Who is Rudy? Compile a list of details that establish who Rudy is in the text, “The Book Thief”. Include general details such as age, personality, family, beliefs, likes, desires, dislikes/frustrations, activities, hobbies, sports. Significantly include what Rudy represents in the text: consider his appearance, the “Jesse Owens” incident, his family’s situation in Molching, his […]

Draft: A courageous young girl flees her nomadic home in the Somalian desert to develop a passion for fashion, she is the desert flower. However what she had been through as a young child and the challenges she had to face no one in the modern western society can even fathom. Escaping horrors, we learn […]

GRAVE DIGGER’S HANDBOOK The significance of the Grave Diggers Handbook to Liesel is that it is a memento that she takes to keep a connection with her Brother’s death. As a little girl Liesel knows that she may never visit that grave spot to visit her brother again, so the book takes her back. To […]

Liesel: “For Liesel Meminger, there was the imprisoned stiffness of movement, and the staggered onslaught of thoughts.” All she knows is pain and suffering. Liesel can’t read but she seems to understand all of her thoughts although she may be vulnerable. When liesel arrives at the Hubermanns on Himmel street she holds back, resistant to […]

The Prologue: Colour Imagery What do EACH of these colours represent in these pages? What do they show is taking place? What atmosphere or feeling is created around the characters and events through this colour imagery? What do the colours make you think of? “First up is something white. Of the blinding kind.” Death starts […]

Select quotations in the text that reveal important information about the narrator Death. Explain what these quotations tell you about this character and reflect on the author’s purpose in the lines you have chosen: What was Markus Zusak wanting to convey through these lines? How does this representation assist to develop ideas, events, the setting purposefully […]

A Quiet place directed by John Krasinski, is a gripping thriller film that is executed uniquely with a simple idea of monsters taking over. The film is based around the idea “if they hear you, they will hunt you”, as much as it is an affair for nerves it also is deeply affecting. An insidious […]

< p style=”text-align: left”>The Soldier If I should die, think only this of me: That there’s some corner of a foreign field That is forever England. There shall be In that rich earth a richer dust concealed; A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware, Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam; […]

Exposure- Wilfred Owen Identify 5/6 examples of language techniques used in this poem. Explain why you think these examples (and techniques) were used. What ideas, experiences, events and atmosphere do they convey?         How is the idea of “exposure” (being dangerously exposed to the natural elements/weather) represented in the poem? How is the […]

What has been included? What can you determine/understand about the writer of this text/ What are his experiences, beliefs and values? What does he want the reader to experience or understand? In this poem, I can feel an anger that is expressed by Wilfred Owens. Wilfred states in the first line, “What passing-bells for these […]