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Point Of View Race And Gender
1,203 wordsThea Astley's Its Raining in Mango (1987) is a story of Australian history told through five generations of the Laffey family. Astley introduces several issues to the reader that were and still are part of Australian society. Through the use of narrative techniques including characterisation, narrative point of view and naming, Astley is able to position the reader to challenge such societal ideologies, and instead support the thoughts and ideas expressed by the strong and dominant characters in...
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Delft Vermeer Dies Soldier Otto Engelbrecht Loots Painting
4,951 wordsGIRL IN HYACINTH BLUE Overview In eight quasi-connected stories, Susan Vreeland delivers a fictional lesson on aesthetics. Set amidst human sorrow and historic chaos, the narrative follows an imagined Vermeer painting from the present day through 330 years of its provenance beginning with its willful destruction in the 1990 s and concluding with its inspired creation in the 1660 s: Chapter 1. 1995 (? ): in Pennsylvania, math teacher Cornelius Englebrecht burns the painting in his fireplace; 1942...
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