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In  Eden rock and walking away both, present moments of separation to communicate ideas about letting go of a loved one. However , in eden rock this is presented from the viewpoint of a child , whereas in walking away it is presented from the viewpoint of a father.

in eden rock moments of separation are presented as traumatic for the child because his parents are on the “other bank” and “they beckon ” for him. the image that this poem gives off is that the small boy is alone and way from his parents.the word “beckons” give a tone of urgency, and that his parents want him to come close. for a small child to be away from his parents is a scary thing. this is a moment of separation to communicate ideas about letting go because the image that the boy is small and his parents are over the “other bank” could be a symbol for death , and how the poet , Charles Causley , has to let his parents go. more evidence of this is the symbolism of his mum and angles.  Charles Causley describes his mum as having hair “colour of wheat” which “takes on the light”. the word “light” in my opinion represents angles. the way it added to the image of death is that angles are a in heaven so the “other bank” could be interpreted as heaven and that his parents have died.

in walking away it is presented as traumatic for the adult in the instance of the father .the moment when the father “can see” the boy ” walking away from” him. From some of the word it gives the sentence a tone that the father does not wants to leave . this gives the effect that the relationship is different from different person perspective . From the boys point of view it shows that there relationship between both the son and farther as paternal love but to the farther its more than.

in eden rock the separation is presented as swift and sudden as when you realise that the boy is on the “other bank”. from moments when he describes his family it gives the impression that they are together. until the moment when he writes “other bank”. the quote “other bank” could be a symbol for there relationship not being close. we can tell this from when the “father spins a stone across the water” this gives the impression that the father is having fun without the son.also the gap between there relationship , father and son, is represented by the water. this would give an impression that they are not close

sir i don’t understand im struggling to do the work. i think ill take the L on this one.  http://onlineslangdictionary.com/meaning-definition-of/take-an-l

Love is presented in various different ways in Thomas Hardy’s – Neutral Tones . one of the main ways Thomas Hardy presents love is as fake in neutral tones

Thomas Hardy uses similes to present love as fake, this is demonstrated where he says ‘your eyes on me like tedious riddles. In this case a simile is used to compare the loom of deceit or confusion in the persons eyes. Thomas Hardy is using a similarly to compare the other persons eyes to create a feeling that the person is not telling the truth or is hinting at something that might happen. The full statement “your eyes on me were as eyes that rove Over tedious riddles of years ago” give the effect to the reader that their relationship in not going well so the other person is hinting at a possible end of the relationship. This presents the relationship as fake by showing that people who are together and can’t talk about their feelings have to hide what they want to say. The relationship seems to have been in trouble for a long time and the mistrust or fake has happened years ago and not something new.

Thomas Hardy uses a metaphor to present love as fake when he say your smile is dead , a metaphor is a way to describe something but it is not literal. So by saying “the smile on your mouth was the deadest thing” it is not literally saying the simile is dead ( not alive ) , but is implying that the feeling behind the smile is not real and is fake. This presents relationships as fake by showing that the other person’s smile had no feeling and is fake and is just a front.

in Thomas Hardy’s – Neutral Tones he uses the settings to give a sense of foreboding. For example when he says a pond on a “winter day” this is foreboding because it show that something bad will or has happened. Ponds are seen as romantic place / setting where people meet and winter is a time of year where its dark and cold and not very nice. by putting pond and winter together it gives a bad effect to something that is normal seen as romantic and love related because he has done this it gives the effect to the reader that there relationship (the pond) will end or something bad will happen in it (winter).

in Thomas Hardy’s – Neutral Tones he uses even more settings to give a sense of foreboding . This is shown like when he writes the leaves “were grey”. foreboding means a feeling that something bad will happen; fearful apprehension ( wiki ) . this is foreboding because leave are a natural beautiful things that is seen as peaceful and on the other hand the colour grey , just like winter , is dark , dying and is somewhat haunting. so by putting these together makes their relationship (‘the leaves’) natural , beautiful , peaceful and in harmony then by putting  the word grey in the poem gives a sense that the relationship is dying off.  Thomas Hardy put this at the start to show that there relationship died off like grey leaves

