An Allegory is defined as a story, a poem or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one. Allegory and fairy tales are almost synonymous, only Allegory is more commonly targeted towards adults. George Orwell wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four to warn the post-WW2 population of the threat posed […]

Plan: goof on conspiracy theory format: blog post, news article, Tv wildlife program. Anarcho-primitivism, Neo-Luddism Fears: people being chipped, radiation, waves, ai irony or jokes: Image of a dystopia where technology is piled up in the street and burnt (nazi book burning), people on horseback with muskets charging at our robot overlords. Leaving the theatre […]

When Boyle is listing negative aspects of British culture, he mentions “hating people from a broadly similar town 30 miles away”, this is a social commentary about the divide between British towns, that the British population often enforce on themselves. This divide is greatly due to harmless banter such as rooting for their regional team […]

NAME THE TEXT, THE AUTHOR, THE THEME, AND THE TECHNIQUES USED TO CONVEY THE THEME, RESTATE THE QUESTION The book thief is a novel about justice. Markus Zusak uses Liesel to explore the concept of justice. Hans escaping Death. Liesel Escaping death. losing everything Good people lose everything. “You hide a jew, you pay, some […]

Improvement of nouns: The boxy window frames form the rungs of a cage. These rungs are more than large enough to admit an escape. yet the room retains its restrictive nature. The air is hot, as are the fumes of ideas ascending to form a cloud of thought. Personification: I muster my will and leave […]

A month ago from now, I started watching old people. I sounds odd, but I’m saying this because i never had the chance to spend much time with my grandparents. The oldest person I could say in close to is my Dad, and he definitely qualifies because he still uses Hotmail.   Is messing with old […]

Deception, ironically, can sometimes help bring to light the incoherent or uncanny. In the novel “The Book Thief”, Zusak deceives or lies to the reader in an effort to make them grasp the enormity and impact of the Holocaust. Furthermore, Zusak is trying to get the reader questioning human ethicality. The story follows a working-class […]

Dishonesty seems to be a key component of what makes the genre of magical realism so unique. In studying: the novel “The Book Thief” and contrasting it to another work, (which we defined in class was a work of magical realism), 2012 film “Life Of Pi”, A apparent similarity can be found that is: the […]

In times of grief or distress, one will try to rationalize the inequitable nature of the world, by explaining it in story. “This time she did not reach out, she stopped. Somewhere inside of her were the souls of words. They climbed out and stood beside her.” The person mentioned here is Liesel as she […]