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The Red Violin offers some interesting messages about the universality of the language of music. The acting and sets are spectacular, and the actors through the eras do very credible jobs of playing the magical violin. Lastly, the secret of the red violin’s color turns out to be an apt symbol (more…)





In the film ‘The Thin Red Line,’ director Terrence Malick presents his anti-war message through an objective view of war’s crunching of humanity. Malick provides a distressing image of man’s inhumanity to nature and the immorality of war when all men are ‘brothers.’ The story of (more…)





Summer Locke Elliott sets up two contrasting figures in Vanessa and Lila in his novel, Careful, He Might Hear You. This drives the conflicts in the novel. Vanessa believes herself superior and wants PS for selfish reasons, while Lila, as a working class woman, just wants to love him. However, (more…)





All teenagers have to deal with problems both at home and at school.

In `Looking for Alibrandi’, Josie, the main character, deals with many problems typical to all teenagers; such as problems include identity family tradition, death and social acceptance. The other teenager characters (more…)





The play “Pygmalion” by G. Bernard Shaw, focuses on the story of a flower girl who is turned into an elegant good looking lady. This is the reason why the moment from this literature work that is going to be analyzed is when Eliza arrived at the Buckingham Palace. Eliza got all dressed (more…)