Miss Gee

• the poem is about a lady, Miss Gee, who gets cancer and sadly dies, the poem has a very sad storyline yet is told in a very child-like way using a slightly happy yet serious tone. 
• each stanza is 4 line s long and the entire poem in told in ballad form, there is a blues tune running throughout
• it is told in 1st/3rd person, more relateable for the reader
• each stanza develops time - also they include lots of reference to time as they develop
•  voice change, change in narrator? or quoting a character
• starts in the past and ends in the present - the use of apostrophes "she'd" highlights the past as its is saying she had not she has 
• "but a storm blew down the palace" in my opinion this quote is a reference to her cancer. In stanza 7 we read about her dream in which she is happy yet it leads on to this quote in the beginning of stanza 8, i think this is referring to how the cancer has ruined her life or her dream. 

its a poem about the contrast between religion and science;

• Miss Gee was strongly religious and she was praying for the pain to go away
• She the trusted science to cure her and ended up having her body used for experiments

the poem could be about death but i think that it is more about the remembrance of life, telling us no matter how you lived your life, how good or bad you were, sooner or later we all die. we all die - this shows us that eventually we are all equal.

History Boys - Act 1

Act one of The History Boys is very 'banterous'. On numerous occasions we see the the boys mimicking scenes from films, this highlights the play being a comedy. Also the way the teacher refers to this space of time as 'silly time', it makes the teacher to pupil bond seem strong as they are able to act so informal around each other and this makes the play more comedic as a teacher wouldn't usually use that terminology.
                            
This leads on to the explanation we get of the character Hector. We are introduced to him as an eccentric character with an innovative way of teaching. After getting to know the character and beginning to grow a liking for him we find out that he, actually, isn't such a nice character as he molests the children. From the point i found this out onwards I did begin to see the character Hector as extremely inappropriate. I start to see his actions and the way he speaks all differently to how i did before i knew he molested the children. What shocked me lots about this situation, something that also sparked good conversation, was the fact that the children are so 'up for it' and they don't actually do anything to try and stop it, also the character Posner comes across as disappointed when Hector wont 'mess around' with him.