Mod C Reflection

Evidence 1

Utilises the humurous opening and anecdote

• “Slumped into the room, armed with a doodle pad”

• She is attempting herself to find a home in fiction

• I utilised my own humorous opening of “Books and I were never childhood friends”

Evidence 2

The analogy in a mathematics lecture
“if and only if the matrix is inevitable…this is just like poetry”

• Through literature we can find beauty in anything

Evidence 3

Brooks made intertextual reference to other authors including “Henry David Thoreau”

• “Youth get together his materials to build a bridge to the moon”

• An intertextual reference to writer Henry David Thoreau, adds credibility to piece

• An extended metaphor of building, suggest youth ambition, own growth as a writer

Own intertextual reference

• “Learned to make my mind large as the universe is large”

• Engaged with extended metaphor of talk stories, trackng growth

Evidence 4

Rhetorical questioning and repetition

• “Who are we, who have we been?”

• Deep sense of reflection, encapsulate the central purpose of fiction to reflect changing perspectives and ongoing search for truth and identity

• Ask readers to question life without stories

Own rhetorical questioning:

• Encourage readers to engage with personal pronouns

• Informal register and personal tone

Evidence 5

Historical reference to David Hicks, Australian man imprisonment,

• “He had been barred from giving Hick’s a copy of to Kill a Mockingbird”

• Sensorship example, politically and morally powerful

I utilised my own reference to Nelson Mandela experierence