The perception of the Aussie Battler was strongly evident throughout the text. ... We see our mothers as the foundation of a family, as do the characters of the text. ... Through the text all of the character seemed to question their own spirituality. ... Characters of the novel made it hard to determine whether the text was actually fiction, due to the fact we as readers find we have similar lives and experiences to those in the text. Winton's enjoyment of language is powerfully evident through the text. ...

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• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

The Lost Steps, which is a journey of a man finding his true identity, is based upon the settings in the text. ... Setting throughout the novel is central throughout the text. ... This bus ride and the change of setting again are critical to the text. ... The settings, the time periods when these occur are critical in the understanding of the text. The setting created through the text shape the text as a whole. ...

• Word Count: 1028
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• Grade Level: High School

I chose the novel "The Outsiders" as a text for year 10 for the following reasons: It is a novel which draws the reader in and allows the reader to understand a lifestyle alien to them. ... The language of the text is easily understood as are the themes in the story. ... The use of both text and movie creates a more vivid understanding and appreciation of the novel for there are no major variations between the two texts. ...

• Word Count: 488
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• Grade Level: High School

The text also explores the relationship between individuals and the authorities that have the power and the loss of individuality of inmates. The text also explores the concept of rehabilitation. ... Caitlyn is significant in that she offers the love interest for Brett in the text. ... Throughout the text, Monk uses the theme of power, and its abuse, through his various characters. ...

• Word Count: 814
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• Grade Level: High School

Two short science fiction novellas that demonstrate good work of writing include the adventure, A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury, and Nethergrave by Gloria Skurzynski. Both were interesting and kept you to the edge of your seat. There should definitely be more after the end because the endings se...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

"A good text presents memorable characters to whom the reader can relate." Choose a main character from your text and show how they develop through the text. By Mona Rouhani In the novel Looking for Alibrandi By Melina Marchetta there are many aspects of life that the main character, Josie, h...

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• Grade Level: High School

They emphasize what is told, and bring a new dimension to the text. ... Comments I appreciate your comments and corrections to the text, and I agree with them in most cases. Reading the text now, I see that I included too many unnecessary details, especially about the author in the introduction. ...

• Word Count: 1266
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The parents thought that their kids weren't mature enough to read this kind of text, so they had it banned. ... In Fahrenheit 451, the majority of society doesn't like the text they read within books so they burn them. ... This novel was packed full of different emotions to feel and ways to take text but overall the lesson that Morrison gave was worth more than the problems that are within the book. ...

• Word Count: 1428
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The novel, Charlotte's Web begins with a young girl, Fern, who is intent on saving the life of a young, tiny pig named Wilber. After about five weeks of caring and nurturing the pig, Wilber is sent off to her uncle's farm to eventually be slaughtered for Christmas dinner. Wilber wants very much to...

• Word Count: 849
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Interpretation of a fictitious story depends upon the reader. Fiction can be subjective and evocative. It is "made up," and indirect in its communication. A work of fiction may evoke the emotions of the reader with the thrill of imagining impossible or unavailable experiences or the intrigue with p...

• Word Count: 879
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• Grade Level: High School

Impact of the Title of The Awakening By using an evocative title like In The Awakening, Kate Chopin creates a spark of interest that makes the reader ponder over the events in the novel, wondering if there's more to the story than the text. ...

• Word Count: 359
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

White Fang Summer Reading Essay Jack London's novel White Fang portrays the life of a young wolf/dog and his fight for survival. White Fang's journey from owner to owner if filled with love and hate in this harsh environment. Throughout this novel London sends the message that life is full of s...

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• Grade Level: High School

For one to be a romantic one must first have the freedom of self expression and that indeed was what Mary Shelley possessed as she wrote her novel, Frankenstein. She comprised a story of many original and imaginative ideas which came solely from her boundless individual imagination. She incorporat...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Think about your family and dear friends. Think of all the memories you have had with those loved ones. What would you do if everything familiar, people included, were gone? That is what Robert Neville goes through everyday ever since a drastic plague wiped out all of humanity - except for him. Robe...

• Word Count: 1284
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

The antiwar sentiments are apparent in the text: Sula and Shadrock represented the unfamiliarity of war, death, and the disorder that follows war. ... The evidence in the text of antiwar sentiments was clear that the war was an outrage. ...

• Word Count: 990
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

People love reading, but diving into books too deeply and thriving over the subjects in the text can definitely be dangerous. ... The description in the text is so vivid because Flaubert wants to really emphasize the contrast between Emma's emotions and her surroundings. ...

• Word Count: 1202
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Year 12 English Communications – Text Analysis Novel Study – The Secret River "Which was your favourite character in the book 'The Secret River' by Kate Grenville and why? Answer with close reference to the text....

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• Grade Level: High School

"Monument 14," by Emmy Laybourne, bears several characteristics, including fear, that defines the novel as a thriller. One characteristic of a thriller novel that is exemplified in Emmy Laybourne's Monument 14, is the ominous atmosphere that gives the novel a foreboding undertone. In Th...

• Word Count: 625
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Some critics have also discovered in this text allegories of the whole development of social forms from primitive times to the present, or of the growth of totalitarianism in Europe in the 20th century. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

What did matter, is that everyone thought it did, and that was much worse for there was no object or text to criticize, attack, amend, hate, revile, spit at, rip to shreds, trample upon or burn up." (419) The only possible way to affect the system is to cease to serve it, Yossarian discovers. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In the novel, "Robinson Crusoe," by Daniel Defoe, the main character, Robinson Crusoe, is a middle class, white man from England. Crusoe aspires to become a sailor, and against his father's wishes and advice, he embarks on a journey which ultimately takes him to the other side of the world. On his l...

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• Grade Level: High School

In the novel Chronicle of a Death Foretold, the author, Gabriel Garcia Marquez exemplifies a sympathetic mood towards Santiago by portraying him as a Christ like figure, however, he writes about the town having a negative viewpoint associated with him, helping to question the murder and whether he w...

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• Grade Level: High School

These feelings of war have carried through to future generations as well; young people of today have not experienced a war first hand, but can still relate to these feelings and emotions with the help of descriptive texts in literature. ...

• Word Count: 883
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• Grade Level: High School

The Red Pony The Red Pony is a short novel that consists of four chapters. It is episodic, meaning that each chapter could stand alone. They are intertwined, and each chapter plays its part in the overall message and themes of the novel. The setting is on a ranch in California in the closing d...

• Word Count: 749
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• Grade Level: High School

Can a literary work be without twists and turns within the plot? Can a literary work be excellent without leaving the readers with a little bit of healthy confusion? Throughout novel "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen, Austen creates a sense of pleasure and disquietude for the readers. This health...

• Word Count: 731
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School