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Analyse how the writer sees the personal value of taking a photograph. “will never be seen again by any human being, ever.” – hyperbole “But photographs, they’re permanent.” – incomplete sentence “Sun like a halo over the hills, trees waltzing with each other to a sudden gust of wind. A few tiny pixels on my […]

It is yellow, 2:40 pm. Miles from any sort of civilisation and safety. Worn windows wound all the way down. Countless tiny little devils find refuge in the only covered area for kilometres. Heat-waves jump from the ruptured road blurring your vision. Charred trees mask the opposing side of the valley due to forest fires […]

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Setting: Sitting in the monster truck looking over the vertical edge, summer midday. mum, dad, sister. 1st: Setting: Summer, midday, heatwaves, sandflies, dead trees (burnt), 2nd: Start with command, Road. 3rd: mum, holding with white fists, Dad calm and confident, sister buried in her phone. 4th: river and cliff down below. 5th: you, hands sweating, […]

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 and […]

Not Asking For Help Popular person where everyone thinks they never need help _______ Reacher (ironic) everyone knows him but no one really knows him (first name is unknown)SO FULL OF HIMSELF ANYONE THAT GETS CLOSE DISLIKES HIM Very Masculine (Sporty) Also Very Smart. Parents: American Football Player Rocket Scientist School 2017 17yrs end up […]

In the novel The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, magical realism manipulates the reader into challenging their preconceptions and conveys ideas about human existence. Magical realism is a genre used by many authors that through deceiving or tricking the reader can bring to light ideas who is at fault of the holocaust making us re-think […]

Challenges readers preconceptions Markus Zusak has challenged my preconceptions about the book through the use of the genre Magical Realism. Magical Realism is a way of the reader think more about the text through lying or deceiving them. Zusak has made me re-think what I originally believed was true in his book and made me […]

Molching: Molching is a fictional place made up by the author Markus Zusak. It was based in Germany in 1939-1942 between Munich and Dachau concentration camp. Finding out that Molching is not a real place has made me sceptical as to what is fact and fiction in the book. There are many real things in […]

First appeared in English in 1955 First used in Germany in 1925 (relates to book) It reflects the uncanniness of people and our modern technological environment. Uncanniness:having or seeming to have a supernatural or inexplicable basis; beyond the ordinary or normal; extraordinary: uncanny accuracy; an uncanny knack of foreseeing trouble. mysterious; arousing superstitious fear or […]