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In this essay, I am going to express how the poems ‘War Photographer’ and ‘Remains’ express the power of guilt.

In the poem “War Photographer” power is shown when the poet says “Belfast. Beirut. Phnom Penh.” Here, the power of his job is shown when we see him mention all the countries he has been to like a bucket list. This could also be interpreted as a powerless job because the protagonist visits all these places but only has the authority to take a photograph of these people in need instead of help them. The full stops at the end of the places is effective because it makes the reader realize that these places are more like a holiday destinations to the war photographer than a place of conflict.

in the poem “remains” the power of guilt is shown when the protagonist says “he’s here in my head when I close my eyes, dug in behind enemy lines” this shows guilt because of how the man can not get the image out of he head, when something small happens it is easy for the mind to forget whereas when something big happens like a death it is hard for the mind to forget. the word “dug” also suggests that the image has cemented itself.

The poem “war photographer” the power of guilt is shown when the protagonist says “He remembers the cries of the man’s wife” this shows guilt because the man can’t get over the cries of his wife this is like the poem remains the man can’t get over what has happened and the only thing to blame is his job. this also shows that the protagonist does realize that his job is complicated in the sense that he shouldn’t be taking photos of people suffering in a war situation. This could could also make people who he knows at home think negatively on him because of how he is making an entire country look at suffering civilians.

“But have to the knuckle, here and now, his bloody life in my bloody hands”. In this quote Simon Armitage has used repetition to show the protagonists guilty and the fact he can’t get rid of the image of a dead man. The writer also stated the word “now” which means that the protagonist is feeling guilty at this present moment. This quote also gives off a form of power. The protagonist is feeling powerless because he is currently feeling guilty due to what he has done, their is also the sense of power that comes from the feeling of guilt because the guilt is always gonna be there and it will be hard for the man to overcome, this means that the power is coming from guilt.

“His editor will pick out five or six” In this quote it shows us how the protagonists is powerless because everything he does in his job is being judged by his boss, this quote is significant because the fact the boss picks out 5 or 6 shows us that the protagonist is working for a man who only cares about his money and the money the paper is making, this has a negative effect on the protagonist because he is going to adapt to that frame of mind. There is also a sense of power because their is a strong chance that the protagonist can see these images as what they really are and see them as a chance to escape what he does for living. 

In the poem ‘remains’ simon armitage uses a short quote, “but i blink” this quote is telling you that even though time is moving fast he still has the power of guilt hanging over him, it tells us this because it don’t take long to blink and the rest of the poem tells about the feeling of guilt. it also suggests that the man is constantly thinking about it because you blink quite often and you don’t really notice it when you do so the man is starting to think how often he blinks because he is always thinking about what happened when he shot the bank robber.

I became a war photographer at the age of only 15, I was quite tall for my age so I did pretty much everything a 18 year old does at my age, when I was about 10 I wanted to do an extravagant job like Soldier, a member of the navy or a football player. But when I heard about the opportunity to find a job job what was very close to the front line but yet so far I threw myself to the interviews. About a week later I recieved an email from the company telling me I’ll start tomorrow, but only the Lord himself knew what was going to happen, there were more deaths than I ever could of imagined. The first image I captured through the lense of that death riddled camera will haunt me forever, it was a man who had been washed away with the times and a face like the lady on the famous Mona Lisa picture. When I went home to sleep after about a week and a half after starting only two thoughts raced through my mind, they were either stay or go. I decided to stay on for another week but the job never changed…but then the news about the assignation of the man himself Adolf Hitler, and when they wanted a photographer to go along I didn’t even blink twice. I wanted to be the most famous photographer in the world war. And on the 5th of May 1945 the day before I potentially took a photo of the most hated man dead and I just couldn’t sleep. The day had come where I had to take the most famous snapshot had come and I was feeling a mixture of nerves and excitement I think the nerves came from the high risk of death and the excitement came from the potential fame and money that could come out of this. At 07:53 I had a pigeon fly through my window with a note attached to the foot that said “I will get you”, I  had no idea who the note was from and what the note meant. About 45 minutes later I had a knock on the door and it was a man in an all black suit with a briefcase and inside that briefcase was the most modern and expensive camera to date, and there was another note that said the assignation will take place at 22:56 at the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland. This meant that I had to take a 3 hour flight to Poland and then get ready for the biggest moment of my life. So that’s what I did. At 16:38 I landed in Poland and I had a 65 minute drive to the secret location. I then set up the camera and ate what could be my last ever Cadbury’s chocolate. I then got into a car that was identical to Hitlers security car and set off, at one stage I was only one car off of Hitler. After about 15 minutes we was at Auschwitz and with me being a fluent German speaker I was told to talk to head security about where I will go and I was assigned to the roof of the camp. I had my microphone down my trousers and started to climb the ladder of death. When my crew saw j was up they sent me a message that said “50 seconds until take down”. I had adrenaline running through me, after 51 seconds I heard “he’s down” and I got probably the best picture possible. After Hitlers realised he was dead they started to smile and cheer and suddenly thousands of Jewish people were running for their lives. Once I was reunited with my team we made a bold decision to go up to his security and tell them that “we have won the war”, as I said I have the most modern camera and I managed to get a 2 minute video of when we won the war. We later went back to the guards house for tea and biscuits. And once I returned I was one of the most spoked about people in the whole of U.K.

