Sentences with phrase «search for identity story»

The Stolen Child's blend of fantasy and realism combined with a classic search for identity story should place it firmly in the latter category.

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Of Innocent Blood (1980) James has said, «I wanted to write about the search for identity, revenge, redemption,... and therefore I decided this had better be a novel that wasn't a straightforward detective story and wouldn't feature Dalgleish.»

This book not only highlights important issues for those who have or plan to adopt a child of a different race and / or culture but it also offers a compelling story about a young woman who spends most of her life searching for answers about her past, her identity, and where she belongs.

A comedic story of the search for identity and the redemptive power of unexpected friendship.

The film clearly wants to be taken seriously as the story of a man searching for his identity, but I can not see how anyone involved thought that was possible.

Zhao had her debut feature Songs My Brothers Taught Me in the Directors» Fortnight at Cannes two years ago, and she returns with this story about a young cowboy who — after suffering a near fatal head injury — undertakes a search for new identity and what it means to be a man in the heartland of America.

I was hoping for a powerful story of redemption and a search for identity, but all I got was a forgettable excuse for some CGI fighting.

Washington, D.C. — In a historic year for African - Americans in films, in front of and behind the camera, the year's biggest winner at the 17th Annual Black Reel Awards was the small and intimate coming - of - age story of a young boy growing up in a tumultuous, yet nurturing community environment, searching for answers about his sexual identity in Barry Jenkins» cinematic masterwork, Moonlight.

Barry Jenkins» coming - of - age story of a young boy searching for his sexual identity wins 7 Black Reel Awards

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A road trip story, a love story, a coming - of - age search for identity: all these things come together and unravel again in Sen's singular debut.

Like Looking for Alaska, this Printz Honor Book tells a boarding - school story of love, subversion, social politics, and a teen's search for identity with sharp insight and clever, quotable humor.

The novel goes beyond being a simple coming - of - age story or search for identity, developing into a profoundly spiritual search to reconcile the heroine's belief in a loving God with teachings that condemn an integral part of her being.

Nearly two dozen contributors from the United States and Australia tell stories of immigration and migration, loss, discovery, secrets, questions, love, and the search for meaning and identity.

The stories were written when Irish nationalism was at its peak, and a search for a national identity and purpose was raging; at a crossroads of history and culture, Ireland was jolted by various converging ideas and influences.

After all, it is the main theme of my personal story — finding my true identity in Christ while I was searching for a love relationship with the child I had relinquished.

Aloy's story tells us about her search for identity, about great loss, but also about the courage to overcome obstacles and to persevere.

Liam Gillick examines in his short story Liberation of the Stool a stool's search for identity and its trouble for definition through its own attributes.

This painting, part of Whitten's «Black Monolith» series, honors Ralph Ellison, author of Invisible Man, a book that parallels a story of a young black man's search for identity with «the struggle of the nation to define itself in the tumultuous years of the early Civil Rights Movement.»

My favorite story of the power of Google search is how an IRS agent used Google's «advanced search» feature to discover the identity of the mastermind behind the illegal Silk Road marketplace — a problem that had baffled numerous government agencies with access to expensive proprietary tools for years.