Essays about: "child protagonist"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 essays containing the words child protagonist.
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1. The "Black Butterflies": Color in God Help the Child and the Inverted White Gaze
University essay from Lunds universitet/EngelskaAbstract : The discourse on beauty has primarily been focused on the white gaze to prescribe its normative standards. The white gaze conceptualizes the way in which beauty is dwelled on within society: the foisting of Caucasian-looking beauty canons on black women, and the veneration of whiteness as superior. READ MORE
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2. How Narrative Devices Convey the Theme of Love in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye
University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkulturAbstract : This essay focuses on the way in which three narrative devices expand upon three types of love depicted in Toni Morrison’s novel The Bluest Eye. The three narrative devices examined in this essay are narrator, paratext and the irony of the Breedlove family name. READ MORE
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3. Childhood in wonderland
University essay from Lunds universitet/EngelskaAbstract : Lewis Carroll’s books Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There (1871) are both set in the young girl Alice’s dream worlds. For more than a hundred years, adults as well as children have enjoyed losing themselves in the nonsensical stories. READ MORE
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4. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland : A Feminist Bildungsroman
University essay from Institutionen för språk (SPR)Abstract : This thesis has two aims. The first one is to elucidate how Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) functions as a Bildungsroman, and the other one is to demonstrate how the novel also has a coming of age aspect based on feminism. READ MORE
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5. The War of Ages : A Deconstruction of the Adult-Child Dichotomy in Roald Dahl's Matilda
University essay from Sektionen för lärarutbildning (LUT)Abstract : This literary essay is centered around Roald Dahl's Matilda and employs deconstructive theory in order to dismantle the binary relationship between adults and children that the novel's author attempts to uphold. The portrayal of adult characters as either evil or passive, and child characters as innocent and helpless, establishes children and grownups as juxtaposed and limits the choice of hero to a child. READ MORE