Man from Mars - GCSE Health and Social Care. Extracts from this document. Her views are results of her mother's ideologies and her social background.
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Dec 09, 2016Marc Gerstein rated it it was amazing
This story was the first work of any kind I read from Atwood beyond Handmaid’s Tale, which I thought was OK in a blunt-force pc sort of way. But “The Man From Mars” was a pleasant (to me) revelation. It's themes were standard fodder for short stories – overweight and undersized college girl’s self image takes a roller coaster ride when she’s stalked, sort of, but an oddball guy. But the writing is brilliant and original and deftly mixes creepy, funny, pathetic, mysterious and some other things....more
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Miguel Vega rated it liked it Shelves: female-lead, fiction, short-stories, syllabus-reads
Pretty interesting short story; a woman realizes she has a stalker, but because she has never been noticed in that way by a man before, she sort of likes it.
This story was okay and it really puts into light about women who have self esteem issues. It's seems really weird to others how Christina would not call the police and how she was actually glad it was 'someone else who called them' but it shows how low her self-esteem and body image was. It's like catcalling; you know it's really bad and that you shouldn't stand for that sort of stuff but at the same time for females or males who don't have good self-esteem at all they might relish it because i...more
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Margaret Atwood was born in 1939 in Ottawa and grew up in northern Ontario, Quebec, and Toronto. She received her undergraduate degree from Victoria College at the University of Toronto and her master's degree from Radcliffe College.
Throughout her writing career, Margaret Atwood has received numerous awards and honourary degrees. She is the author of more than thirty-five volumes of poetry, childr...more
Throughout her writing career, Margaret Atwood has received numerous awards and honourary degrees. She is the author of more than thirty-five volumes of poetry, childr...more