Q1: Analyse how the writer explores his connection to the beach setting. The Kumara harvest by Catherine Norman is a story about a boy that spent some of his child hood at the beach. The boys mother dies and his Father is left with no choice to leave the beach. The boy then returns to […]
Analyse how one or more characters increased your understanding of the setting. Note: “Setting” may refer to physical places as well as social and historical contexts. In Markus Zusak’s novel “The Book Thief” where Zusak uses certain characters to increase our understanding of the text. In “The Book Thief” we are confronted with elements of […]
Question 1: Catherine Norman sees the personal value in taking photos of her surroundings so that they can be memories for her to look back on when she is too old to remember this part of her life. The writer conveys her ideas and helps us get a better understanding of the text by using […]
Analyse how supposedly insignificant events or details revealed one or more significant themes. In Markus Zuzaks “The Book Thief” where Zusak uses elements of Magical realism. Zusak also uses supposedly insignificant events to show the power of words. He uses magical realism to get us to pay attention to things that we wouldn’t usually pay […]
It is winter in the small town of Hawea blanketed in frost by the early morning. The frozen trees, plants and grass awaits resurrection by the morning sun. The frost had grown strong from the absence of the sun and had seized the land in a dark sleep. The large body of water was a […]
I step off the bus and the numbingly cold air inhabits my loungs as my legs carry my lifeless and fatigued body across the icy and cruel terrain.
Intro/setting scene It was a peaceful morning in the un troubled meadow of the jasper national park of the Canadian rockys where a community of grizzly bears lived. The long luscious green grass was sparkling in the sun from the dew and there was a gentle morning breeze moving through the meadow under the blue […]
It was a calm and cool morning in Wanaka, New Zealand. There i was, making my way to my next class, English. At that moment i was totally un aware that i was going to loose my watch. Too be totaly honest with you I was expecting nothing but the gaining of knowledge from this […]
“How did Markus Zusak employ features of the game Magical Realism to convey his ideas about human existence in his novel The Book Thief?”