Representations - Love

             Love, to most people means the showing of affection to someone or something. In the instance of my first piece of text, which is my literary text called "daddy's love" it is about a girl who lost her father whilst he was trying to rescue people during the terror strike on the twin towers on September 11. This text depicts a strong representation of love, with underlying ideologies of loss and pride; this is shown through the strong love that the young girl and her father share even though her father is deceased, as well as the discourses used during the entire text. The discourses used, bond strongly together with the presented ideologies and representations throughout the text. Throughout the text, the Childs' choices are questioned by her mother, who is still grieving, representing uncertainty and security for her daughter. The mother hopes to defend her daughter from the cruelty of others through confinement in her household, this action describes the attitudes that the mother feels towards her daughter and the insecurity that has developed since the death of her husband.
             The social differences in this text vary from our own, because this text is based around the timeframe of the 9/11 terror attacks, the patriotically predominant ideology of duty that has been silenced throughout this text becomes unravelled, and once this occurs the social outlooks vary from our own. The father is represented as being absent and far away, this invites the readers to believe the role of this father figure in the child's life was minimal and he was illustrated as a "deadbeat father." This misconception symbolises the likely hood of absent fathers not being present in their children life by choice, in this text it is a different story. The father is then represented to be a hero, he died whilst trying to save people from the rubble of the twin towers, and the nobility of this action is silenced in this text along...

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