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Brief description of story of Journey to Bhutan
Jamie Zeppa travels from Toronto to Thimphu Bhutan to become a teacher. She is shocked by the beautify of the environment and the city with it having a very ancient look despite only being thirty years old, but it was constructed in Bhutanese style. She then goes on to explain the beautiful look of the Bhutanese people and explains their beautiful history
Structural features and quotes of journey to Bhutan
- Again and again,’ epizeuxsis overwealming/ unique dramatic landscape. Imposing
- ‘Instant coffe, powdered milk, plasticky white bread and flavorless red jam,’ adyndetic listing - Imported food suggst she is not comforable yet/ immersed in the culture
- ‘dignity,’ unselfconcience, good humor, grace,’ adyndetic listing
- ‘’I am full of admiration for this small country that has manged to look after itself so well,’’ praise + positve, ‘admiration,’
Languge features of Journey to Bhutan
‘’Mountains all round,’’ description in opeing paragraph all contribute to sense of strangness + diffrent culture
‘Giant child gathering earth in great armful,’ metaphoric imagry; almost if cannot be nautral - exeeds imagination
‘like new york,’ simile → there is more of a culture shock to come
Line 82, Fantastical, exotic names envoke a magical fairy tale. Neutral imagry → beaty of setting
Chinese Cinderella (Summery of passage)
Adiline Yen is living in a boarding school until she is called to her home, she does not know why she is being sent, thinking a relative died. She takes her chafer home who similarly has no idea why she is going. When she arrives home, she is sent to her father’s room, (the holiest of holies).
Her father explains to her she has won first place in a Internatinal Play writing competition held in London. She explains to her father how she won it.
Then she asks to go to England to study in university. Her father accepts but demands she studies medicine to become an obstetrics (the branch of medicine and surgery concerned with childbirth and midwifery
Structal features and quotes in Chinese Cinderella
- Short paragraphs in the first section of the text (creates tenson and uncertainty)
- Longer paragraphs of dialog in second section (displays relief she is now able to properly structure her emotions)
- Long dialog from father but small from Adiline. (Shows her father’s dominance other her, with her not getting a say of her future)
- ‘’ Is this a giant ruse on his part to trick me,’’ Themes of interrogation → Questions herself/Feelings of unease
- ‘’How marvellous it was to simply be alive,’’ exclamatory mood → utterly thrilled (suggest her father’s opinion of her have great sway over her emotions→ Dominance of father)
- ,’’ I waited in silence. I did not wish to contradict him,’’ direct sentence → presents fear. Consequences for disobeying father seem great. +,’Father i shall go to medical school in england and become a doctor thank you very much,’’ Subversion of her thoughs and reaction, almost like sarcasm: sense of deifance
Language features and quotes
- ‘Chinese Cinderella,’ Alliteration in C’s. Also metaphor suggest the story of Adiline Lin and Cinderella as being similar since there is connotations of neglect in both stories
- ,’defensively,’ Adverb → hostility - her outsider status
- ‘Holiest of Holies,’ Hyperbole → depicts Adiline’s feeling of insecrity (Feeling unwelcome). Metaphore → sacred place → her father is a highly authoritative figure.
- ,’Will,’ Modal verb → Strong sense of certainness → Revels his domaince
Other important ideas in Chinese Cinderella
‘Wandsworth’s poem? Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,’ - Alluring to Wandsworth. Revals her passion is in literatre in scilence. Silent, inner rebellion renforced by fact she ultimatly goes on to be a writer
Give a summery for H is for Hawk
When a womans father dies she deicides to adopt a goshawk, she is told the hawk she is purchasing has the number ten on it. There lots of noise coming from the bird cage. They birdkeeper takes the bird out. the bird seems disarrayed.
The author begins to empathise with the hawk since it has never seen the outside world and begins to fall in love with it until she learns after checking the number it was the wrong bird
They then put the bird back in the box and the bird keeper took out the correct bird. After purchasing the bird, the lady asks if she could take the bird she first saw.
