PURPOSE OF THE BOOK THIEF: Howe we dismiss the Nazi Holocaust as a horror from history when the people who performed these atrocities are real just like us. HOW: Zusak uses the techniques of magical realism to unsettle us and undermind our preconceptions. ‘Analyse how language features were used to deepen your understanding of a […]

“Liesel’s love for books is very apparent in this moment after she’s stolen the smouldering The Shoulder Shrug from the book burning. She’d rather let it burn her skin than abandon it”. In Markus Zusak’s “The Book Theif” he uses supposedly insignificant events throughout the book to reveal the more significant and deeper themes of the book. The deeper […]

SIGNIFICANT CONNECTIONS Significant connections can be commonly found in a variety of texts. In the four texts that I will be touching on, Boy by Taika Waititi, Wild Pork and Watercress by Barry Crump, The Doll’s House by Katherine Mansfield and Dark Horse by James Napier Robertson, social issues are a key theme throughout all […]

The Dark Horse is a film based on a true story of the life of the New Zealand chess champion and Mental health patient Genesis Potini also known as “The Dark Horse”. Despite Genesis suffering from a sever bipolar disorder he volunteers to coach a group of disadvatanged kids how to play chess in the […]

Describe at least one important character in the written text. Explain how this character is revealed to you throughout the text and/or how this character helps you understand an important theme/idea in the novel. In this novel by Barry Crump, Wild Pork and Watercress one of the main characters in the book is Ricky Baker […]

Written in 1986, Wild Pork and Watercress, by Barry Crump, is the story of Ricky Baker, Ricky is 12 years and 3 weeks old and is a Maori Boy. Told in first person narrative, Ricky tells his story with humor. Ricky is a victim of racism and the New Zealand social well fair system. HE […]

1a// The poet compares the cows to rocks in the first two sentences of the poem in the way of a simile as the cows look like rocks. As the rain hits the cows it wets their coat giving them the resemblance of rocks in a tide, the cows being the rocks and the rain […]

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Friar Lawrence’s Cell Characters: Friar John, Friar Lawrence Friar John goes and visits Friar Lawrence in his cell and tell him that he could no deliver the letter to Romeo because of a plague that had broke out. After hearing this Friar Lawrence rushes to the Capulet vault to try stop disaster from happening.