ATAR Notes: Forum
VCE Stuff => VCE English Studies => VCE Subjects + Help => VCE English & EAL => Topic started by: birrezag on July 24, 2011, 07:50:57 pm
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Ive read the book, but I've got no idea what im doing in terms of the context essays that have been proposed to me by my teacher. :-[ :-[how should you incorporate the book when writing these essays???....... how do i bring the book in whilst talking about identity and belonging????
as well, which stories within the novel would be the best to emphasis identity and belonging ;D[/size]
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You can do this three ways:
1. Emulate the style of the author - basically, the way they construct their language, form, etc. If they write a play, then try writing a play too. If they use lots of colloquial language of metaphors, copy that.
2. Emulate the ideas of the text - have some of the same ideas as in the original text. For instance, explore alienation, identity, loss of self, oppression from parents, etc.
3. Emulate narrative - copy some of the plot elements. For instance, have a character who is alienated by their peers, whose parents are particularly brutal to them, who wants to change their name, etc.
Best to combine the three.
And I reckon any of the stories where the characters feel ostracized or confused about themselves... (ie. most of them :p)