Part A i.Who is the director? Yasmin Ahmad was born in Kampung Bukit Treh in Muar, Johor on 7 Jan 1958. A graduate in arts majoring in politics and psychologyy from Newcastle University in England, she worked as a trainee banker in 1982 for two weeks then working for IBM as a marketing representative while moonlighting as a blues singer and pianist by night. Yasmin began her career in advertising as a copywriter at Ogilvy & Mather and in 1993 she moved to Leo Burnett as joint creative director
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has puzzled critics because of the elusiveness of its theme. Lamia seems to say that passionate love is an illusion and an enchantment, ultimately destructive. Keats presents her sympathetically; she is not an evil creature. Lycius too is presented sympathetically but in living with Lamia he is indulging in "sweet sin." Since he is a high-minded Platonist when first introduced into the story, his love for Lamia is indulging a weakness. When Lycius and Lamia meet Apollonius, Lycius' mentor, while
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acted quickly and killed him. Another reason is in The Wife's Story, the wife thinks her husband is a monster because of what he looked like. Last reason is in The Interlopers, the two men want to kill each other. First of all, the text does not support the idea that people should accept others different from themselves because in What a of a Goldfish, Would You Wish?, Sergei kills Yonatan without giving him a chance. In the story "he seems to have taken the burner off the stove and hit the
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This quote goes into the situation of Velutha and Ammu, and their love affair. Due to the almost social hierarchy in the location the two had lived in, it was almost a sin of those two being together. It was expressed in such a pessimistic way – even if Velutha kept fighting for his love with Ammu, it would not make a difference is the society had forbidden it. It was forbidden for ‘Untouchables’ to associate, it was written in The Love Laws. Like The God of Small Things, the same went with Sam and
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A) Write about the techniques Tennyson uses to tell the story in Tithonus The purpose of this essay is to discuss narrative methods and techniques used by Tennyson to tell the story in the poem Tithonus. Tennyson uses the theme of light to effectively illustrate the intense love Tithonus felt for Aurora but simultaneously this also highlight the love Tithonus will never feel again. This is shown by constantly mentioning the East where the sun rises, and also by the words ‘Thy sweet eyes brighten
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Poetic Justice is written by Diana Appleyard, and it is a short story, and was published in Days of Wine and Roses, Black Swan, London 2004. The story is about a woman who finds her ex-boyfriend, Jed Cunningham on the Friends Unite website. Then she tells us ''in her mind'' about their relationship in high school, how much she loved him, about Jed himself and about their break-up. She tells us how her life is boring, that her ''energy is gone'' after the break up, and how she had been depressed
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Rhodopis has a friend who was in love with her. Her friend named Kalif was also a servant of a good pharaoh. He always bring with him the slippers of Rhodopis which served him as a remembrance of Rhodopis for they are away to each other. One day the pharaoh noticed Kalif, he was holding Rhodopis slippers. The pharaoh asked Kalif about the slippers and Kalif answered the pharaogh the story of the girl who owned the slippers. From the story, he already fell in love with the girl. He curios and decided
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night. His thinking about his past and whether his life is special or just regular. The point of view is from Gerard; we see all things from his perspective. The paper will focus on the use of contracts and mood in the story. Gerard loves women’s; he likes to have sex with women’s. The love of his live was laurel:” He and Laurel met at a dinner party, they talked for hours and they felt they were catching up, even though they haven’t met”. Gerard is talking about footprints in the snow, and that they
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My Son the Fanatic Hanif Kureishi, born 1954, is known for his many movies, plays, novels and short stories. In 2008 he was selected, by The Times, as one of the 50 best British writers since 1945. In this essay I will discuss the relationship between father and son in the story “My Son the Fanatic”. We are in London, present time, where Parvez, a Pakistani immigrant, works as a taxi driver to earn money for his family consisting of his wife and son Ali. A lot of hard work and a lot of money
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lifestyles, there is always going to be a story, poem or book that you come across that will reveal a time or a moment that is brought back to life. That is the beautiful art of literature, reading something that makes you experience all your emotions. That is what the story Country Lover’s by Nadine Gordimer does for me. It is a short story about the unfairness of one’s color and a forbidden love because the color of one’s skin. What I know for sure is that love comes in every color and sizes, while
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