To headsup with your discovery folio...(comments in bold)
Discoveries can be sudden and unexpected, with their provocative nature leading to a profound renewing of our perceptions of the world. The confronting and unexpected nature of discoveries is is explored in Markus Zusak’s ‘The book thief’. Similarly linked to Robert Frost poetry ‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening'. Thesis?? Topic sentence here?? Overall theme of what u are trying to say?
‘The book thief’ is set in Nazi Germany during World War Two and depicts the life of a young German girl Liesel Meminger and her foster parents as they struggle with everyday challenges of life in war stricken Germany. The struggles are seen in the line ‘did he bend down and embrace his foster daughter, as he wanted to? … not exactly… he slapped Liesel Meminger’ which employs binary opposites of the ‘embrace’ and ‘slapped’ showing how a discovery of the true meaning of an aspect of our lives can lead to a vivid contrast in our perceptions of the world. Similarly, Hans (the Father), discovers his true feelings about his foster daughter, Liesel, as she discoveries the truth about herself and her family. The line ‘ ‘Did the Führer take her way?’ The question surprised them both’ uses an allegory to show how, as the girl travels on this introspective path of selfdiscovery, the truth she reveals is shocking to the audience and to Liesel as she struggles to realise the reality of her world.
The extended metaphor of the surprise represents the provocative nature of human discover. These unexpected discoveries ultimately lead to a renewed perceptions of our world. The unexpected nature of discoveries is further explored in the book with the line ‘it would be easy to say that he was just a tall man sitting poor-postured and shattered on some church steps’ symbolising to us the devastation war can cause and how the provocative nature of a discovery can lead to an emotional and spiritual insight into those around us and our world. Throughout ‘The book thief’ Zusak portrays to us as the audience how the confronting nature of living in a war stricken country can lead to discoveries and renewed perceptions of our world.
Similarly Frost explores the provocative nature of unexpected discoveries, however contrastingly to Zusak we see how the persona rejects this impetus opposed to discovering something new. The allure of discovery is explored in ‘the only other sound’s the sweep of easy wind and downy flake’ where long vowel sounds slow the pace of the poem to explore the allure. The conjunction of ‘but’ in the following sentence reveals the rejection of the impetus to discovery and moves swiftly to a new idea halting the personas contemplation. This contrasts to ‘the book thief’ where Liesel accepts the discovery leading to renewed perceptions of her world while Frost’s persona rejects this discovery ultimately rejecting (??) renewed perceptions on there world. this line doesn't make sense. As the audience, we experience the different possibilities of discovery how the acceptance of a discovery regardless of it’s sudden, unexpected and provocative nature will lead to renewed perceptions of our world.
- good response!
- try not to repeat yourself so much, you say the lines "provocative nature" and the word "discovery" a lot...try and cut down on this
- The 'flow' of the response could be polished but overall it is good
ATB!
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