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Absence Of Food

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Oliver Twist and the iconic moment “please sir can I have more” is a perfect example of desperation at the absence of food. He is a skinny child clearly deprived of nutritious food. The films representation of this is amazing (in my opinion). Oliver, small, skinny and helpless, compared to the warden, overweight, towering over poor Oliver. There is a clear contrast between the wealthy and the poor which was typical back in the day. To be able to show ones wealth would be through how large they were, it was a sign that they could afford food and pleasurable delights. Then on the other hand you had the working class, skin and bone, barely managing to have a meal a day. Although this miniature rhyme, 'Old Mother Hubbard' merely displays the absence of food, I've loved this piece for years. It's short, simple and gets the message across straight away -- while pulling at a few heart strings. It shows the lack of food doesn't just effect humans but anim
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Let me take a selfie .. with my food

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Being a girl myself, I have been exposed to the desire some woman have for the ‘perfect’ body. Though there was always problems with being 'skinny' and ‘fat’, I felt there was never a middle ground. Growing up no matter how much I tried, I found it difficult to put on weight, my friends would be calorie counting to lose weight. I would try to encourage them not to, as being teenagers it seemed absurd; we were young. However, I was immediately disregarded by statements such as, “you're skinny what do you know, you're skin and bone”. Now in my mid 20s, still slim, I try to take a leap out of my older brothers book, keeping fit and eating right. It doesn't matter if you're slim, you can still be very unfit, which I was.      Some teenage girls and adults alike will idealise woman in magazine, having been airbrush with professional makeup. The papers seem to criticise and judge woman who are in the public eye. They appear to target them in a natural
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Horror in Rhyme

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‘There was an old lady that swallowed a fly', this in my opinion is the most memorable children's rhyme. The illustration in the book making it interactive to the reader and making it visually appealing to carry on. In the edition I remember reading, the images of each animal swallowed was seen in each ones stomachs from the old lady's. This rhyme creates horror in humour. Although, reading it when you’re young makes you laugh as she eating all these ridiculous animals as a result of swallowing a fly, the ending is very abrupt. There was an old lady who swallowed a fly.   I don't know why she swallowed that fly,   Perhaps she'll die.   There was an old lady who swallowed a spider.   That wriggled and jiggled and wiggled inside her.   She swallowed the spider to catch the fly.   But I don't know why she swallowed that fly   Perhaps she'll die.   There was an old lady who swallowed a bird.   How absur
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