The three works chosen for this essay are The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, "Popular Mechanics" by Raymond Carver, and "My Papa's Waltz" by Theodore Roethke. In the three works chosen many differences in the treatment of children appear. From love, to hate, and from anger to fear, many emotions are shown throughout these works. Not necessary do these emotions all come from the children but they ... both competitors want. Unfortunately nobody wins in this battle, all three people lose. In the last sentence the author writes "and in this manner the issue was decided". But was it decid...

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... developed good questions. However, I was then forced to ponder more deeper within my theme after Ms. Singer helped me investigate one of the short stories I had chosen, "A secret lost in the water". Ms. Singer suggested that this story was about the inner-wisdom ... decided to move on to the second one, "The Maiden wise than the Tsar". In this short-story, the maiden possessed inner-wisdom and had a unique gift of meeting the Tsar's impossible requests (as a test). The Tsar on the other hand, saw this inner ... I then decided to make connections with my poetry selections. First, we dec...

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... from their perspective and give readers the underside of history'. Ondaatje tells the stories of the marginalised characters of Toronto. Caravaggio the thief, Nicholas Temelcoff the daredevil and Patrick the tunnel worker have all chosen to tell their own stories- to take control of their lives. Ondaatje weaves the story around characters that have chosen to take on that responsibility. ... and Post-Colonialism compliment each other- one questions the way the truth has been told and the other allows someone else to tell it. Michael Ondaatje utilises the ideas of post-modernism for his ...

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