quotes for essay (subverts to western genre)

Question 1

quote 1 from outlawed

Answer 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.”

Question 2

quote 2 from outlawed

Answer 2

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

Question 3

quote 3 from outlawed

Answer 3

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.”

Question 4

quote 4 from outlawed

Answer 4

Motivated to build a better future- “I knew that we would build a nation of the dispossessed, where we would be not barren women, but kings” imagery, metaphor, hyperbole, repetition

Question 5

quote 5 from outlawed

Answer 5

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

“I was kneeling before a makeshift bomb with a lit match, hoping to rob a bank and buy a town”- imagery, metaphor

Question 6

quote 1 from mystery road

Answer 6

Main character is a person of colour- “are you one of those black trackers that turn on their own kind, no disrespect.” derogatory text

Question 7

evidence 1 from highnoon

Answer 7

Female saves the day- Amy shoots one of the miller gang giving Will the upper hand