Quotes “This time I had come for a man of perhaps twenty-four years of age. It was a beautiful thing in some ways. The plane was still coughing. Smoke was leaking from both its lungs.” “The streets were ruptured veins. Blood streamed till it was dried on the road, and the bodies were stuck there, […]

Analyse how the writer shows that the same thing can be experienced in different ways In the non-fiction text, ‘The power of the Mind’ by Malcolm Gunn, the writer uses contrast and adjectives to show the reader that the same thing can be experienced in different ways, through the contrasting perspectives of the writer and […]

Markus Zusak uses supposedly insignificant events in his novel ‘The Book Thief’ to reveal the power of words. These events are the first book theft, the painting over of Mein Kampf and development of Liesel’s vocabulary as she discovers the power of words.

Tarras It is winter, early morning in the little township, chilled and blackfrosted, the plants and bushes stiffly frozen, the football field icy, the trees carrying crystals of sharp ice up to the wet sodden air-hugging mist. Listen.  It is morning quietly roving the main road, the moist melodic streaming mist rising over the garage […]

Wake up! Wake up! I hear a voice yelling at me, fading in and out of the sharp ringing in my ears. Man, my head hurts. I slowly crack my eyes open to see bright orange flames licking through the smashed windows.  A voice is yelling desperately, “get out, get out man”. My head is […]

Moral messageCheating death/TIME a teen boy has a vision of his own death (timeframe unknown) and tries to avoid it by ultimately causes the vision to become real/act out Death ideas plane crash Plane crash– Setting: plane/airport– Perspective: first person– Timeline: climax at the beginning (as dream/vision)– Intro: generic (introduce time and place)– Date 13th […]

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak QUESTION: “How did Markus Zusak employ features of the genre Magical Realism to convey his ideas about human existence in his novel The Book Thief?” Intro: how Marcus Zusak uses Magical realism to challenge the preconceptions of the reader. Paragraph 1: Magical realism Paragraph 2: Death (Character) – How […]

defined by style and purpose The Book Thief – Life Of Pi character: Liesel Narrator (death) – Pi Narrator (Journalist) Setting: Real WWII Real Germany Real 3rd Peich Unreal Molching – Real Ocean Real Ship Unreal Island Uncertain Animals Structure: Linear, Chronological, Foreshadowing – Retelling Point of view: 3rd person Unreliable Language: Realism – Realism