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What is your text about?  Summarize it in your own words.  Don’t forget your TAG line

1. What is your text about?  Summarize it in your own words.  Don’t forget your TAG line

Vinland Saga is an anime that was written by Makoto Yukimura. It’s an anime where the main character’s father was murdered by a group of assassins and so the main character whose name is thorfinn decides he was going to avenge his father. To achieve that goal he decided to train and kill people to get stronger. Unfortunately he failed on avenging his father because the killer was killed by a king who was a ruler of a kingdom. After realizing that revenge leaded him nowhere, he decided to live a honest life without fighting or killing anyone.

2. What universal theme/thesis is present in the text?  Explain it fully using evidence.

The theme of the anime is revenge. The anime revolves around revenge and how pointless revenge can be. The anime shows that in exchange of revenge you lose time with your family and friends, you gain nothing even after accomplishing your revenge goal and how forgiveness can change how you look.

3. What impact did it have on you as a viewer / reader?  Elaborate on your personal response / connection.

The impact I had while reading/watching the anime is how impactful words can be over violence. The anime showed me that violence is not the way for solving problems, but words are. It shows that forgiving someone or getting over something can bring a new beginning instead of a final ending.

4. What is your favourite quote from the piece?

The quote that is my favorite is “The anger in your eyes has gone, i am glad.” The reason why this quote is my favorite is because this quote shows how revenge can change your appearance for good or bad.

5. Why/ how would this fit into our existing course?  Make at least 2 connections to existing course material.

The reason why this manga should be in grade 12 U class is because this manga shows that avenging someone can be a pointless goal when all it brings is sadness for your loved ones. It also shows that violence is a pointless solution for problems, all it causes is innocent people being killed. The 2 connections i have are hamlet and The Great Debaters. The reason why these have a connection is because for hamlet the theme is very similar to this anime. And for great debaters, there are some scene where the people in the anime were being racist towards people who were poor and uneducated.

6. Assess the diction of the piece - what makes it 4U appropriate (this doesn’t just mean elevated diction…it could use devices or EPL etc)

In the manga/anime Vinland saga, the diction shifts based on the growth of the main character. At first, the diction of the story is aggressive and violent but throughout the story, when the main character becomes more peaceful and friendly, the diction shifts and it becomes more peaceful and friendly.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinland_Saga_(TV_series)

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1. What is your text about?  Summarize it in your own words.

The Great debaters is a film that shows a team of black individual who debates against racist colleges. The team is led by professor Melvin b. Tolson who trains a debate team at a black college. At the very end of the film they debate against harvard and wins making a it a historical event

2. What universal theme/thesis is present in the text?  Explain it fully using evidence.

The theme of the film The Great Debaters is the education and racial injustice. This film indicates that debate can make someone overcome their fear and inspire people.

3. What impact did it have on you as a viewer / reader?  Elaborate on your personal response / connection.

The impact it had on me as a viewer is how it connects to some of my personal experiences. The movie shows a lot of racism against black people which connects to me because I have been called a lot of racial slurs because of my race.

4. What is your favourite quote from the piece?

One of the quote that is my favorite is “Debate is combat, but your weapons are words.” The reason why this quote is one of my favorite is because this quote shows that communication skill can go from passive to a discipline, strategic skill.

Stietion:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Debaters

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The Great Debaters is a 2007 American historical drama film directed by Denzel Washington from a screenplay by Robert Eisele. Based on a 1997 article for American Legacy by Tony Scherman, the film follows the trials and tribulations of the Wiley College debate team in 1935 Texas.[2] It stars Washington, Forest Whitaker, Denzel Whitaker, Kimberly Elise, Nate Parker, Gina Ravera, Jermaine Williams and Jurnee Smollett.

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1. What is your text about?  Summarize it in your own words

The book hamlet is where no one can trust each other. It’s all about revenge, family problems and pride.  It shows where the main character Hamlet's father was murdered by his uncle and now his father’s ghost came to hamlet so that he can avenge him. He accepted his father’s request and went on to kill himself along with almost everyone just to avenge his father.

2. What universal theme/thesis is present in the text?  Explain it fully using evidence.

The theme of the book is revenge. The reason why the theme is revenge is because the whole story revolves around revenge. The main character Hamlet wanting revenge because his father was unfairly murdered by his uncle. It wasn’t just hamlet, there was laertes who wanted revenge because hamlet killed his father. And because of how hamlet decided to handle it, he took down not just himself but his mother his best friend and his uncle which was his ultimate goal to take down his uncle.

3. What impact did it have on you as a viewer / reader?  Elaborate on your personal response / connection.

The impact that I had from this book is how it shows that you can't really trust anyone even your uncle, who should be someone that cares about you. The connection I have with this book is how my relatives always looked at our family as a money tree. If they wanted money or anything in particular, they would ask my mom and dad for it.

4. What is your favourite quote from the piece?

The quote that is my favorite from the book hamlet is “to be or not to be, that is the question” I like this quote because it captures Hamlet's deep thoughts about life and death.

Sitetion:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamlet

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