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 […]

Being There – Otama In the middle of the mud humbly sits Otama. Otama protectively grasps it’s last few possessions. A wise white church. A tired brick hall. And a school. Only a stretch of tar seal has ever penetrated Otama’s grasp, cleanly cutting the establishment in half – hall and church on one side, […]

“How did Markus Zusak employ features of the genre Magical Realism to convey his ideas about human existence in his novel The Book Thief?” Markus Zusak conveys his ideas about the obscuring social perspective we use to look at and consequently react to actions within society in his novel, The Book Thief. Zusak does this […]

“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. […]