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angewina_naguen:
Hey, everyone!

This thread here is for those who attended my English Standard HSC Revision lecture at Macquarie University  :) Any short answer responses posted in this thread within a week's time will receive feedback from me! If you have any questions from the lecture, feel free to ask below, and I will also endeavour to help you out  :D Keen to see lots of responses!

Angelina  ;D

Claytonoh:
Both the text explore hardships through the variety of human experiences conveyed by individuals or collectively. Seen in the dialogue between the mother son, where she recounts her life as been "no crystal stair." metaphorically indicating to her son life was not simple and had endure the hardships.  The notion of hardship is further reinforced by the mother through her anecdote having "splitters…boards torn up…places with no carpet on the floor-Bare."  Hughes' enlistment of  imagery provides the visual sensory towards the audience of her struggle, where the hardships were aligned in her home describing her living conditions as poor. Her aspect of human experience is further elaborated through her motivation towards her son calling, "I'se been a climbin'…reachin landins…turnin corners…sometimes goin' in the dark". The employment of rhyme and slang of "ins" exhibits the variety of ways the mother has experienced hardships in her life.  Her continuous motivation of "Don't you turn back…Don't you fall now." Hughes utilises the inclusive language of creating a sense of involvement to the audience to feel that the motivation to overcome hardship is not just targeted to the son but to audience in a way as well. The repetitive use of  "no crystal stair" is to remind the notion of life is not going to be easy and part of the aspect of the human experience to endure. Hence, text 4 has explored the hardships through the anecdote of the mother and son as an aspect of human experience.

Didnt answer text 5 as cannot read the text.

Benicillin:
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/jul/15/students-struggle-to-support-themselves-as-university-rent-costs-rise

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47559/mother-to-son

max.griffin:
Both texts emphasise the hardship of human experiences in different ways, text four uses figurative language in “And splinters And boards torn up And places with no carpet on the floor- Bare” Anaphora is used to help create rhythm in the lines as it metaphorically compares the stairs with her life to challenge assumptions that people are able to live with out the aspect of hardship in the human experience further supported by the slang “I’se still climbing” showing how the Mum is telling her son with out any pretences the reality of the human experience. Text five explores the aspect of hardship through emotive language and visuals, lots of high modality words are used within the colloquial language and a few are highlighted in read drawing the readers eye. The image has your average grey sky and building but the signs relating to the hardship of the human experiences are bright and coloured. This is done to explore and ignite the idea that hardship is key part of everyday life. Both texts use different techniques to highlight and explore hardship as an a key aspect of the human experience by highlighting the hardship in each text 4 breaks the anaphora with the word “bare” and text 5 has in huge highlighted text “Students struggle”.

Jacob.123:
Both texts explore hardships as a human experience; collectively and individually. In text 4) the mother explains to the son that life is “no crystal stair” instead had “tacks… splinters...boards torn up” which metaphorically represents the experiences of hardship that the mother individually had to undergo. She collectively tells the son this with a purpose and warning for him to keep going when times are hard. As the mothers attempt to warn the son of hardships collectively, she states that there is “...no carpet on the floor”, which metaphorically means that where ever the son may want to rest it will always be “bare” and that he should keep “... climbin’ on”. Similarly, text 5) also explores hardships for university students through the struggle of supporting themselves financially. As the article states, one in three students have to get a loan to keep paying rent due to “the rising cost of rent” which is visually supported by the image above. The image displays buildings with “let” signs skattered throughout it; indicating that students can’t afford to rent a unit. The let signs indicates that the students have to leave as seen in the survey, “they had run out of money by the end of the semester”. The red in the signs symbolise bad and hardships for collectively and individually.

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