The mother, the girl and the corpse remained stubborn and silent Personifying the colour and the snow. There’s a naiivity to this. “who” “Her hair was a close enough brand of German-blonde, but she had dangerous eyes. Dark brown.” Component 1: NAME THE TEXT, THE AUTHOR, THE THEME, AND THE TECHNIQUES USED TO CONVEY THE […]

QUESTION ONE: PROSE Analyse how the writer sees the personal value of taking a photograph. In your answer you should include examples of techniques used in the text, and explain their effects. (These might include, but are not limited to: dialogue, metaphor, and verb use.) In the prose, Why not?, the author uses writing techniques […]

Use the words from the question to frame your statement. Do not write in first person at all – NO I THINK, I BELIEVE. Break the question into the key parts. If there is more than one treat both parts equally and apart as necessary. e.g “Analyse how supposedly insignificant events (1) or details revealed […]

“How did Markus Zusak employ features of the genre Magical Realism to convey his ideas about human existence in his novel The Book Thief?” The Book Thief illustrates the power of words; negative and positive. This power is important because it can change the social perspective and hence exponentially encourage others to speak out and […]

The author manipulates the reader Subject Verb Object

Death is the action responsible for taking a human life. For this action to occur there must firstly be some other action responsible for the loss of it. In The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, death, the action of life’s ending, is not only developed as a key character but is also the story’s narrator. […]

“No matter how many times she tried to imagine that scene with the yellow light that she knew had been there, she had to struggle to visualize it. She was beaten in the dark, and she had remained there, on a cold, dark kitchen floor.” Liesel subconsciously thought. What author Markus Zusak is doing here […]

Molching is an imaginary location descriptively nestled between existing locations. Reality: Concentration camps contributed to the death of some 6 million Jews inside and outside of Germany, over 50% of Europe’s Jews. The Nazi Party promoted German Pride and anti-Semitism (against Jewish people). It was formed and backed on the basis of Germany’s failure in […]

“No matter how many times she tried to imagine that scene with the yellow light that she knew had been there, she had to struggle to visualize it. She was beaten in the dark, and she had remained there, on a cold, dark kitchen floor.” Liesel subconsciously thought. What author Markus Zusak is doing here […]