in Thomas Hardy’s – Neutral tones he uses he uses time to represent how he feels. he starts of the poem with  saying “We stood by that winter day” the word “stood” is in the past tense, this gives the effect to the reader that the poem is in the past and Thomas Hardy is reflecting back on their moments together. He later goes on to say ” since then” this phrase tells the reader that it is after the thing thats happened and then what he is going to say next will be how his feels now in present tense. in the past tense he talks about leave which “were grey” as ive talked about before , putting a nice beautiful natural thing , the leaves, with something that as dark and could be somewhat haunting the colour grey.  the leaves could represent a number of different things before i talked about it being there relationship but it could also be Thomas Hardy’s happiness / feelings . so in the past when he was in the relationship the leave “were grey” this could mean in the relationship in the past it made him feel bad and unhappy. later in the present tense he talks about “grayish leaves”. where as in the past the leaves “were grey” they have over time changed to “grayish” this could mean that the relationship before where he was unhappy , now that he is out of it he has been getting happier than before. over all the colour of the leaves represent his feelings as they go from him feeling bad , completely grey to now where he is happier greyish

In conclusion Thomas hardy  – neutral tones puts a bad light on all relationships by generalising his bad experience which he describes fake and brutal.

in this essay i will talk about the McCandless family and the difference between movie and book. penn’s and krakauer’s interpretation are similar in someways but different at the same time. the family memebers ill be looking at is his dad Walt McCandless is a nasa scientist who quit to start his own business ,with his 2nd wife, making radar systems. i will also be looking at his younger sister carine who he had a great past with, and i will be looking at chrises mum Billie who is chrises dads 2nd wife and who also work on the business of radar systems.

the film presents Walt McCandless as a world apart from his son . an example of this is the entrance of the sports team into the formal dining hall and over the shoulder shot of Walt’s reaction compared with similar shot of Chris.the reason why they did this is to show that Chris would proffer to be with the sports team how ever Walt would proffer them to not be there so they can be in peace. in the book Walt and Chris are presents as sharing similar core characteristics . an example of this is colleagues refer to him [Walt] as brilliant while Chris ‘ came into this world with unusual gifts. i think krakauer did this to show that Chris and Walt are similar but are on the different spectrum .

Chris and his sisters, Carine, relationship was different, in both the book and the movie carine and Chris are close. an example of this in the film is chris allowed carine to drive is car. this might not seem like a lot but chris loved his car and snap at his parents when they offered to buy him a new one.another thing that show that carine and chris relationship is that chris use to read poems to carine we see this in the scene before the restaurant. Chris reads carine a poem by Sharone Olds which talked about people who got married young and to early to experience life which ended up ruining the children’s life. the poem relates to chris and craine situation, this scene give the impression that chris can talk to carine about how he truly feels and not hide his emotions with her.later on in the restaurant chris snaps at him parents when they offer to buy him a new car. carine try to stop him from ranting this all so back up the last point. After the restaurant scene it switches to chris in a high up balcony throwing his graduation hat to carine, from a high angle shot, this furthermore enhances the point that carine and Chris is close because Chris could have just left it on the ground or thrown it away instead he decided to give it to his sister to remember him. even in the book Chris and carine where close. on page 110 it is a testimony from Chrises sister carine about when they were young” from an early age […] .He’d hold my hand when we walk down the street” this show that Chris loved his sister from a early age and didn’t care what other people thought about him. i think that chris was trying to be a better father figure than there real dad. the reason i think this is because chris has gone through all the pains and bad time with there real dad so he didn’t what carine to feel the same pain. another thing to back up this point is the quote from carine when she says ”  i think it was one of the reason Chris and i was so close.We learned to count on each other when mom and dad werent getting along” the reason why it back up my point is because it shows that the parents was not getting along so chris was there for carine instead.But this could also mean that carine thought chris and them were closer than realized because we as the reader only get her side not chris. So all she might of said could have been lies to make her brother sound like a nice guy. we get more eveidence of this because chris wrote to people that he met on his journey but never wrote to his sister who loved so much.

