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    Franz Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis” and Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman” tells the story of salesmen that struggle interacting with their family, which eventually leads to their alienation. Franz Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis” starts with the main character, Gregor Samsa waking up and unusually and calmly realizing that he had become a bug of some kind. His family, consisting of Grete, his mother, and his father, eventually finds out and instead of helping him, they shun him and drive him into his

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    American Novelist, Cormac McCarthy, won the Pulitzer Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction for his gripping novel, The Road (2006). The novel follows a man and his son who are struggling to survive the burned America and the hardships that come with it. They face harsh weather, starvation, dehydration, nature and even other people; however, they ‘carry the fire’ which brings them hope and reminds them not to follow evil. Throughout the novel, McCarthy conveys the different types

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    In a post rapture world, a curious teenager finds a banned Bible, and joins an underground revival, to bring the word of the Bible to an oppressive society but his efforts are hindered by the current government, who believes in one religion. BRIEF SYNOPSIS In a post rapture world, TROY (18) accidentally stumbles into a conspiracy when he witnesses the murder of a clergyman. Right before the man dies, he gives Troy a bloody page from a book and tells him to find the key and help “her” find John

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    The protagonist in this short film is a young boy who grows up throughout the film believing his father to be “poor and unsuccessful” (Yam & Xiuqi, 2014) and not very smart. It is clear that he is the main character because he is the only one we, the audience, can see actively making decisions and reacting to the consequences of his actions (Dinham, 2015, p. 191) throughout the movie. The protagonist’s internal monologue alongside his emotionless body gestures and facial expressions towards his father

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    It’s hard to argue that 1994 didn’t have two of the most influential and iconic movies to date. Both “Pulp Fiction” and “Forrest Gump” are movies that some would say are the best ever. Now, if you were to compare these two movies, it would seem absurd with each being on completely opposite spectrums of the moral ethics scale. However, on the surface Pulp Fiction may seem like another gangster, action, crime flick, but if a closer look is taken and the content really analyzed it can be seen that Pulp

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    Watchmen by Alan Moore and David Gibbons makes many comments on the good and evil of humanity. The heroes in the book are very human and thus are very flawed. Most of the time, it is hard to tell the good guys from the bad guys. Quite frankly, the heroes themselves are relatively bad people and show the inner darkness that humans possess. However, there still seems to be a representation of the good in people. In this panel, there are many aspects that draw on the idea of the evil and good of humanity

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    In Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony and Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behavior, both of the main characters develop a connection with the issues surrounding the state of the environment in the novels that leads to creation of a new character, the character of “environment”. Both Tayo and Dellarobia discover more about themselves through their relationship with nature and their surroundings, however, Silko manages to convey empathy for the character “environment” more efficiently when compared to Kingsolver

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    Neil Burger’s film ‘Divergent’ and James Dasher’s novel ‘The Maze Runner’ are both set in a futuristic post-apocalyptic era with each main character being tested in order to find the right path to freedom. Both texts types share the themes of Bravery and Identity. The main characters are both strong, persistent and considered to be different to the rest. With the two different journeys to save the world and the main characters going through their own personal struggle, it offers a three stage journey:

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    However, Disney makes it interesting when they put both the female characters as the protagonist. This is a first for Disney because both the antagonist and tri-tagonist is in her love life. This makes its first because, both the main male character Kristoff and the Villain Prince Hans are both men. Kristoff is the antagonist. He and his trusty sidekick reindeer Sven, helps Anna to find Queen Elsa. Kristoff played by Jonathon Groff, and Sven make the movie enjoyable. The make it enjoyable

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    Castaway The movie Castaway was released in 22nd of December 2000 first in USA and was made by a director called Robert Zemeckis. The hatchet is the first book from the Hatchet series written by Gary Paulsen. The book was first written in 1989 and it is still one of the famous book among younger readers. Both of the text have many similarities relating to the setting, characteristics but also many differences. The movie castaway is about a main character called Chuck Noland who gets stuck in an

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