District 9 After the movie District 9, I had a conflicting assessment from the portrait of the aliens that are colloquially known as Prawns. I agree with how the humans in the movie felt over how the prawns were acting in Johannesburg, which was frustration and anger. This anger was caused by parts of their […]

Markus Zusak deceives the reader into changing and colouring their preconceptions of Nazi Germany in his novel ‘The Book Thief’. Zusak uses this to highlight the power of words and how they grip us. The elements of Magical Realism is used by Zusak to deceive the reader three separate times; The first is the narrator […]

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