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VCE Stuff => VCE English Studies => VCE Subjects + Help => VCE English & EAL => Topic started by: royroysun on May 15, 2012, 08:37:30 pm
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The contrast between Eyam and Oran celebrates how some individuals can find a new beginning liberating. (this is a topic sentence, can someone help me on how to expand and construct paragraph about this)
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it shows how Eyam for Anna was mostly painful, her children and husband dying. bestfriend elinor dying and village slowly dying around her, where as in Oran Anna became a healer, found a man and raised the children she took from the bradfords girl. you could do a paragraph on these points perhaps? Anna's new beginning in Oran is very different to what her life in Eyam was (hope this helped, dont remember the novel that well :( pm me if you need more help tho)
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Thank you! I was also wondering how would you incorporate the change in landscape and colour? How does this symbolize Anna's new found freedom? for example, the change from this "Wide Green Prison" to Oran
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maybe you could talk about apple picking season at the start of the novel and how its autumn, leaves falling, sorta showing the plague i guess as one part of the landscape.
also something thats defiantly worth having a look at is http://englishvce.wikispaces.com/file/view/year-of-wonders+2.pdf it helped me alot in prep for year of wonders, have a browse :)
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my theory is that geraldine brooks was high when she wrote the ending of the novel..
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What school do you go to? To my knowledge it's been the only one that hasn't completely neglected the end of the book in teaching it to their students.
Props to your school.
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Question - Given that Anna is surrounded by death and misery, how does she manage to overcome her own grief?
My teacher talked about how Anna takes joy in Nature to overcome her initial grief (the loss of her husband Sam.)
I'm kind of confused, can anyone please help me construct a topic sentence about this, so i can develop it into a rich paragraph?
And for the guy who posted above me, i go to Camberwell Grammar
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possibly she takes interest in making herbal supplements with the gowdies and keeps this passion going throughout the novel even through the gowdies and other characters die
not sure if this would relate the nature through
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Thanks! My teacher told me not no jump around by drawing on examples that occurred during the middle or end of the novel while your still in the first paragraph.
So, I want to talk about how Brooks draws on biblical imagery, and the one that i noticed is how Anna is depicted as this "shepherd" caring for her flock. How would you expand on his this?
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on how anna was a 'shepherd' is maybe how she caried for so many sick people and looked after numerous people even in times of personal distress. she even managed to go and help give birth to children ect
perhaps also not necessarily biblical imagery, but how alot of the township was very devoted to god and everything was done in 'the name of god' such as killing the gowdies for being witches and having very enclosed minds. whereas anna didn't believe alot of these beliefs as she grew throughout the novel from a strictly religious based character to a more intelligent and scientific character, and as the entire township thought it was god bringing the plague, anna thought differently and understood it was something more (acting out of character for the typical person back in the era of the novel).
hopefully i said something that helps :)
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I watched the Texts in the City video from last year:
http://wheelercentre.com/videos/video/texts-in-the-city-year-of-wonders/
but found one from this year too:
http://wheelercentre.com/videos/video/texts-in-the-city-year-of-wonders1/
DOUBLY SCORE!
Please enjoy!
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thanks imma watch that.. instant 45+ ss
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Long time lurker, but I'm having real trouble with a essay on year of wonders as well.
Analyse the meaning of the term "Wide Green Prison" 800 words.
Just wondering if anyone has any pointers on what topics to focus on...
Any help would be appreciated :P
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you could refer to eyam as a prison when they are restricted to stay within it and you could talk about how some become leaders in a situation like that. also you could talk about how people reacted in the situation and that it almost split the town with the poorer people staying and the richer leaving
something to consider with your question
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The term 'wide green prison' also encapsulates the idea that Eyam isn't a prison in the traditional sense. The prison is not physical, there are no bars or walls stopping them from leaving the prison. You might like to argue that it is the villagers who imprison themselves, and that furthermore, it is of their own volition that they do so, and use this as a means of getting into a deeper discussion of the implications of this choice the villagers have made. Do you think that the villagers are being tested?
Extra questions: In what ways does the plague provide the villagers with the freedom to act in ways which they wouldn't ordinarily? Is the Eyam a prison for some but not others?
There's also the fact that Mompellion makes the villagers swear an oath, which is a pretty significant plot event with respect to this theme.
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I would also explore the concept that comes to mind when you hear the terms 'wide' and 'green'. I think of landscape immediately. A lot of the novel explores how nature and the physical setting paves the plot and series of events. Think about even how the chapters are grouped and what their titles are. Seasons, animals, livelihoods, etc. are all dependent on this wide green prison. Something to reflect on, too, I suppose.
dilks does also raise some interesting questions. What governs the choices of the villagers? How is choice and freedom determined? Are the characters born into a family with a plethora of opportunities, or are they rather predestined to specific roles or responsibilities in life? Does anybody challenge these norms?