The personal experiences of a real person are always better than those of a character in a novel because the situations are real, and therefore more reliable. ... Tadmor notes that the author of the Dictionary published in 1755, Samuel Johnson, defined the term family as, "those who live in the same house." ... Tadmor notes that many people experienced orphan-hood, early widowhood and remarriage. She also notes that there were prevailing rates of mortality and life expectancy, as well as a high rate of remarriage. ...

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The concept of change in this sense is portrayed through the prescribed text Feliks Skrzynecki, Migrant hostel, and 10 Mary St composed by Peter Skrzynecki, the stimulus booklet Text 1 "The Door" by Miroslav Holub, also the song "Cats in the Cradle" by Harry Chaplin and the novel The Poisonwood bible composed by Barbra Kingsolver. ... The final stanza reinforces the idea that change can be positive and that noting should ever stay the same. ... My Final text The Poisonwood Bible is a novel full of changing perspectives of migrant experiences and once again the failure of child- parent relat...

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Many novels, poems, and plays portray this glorious perception of marriage, including the play Antigone written by Sophocles. ... The messenger notes, "[Haemon] has won his bride at last, poor boy/not here but in the houses of the dead", which further illustrates how Haemon finally, but belatedly, expresses his feelings of love for Antigone (lines 1370-1371). ...

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