Alice Elliott Dark Essays

  • Why is Family Important so Important

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    Alice Elliott Dark’s In the Gloaming, represents how much family time is important to one’s heart. “…caregiving must be a way of life. This does not mean that caregiving is all of life.” Alice shows the opposite of good family time to hint at the reader of what is really going on behind the scenes. The author “pulls the reader directly into the world of caregiving by dramatizing the meaning of reciprocal human relationships. It also highlights some of the central themes of this book- that there

  • Responsible Citizens

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    Alice Elliott Dark’s fictional story “Rumm Road, ” discusses the influence that one citizen could potentially have on an entire community. Dark’s story talks about a group of girls who all happens to be involved in a conflict down on Rumm Road, which is “one in the richest streets in town.” (Dark 3). The narrator and her friends didn’t pay much mind to these girls due to the conflict didn’t directly affect their neighborhood, until it is discovered that one of these girls originated from their community

  • How Does The Adventures Of Priscilla Queen Of The Desert Relate To Belonging

    1120 Words  | 3 Pages

    Undoubtedly, the film The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, that was filmed in 1994 in Australia and directed by Stephan Elliott. In the film, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, it illustrates a story about two drag queens and a transgender woman, as they travel across the Australian Outback from Sydney to Alice Spring in a bus named “Priscilla”, along the way they encounter a wide-range of groups and individuals. During the journey, they face less accepting attitudes and