tone: candid colloquial, familiar Vonnegut utilises a colloquial, familiar tone to inject comfort and warmth into his writing. He makes it feel as if we know him personally, and he is telling us his story as he sits with us besides a fireplace. Vonnegut emulates actual conversation in his passage with his flitting topics, darting […]
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IO practice: to what extent is it important for us to know about the text’s historical/cultural context when interpreting what it says about this global issue?
The global issue I have chosen is art, creativity and the imagination, with a focus on the imagination and how it may diminish our satisfaction with reality. the odyssey: americanah: the most significant theme of this novel surrounds its cultural context and the tension ifemelu feels between her home culture and america. Ifemelu, no matter […]
Practice IO Outline
Passage 1: Fagles (Book IX) Mine is a rugged land but good for raising sons— and I myself, I know no sweeter sight on earth than a man’s own native country. True enough, Calypso the lustrous goddess tried to hold me back, deep in her arching caverns, craving me for a husband. So did Circe, […]
What characterises Adiche’s writing?
Americanah and The Arrangements Use of free indirect discourse: reveals internal conflicts of not only the protagonist bu the surrounding characters as well. e learn more about the character, their past lives, their feelings and thoughts without it having to be explicitly said or sectioned off within the book. Both characters feel trapped by their […]
Transformation in The Odyssey
Odysseus Throughout books 5-8, we follow Odysseus on his journey home. He finds himself adopting difference personas in different cities, we find out that while he battled in war 10 years ago, his warlike instincts never really left him. revenge with the cyclops Polyphemus different personas – trying to find herself Telemachus Telemachus begins as […]
Poems by Eloisa Amezcua, Jeffrey Haynes, and Chen Chen
“I text Becca while Im on the Bus” By Eloisa Amezcua I think her use of digital language (eg “=”) that you don’t exactly know how to read out creates a sense of discomfort in the reader that emulates the discomfort felt by the persona. I think her use of emoji conveys her need for […]
A Display of Mackerel by Mark Doty
Something about this poem is fishy. A Display of Mackerel seems to comment on the (seemingly shared) human existential crisis – what really is our place in the world? The poem’s juxtaposition between the prismatic, colourful allure of community and the fear of getting lost amongst others begs the question: to what extent are we […]
MINDS Service reflection
My service this year is MINDS Tampines, which involves working with individuals with intellectual disabilities. After a few sessions with the clients, here’s a video detailing what we’ve learnt about the issue. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jBjZlm37WYj1uuDL6xkgXfZVBVz9hsKg/view?usp=sharing
goals for the new year :)
This year will be the last year of IGCSE and honestly probably the last relatively free year I’ll have for the rest of my life. As I start this new year, I want to set myself a few goals in order to get the most out of my year. My first goal is to engage […]
The Complexities of Lady Macbeth – English task
At the beginning of the play, Lady Macbeth is seen as the primarily dominant character in her relationship with Macbeth. In the Elizabethan era, women were seen as fragile and weak and put into the same category as children. They were thought to faint at the thought of death, blood and other violent ordeals. This […]