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The texts i have chosen for my comparative study are 'Brooklyn' by John Crowley, ‘Philadelphia here i come!' By Brian Friel and ‘Persepolis' by Marjane Satrapi. Each of these texts show a theme of family and the treatment towards the main characters from family. As I feel the texts show great evidence of said theme.

'Brooklyn' is set in 1950's Wexford and evolves from the rural setting of Ireland to the urban one of Brooklyn as our protagonist Eilis Lacey Emigrates as there’s no jobs in Ireland for her. She is lead by her sister Rose to move because she wants what’s best for her. Unlike in ‘Persepolis' where the protagonist Marjane is forced to move away from Iran to Austria as life in Iran wasn’t good for Marjane with the revolution that was happening in Iran. She was forced to move by her parents couldn’t have their daughter growing up during a time like that and to see things she shouldn’t see. Unlike these texts in ‘Philadelphia here i come!' Gar is moving to Philadelphia to have a better life, but before he leaves he wants one thing. That is love from his father as he feels that his father doesn’t love him.

In 'Brooklyn' the Author really makes you feel the love from Eilis family towards her, but towards the ending of the text Rose passes away suddenly sending Eilis back to her home town in Wexford. This scene shows the contrast between Brooklyn and Ireland. When Eilis goes back to Ireland her mother isn’t showing her the love that Rose did leaving Eilis with no choice to go back to where she was happy I’m Brooklyn.

In ‘Persepolis' during a scene when Marjane is reunited with her mother for the first time since she left and it is beautiful. As Marjane is grown up there is no filter between them both anymore, but the love is still there and it really showed that even though Marjane was away the love between them never died.

In ‘Philadelphia here i come!' In the scene the night before Gar leaves him and his father are having a conversation and Gar is very needy for some love off off his father and almost has so much self doubt in his self that he gives up and walks away. Gars father S.B is still in the kitchen when the housekeeper Madge walks in and they have a conversation and it becomes known that S.B does love Gar so much but hE just doesn’t know how to show it at all towards him.

I feel in 'Brooklyn' Eilis had to go back to Ireland and realize that it wasn’t for her after the treatment of her mother, she was treated almost as a maid for her. The contrast between the both towns is so noticeable to her. But in ‘Persepolis' as the text progresses you can tell Marjane is getting more homesick and wanting to go home. Eilis found her self-identity whilst in Brooklyn whilst Marjane needs her parents to find hers. In ‘Philadelphia here i come!' Gar finds it hard to find himself and that is more of a personal issue as he’s is always arguing with himself. He seems he needs the reassurance from his father but can’t get it because his father can’t show it to him.

Whilst studying these texts I’ve found that the theme was very strong even though there were moment of doubt, regret and sadness between all three texts I feel that the texts all have a somewhat happy ending. Other than Philadelphia where Gar is still left with his self doubt but maybe Gar could find himself when he does move like Eilis did in 'Brooklyn'.

I found all three texts to be very interesting and shows a lot of real life issues that most authors wouldn’t want to show in their texts. I think that they all have there individuality but also have their differences.

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A certain freedom to me would be experiencing a concert from your favourite artist or actor etc. The feeling of just seeing the said person up on a stage in your presence just leaves you in awe. Ariana Grandes concert in 2019 made me feel this type of freedom and thinking back just gives me memories of that freedom. A certain freedom and just gives you warmth. From buying the tickets to the build up to the concert and then actually experiencing it is just amazing.

When Ariana posted an Instagram announcing that she will be bringing her concert to Dublin I was determined to get tickets no matter what got in my way. The day the tickets were going on sale me and my sister got up at 7:00am to go and get the tickets . It was a crisp morning, you could see our breaths but that didn’t stop us, we waited for hours in the cold. I remember people thinking we were crazy for doing it. The anticipation was building as it was getting closer to the time the tickets were going on sale. As the clock hit 10:00am we got out tickets within minutes and we got the ones closest to the stage! I was ecstatic. It was my first concert and my sister told me i was going to experience something I’ve never experienced in my life, I had butterfly's in my stomach.

