It is summer in Columbia, the harsh rays beat down on the city showing no mercy. Battered old building’s line the streets, where once stood colourful lively homes now lie grey concrete caves. The only splash of colour coming from the lurid graffiti and the littered streets injected with dodgy paraphernalia. Lining the alleyways are […]

Language connotations are words that carry a cultural or emotional associated meaning, usually, that is either positive or negative. The burning sun bounced off the malnourished trees radiating a green tinge across the quad. Silence from the children filled the air as the ambience of the school grounds was dead. Extended metaphor: Like a regular […]

Using human characteristics to nonhuman things -Happy, Joyful, reserved, Friendly, enriched citrus, white, refurbished, rolling paddocks, The lawnmower chases the untamed shoots around the yard, missing the single strands hugging the bottom of the white picket fence. The smell of a fresh coat of paint lingers in the air as the ambience of birds and […]

don’t be too fat, don’t be too thin, don’t eat so much, clean yourself up, you look like you have let yourself go, be ladylike. Be a lady she said. I stand up on my tiptoes taking a glimpse of rugged hair staring back at me. My wonky fringe hovers above my eyebrows, my scruffy […]

“True redemption.. is when guilt leads to good”, Hosseini once said. Every choice in your life comes with a consequence that follows, but can a persons’ past define them for the rest of their future? Set in Kabul Afganistan, The Kite Runner written by Khaled Hosseini tells the story of a friendship between a wealthy […]

Analyse how specific events reinforced your understanding of one or more ideas. “Ideas” may refer to character, theme, or setting. It is said to be that “true redemption.. is when guilt leads to good” but how far does one go to gain redemption from the ones around them but most importantly redemption from themselves? Set […]

The film series Catch-22 directed by George Clooney, Ellen Kuras and Grant Heslov is a satirical dark comedy based off the novel of the same name by Joseph Heller. The protagonist of Catch-22 is Captain John Yossarian, age twenty-eight, a bombardier in the 256th Squadron of the Twenty-seventh Air Force, stationed on Pianosa during World War II. […]

Plot: The novel opens with Amir as a grown man reflecting on his childhood. Provide a detailed description of the opening scene of the novel: The opening scene of the kite runner begins with Amir the main protagonist, reflecting back on the Winter of 1975 when “became what I am today”, he describes himself crouching […]

Chapter 1 quotes analysis  “…it’s wrong, what they say about the past, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out. Looking back now, I realise I have been peeking into that deserted alley for the past twenty-six years.”  Bury    – Done something bad in the past and tried to move on […]

The hope of attaining something is an optimistic state of mind that is based upon the matter of unwavering perseverance. Hope is the illusion we have for ourselves to fit that last piece of the puzzle to our not so completed life. “In the end, we were all just humans… drunk on the idea that […]