The setting within Harper Lee’s critically acclaimed novel ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ reinforce the key theme of prejudice. Set against the backdrop of a rural southern town during the Great Depression, where the segregation laws were championed, and gender roles were well defined, Harper Lee was able to demonstrate the ugliness of the deeply ingrained […]
You are probably wondering why in the world I am doing a reading review on a ‘trashy’ teenage tv show. These reading logs are on the theme of prejudice and prejudice is defined as the ‘pre-conceived opinion/judgement that is not based on reason or actual experience’ (Oxford Dictionary). Where for a 17-year-old teenage girl is […]
Intro: Prejudice is formed for two reasons. The first being, people feel the need to dominate, to make other human beings inferior in order to feel superior. The other reason is the fact that we fear what we don’t understand. Paragraph one (Racism): Maycomb, a small country town in the southern states of America, was […]
The Hate You Give, written by Angie Thomas, is a story of a 16-year-old black girl, Starr Carter who lives two lives. One is her school life in an uptown upper-class white school and her second is her home life in a dangerous American getto, Garden Heights. Starr is drawn to activism after she individually […]
The book I am Malala is about a teenage girl who stood up for her right to be educated and was shot by the Taliban. I am Malala is an autobiography by Malala Yousifeisa and co-written by Kristina Lamb was published on the 8th of October 2013. Malala Yousafiza was shot less than seven years […]
To Kill Mockingbird has left me with more questions than answers. It has made me question whether society has really progressed far enough since the 1930s. Or is the injustice I read in To Kill A Mockingbird still happening today. Have we actually evolved as a human race? The key prejudice of sexism, racism and […]
Ambition, the Oxford Dictionary states is; a strong desire to do or achieve something. There are two sides to the coin of ambition. Ambition can be hubris and associated with greed and arrogance. This side of the coin can be defined as the excessive desire for more than is needed or deserved, not for the […]
Shakespeare’s play, Macbeth conveys the message that ambition can be destructive and destroy societal norm and human kind. Shakespeare’s audience are provided with this knowledge by showing the degrading mind of Macbeth throughout the Shakespearian play. Macbeth’s fracturing sanity is a result of dire ambition which controls his conscience. Macbeth has handed the keys of […]
1st shot: Car (Long shot) (high angel) (Sound: Diegetic/ non-diegetic) 2nd shot: Vincent (mid shot) (low angle) (Sound: Diegetic/ non-diegetic) 3rd shot: Eugene (mid shot) (level angle) (Sound: Diegetic/ non-diegetic) 4th shot: Vincent (mid shot) (low angle) (Sound: Diegetic dialogue) 5th shot: Eugene (mid shot) (level angle) (Sound: Diegetic/ dialogue) 6th shot: Vincent (mid shot) (low angle) (Sound: […]