The build up was nothing I’ve ever felt, it was a long wait. I bought the tickets in December 2018 and the concert was on in September 2019. It was such a long wait and it went even slower the more excited i got. As soon as the month hit September i had all my outfits picked out (I had a choice of 3) and it couldn’t come quicker I could remember the night before i was in disbelief that i was actually going to see my favourite artist in the whole world. I had all her albums on repeat I was so ready to just go i couldn’t sleep! Eventually I did and I woke up i total shock. I couldn’t wait.

Me and my sister got to the 3Arena of course with my luck it was a rainy day, I packed a poncho and made my way to the queue. The energy I got off everyone i just new that I was going to have the night of my life! Everyone was there all for one reason and it was to see their idol like me. The atmosphere was amazing. I’ve watched videos on the concert online everywhere and knowing I was going to see it for myself I just couldn’t believe it. We were in the queue singing her songs with everyone and that gave me an idea of what way the night was going to go. Something I taught I’d never experience (like what my sister said). She really wasn’t lying. We go in and the anticipation was getting bigger and bigger. I had butterfly’s in my stomach and I couldn’t of been more excited.

It was time for her to come on the lights came down and she appeared on stage. Everything that was on my mind was gone, everything that was worrying me and bothering me was just thrown out the window. I was there in person to hear my favourite songs sang live. Everyone singing along is something I will never forget, I knew that everyone in that Arena all forgot their problems too. We all became one and just sang, it was the most amazing atmosphere and it is something I would never forget. In her closing song lots of confetti flew out, I have loads to remind me of the day that I felt the freedom.

The freedom that you feel at concerts is one of the best things you would ever experience and in my opinion it is the best thing you would ever feel in the world.

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Frost uses language in his poems that is very easy to understand, however to understand his poems on a deeper level you must look into depth in some of his poems. At a first read of Frosts poems they might seem cheerful but deeper into those words are serious issues. Frost is good at hiding problems with detailed imagery, he is also good at at using his long and short vowels to give the poem emotion. He uses such simple language but with the vowels he gives that one but extra of communication.
“Out,out...”
Frost started this poem in a lovely setting, it’s the end of the day the sun is setting over the hills and everyone is about to get off of work for the day. He gives very detailed descriptions of the setting it gives the reader that feeling that they are actually there. Frost mentions three senses which are hearing seeing and smelling and he describes them so well that you understand what he’s explaining. As the poem continues you know that it’s going to take a turn in the line “call it a day, i wish they might’ve said, to please the boy by giving him a half an hour”. The boys sister come out and calls them for supper causing the boy to turn and chop his hand off, the poem takes a dark turn at this point. The boy starts to bleed which causes him to pass away. This poem is a sad poem which could lead back to some of Frosts children passing away at such a young age. I think he is trying to get rid of the trauma by writing about someone who would be in the same situation as him to make him not feel alone.
After apple picking
This poem by frost is my favorite as you can interrupt a few different meanings to this poem. Frost doesn’t really explain what this poem is really about or if the poem has a bigger meaning than a man coming home from work, which in his work he apple picks. If you read this poem more than once you start to understand and have a different take from the first time you read it. My interruption of the poem is that Frost is accepting that he is getting old and that he’s lived the life that he wanted and there are plenty of métaphores in the poem to prove it “for i have had too much of apple picking: i am overtired of the great harvest i myself desired”. In my opinion the “harvest” he desired is the life tha he wanted and he got what he wanted in the end. Frosts almost accepts that he is dying/has accepted death we know this in the line “my two pointed ladders sticking through the tree pointed towards heaven”. This is why i think this poem isn’t only about apple picking. Another line in the poem that gives me that indication is “one can see what will be trouble this sleep of mine, whatever it is were he no worth”. The final line in the poem can be taken in different ways, it could just be seen that he could just be getting a lack of sleep or he is accepting his fate and accepted death.
Spring pools
This poem in my opinion is a rant from Frost, in the poem Frost uses half rythme and internal rythme. This poem is not in first person like most of his poems. Unlike “after apple picking” he isn’t accepting his fate and the spring pools is him describing the early stages of life and in the poem it’s describing time passing by. There is also a hint of anger in this poem because he doesn’t want this time to pass by and he doesn’t want to get older. Frost is almost learning a Lesson in this poem from that image and he is not understanding that that’s the story of life that you just come to grow older and there’s nothing as a person you can do about expect just to live and get on with it.
Frost imagery to explain a story with images and feeling is amazing and out of this world, it makes you really feel the emotions of the poem. He is very good at explaining and leaving his readers with asking questions and he is giving his readers with things to interprète it.