Lo: How can I compare and contrast.

Used To Compare: As well as, in comparison to, both, like, likewise, also

Used To Contrast: In contrast, Whereas, Even though, on the other hand, However

The picture on the on left has 2 helicopters the picture on the right also has 2 helicopters.

The picture on the left has water the picture on the right also has water.

the helicopter on the right is labelled hjc whereas the picture on the helicopter on the right is labelled chj.

the boat on the left has a green flag however the picture on the left has a red and white flag.

1. A) Differences: The picture on the top is a huge rocket whereas the picture on the bottom isn’t as expensive. B) they are very different modes of transportation.
2. A) Differences: Parliament is now more formal whereas back then it looked a lot more sefisticated
3. B) Differences: The road on the top is very quite whereas the road on the bottom is very busy
4. A) Similarities: The similarities of the transport picture is that in both pictures it is light sky’s.
5. B) Similarities: in the main road pictures you can see that there are a set of trees.

In the second set of photos I can see that it is an image of a road in Mumbai before and after, you can also tell that in the image of old Mumbai you can tell that is a lot more densely populated where as new India is sparsely populated.

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This essay will about the perspectives of Abdul, Asha and Sunil who are characters from the book “behind the beautiful forevers” what was written by Katherine Boo. Abdul, Asha and Sunil come from a place in Mumbai which is called Annawadi. Annawadi is a slum and all 3 characters live close by but because of their personalities and status they all have different perspectives on the slum. Abdul and Sunil are both young boys who are friends and make their money of scavenging and selling what they find for a small profit where as Asha is a fully grown women with kids, she is also a potential slum Lord. But for a living Asha makes her income off of fraud. Abdul is young boy who is from one of few Muslim family’s in Annawadi and they are sort of seen as an outcast family. They are seen as outcast because of how Annawadi’s people are bought up to be Hindu’s. The Hindus in Annawadi also don’t like how Abdul makes his money because he is a Muslim living of Hindu money. Sunil is very similar to Abdul but Sunil is a Hindu Sunil has the same way of making money as Abdul which means his thoughts on making money in Annawadi is the same as Abdul’s.

Asha is a character also seen as an outcast because of how her family have immigrated from the north to the south. Asha makes her money off of fraud and see’s Mumbai as a “hive” for a “profitable collary”. this metaphor suggests that Mumbai is a place where people go to worship money just like how the bees go to the hive to worship the queen bee. this suggests that Asha thinks of Mumbai as a place to make money. Because of her wealth compared to most of the Hindu families Asha is a potential slumlord. This could make her image even worse because the Hindus could easily start to realise that someone from the north is really only in the  south to make money off their people.

