Essays on Evie

Introduction

The book Moonwalk by Susan Powers has categorically portrayed the subject of bodies and identities in all manner of sense. Such is an explicit manner in which the text tries to bring out the natural being of situations, conditions and people to be seen in a real physical manner that does not exist in our case here.

Discussion

The text gives a vivid description of situations and people that makes us come up with imaginative or pictorial identities of persons within the text. The text can make a constructive difference in a manner of description of individuals in way we can tell from far ...

The pressure of being a single parent dealing with an adolescent daughter or son can be a handful. In most cases, the father-daughter, mother-son relationships are quite more compatible, as the father has a soft spot for his daughter, and the mother, has for her son. But, when a single mother has to deal with her growing daughter, who is attached to her father, the implications can be volatile, as seen in the change in Traci’s attitude in the movie, Thirteen. Right at the start of the movie, Traci is seen asking, looking at the camera, and asking to be hit! To ...

‘The Man Who Loved Children’

Christina Stead’s novel The Man Who Loved Children is one of the most eccentric, painfully honest and humorous novels of the 20th century. Its underlying feminist theme is embodied in the character of Louisa, an overweight and unattractive young girl, whose desire for her father’s love and acceptance is undermined by his childlike persona and abusive, controlling manipulations. She resists her father’s mercurial ideas and psychological browbeating, finding solace in her diaries, poems and a language of her own invention. After the family’s dissolution, which includes Henny’s suicide, Louisa survives and escapes her tortured environment.

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