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This document provides a template for analyzing films with 14 sections. It includes prompts for summarizing the plot, identifying themes, analyzing the context and messages, examining characters, cinematography, and sound.
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Homecoming. Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023. A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. Download PDF.
Ever wondered how Homecoming follows the standard plot of most stories? Come on in and read all about it.
- Characters and Their History
- A Power Drink
- It's All About Context
- Ruth
- Further Reading and Film Links
- Comments
The play takes place in a house of four very strong-willed and often violent men. Max is the father of the three boys, Lenny, Sam, and Joey, and the family's patriarch. Lenny is extremely violent, and it's suggested that he is a pimp. Sam is a driver for a well-established car service company. Joey has an interest in boxing and works in demolition....
Power is the most important theme throughout the play, and all characters try to exert their power over the others in various ways. They fight each other, verbally abuse each other, and attempt to outsmart one another. The men in the house consider violence the most important instrument of power and are physically and verbally abusive toward all wo...
In order to truly analyse and understand this sequence, we need to look at the context of the scene. Of all the factors that affect the outcome of the scene, Lenny’s attitude towards Ruth is the most convoluted. The ‘Homecoming’ Pinter is describing is Ruth's, not Teddy's. It may be Lenny’s emotions towards his mother that ignite his violent feelin...
Throughout the play, the acting out of dominance is part of a struggle for territory, and with the introduction of Ruth (and the fact that she is perceived as something the men can possess), the men feel the need to gain control over her as soon as possible so they can ultimately ‘own’ her and be seen as the 'man' of the house. Ruth uses her sexual...
Amman Shoaibon May 12, 2019: This analysis is very good as well as helpful. glad to have this kind of analysis. By the way, there is one mistake too that Sam is Max's brother, he is not his son. the third son of Max is Teddy. Carol Furtadoon March 26, 2018: She never passed over deeon January 21, 2018: ignoring that one mistake in the beginning, I ...
Homecoming by Kate Morton is a highly recommended historical fiction and family mystery. In Adelaide Hills on Christmas Eve in 1959 the Turner Family Tragedy occurs. The shocking crime, the effects of which echo across continents and generations, is never solved.
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Dive deep into Harold Pinter's The Homecoming with extended analysis, commentary, and discussion
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Homecoming. Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023. A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. Download PDF.