Part B- Context Piece

Question 1

Refer to Text- Summer of Seventeenth Doll

Answer 1

• Pearl is shown to maintain a sense of acceptance in the group by changing her ways. Once she started to live with Olive and Emma, she was no longer a decent mum and she slept with other men. Pearl was affected by the opinions and traditions of the group.
• Roo is ashamed to confess to Olive that he is “broke flat, stony, stinkin broke!” As it may result in a loss of belonging.

Question 2

Quotes

Answer 2

“If you understood everything I said, you’d be me.” – Miles Davis

“Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I’ve ever known.” – Chuck Palahniuk

“The reward for conformity is that everybody likes you except yourself.” - Rita Mae Brown, author of Rubyfruit Jungle

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. - Oscar Wilde

To know who you are is the greatest power of all.-Diana Love

Question 3

University of Queensland study

Answer 3

The study by Jolanda Jetten at the university of Queensland, found that people who belong to a number of groups tended to have higher self-esteem.

Question 4

Gattaca (1998) examples

Answer 4

• “I came to think of myself as others though of me: chronically ill”
• “I belong to a new underclass”

Question 5

Forrest Gump (1994)

Answer 5

“Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re gonna get.”

You never know what life is going to give you. But you live nevertheless. So every day - every new experience - is something you really don’t know about until you actually live it.