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Leigh, Don't forget to use capitals, your letter is heart warming and interesting, all that you'd expect from a Mum to her unborn son. Well done, I loved how you used your imagination, Spanish flu how are you. lol. The response to Philadelphia should be longer. You did explore some areas of the

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To my soon to be son/daughter,
I know you will be confused when you find this letter. To be quite honest I will be too. Im writing this letter to tell you to amswer a few questions you will probably have when you’re older...

You have 5 aunties, 2 have passed on and 3 are still with us. Una and Aggie have passed on, They got the Spanish flu. Then there is Lizza, rose and me. Lizzy has moved to Philadelphia to find a new life with her husband, I’m so proud of her for getting away from this god forsaken town of Ballybeg. Lizzy still writes to me every now and then (it takes a while for her letters to get here). I really do miss
Her funny self. In America women have more rights than the women in Ireland, she is so much happier and she is trying to convince me to go over until i met ur father... S.b O’Donnell, but I’ll get more into that later. Your auntie Rose, she isn’t doing very well. She is getting worse by the day, I don’t know if i can say goodbye to another sister. I believe everything happens for a reason.
Now your father, Mr. S.B O’Donnell. He really is one of a kind, now i you might be thinking he is much older but i have never met someone like your father he really is a gentleman. I’ve never really loved someone like I’ve loved your father, he really swept me off my feet. He was a hard man to get because everyone wanted him cause of his good looks, we met through friends and it’s been blossoming ever since. Its a love I’ve never experienced before he really makes me feel special.
I hope you get meet Madge, Madge knows how to make you smile on a bad day. She knows from right to wrong, and to be honest with you she knows how to speak sense into you. When me and ur father bicker (which happens) Madge really becomes a peacekeeper in the situation. She also knows how to cook a good stew. Madge is very excited to meet you she has already started to knit hats and gloves for you. Madge and Aggie were good friends that’s how we know her, God rest her soul.
And then there’s me Maire Sweeney, your mother. I am so excited to meet you, you really are a miracle sent from god. You lifted all of our hearts from the bad news of Rose. Oh how i cannot wait to meet you.
See you in the future,
Lots of love.
Maire

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Response journal-Philadelphia here i come! Episode 2

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Response journal-Philadelphia here i come! Episode 2

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So far i really like this play, my opinion it does get a bit confusing some times as private keeps reversing the speech of queen victoria. But ive noticed it happens in times where public gets in a situation that he cant control/gets nervous in. In a way i do feel bad for gar as he is in a sticky situation and at the end of episode 2 i think he realizes that doesnt matter about realtionships or frendships what really matters is the love from his unloving father that he wants. Madge is a snake for bribing his friends down with a cup of tea. I know she just wanted gar to feel that little bit of loved with last goodbyes but if the boys really wanted to do that they wouldve came down without some bribry which really makes me feel bad for gar and seeing what hes going through its making me feel like at the moment in the play i agree with him of getting out of that town.

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Response journal, tuft of flowers and aquainted with the night

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Response journal, tuft of flowers and aquainted with the night

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I really like the contrast between these two poems, as they  show a lot of differences in image but share the same deep feeling of Roberts main theme which in my opinion is depression. Tuft of flowers has a good ending where Robert realises that there is something better on the other side and becomes aware that somewhat everything happens for a reason, but in aquatinted with the night i feel like there is no ending to his pain. He is very aware he is in this alone and he doesn’t want to change that or have a different outlook to the very serious situation which is depression. At the end of the poem there really isn’t any “happy ending” it’s just some what’s stops, what also gives me the hint that he is depressed that he is using long vowels which is very common in sadness or when ur sad.