Hannah Lutley

Last week when we talked about Wendy Rose's works we saw women begin exploited by their families and loved ones for having something "different" about them. This week we saw the same sort of thing happening in Venus Hottentot. Sara Baartman is found by the scientist Cuvier and put into a freak show. By doing this we see that women in the 19th century were looked down upon and for Sara her unusual appearance did not help to detract onlookers.

In The End of the Line we see Bender strange style of writing by using real world time but including aspects of fantasy. The Big Man can be seen as a manipulator and a man who envies people who have things in life. The Little Man is at first seen as a man who, even though small, has optimism and excitement towards life. When seeing the Big Man picking on the Little Man we naturally gravitate to feeling bad for the Little Man because he seems so helpless and powerless over the Big Man. In the end we see that the Little Man remains strong through the battle with the Big Man and the Big Man end up just wanting to be accepted into a "group" and he thinks that the little people's world would be good. We can look at this and saw that for the Little Man, even when things get rough, if we remain strong and optimistic we most likely will be able to return to happiness.