takes place in a city called Norwich, in the west part of England (s. 93, l. 4). The main character is the young boy Charlie Stowe. This short story is in outline ←(Google translate) about a boy and his relationship to his parents, which on the one hand is very good, and on the other hand very bad, this boy can’t stand his father, he is unreal to him. But he truly loves his mother, who is friendly, kind and a lovely parent. The title ‘I Spy’ is named that because the young Charlie is spying on his abusive father from the start till the end of this story. In ‘’I Spy’’ we got a theme, and it is the father-son-relationship, it is easy to track if you read the story. I would actually say that it is the same theme...
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...In the three clips that I watched, various themes appeared throughout the duration of the short propaganda films. Themes of secrecy, intelligence, and the consequences of spilt secrets was a reoccurrence. The first clip showed how there are spies everywhere and to be cautious of your secrets, while the second clip dealt with the consequences of said secrets getting out. The third clip warned of the various ways enemy spies can get their hands on secrets and how easy it is to fall prey. All three clips displayed efforts of counterespionage that the US utilised against the Germans. The purpose of these clips was to educate government officials, military personnel, and espionage agents about the dangers of sharing secrets. During a time when...
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...burned and they will be killed. The most important theme in Fahrenheit 451 is Government. There are a lot of examples about how much control the government has over people and how much he spies on them and how suspicious he is of everyone. An important piece of evidence in this is when the government sends a mechanical dog to spy on people who are suspected of having books. This is seen on page 114 “He turned around and saw the mechanical hound there”. This is proof that the government uses more than just humans to spy on people and that people don't know when they are being spied on. So they have to be really cautious. I think...
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...Explore the ways in which Keith is presented towards Stephen in ‘Spies’ Frayn binds the fragility of youth and secrecy to form the unexpected and dissolution of childhood. His frequent ambiguity eludes the author into what is really the secret, hence the title ‘Spies’. Frayn often ends the last chapters of the novel with ‘Everything is as it was; and everything has changed,’ it is Stephens reflection of his consequences in a world he does not understand; Frayn often emphasises Stephen’s age and naivety with his misinterpretations of events throughout the novel, which then prove disastrous for orbiting characters. A reoccurring theme is the influence of adults on children, the Hayward’s and their son Keith; the extreme opposites of the spectrum-parents, design Keith’s character. Frayn’s narrative begins as a light humorous read; however the consequences of misunderstanding and secrecy inflict severe harm on the book’s characters. As a result Stephen’s world shatters, disguised metaphorically and physically as Stephen’s hideout, the ‘privet’ contains all the secrets and emotions within the two children and the fracturing of their creativity provides the conclusion of the novel with the melancholic truth. Frayn often refers to Keith’s parents in order to show Keith as an individual but to also provide the reader with insight. When Keith’s father appears it evokes alarm even form his title ‘Keith’s father’ it is a distancing mechanism from everything and throughout the novel...
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...Massachusetts Bay. This play is an allegory to the McCarthy Hearings that took place from 1950 to 1956. The McCarthy hearings occurred in 1947; President Truman ordered background checks of every civilian in service to the government due to a fear of people within the United States being a communist spy. The fear of communism intensified when a high ranked official Alger Hiss was convicted of being a communist spy. Senator Joseph McCarthy stepped in and convinced/alarm people within the U.S that there were Communist and Communist sympathizers that would try to overthrow the government. As a result, he formed a special Congressional committee to investigate Americans who were suspected of Communist activities and this movement was named McCarthyism. The Crucible is a play that is universal and enduring because it uses allegory and archetypes to teach readers that fear and panic are the worst forms of chaos in society. People in both the Crucible and McCarthyism in the 1950’s panicked and were frightened to death. Fear lead people to react in such inhumane ways to save their selves. It influenced people to take extreme measures and act irrationally. The fear of witchcraft and communist spies led to people being accused of one. This created...
