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    Question: Discuss how the author has positioned you to respond to the characters/ subjects in the text. 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

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    Eaton’s a new kind of dreaming (2001) is a mystery novel about the nature of corruption as it lurks in the town of Port Barren and a young boy’s journey to reveal a dark and buried secret within the town. Eaton has used a variety of literary techniques such as a third-person limited point of view, setting, characterisation and imagery to position the reader to respond to the text’s characters with a specific moral mind-set. Ultimately, Eaton has used a carefully constructed the characters in a new kind

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    “Conflicts and challenges cause the characters to change and grow” Introduction: Anthony Eaton’s a new Kind of Dreaming helps the reader to recognise the various challenges and conflicts that cause the characters to change and grow. Anthony Eaton best expresses Jamie as an outsider that is trying to find his place in the world, while uncovering the secrets of Port Barren’s shady past. This changes Jamie from an adolescent delinquent to a responsible and admirable person. Jaime develops friendships

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    speech or thought. The novel 'A New Kind of Dreaming' by Anthony Eaton uses characterisation to portray the issue of abuse of authority and power through the antagonist Sergeant Butcher. Sergeant Butcher is a powerful high ranked policeman in the isolated town Port Barren. The author urges us to question whether we would report the crimes with the repercussions that would follow, or to keep quiet. Elliot Butcher is the small town, Port Barren's

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    In 1911 the term, “Lucid Dreaming” was first used by a Dutch psychiatrist named Frederick Van Eden. He described it as a person sleeping but taking on an active role. Lucid dreaming is actually defined as a dream where the person dreaming is aware they’re dreaming and have somewhat control over the characters and narrators and their role in the dream. Over the course of this document the basics of lucid dreaming and the knowledge we have of it will be covered, as well as the senses it effects and

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    Am I Dreaming? I. I awoke from a dream. A dream so realistic that I had no idea if it was real or fake. I had to grasp reality, as my alarm clock buzzed with anger as if it was mad as well, for it wanted to know the answer too. My mind was so mixed up and the screaming voice of my sister yelling at me to get ready for school was not helping. I had to make a choice. A choice of life or death. A choice of , was it true or not, did my best friend get dumped by her boyfriend of two years and I

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    Dreaming, something that all humans do and yet no one truly knows the purpose of it. There are many speculations about what dreaming is; why do we dream? Does it has a meaning? However is just speculation, no true explanation to it. Dreams have been a subject scientifically, in philosophy, religions, cultures. However dreams have yet to be proven scientifically it’s purpose. How come we don’t know the purpose of something that every human being experiences through out their whole life? A dream

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    dream and is it has a good consequences to the dreamers or not? The curiosity towards this particular topic was challenged upon my anecdote, when one night I went to bed and fell asleep as usual but the difference was that I can realize that I was dreaming. Then, I attempted to, and did, fly. After waking up, I researched about the phenomenon on the Google and found out that it is called “Lucid dream”. The definition, according to the Oxford dictionary, defines lucid as ‘showing or having the ability

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    Why Do Lucid Dreams Exist

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    every sleep stage, there’s some kind of subjective experience,” said Michael schredl, a researcher in the sleep laboratory at the Central Institute of Mental Health in Mannheim, Germany, and an expert on dream recall. The origin of dreams is something that can be defined in 3 ways, physiologically, scientifically or theoretically. A nightmare is a dream occurring during REM sleep that results in feelings of strong terror,

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    Lucid Dreaming When fantasies of the wider vistas of life is spoken about, ‘dreams’ are what pops into the minds of mostly everyone as every human being is free in their dreams. Deep within each and every one lie infinite possibilities, and abilities to experience anything imaginable with the state of consciousness while sleeping that each human holds that are yet to be discovered. The realisation of knowing that you are dreaming also creates another world to escape to. The simple thought of being

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