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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
“Oh, how the clouds stumbled in assembled stupidly in the sky.great obese clouds.Dark and plumpBumping into each other. Apologizing.” liesel has just beaten up a boy because he and many other students had been teasing her because she cannot read. Markus Zusak has used symbolism to give us detail of how the students are reacting […]
The Shoulder Shrug. It was a blue book with red writing engraved on the cover, and there was a small picture of a cuckoo bird under the title, also red. pg 84 To her, they were only victims of circumstance. The only thought that continually recurred was the yellow tear. Had it been dark, she […]