Abdul doesn’t think of Annawadi in the same way as Asha but this could easily be because of the way they make money. Abdul has to make his money off the garbage of the rich which gives us an uninspiring impression of the slum. This gives us an inspiring because making money of garbage is a very unattractive job. Asha, however, makes her money off fraud. This is a better way of making money because there is more money to be made. this is seen when Katherine Boo says “Everything around us is roses and we’re the shit in between”. This is a metaphor. It is clear that when Abdul says “everything”, he is directing the reader towards the new skyscraper buildings in Mumbai, and how more than 1/4 of the country’s income is going to the rich. When he says “shit in between” he is talking about how the poor people in Annawadi basically live off the scraps of waste. The word roses makes the reader think of pleasant things such as plesent smells and feeling like luxury. Whereas roses have connotations which are pleasant, shit has unpleasant connotations. We associate shit with unpleasant smells and a feeling of disgust. The slum has been classed as negative in the book before, when Katherine Boo labels the slum as “bitty”. In this quotation the word bitty suggests that the slum is very dirty and cheap.

Sunil sees Mumbai as a necessary evil, it’s a place that he doesn’t like but he has to convince himself that he enjoys the city in order to survive. Sunil tells us that “he’d have to become a better scavenger” to “jump start” his system. However, there is a huge risk that he’ll “wreck” his body due to the dangers that a more intense level of scavenging can bring. Katherine Boo uses imagery to highlight this idea. She tells us that “lice colonised hair, inched up fingers and calves swelled into tree trunks”. This imagery allows us to understand the severity of his injuries due to scavenging.

In conclusion, Katherine Boo shows the reader that very different and very similar people can have different perspectives on a place. Abdul and Sunil are similar because of the way make money, this makes their perspective on the slum the same because they both want to break out of Annawadi. Asha, however, is different because she has enough money to go and live away but she would rather make money off Annawadi. Overall, Katherine Boo shows that a Mumbai slum is a place just like our own London because of how people from the less wealthy areas want to break out into the big time, just like the quote “a hive for a profitable collary”.

Personification is when you give something that is a non human a human attribute.

“Shadows were dancing across the collapsing walls as if it was a dance fit for the spirits”

The shadows are the human action and the and the dancing is the target.

Time Snuck By-Non human action is the time and the non human is snuck.

the funeral raced me by in a blur-te human is the funeral and the non human is the blur.

Annawadi sat two hundred yards off the Sahar airport road. Annawadi is the non human action and the human action is sat.

a road where new India collided with old India and made new late India-the human actions are new India and old India and the non human action is when the roads collided.

Katerine Boo presents personification to say how new India and old India is a car crash because of how old Indias bad reputation does not allow the new and improved India to go as high as possible.

Katherine Boo presents how far away the airport is by saying it “Annawadi sat two houndered yards off the Sahar airport roads” this is personification because it’s saying how Annawadi is forever still.

Katherine Boo presents the job of rubbish scavenging as dangerous because of the way she says “scrapes from dumpster diving poked and became infected”.

This creates an a dark image because at the age of ten boys and girls should not be out going through dumpsters and getting infected they should be getting an education this also helps people understand how unlucky people are.

“He planned to introduce himself as Sunny”-he thinks that if he is similar to the Europeans they will notice him more.

“Although he was not an orphan he knew what an AIDS orphan is”-he understood more than the other orphans in the orphanage.

“Annawadi was also magnificently positioned for a trafficker in rich people’s garbage”

“everything around us is roses” is how Abdul’s younger brother put it “And we are the shit In between”

“Darted after cigarette packets tossed from cars with tinted wondows”

“Raining vibrant abuse upon scavengers who asked for their trash”

“Abdul wasn’t sure he’d had enough schooling to make a judgement either way”

In the two pages it shows inequality when it says “everything around us is roses” is how Abdul’s younger brother put it “And we are the shit In between” it shows this because of how the poor people live in a growing economy which has more rich people building luxury hotels around the slums of Annawadi. The quote also shows how the boys could soon hook on to the fact the government cares more about money than the people of Annawadi.

1. Utterson and mr Enfield are talking about me Hyde
2. Utterson and Mr Endfield go to Jekyll’s house
3. Utterson and Mr Enfield see Jekyll transform into mr Hyde