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...Example of Dramatic Irony from Acts I & II | CharactersInvolved | Sympathy? Antipathy? | Reason your sympathies lean as they do | Evidence – Lines and Explanation of Effect | Claudius and Gertrude think Hamlet is crazy but the audience knows he is faking it. | Claudius | Antipathy | I don’t feel sorry for Claudius not knowing because he deserves to be treated the way he is being treated by Hamlet because he killed his father | But to perseverIn obstinate condolement is a courseOf impious stubbornness. 'Tis unmanly grief.It shows a will most incorrect to heaven,. Hamlet when he is by himself or with other friends acts sane and normal but when he is around other friends and family he acts insane. | | Gertrude | Antipathy | I don’t feel sorry for Gertrude because she betrayed hamlets trust by marrying his father’s brother. | Please answer my prayers, Hamlet, and stay with us. Don’t go back to Wittenberg. Hamlet obeys his mother by not going to Wittenburg he is making his mother feel a bit better because she is concerned for him. | When Polonius speaks with his son Laertes, who is about to return to France, the father gives advice to his son. But, buried in conversation are the themes honest vs. deceit and love vs. betrayal as, after Laertes leaves, Polonius instructs Reynaldo to spy on his son | Laertes | Sympathy | I feel sorry for Laertes because his father is sending his Reynaldo to spy on him and to talk to people and spread lies about Laertes. It also proves that...
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...of their society, as curiosity was encouraged. William Shakespeare lived in the Elizabethan era, and he noted things about society that he emphasized in his plays. While it was illegal, revenge occurred frequently, as did corruption (as exemplified by Queen Elizabeth’s Court ). In Hamlet, Shakespeare intertwines the two themes of corruption and revenge, and throughout the piece, he makes it evident that the two are part of a relentless cycle. Throughout the play, Hamlet, Shakespeare makes it known that when...
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...Graham Greene “I Spy” The text under stylistic analysis “I Spy” is written by Graham Greene in the style of fiction. It deals with author’s feelings and emotions about relations at school, relations in the family. The main theme of the story is how main character of the story Charlie Stowe was able to steal some of his father’s stock - a packet with cigarettes from his father’s shop, with the purpose to prove his classmates that he is not a little boy. The idea of the story is that real parents should pay enough attention to their children, to bring them up properly in order that there wasn’t conflict’s in their family. So in the beginning of the story we have an exposition, where we get to know about the main character Charlie Stowe; the time of the seen is night. Charlie Stowe waited in his bedroom until he heard his mother snore. Then we got to know that it was the time of war, as ’searchlight passed across the sky,… seeking enemy airship’. Then Charlie draught the thought the cracks in the window frame. We have a detached construction in the second paragraph from the world ‘But the thought of the tobacconist’s shop…’ where author pays our attention to the fact that Charlie wanted to smth with it. then we see that he was 12 years old and that boys at “County school” nocked at him because he had never smoked a cigarette. The author uses periphrases concerning to cigarettes “The packet were piled twelve deep below”. The cigarettes were called Gold Flake and Players...
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...Peace By George Herbert (1593-1633) A Study Guide | Cummings Guides Home..|..Contact This Site. Type of Work | Summary of the Poem | Text and Notes | Themes | End Rhyme | Internal Rhyme | Feet and Meter | Symbols | Figures of Speech | Study Questions | Writing Topics | Author's Biography | . Study Guide Prepared by Michael J. Cummings...© 2011 . Type of Work.......George Herbert's "Peace" is a lyric poem in the form of an allegory. The poem focuses on a religious theme. It was first published in 1633 in a collection of Herbert's poems entitled The Temple: Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations. Summary of the Poem .......The speaker of the poem addresses Peace as a person (personification), asking where he dwells. The speaker says he sought Peace in a cave but failed to find him there. Afterward, he sees a rainbow and examines it to find Peace. But the rainbow disappears when the clouds break up. Next, he looks in a garden and beholds a crown imperial, with its downward facing bulbs, and believes Peace is at its roots. But when he digs, he finds only a worm. .......Later, he meets an elderly clergyman and asks him where to find Peace. The man then tells him a story. .......A prince once lived at Salem (Jerusalem), he says. "He sweetly lived," the man notes, but his enemies took his life. From his grave twelve stalks of wheat grew. This wheat spread throughout the earth after those who ate of it discovered that it contained a special virtue. This virtue could...
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...I am working on four or five major themes, but have found amazing connections between them. Four areas of immediate concern, in reverse order, are Osama Bin Laden, the Israeli Mossad, the CIA, the Holocaust. A fifth is the racism in the US judicial system, going back to the Civil war and to the foundation of the US. As a backdrop to all of this is work I have done using Joseph Campbell's series on Mythology with Bill Moyers, specifically, the Isis/Horus/Osiris myth predating the Mary/Jesus/God myth. Intertwined with this is Nietzsche's Anti-Christ, a work which I wish you had taught when you had the chance at WVSC. Many books have led me to many conclusions that you may or may not be aware of. The one you wanted the title of the last time we talked seriously is: Was the CIA involved in the JFK assassination? by Mark Lane. It has the info about how the CIA tried to kill Fidel Castro that you referred to once in class, except it was his wife, not a 16 year old, that was going to poison him. The CIA had told her he was cheating on her. Mark Lane is an attorney who managed Kennedy's New York campaign in 1960 when he was running for President. He is still alive in Virginia, in Charlottesville. You can find his address with 411locate.com. Amazingly, it turns out that the US hired 1000s of SS/Gestapo after the World War to spy in the USSR. Allen Dulles was responsible and the Vatican helped smuggle these Nazis into the US, saying that they were...
