The Other Sister is a romantic comedy/drama about the special relationship between two mentally impaired young people- Carla (Juliette Lewis), who just came back from 8 years in a special school, and wanted to prove she can now handle her life on her own and be independent, and Daniel (Giovanni Ribisi), a sweet young man who falls in love with Carla after she helps him with the vicious students in their Polytechnic school. ... It helped me to better understand what it must be like to have a disability, and the hardships that one goes through. I have come to realize that just because someone is...

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However, no matter how thick the attempted facade, like the needles that 'turned faintly blue', the truth comes through often in a distorted form. ... There is deceit in his relationship with his mother, as Jack deliberately takes advantage of her vulnerable state after they witness a truck crashing, and also in the first passage when Rosemary claims that the Phoenix bus 'had left already' so that instead they would have to go to Seattle. ... He relies on 'imagin[ing]' in order to create a reality that ignores the influence of Dwight and the unfortunate circum...

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" The flash backs that were intended to explain the marriage and relationships were not clear and therefore, were not effective. ... The director did not make it clear whether or not some scenes were flash backs about what happened before, or if they took place recently within the time period of the play. ... This play needed some kind of unity and clarity by creating a repetition action triggering the next rather than standing alone without an association to what came before it or what comes next. ... The characters' costumes and the events in the play were not parallel in which the...

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In other words if we go back to the example of the apple, taking away the characteristics and the qualities of the apple which in this case would be the color, the form and the and the flavor of the apple the it would be no point for that apple to exist. ... He also wanted to explain how the world around us works, Aristotle agreed about emotions but those were also secondary things or qualities from the primary substances and it all has a nature where it all comes from. ...

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The need to attain a sense of belonging is also conveyed through the use of Asher's' character and the lack of belonging he feels towards Perth and how he truly feels he belongs back in Byron Bay. "Mum, don't freak but I'm going back to Byron. ... Freedom shown through the eyes of a teenager exaggerates the ignorance that they have towards the responsibilities that come with freedom. ... These all project to the reader real issues through fictional works, moving to a new town and trying to find where you belong in society, teenagers and the freedom they long to have du...

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Marele Day goes as far as keeping within the crime thriller tradition as possible when she creates the web of sub characters. ... After all, Claudia is beginning to come to terms with the fact that appearances are often deceiving. ... Everywhere you turn throughout the novel, beauty versus corruption is being portrayed and it all traces back to the city itself. ... The characters, moods, themes and ideas all link back to the city, to Sydney. ...

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The house still looks old and ancient, yet it comes to represent a new idea and so it has made the shift, along with the community, to welcoming powerful women as a new part of their world. ... Emily can not let go of the old beliefs that are ingrained in her mind, the belief that she needs a man to be complete. ... Taking on the whole town, no one can make her pay taxes, go into her home, or put numbers on the house for free postal delivery. Even the druggist illegally orders arsenic for Emily, who "just stared at him, her head tilted back in order to look him eye for eye-(78). ...

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