Structural features and quotes in H is for Hawk
,’Don’t want you going home with the wrong bird,’ - opening establishes importance of rules and regulations. Foreshadows future regret
,’In a strange coincidence of the world and deed a great flood of sunlight drenches us and everything is brilliance and fury,’ - hyperbole of Brillance and glory suggest author is becoming attached to the bird. Strange coincidence presents a connection to author and bird also foreshadows the end
,’Oh,’ one sentence paragraph → Intense disappointment + shock
,’There was a moment of total silence,’ Cliff hanger - Ends in note of tenson and desparation (we dont find out his answer)
Language features and quotes in H is for Hawk
Language features and quotes
,’The air turned syrupy, slow, flecked with dust,’ tactile imagery → shows her intense emotions/excitement
‘angel/griffin,’ mythical, fantastical quality shows her admiration
‘Fizzing and fussing with terror,’ alliteration highlights birds vulnerability empathy → imagines birds’ perspective
,’It,’ pronoun shows detachment to hawk in contrast to the authors intense empathy and connection to it.
Give a summary of Danger of a single story
Adichie describes her begging reading at a young age, and only consuming western media. She thought books could only be about western things until she discovered Nigerian authors.
She had another single story where she believed her cleaning boy Fide could not achieve anything because he was so poor until when she visited there home and spotted a beatify decorated basket. Her perception of him completely changed
She later went to study in the US where she was treated as being a single story as people thought she was tribal. She later adopted an African identity which she did not have when she lived in Nigeria.
She then visited Mexico and was shocked when her believe of a single story of Mexico was broken
Summarise danger of single stories.
Structal features and quotes in Danger of a single story
- ‘All my characters were white and blue eyed they played in the snow,’ /,’we didn’t have snow,’ - Contrasting list show conflict between her world and the world of her stories (doesnt capture reality of experience)
- ,’’Girls with skin the colour of chocolate,’ Metaphore shows the power and impact stories hold
- ,’’ I was startled,’’ Shows sense of emphases to her reaction of a single story breaking
- ,’’A place of beautiful landscape, fighting senseless war’s,’’ It separates the Nigeria we learned about in the beginning of the text to the single story most the world see’s
Language features and quotes For danger of a single story
- ‘’Impressionable and vulnerable,’’ Emotive language → insidious nature of media → manipulative
- ,’’Beautiful pattern basket made of dyed raffla,’’ imagery of vivid colourful picture, contradicts idea of poverty
- ,’’No possiblity x3,’’ tricolon, harmful and deceptive stories create divison and tension → predjudce/ sense of segrigation.
- ,’’stories…,’ onematapia: rhythm which builds up to a conclusion
Summery of Passage to Africa
A journalist is in Somalia documenting the atrocities in the war in Somalia. He travels to the village of Gufgaduud to get pictures of the horrors to find the most striking picture he could find. He finds a one of a mothers two children had died on the floor of their hut. A old woman had a horrific gunshot wound on her shin and was decaying.
Then he sees a face he would never forget, a man runs by and smiles towards the journelist but he cannot decyfer the meaning behind the smile. A journlist tells him is was a smile of embarisment and the journalist is shocked
He explains how the smile breaks the unspoken agreement in journalism between the subject and the journalist. With that smile the subject imposed a question on the journalist. The man explains how he regrated never learning the mans name.
Structural features and quotes in passage to africa
’ i saw a thosand hungry, lean, scared and betrayed faces,’ asydetic listing → impersonal/ emphises on degrading horors of war
,’Like a ghost village,’ - simile foreshadows death and horror
,’I will never forget,’ - single sentence paragraph signals tone shift from distanced to a more introspective
,’It was not a smile of greeting, it was no smile of joy - how could it be?’ fragmented thoughts → unsure → interrogative mood, he is questioning himself expressing doubt.
Language features and quotes in passage to africa
