Reading to write

Question 1

Cultural sensitivity definition

Answer 1

cultural sensitivity is defined as a set of skills that enables us to learn about and understand people who are different from ourselves, thereby becoming better able to serve them within their own communities

Question 2

How is cultural sensitivity made evident in Coonardoo?

Answer 2

Katherine Pritchard attempts to write a black indigenous woman’s story despite her white background. She fails to understand the importance of truly understanding the differences in her recount and actuality.

Question 3

What does the Un-loving of Coonardoo challenge?

Answer 3

spoke about the importance of cultural sensitivity and being careful of whose story we are telling

Question 4

unloving of coonardoo quote: summary

Answer 4

“A white woman’s version of a black woman’s life”.

Question 5

unloving of coonardoo quote: title

Answer 5

“Coonardoo they called it, the dark well, or the well in the shadows.”

Question 6

“Coonardoo they called it, the dark well, or the well in the shadows.”

Quote analysis

Answer 6

It appears as thought the topic is clear, the title speaks of her name. However, the focus is not on her story and instead focuses on the people in power at the time such as Hugh Watt.

Question 7

Quote: Coonardoo singing

Answer 7

“Over and over again, in a thin reedy voice, away from the back of her head, the melody flowed like water running over smooth pebbles in creek bed”.

Question 8

“Over and over again, in a thin reedy voice, away from the back of her head, the melody flowed like water running over smooth pebbles in creek bed”.
Quote analysis

Answer 8

She describes Coonardoo’s singing to be beautiful without directly stating it, she paints a picture through her words (imagery)
Repetition of Word over
Simile “like”
Use of adjectives to further metaphor

Question 9

Quote: Coonardoo death

Answer 9

“Coonardoo’s voice fluttered out; embers of her fire were burning low”.

Question 10

“Coonardoo’s voice fluttered out; embers of her fire were burning low”.
Quote analysis

Answer 10

Metaphor of Coonardoo’s fire represent her life
The author focuses on Coonardoo’s voice throughout the novel to show different stages of Coonardoo’s life
Fire dying out represents her dying
Visual imagery
Connotations of word flutter is beautiful, this juxtaposes with her death

Question 11

Quote: Coonardoo Landscape

Answer 11

“Stones on the plains, glistening in the clear white light, shimmered and danced together.”

Question 12

“Stones on the plains, glistening in the clear white light, shimmered and danced together.”

Quote analysis

Answer 12

Visual imagery  
Sets context of landscape  
Personification  
Run on sentence 
Adjectives provide clear visual imagery.

Question 13

Narrative: House incorporation

Answer 13

The incorporation of the house served as a symbol throughout the novel, symbolising the journey the characters experienced. The motif of comparing a house and home was used to further emphasize this. The noun “house” expressed a disconnect from the land that later shifted to the noun “home” in order to demonstrate the characters assimilation into the culture.

Question 14

Narrative: Cake incorporation

Answer 14

The cake was used in two ways; figuratively to describe the house as multilayered “ the layered walls with the white iced paint” and literally “there on the table sat a cake”. The juxtaposition of the figurative and literal cake allowed the stimulus to be included in a less cliché form. At the end I choose to integrate the literal and figurative cakes together “The layers of this house combined as one; the iced walls shone….. by the cake that sat on top”. Highlighting the duality of the cake allowed me to symbolically demonstrate the presence of different stories and people that make up Australia.

Question 15

Narrative: Cake quote/ figuratively

Answer 15

“ the layered walls with the white iced paint”

Question 16

Narrative: Cake quote/ literally

Answer 16

“there on the table sat a cake”

Question 17

Narrative: Cake quote/ both

Answer 17

“The layers of this house combined as one; the iced walls shone….. by the cake that sat on top”.

Question 18

Wrack analysis

Answer 18

The text “Wrack ‘’ by James Bradley explored post modernism and resisted tradition through his incorporation of different structure and use of “improper” sentences. He challenges traditional sentence structure through his use of continued long sentences

Question 19

Quote: Wrack long sentence

Answer 19

“Feeling stealing across years like the shifting hills, slowly, inexorably burying all that lies beneath them;”.

Question 20

How did you incorporate postmodernism in your narrative?

Answer 20

To take a postmodern approach in my writing I used two narrator voices.

Question 21

How did you incorporate postmodernism in your narrative?

example

Answer 21

To show a change in narrator by using a pronoun followed by a verb such as “She dreamed”. By using a pronoun the reader was now able to recognise the presence of two narrators while also exploring a post-modern structure.

Question 22

Narrative drafting process:

Answer 22

As part of my writing process, the first drafts are written implicitly and then continued to be edited so that they become explicit.

Question 23

Editing process: Original Quote

Answer 23

“He came home with the same worry in his eyes. I knew he saw and wished for more of my love. But he would never say, fearful I would uncover the plainly hidden truth. The act of such simplicity of time and love was hidden by the struggle to provide. But I must try for my bello. I simply must”

Question 24

Editing process: Finished Quote

Answer 24

As the door drew to a close, his eyes radiated worry. Confirming the wish and hope for more. But he would never say, fearful the plainly hidden truth would be uncovered. The act of such simplicity of time and love was glazed by the struggle to provide. The walls were closing in holding onto any life inside”.