Essays about: "didactic essay"
Showing result 16 - 20 of 35 essays containing the words didactic essay.
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16. Boys of Unfortunate Circumstances : Problematic Masculinity in Give a Boy a Gun by Todd Strasser
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)Abstract : This essay argues that Give a Boy a Gun by Todd Strasser presents a story of men protecting their masculinity. In order to analyze the novel by Strasser contemporary documentation of the real life events have been used to examine if masculinity is to blame for the protagonists’ actions in the novel. READ MORE
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17. The Representation of Three Characters in The Help : - A Patronising Highlighting of Black People
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)Abstract : This essay argues that The Help by Kathryn Stockett highlights black people in a patronising way. In order to analyse the novel a postcolonial perspective has been applied. READ MORE
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18. Transgression and Tradition : Redefining Gender Roles in Elizabeth Gaskell´s North and South
University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för kultur och kommunikation; Linköpings universitet/Filosofiska fakultetenAbstract : This essay argues that Elizabeth Gaskell challenges the limiting gender roles of the Victorian era through giving her heroine, Margaret Hale in North and South, both the traditionally female qualities of virtue and selflessness and the traditionally masculine qualities of independence and action. The essay also argues that Gaskell’s heroine balances between the feminine and the masculine world as to not appear “unwomanly”, but rather subtly influencing the readers and calls for changing gender norms. READ MORE
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19. Literature for the Intercultural Classroom : Discussing Ethnocentric Issues Using The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)Abstract : Abstract This essay takes as its starting point that the Swedish classroom often is an intercultural environment and that it is therefore important to address issues connected to ethnocentrism in it. In this essay I examine how the novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid can be used in schools to raise such ethnocentric issues. READ MORE
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20. Teaching History through The Last of the Mohicans
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturerAbstract : This essay explores how effective literature can be when used to teach history utilizing James Fenimore Cooper‟s The Last of the Mohicans, in order to teach students two specific historical events, as well as historical gender roles and norms. It does this by first looking at how literature has been employed by others to teach history with pedagogical goals in mind, followed by examining gender roles from the period the novel has as its setting, including the period the novel itself was written in. READ MORE