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...written in? 5. What happens to the three Hebrew men who refuse to bow down to the gold image of Nebuchadnezzar? 6. What happens to Daniel when he is caught praying to his God which is against the law? 7. How many dirges are there in book of lamentation? 8. What prophet is known as the weeping prophet? 9. What foreign powers capture Israel and Judah? 10. In all the prophetic books, there is the idea of _____ and _____. 11. Who is the suffering servant mentioned in the book of Isaiah? 12. Why are the Major Prophets given that title? 13. Song of Songs is a story of _____, _____, and _____. 14. The phrase “meaningless! Meaningless! Everything is Meaningless! Is found in what book? 15. The word “Ecclesiastes” means? 16. Name five main themes that can be found in the book of Proverbs. 17. There are 5 how many books in the book of Psalm? 18. _____ wrote __ of the ___ Psalms 19. Name the four friends of Job that are mentioned in this book. 20. Job was written in the _____ era about events that took place in the _____ era. 21. The primary poetic device used in Hebrew poetry is ____. 22. The name Joshua means “___________”; it is the Hebrew equivalent of _____. 23. Who is the missing character in the book of Esther? 24. What feast became one of the regularly observed Jewish feasts dues to what Esther did for the Jews as queen? 25. Who was the person who led the people in rebuilding the wall of Jerusalem in just 52 days? 26. Who was the person who led the people in spiritual...
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...The reoccurring theme in the book, The Falcon and the Snowman, by Robert Lindsey is of mistrust. All throughout the novel the theme is mistrust is seen. From the protagonist Christopher Boyce’s view on the United States covert policy to the Soviet Agent’s mindset of the courier Daulton Lee. Almost every character mistrusts each other or mistrusts another entity. The images and quotes were handpicked to emphasize the doubt almost all characters had of someone or something else. The collage itself has a spray painted background representing the oppression of information and illegal covert operations that are plentiful in the novel. The main text is written with a black background, symbolising classified information. “We're the only nation on earth to ever use atomic weapons on other human beings.” (p.446) This quote is very interesting, as Christopher Boyce says this to his interrogator after Boyce was arrested. Boyce was asked if he had any regrets for his actions, and Boyce tells him that the United States is the one that needs to feel regret. This is major mood shift, as Boyce was excited to work with Top Secret information, yet his whole view changed, and he mistrusted the United States government. The image is the mushroom cloud from the nuclear bomb detonated by the United States on Hiroshima, Japan. This complements the quote as it gives a visual to see, and realize the horror that happened in Hiroshima that ill-fated day. “You can't leave here tonight free of it all...
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...CRITICAL ANALYSIS In Act II Sc.1 Polonius talks to a man named Reynaldo and sends him to spy on his son. Ophelia reports to her father Polonius the strange behaviour of Hamlet. Polonius immediately concludes that Hamlet is 'madly in love' with Ophelia: “That hath made him mad." He wants to report it to the king immediately, because Ophelia says he just stood there staring at her for five minutes covered in mud and looked insane. Polonius at first thinks that Hamlets love for Ophelia is a fake act, but soon finds that his love is actual true. But he then believes he has gone mad, he believes he has gone crazy. This creates dramatic irony, Polonius cannot tell the truth, he is misreading Hamlet and it leads to his death. We the readers know that he is wrong about Hamlet. This scene creates a beginning of Polonius end. He’s actions lead to his eventual downfall. This scene shows that Polonius is not trustworthy because of him spying on his son, it shows the deception that Hamlet has and that Ophelia really does care for Hamlet. The main theme that it develops is acting, because both Polonius towards his son and Hamlet towards Ophelia trick them with false words and emotion. In this scene we learn that Polonius makes false judgements, and Hamlet can be very deceptive with his actions and emotions. We learn that the theme of acting is very present in the play. Through this acting many characters in the play don’t not know what the true intentions of other...
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