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Gipsy Boy And Love Is All You Need Analysis

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Abstract This essay explores the question ‘Compare and contrast the representation of family responses and attitudes to the protagonists’ sexual identity in Gipsy Boy and Love Is All You Need?’. The essay begins with introducing two works which are Gipsy Boy and Love Is All You Need? and gives brief information.
To answer this research question, analyses of the works took the following approach: first, analysing the book Gypsy Boy solely by exploring the typical gypsy culture and family structure, examining family member’s personality through their action and behaviours. Secondly, by using same method on Love Is All You Need?; essay analyses family members and their personalities, their responses towards homosexuality. The focus is on characterization …show more content…

represented towards the protagonist 's sexual identity?”. The chosen research question allows us to explore and understand the impact of the parents on Mikey and Ashley through family bonds, compare and contrast two different families which are influenced by different cultures, gender norms, and text types. In this essay i will explore how the texts depict the families in their different contexts how it impacts on the children, and the ways in which it shapes both individual and group identity.
Works will be investigated are both about sexuality and discrimination towards homosexuality. Works approach the problems with different perspectives and styles where one of them is a provocative experiment and the other is a memoir.
One of the works being analyzed is an autobiography by Mikey Walsh. Gypsy Boy was published in London in 2009. In the book, he informs non-gypsy readers about gypsy community, his relationship with his family from his early life to present day, especially with his father who had disastrous impact of his life which led him leave the house. The audience is both gypsy and non-gypsy

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