another point that correlates with both book and film is that chris preferred the people on the road than his real family. i think he called them his family because he never like he real one.in the film there is a scene where chris is with wayne westerberg who employed him on his journey. in one scene chris a wayne have drinks together , chris never did this with his dad. this is important to look at when comparing the chris mccandless and his family because it show how much resentment he had for his family to not even drink with his dad. Another thing we chris mccadless do with out his family is concur fears. in the scene after he meets the two old tramps he goes to a beach with them and decides to go swimming even though he is scared of deep water. concurring a fear could have been a great bonding time with his father but instead chris decides to try to concur it with people hes only known for a short time. i think this proves that chris want nothing to do with his family. from the book we can tell that chris preferred the people he met on the road because he wrote to them about his travels , as i mentioned before he never wrote to his beloved sister and decided not to even give his parents hope that he was alive. i think chris knew that it would devastate his parents so he intentionally didn’t write to them to put them in a state of dismay ( chris dont rate his parents) and sean penn does this great by reading sharon old poem  ( http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/176442 ) before we see chris set out on his Wilde (pun intended) adventure because it seems like the poem is written by him and he know he will hurt his parent like it says in the poem “you are going to suffer in ways you have not heard of” aka in his context he is talking about how he will hurt them before he goes on his mad adventure

in the book chris is mum , Billie , is pro trade different to the film .like in the film Billie care more about money and the way things look. we can tell this from the restraint scene Billie offers to buy chris a new car it does sit well with him so he snaps at her but when she offers to buy him a new car it switches to a pov shot of his car with her over the top saying junk. i think proves the point that the mccandless family does know each other that well, if Billie was a loving mother she would have known that he loved that car and wouldn’t give it up for anything but instead she cares about her image.But in the book she is prorated different , in the book she is actually a loving mother. in the book it says that chris mum knitted a blanket for him. so this goes against all the thing penn did in the film to show that she had time for her children.i think it was change in the movie to enhance the point that chris family are not loving and are bad people but on the other hand the book show that Billie was actually nice and not as bad as she is thought out to be

in conclusion sean penn make the McCandless family ,a part from chris, in the film emphasises a simple explanation that his motivation was superficial consumerist american culture that chris hated and didnt like for example when they say they are going to buy him a new car.  but the book provides a more complex analysis for example Krakauer’s own adventure when he climbs up a mountain. it isnt just the story that makes it the movie and book different , its also the limitation of the film and also how it can bend the truth like with Billie in the film is money centred but the book who has to be truth all because its real peoples lives. the film can take shorts cuts without adding back story .  it does give any hint to why chris decided to leave it just him leaving. the film has to show the truth instead of telling it for example the over the shoulder shot ,with walt discussed by the sports team but chris smiling when they enter, has to cover a lot of information which is visual and which the audience must decode like the throwing of the graduation hat which shows there close bond. but the book has to cover historical detail for example his road trip when he first got his car when it was new which give detail to is hidden beliefs and him as a person.

penn bends the truth to make a better story . where krakauer tells the things he uncover from asking people

meaning

a) Jon Krakauer had climbed seven hundred feet since he stepped off the glacier.

b) Krakauer got into a rhythm that gave him confidence to climb the crumbly armor of frost feathers.

c) The frost feathers were 5 inches thick.

d) The ice got too thin to climb so Jon had to climb down.

tone 

ai) The noun phrase “frost feathers” creates a fearful tone by giving the mental image that the ice is weak and he might fall as in the quotes “frost feathers became thinner” : this means that as he goes higher it gets thinner and soon it won’t be able to hold his weight.

aii) The adjective steeper is used to create a fearful tone like when he writes “the wall however , had been growing imperceptibly steeper” .This means the ice is getting steeper by letting the reader think that soon he will be hanging off the edge. Combined with the adverb imperceptibly this creates a sense of drama because Jon does notice that it is getting more and more steep.

aiii) the adverb awkwardly is used to create a fearful tone like when he writes ” Awkwardly, stiff with fear,”. the adverb awkwardly heightens the sense of fear because he is seven hundred feet up and now suddenly lost the rhythm that help him before. Awkwardly also conveys his mental state as well as his physical state described in previous paragraphs.

by Anthony Watson

the theme im choosing is struggle

assassin creed forsaken

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Berlin wall