Book Reviews

Carol Ann Duffy’s ‘Before You were Mine’: A Tusi Note – Buy it Now!

Tusi Notes Just the ideas you need to be different! ”This tender and elemental love poem to our first and most enduring love, that of the mother and child, is to all intents and purposes, a means for Carol Ann Duffy to reconstruct, even to re-invent a past beyond the first person, ‘I’ narrator. The [...]

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Dickens’ Great Expectations: An analysis at Bolton School.

Tuesday 7th February was Charles Dickens’ 200th birthday. Bolton School, Girls’ Division,celebrated the UK’s most famous novelist’s birthday in style, as all the pupils and the staff, came to school, dressed as a Dickens’ character. The corridors were awash with Ghosts, Miss Havishams, and street urchins. I even had a glimpse of a Barnaby Rudge-not an [...]

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Private English Tutor/Tuition Manchester, Bolton, Bury: Shena Mackay’s The Orchard on Fire: Descriptive Writing at its best!

Unlike so many books that explore the betrayal of friendship and of trust, this book upholds the precious sanctity of love that transcends even death. I can never read this book without knowing that the atheists are wrong, that love does transcend all other petty emotions and delusions, that writers can change our worlds and [...]

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Jane Eyre’s first encounter with Rochester:Chapter 12- A short Analysis on the irony of retrospect!

Jane Eyre is one of my favourite books, with one of the most feisty and resourceful heroines in English literature. Virginia Woolf found the emotional lives of the characters in the Bronte sisters’ novels too extreme. too full of feeling that set her worlds outside of the reader’s more ordinary experience. Whilst I can understand [...]

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GCSE descriptive writing: Susan Hill’s short Masterclass of an opening!

Susan Hill’s novel The Woman in Black must be one of the most unsettling ghost stories ever written. It has a genuine darkness that eats away at your imagination, hijacking our sense of daily security and replacing composure with horror. I started Susan Hill’s The Small Hand the other day and was immediately impressed by [...]

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Dickens’ Great Expectations, Chapter 8: Why does Pip fall in love?

It was then I began to understand that everything in the room had stopped, like the watch and the clock, a long time ago. I noticed that Miss Havisham put down the jewel exactly on the spot from which she had taken it up. As Estella dealt the cards, I glanced at the dressing-table again, [...]

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Great Expectations by Charles Dickens- A Revisited Review and analyis.

Great Expectations begins in a churchyard with a young boy called Pip trying to work out how he came to be born. He believes that he can begin to define who he is through a lively, inventive yet naive curiosity about his past. So he starts to read the graves of his family and make [...]

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Charles Dickens’ Night Walks: Analysis and thoughts.

Dickens was an energetic walker and more than an occasional insomniac. His esssay ‘Night walks ‘ collected in The Uncommercial Traveller  explores the experience of sleepnessness  as experienced by a wandering  Dickens, in the city of London. His wanderings bring him close to many encounters of the most harrowing, poverty stricken kind. For Life in [...]

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Jude The Obscure Book One Chapter IV: Hardy’s own bleak house of despair?

Someone might have come along that way who would have asked him his trouble, and might have cheered him by saying that his notions were further advanced than those of his grammarian. But nobody did come, because nobody does; and under the crushing recognition of his gigantic error Jude continued to wish himself out of [...]

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Tusi-bites: Henry V and the rule of three by Janet Lewison

”We few, We happy few, We band of brothers.” Agincourt beckons and Shakespeare’s King Henry V is trying to rally a beleagured English army before they they face the French who outnumber them. This line is very famous for its patriotic sentiments  and potency. Olivier’s film in 1944 was used for propaganda to lift the British [...]

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