In the text “Why not?” the author helps the writer to analyse how the writer sees the personal value of taking a photograph by using the language technique metaphor this is used throughout the text “He doesn’t see the way the cotton layers have peeled away” the author has explained the sky through metaphors by […]

It is winter, early morning in the little township, chilled and blackfrosted, the plants and bushes stiffly frozen, the football field icy, the trees carrying crystals of sharp ice up to the wet sodden air-hugging mist. Listen.  It is morning quietly roving the main road, the moist melodic streaming mist rising over the garage and […]

Viewpoint 1st Person: I2nd Person: You, We3rd Person: They, He, She I was walking to schoolYou are walking to school. Walk faster or you will be late to schoolHe is walking to school

“The Book Thief” by Markus Zusak employs features of the genre Magical Realism to convey his ideas about human existence in his novel. Zusak exposes death in order to make us as readers identify with it, normalising the idea of death to us, by reinforcing the extreme nature of human behaviour through magical realism. The […]

How did Markus Zusak employ features of the genre Magical Realism to convey his ideas about human existence in his novel the “The Book Thief” In the novel “The Book Thief” written by Markus Zusak, the author uses ideas such as foreshadowing, personification, characteristics of characters to explore magical realism to convey ideas about human […]

NCEA 2.4 Writing FolioThe Book Thief by Markus Zusak QUESTION: “How did Markus Zusak employ features of the genre Magical Realism to convey his ideas about human existence in his novel The Book Thief? ” — This piece is a literary essay– Talk about the orgins on magical realism – where, how, why surrelism Introduction […]

lies-deliberate misdirection narrator-death: or whom? Molching Symbol – book Foreshadowing/Flashbacks Dramatic Irony Why? Challenge our pre-conceptions– Role of German citizens in WWII– Removed our comfortable assumption that we would never do what Germany did.– The personification of death – makes us identify with it, normalizing it. Reinforces extreme nature of human behavior. Power of Words […]

Markus Zusak conveys the idea of magical realism in “The Book Thief” to alter reality in order to expose an idea that readers may not have otherwise apprehended. In the novel, Zusak does this by using a simple object that we are familiar with and don’t often think of in a more deep way. Zusak […]

Defined by style and purpose The book Thief Character: Liesel Narrator (Death)Setting: Real WWII Real germany real 3rd Peich Unreal MolchingStructure: Linear, Chronological – Foreshadowing Point of view: 3rd person unreliableLanguage: The language of realism Life of Pi Character: Pi Narrator(Journalist)Setting: Real Ocean, Real ship/boatUnreal island, uncertain animals Structure: Retelling Point of view:Language: The language […]

The painting ” The Burning Giraffe” from Salvador Dali epitomises the surrealist style of painting. The draws that come out of the leg I think is representing all the memories that we store away and for people to know about them they have to have the key that unlocks as we can see from the […]