Beyond the sky and the earth Flashcards

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Five different flights over Four days

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Use of number shows how a motor is exhausting journey is isolated from the rest of the world can’t easily get home

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Plasticky, flavourless

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Adjectives describes breakfast negatively negative perspective

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Doesn’t even have traffic lights

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Remote under developed city compared to Western standard

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Same

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Repetition to emphasise the lack of variety uniformity of buildings and items sold in shops

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But they are Startling

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But soulmate writer doesn’t expect to see any signs of western culture they seem out of place in the Bhutanese culture

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Will look like New to yo you… will never look like New York to me

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Writer things baton is backwards and outdated but gold perspective of Tim poo is very developed infrastructure compared to the rest of Bhutan implies the rest of Bhutan is even more remote

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Describing Bhutans history

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Shift the factual language in this paragraph from description to inform versus more about return history shows writing increasing interest in the country perspective, long paragraph shows her interest in its history and culture

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Final para

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Focus in the final paragraph is how Butan has been able to retain it unique culture because it’s escaped colonisation by Western country

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