Engelsk mundtlig eksamen Different worlds * Film: Once Were Warriors It is a movie from New Zealand about a family where the mother comes from a fine old tribe, and the father comes from a slave tribe. The family lives in a house in the modern civilization, and the father goes to a pub every day because he is fired. See the Plot document. * Going Home Going Home is about a black boy called William or Billy. He is very successful as a painter and football player, and he has forgotten all
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A Love that Kills William Faulkner’s famous short story “A Rose for Emily”, is about a woman who some say is mentally insane. Starting out in the beginning of the short story, Miss. Emily, who is the main character, passes away. Thirty years prior to Miss. Emily passing away, her father had just died. Miss Emily denied her father’s passing for three days before she let the townspeople take him away and bury him. After her father passed away Miss Emily stayed in her house for a long time before she
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It was a story of a boy who was only 17 when he decides to marry his love one. He was dodong, and he love teang so much that he could not wait for the right age to settle down in a relationship that is hard to escape. It's the "marriage". At the age of 17 dodong and teang got married without thinking of the risk being in an uneasy part of life. They just follow what they feel. They don't think what would happen in their future. They got a child. Teang realized how hard being a young parent. Her
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The Arena The Arena is a short story written by Martin Golan. The story is about a father who an early morning drives his son to a football arena near New Jersey, named “The Arena” from a former legendary football coach. He drives his son to “The Arena” because his son will go to a sports trip with his sports team. On their way they buy bagels and the father thinks of his thoughts about her ex-wife and their son Willie who they lost in a traffic accident. In his inner thoughts he forgets to turn
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In Flannery O’Connor’s short story, “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” two main characters are developed, the grandmother and the Misfit. The two are contrasting characters based on their image of salvation, but they are similar with how they both are ultimately changed by God’s grace. To begin, the grandmother is one very interesting grandmother. She really isn’t the stereotypical grandmother one might depict. For the majority of the story, the grandmother has a hard time encountering God. It is obvious
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Gender Roles, Marriage and Love: A Comparison of I’m Going! A Comedy in One Act vs. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty Cindy Stevenson ENG 125: Introduction to Literature Instructor: Kathryn Ness Santana July 30, 2012 Gender Roles, Marriage and Love: A Comparison of I’m Going! A Comedy in One Act vs. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty Gender roles and marriage have been stereotyped for thousands of years. The man earned a living while the woman stayed home did the cooking and laundry
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An Essay about ‘Two Kinds’ by Amy Tan The short story ‘Two Kinds’ was written by Amy Tan and published. It’s about a woman from China who immigrated to America with great success, and therefore has big expectation of her daughter. Tan herself is also the daughter of a couple who emigrated from China which explains why she writes about this topic. The narrator is first-person which gives the impression that Tan is telling her story. The story is set in Chinatown, America during the late 1950’s
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the setting in James Joyce’s Araby and Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper affects the main character’s mental and physical state” “Araby” and “The Yellow Wallpaper” are both remarkable short stories, but the thoughts conceived after reading it are everything but short. Araby, written by, James Joyce is about a young character that lives in a neighborhood that appears to be dark and gloomy based solely on the author’s description of the houses and such. “An uninhabited house
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mammoth hunters are very friendly and understanding for where she has grown up. She soon makes friends. Jondalar the man she loves is very jealous. There is an interesting man, named Ranec who seems to be capable of getting Ayla in to his bed after a ceremony. Jondalar is devastated and believes that Ayla has chosen for Ranac. Ayla on the other hand thinks Jondalar doesn't love her any more. This goes so far on that Ayla almost bound with Ranec. Thank god in the ending Jondalar and Ayla find one each
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all the poem contains four lines in which helps me to realize how much power and emotions is hidden within these few lines. This can be interpreted in various ways depending on how you analyze it as an individual. After reading the poem my first impression was my professor must be kidding me. How am I to answer questions based off a four line excerpt? Finally I, realized that the meaning was something deeper than the four lines. In relationship, couples have their different ways of expressing and
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