essay 5 Flashcards
what is the essay question for essay 5
Discuss the way in which at least one studied text has manipulated aspects of a genre for a particular purpose.
paragraph 1
that women are being shown to be useful and skilful
evidence for paragraph 1
Female characters are dominant - (Pg 76) “A week later I had learned how to gouge eyes and kick balls, how to punch a man in the throat and shatter his Adam’s apple, and how to use the back of my skull to break a man’s nose.”
Character uses healing instead of violence- “I can set a bone,” I said to the kid. “I can bind a women. If you get a chill, I know the herbs to warm you, if you get a fever, I know the herbs to cool you do. I can stitch a cut…” listing
paragraph 2
Increase in gender fluidity
evidence for paragraph 2
Marginalised characters- “Not he, not she,” Elzy said. “The Kid is just the Kid.” pronouns
She reached out to rub Cassie’s back, and Cassie briefly dropped her head to Elzy’s shoulder. Elzy kissed her hair. I knew Elzy was a women now- the others called her ‘she’ and id heard Cassie refer to her once or twice as Elizabeth.”
paragraph 3
More complex plot structure
evidence for paragraph 3
more complex plot not your classic good vs evil-
“I knew that we would build a nation of the dispossessed, where we would be not barren women, but kings” imagery, metaphor, hyperbole, repetition
“I drew my revolver and began shouting at the unkempt clerk to empty his till” vocabulary
what should you include at the start of each paragraph when talking about how the genre has been manipulated?
what the archetypal genre conventions are