Mirrors reflect the world you are in, and windows let you peer out to the unknown. Sliding doors are the exception, wherein they let you step outside of your own world and get lost in another. This is why literature that acts as a sliding door is my favourite type of literature. For me, my […]
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English TIBE (CAT feedback/points of improvement)
how to answer paper 1 this exemplar of how to write about a poem Where to improve: tried too hard to relate it back to the main point, need to analyse more. Focus on sentence structure Embedding quote is good Clear distinct points required I think the case could be made […]
Notes on Raymond Chandler Parragraph
Don’t go from top to bottom, highlight themes and ideas throughout the passage and make sure each paragraph has ideas from all sections of the prose/poem Ideas for The long goodbye The narrator uses word building, characterisation, imagery Hero vs society and Hero vs self Identify which aspects of the prose are related […]
An analysis of the social themes behind TIBE
I do agree with the idea that Oscar Wilde’s work does not have any explicit social theme, to an extent. I think that rather than following one specific social theme, Wilde. The Importance of Being Earnest, summarized in one phrase, follows the story of distinguished, high status, dandy individuals caring a little too much about […]
Baba Iaga and the pelican child
I chose to read this short story as the name Baba Iaga seemed familiar to me, like something I knew of, but could not remember. The name triggered images of some Slavic deity, a witch possibly, surrounded by the mysticism of the natural, the magic of the unknown so well embodied by the forest and […]
Thoughts on Humour
26th August 2020 My knowledge on humour, or at least its intricacies was limited till today, the extent of my knowledge was the basic classifications that ‘memes’ would be placed under. We discovered the different types of humour, and the learnings allowed me to analyse my own tendencies, and how I can often have […]
Grassroots
English. The language that is not my mother tongue yet feels like it is, its words rolling off my tongue after jumbling around in my brain, its letters finding a million combinations in my thoughts, like scrabble tiles on cocaine. In a time before the idea of not ‘having time’ was close to non-existent, books […]
LeNormand Card Reading
These are the three cards I received, and I believe they relate to my life in a number of ways. I believe the moon represents two things, a change in my social image and personality, and a change in my attitude towards school and work overall. Firstly, after the circuit breaker came to an end, […]
Chapter 7 Analysis
What does the author reveal about Mia Warren in Chapter 7? In chapter 7, we begin to see more of Mia’s personality and look at the world through her lens. We see her in the role of a mother, as a cleaner, and almost in some ways as a friend. For example, in the first […]
Response to Elena Richardson Parragraph
What does Ng reveal about Elena Richardson in this extract? How is this effective? Consider this as you write your response: The city, with its “rule-oriented wholesome progressivism”, had a strong sense of its own virtue and purpose. Elena Richardson is, in this sense, “the human embodiment” of Shaker Heights. Ng reveals many of […]