How does this poet present the ways children are affected by war? (18 marks) The poem ‘Children in Wartime’ is about the experience of children throughout the war. Isobel Thrilling presents the view of the child through first person narration. It highlights the issues with the reality of war and being a child; the confusion that war projects onto children, ‘had not the right sound’ and the damage it causes. The poet introduces the way in which children are affected immediately upon reading the poem.
In this scene, Ralph is at Castle Rock with Jack arguing with him in order to get Piggy’s specs back. Jack as well offers him to join him and paint his face to be just like him and the others. The text states, "They understood only too well the liberation into savagery that the concealing paint brought. "(Golding 172). In this quote, savagery started to grow more within the children that has impulsively let them act/think not in a very civilized way.
Bringing out the message that humans can’t do what God can, and if humans try to create life, they create a disgusting disaster instead. The moment Frankenstein finished the monster and brought it to life, he was filled with intense revulsion, he said, “The beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart.” Shelley used the contrast and metaphor to emphasis how disgusting the monster was: “beauty of the dream” contrasting with “breathless horror”. Also, Shelley used metaphor to describe how ridiculous Frankenstein’s thought is: she described Frankenstein’s ambition as a dream, a beautiful dream, but no matter how nice the dream is, it will never be reality. Frankenstein tried to create the superior race, but all he got was a hideous monster that he hates and fears. Not only Frankenstein or other people detested the hideous appearance of the monster, even the monster itself hated its own appearance: “Accursed creator!
Neither did he take enough care creating the creature’s appearance. Unable to accept his creation, he abandons his “child” and all his parental responsibilities. At one point he wishes that his child was dead: “I gnashed my teeth, my eyes became inflamed, and I ardently wished to extinguish that life which I had so thoughtlessly bestowed” (87). Victor’s creation represents an abused child growing up to be an abuser, the monster’s first murder is of a small child. He realizes that any child deprived of love turns into a villain or monster.
10th Grade Common Writing Assessment #1 In “Harrison Bergeron,” Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. uses irony to illustrate how enforcing absolute equality would require a ridiculously totalitarian society. This story begins with introducing George, who is forced to wear handicaps the government from thinking or having physical abilities above average. His wife Hazel is not handicapped and to the reader seems unintelligent. Their son Harrison has been taken away by the government and on his own revolts. Vonnegut uses the characterization of Harrison, Hazel, and George to show how conformity stifles individualism and is detrimental to society.
His character has already been shaped by the abuse experienced in his childhood and the story of his life provided a moving film. Pog, written by Lyn Lee, was the most delightful story of a baby monster who reversed the usual scary monster story. All three of these texts support a belief that change can happen in so many ways. Relationships alter the journey of our lives. In “Looking for Alibrandi”, Josie at first finds it hard to accept her Nonna’s behaviour towards her
Reverend Parris, still in shock that his daughter would be stricken by the devil, wonders why the devil would choose a preacher’s home as his place for invasion. In response, Hale says the following; “What victory would the devil have to win a soul already bad? It is the best the devil wants, and who is better than the minister?” (Miller, 41). Americans had much to fear in regard to communism; restrictions of free speech, deprivation of private property, restrictions of free press, and the presence of false judicial systems, just to name a few. With this in mind, the common attitude in the United States was, as it continues to be today, that communism is evil manifest in a government.
It’s impossible.” (222). The reader recognizes that Holden is confined within walls of phoniness and corruption. The profanity written on the walls becomes too much for Holden. In a sense, he desires to eradicate all profanity, therefore protecting the innocence of children, but as Holden indicates, it’s nearly impossible. Unlike Holden in Catcher in the Rye, Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath concentrates society’s corruption on self-interested people.
Victor represents society intent on pushing the boundaries and themonster represents the product of this curiosity; of technology gone wrong;technology without ethics. “Accursed creator! Why do you form a monster so hideousthat even you turn away from me in disgust?” The monsters constant rhetoricquestioning addresses these ethics and illuminates the monster as a symbol of innocence in the face of corruption. Victor’s relationships also allow insight into themoral dilemma of creation. Victor’s positive family relationship is juxtaposed againsthis spite for the monster, a somewhat child of his.
The quick change in thought George allows the reader to feel the thought process George is going through to arrive at his final conclusion about the changed children. The realization that one is never too young to think about death, adds depth to the growing thought that the nursery is no good for the children. If anything, the nursery is completely ruining the children and fueling the angry fire that is now, the Hadley children. Moreover, Bradbury writes “George Hadley looked in at the changed scene” (4). The small word, “changed,” omits the need for other description of how the room changed or what it looks like.