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 […]

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 […]

Hello and welcome to your personal online journal. This platform has been created to enhance and enrich your learning at Mount Aspiring College. Its purpose is to provide you with an audience for your work (or work-in-progress) and you have the choice (by altering the ‘visibility’ of your posts) of whether your work on here […]