Noughts and Crosses Analysis Essay

She has carved a pathway where other young, old, married, or single black women have a direction where they can follow her lead to unimaginable distances.

Cullen is hopeful to get to a place where people of different races will be able to look at others without prejudice and discrimination. However, the poem “Incident” is of a less positive tone. She expresses her experience in a shocked manner, saying, a boy stuck his “tongue out and, called, [her] ‘Nigger’,” (Cullen 8). She was so shocked that “From May until December; .../… of all the things that happened... /… that’s all [she could remember” in Baltimore (Cullen 10-12). At the young age that she was at, it is surprising and upsetting to her to be discriminated against for no reason.

By interlacing these techniques, Silvey effectively engages readers, appeals to their emotions and manipulates their beliefs and values to make them think deeply on issues covered in the novel and agree with his opinions on said issues. Another strength is the characterisation of people and their relationships and reactions to the changing world around them. Whether they survive, change or sink, is what captures my attention and maintains

It gives the opportunity to provide structured feedback and reflection and recognise ay achievements as well as identify any performance issues.

The story is a recount of bullying, told from the point of view of Davy Morne, who describes himself as one of the worst of the bullies. The victim is Herbie, the only indigenous kid at the school, who is brutally bullied for being noticeably different; because he has strong Indigenous features. He is described, “as black as a crow,” imagery which reinforces this difference, as does the language in words like “Boong”, “Nigger” and “Abo”, words which appear in the opening sentences, grabbing the reader’s shocked attention and compelling the reader to continue because how can anyone get away with such brazenly, racist language. Archie Weller excelled throughout the course of this story in his use of imagery: every sentence carried a vivid imagination, from the description of Herbie, his bullies or his torture and all this was cleverly done from the point of view of young Davy Morne.

Anthony Eaton’s A New Kind Of Dreaming helps the reader to recognize the various challenges that help the character to grow. Eaton best portrays Jamie is an outsider who is trying to find his place in the world, while uncovering the secrets of Port Barren’s shady past. Eaton has positioned the reader to the subject of transformation via different aspects. Firstly Eaton uses the plot and the setting to show the development of Jamie’s change in behavior from a delinquent to a normal lively boy. The author is making the reader sympathize with Jamie’s transformation from delinquency to honesty and loyalty. On the other hand, we see the shield of solitary fall and Jamie opening accompanying with Cameron on his journey. Nevertheless, reader is positioned to view the local police officer Butcher as abusive and manipulative. Additionally the boat on the beach and the girl’s emotions have an important role in Jamie’s quest of turning a new leaf.

This problem is especially acute for black women, both writers seem to be saying, because the structures neither of society nor of formal religion provide this grounding. Janie finds it by being true to her own poetic, creative consciousness; in The Color Purple Walker's characters discover it through the strength and wisdom available in the community of women.

The play “Blackrock”, written by Nick Enright, focuses on very delicate issues. The themes such as mateship and peer pressure, responsibility/guilt and masculinity resonate in my own personal life quite strongly. By studying and analysing this text it can be determined if the themes and values that are trying to be emulated either challenge or confirm my own beliefs and experiences.

A writ of execution applies to a debtor’s nonexempt real or personal property wherever located.

Pride and Prejudice is a novel that has intrigued readers for decades. Despite where one may be from, what gender they are, or what age they are, this story enthralls every reader. One of the primary reasons that this book is so notorious is because the two main themes: pride and prejudice, are two characteristics that any person can say they have come to know. Whether it be in themselves, in a friend, or even in a stranger, pride and prejudice are two defining attributes a person may have. Almost every character in this novel possesses at least one of these characteristics and because of this, relationships are created, broken down, and built

Novels are produced for a cause or purpose for the readers. The author either talks about their own experience or stories that they have learnt in life, and then they transform it into a text that we can all understand. In the text ‘Dougy’ by James Moloney, he states real life problems, inviting the readers to learn from the themes and problems that occur. James Moloney tells us that children are not born racist. There will always be critics in life and rules are there for a reason.

Both Chercover and Madsen’s critiques focus on problems associated with immigration, however Chercover takes the analysis of unsuccessful immigration one step further by concluding that paper acts as the underlying mechanism behind this problem. Paper traps females into constrictive gender roles, which results in the feelings of unhomeliness. Wayson Choy highlights both the positive and negative effects of paper on his characters throughout his novel All That Matters showing how paper provided a means of liberating them from their old life but also applied a constant constraint to each person’s freedom. In the essay that follows, I will explore the role paper plays in the hardships faced by characters in Choy’s All That Matters focusing specifically on females and how paper negatively influences the development of their identity.

Literature is the window to realizing the negatives of society and how destructive certain norms can be. Readers are brought into a completely different story than their own, but by using similar issues in today’s world, the readers can actually learn from the story and its overall message. All writers write for a purpose, whether it’s for a new meaning to life, to live a different life than our own, or to impact others on an emotional level by teaching them to see the importance of the little things. As a reader, you search for pieces of literature that interest you whether you find the story like your own, or wish you lived the life in the story. By using issues in today’s within their works, authors are able to grab the reader's attention long enough for them to get across what they wanted to get across. Often in many works of literature, writers use societal issues as their basis for the work’s themes and symbols. By doing so, this allows the reader to question the morality behind social norms and how impactful certain ideals can be in people’s lives.

By the end of Wallace Thurman’s novel, “The Blacker the Berry,” the main character Emma Lou has a revelation about herself. Her whole life she thought her dark skin color prevented her from good opportunities. She was hyper-sensitive towards her color and tried to make up for it by fitting in with the right type of people. She has economic freedom and have fit in with the right type of people. Emma was desperate to fit in with type of people that treated her inferiorly, but once she came to terms with the strength of her African American background, she is able to identify with who she is, a black woman.

Dudley Randall’s “Ballad of Birmingham” is a look into the effects of racism on a personal level. The poem is set in Alabama during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. The tone of the title alludes to the city of Birmingham as a whole. The poem gives the reader, instead, a personal look into a tragic incident in the lives of a mother and her daughter. The denotation of the poem seems to simply tell of the sadness of a mother losing her child. The poem’s theme is one of guilt, irony, and the grief of losing a child. The mother feels responsible for the death of her child. The dramatic irony of the mother’s view of church as being a “safe haven” for her child is presented to the reader through the mother’s insistence that the young girl