https://padlet.com/flash4957/n7mzb61zemp1 By Sam Charlier en-us 2016-06-01 04:17:48 UTC 2025-11-23 23:39:23 UTC hello@padlet.com flash4957 https://padlet.com/flash4957/n7mzb61zemp1/wish/113273852 Clare Atkins ]]> 2016-06-01 04:25:06 UTC https://padlet.com/flash4957/n7mzb61zemp1/wish/113273852 flash4957 https://padlet.com/flash4957/n7mzb61zemp1/wish/113690541 Belonging is one of the key elements driving the story in None & Me, the main character Rosie, is a white Australian girl. Her mother as well as herself are heavily connected with the Aboriginal people of her town, the connection is ‘family’ like as the Aboriginal people see Rosie and her mother as a part of their family. Rosie is extremely close to her best friend Selena and has a crush on her older brother Nick. Rosie multiple times throughout the story tries to belong or ‘fit in’ with Selena by purposely ignoring her Aboriginal family to satisfy Selena.The technique being used here is emotive language as Rosie is made out to be ignorant and dismissive. This has the effect on the reader as they are given a negative view of Rosie making readers believe, she is being selfish and ungrateful for what she had, it also becomes quite obvious that she is embarrassed because of her Aboriginal Family giving a more negative view point to the reader. As the story progresses Rosie starts to find where she belongs through her culture making Rosie become someone who is proud of her culture and embraces her family. ]]> 2016-06-05 04:24:33 UTC https://padlet.com/flash4957/n7mzb61zemp1/wish/113690541 flash4957 https://padlet.com/flash4957/n7mzb61zemp1/wish/113691351 Family is a large part of Nona & Me it’s basically what the story’s main aim is ‘family’.  Rosie obviously has her immediate family her mother and her father but the more important family is her Aboriginal family. Family means a great deal to Rosie’s mother and the quote above highlights that. Rosie’s mother is trying to get Rosie to understand the importance of her family and that she should cherish it. The story gives the reader a choice as to how they feel about Rosie. Rosie is made out to be conflicted about whether she should accept her family and be loud and proud or fit in and ignore them to satisfy Selena, the quote above is an example of when Rosie tries to make Selena happy by disregarding her family. The technique being used is tone as it makes the reader feel upset and disappointed with Rosie as she clearly disregards her family. Both perspectives of Rosie become more open as the story goes on and the importance of cherishing your family and being proud of it becomes a more important theme as the story progresses. 

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Nona & Me is a book that is intended for young people, it tells the story of a girl (Rosie) who is trying to make sense of the world around her as well as reconsidering who she is and what kind of person she wants to be in life. Clare Atkins intentionally makes the story relatable in order for the readers to build a connection with Rosie and relate with her struggles in life. Rosie throughout the book has to make extremely hard decisions like choosing between her first love or best friend as well as her family. Having theme and plots like this in the story forces readers to consider their views on Rosie and the characters, but it also calls on the reader to really consider what’s important to them. By doing this it fledges out the ability further to relate and connect with Rosie.  With the themes and plots that are featured in this book it makes the book more relatable for young people rather than an adult.   

]]> 2016-06-07 10:03:02 UTC https://padlet.com/flash4957/n7mzb61zemp1/wish/113912732 flash4957 https://padlet.com/flash4957/n7mzb61zemp1/wish/113914364 Racism is one of the major themes in Nona & Me and is important throughout the entire story. Racism is used in the text as a way of labeling certain characters and topics throughout the story. Nick is an extremely important character in the story arch of Nona & Me, most of the racism story lines revolve around Nick and his family and friends. Nona & Me doesn’t directly label Nick racist or any other character but uses it as a plot device for Nick’s story, to fully fledge out the character. The story lays down the evidence of Nick’s racism and leaves the decision that whether or not Nick is racist, up to you.  A lot of the racism that comes from Nona & Me’s characters for example Nick is unjustified.  Nick believes in the story that he is not racist, but his treatment of the Yolnju people, their land, their beliefs and culture is with complete and utter disregard. Nick like a lot of white Australian’s have very distinctive views on Aboriginal people, but they make these opinions without fully learning about Aboriginal culture, history and their beliefs.  This is shown in the quote above when it says ‘THIS IS NOT YOUR LAND’. The quote also provides further evidence as Nick and the ‘White Australia’ culture see Aboriginal people as second class, they view the Aboriginal people as beneath them and believe they have different rights to that of a ‘white Australian’, as the quote states if the Aboriginal people don’t own then who does, as they were the first intelligent life to live on the land.  Racism is used in the story to show how ‘white Australian’ culture is still racist just like it was 100 years ago, Nona & Me tries to explain that ‘Australian Culture’ is still very racist down to the core but its just sugar coated to make it appear acceptable and not racist.   

]]> 2016-06-07 10:18:55 UTC https://padlet.com/flash4957/n7mzb61zemp1/wish/113914364 flash4957 https://padlet.com/flash4957/n7mzb61zemp1/wish/113915236 Neil Blomkamp]]> 2016-06-07 10:30:10 UTC https://padlet.com/flash4957/n7mzb61zemp1/wish/113915236 flash4957 https://padlet.com/flash4957/n7mzb61zemp1/wish/114060653 In District 9 the most important element of the story in District 9 is Racism. The movie is telling the story of a racist white society out casting the extra-terrestrial beings labelled ‘prawns’.  In this scene in the movie Wikus and Christopher break in to MNU to re-acquire the small container holding the ‘black liquid’. In the scene Wikus and Christopher are seen entering the lab where the container is located. The camera is extremely shaky and the scene is very fast paced, as they rush to find the container Christopher asks what this place is.  Wikus finds the container and the camera pans to Christopher and the scene slows down almost coming to a standstill as you see Christopher looking over the dead body of a prawn that had been experimented on. The camera slowing down and just looking at Christopher standing like a statue shows the state of sadness that Christopher is in. The scene shows that Christopher didn’t know the extent to how poorly his people were being treated. With the scene slowed down it allows the audience to feel the sadness and whole range of emotions that Christopher is feeling, by allowing the audience to feel empathy with Christopher it makes him a much more relatable character. With this scene it supports the movie’s theme of racism even further by showing that MNU saw the prawns as lower class and basically making them out to be worthless and could be used as lab rats.  Having such an important theme represented in the scene it lets the audience get more in drawn and emotionally connected to the story and its characters as the audience are able to empathise with Christopher.   

]]> 2016-06-08 10:18:25 UTC https://padlet.com/flash4957/n7mzb61zemp1/wish/114060653 flash4957 https://padlet.com/flash4957/n7mzb61zemp1/wish/114168397 District 9 and Nona & Me at first glance are two completely different stories. One about a young teenage girl and her struggle for identity and the other telling the story of Aliens who are being unfairly treated by humans. When you look at the core themes the two stories are quite closely related as they both having something to say about racism.  In Nona & Me racism is portrayed as the ‘white Australians’ seeing the Aboriginal people as lower class people as if they were wild animals, racism is portrayed almost Identically in District 9 as humanity see the prawns as worthless savages that accidently came to            Earth and got stuck here. Both of the stories tell the story of how being racist has almost became a come a normal thing in society. Both of the stories show examples of racism just being something to joke about. In Nona & Me there is a section of the book where Rosie says that a girl at school told her at school that black people are dirty that’s why their skin is black, In District 9 there is a short scene where a group of small children speak about how they hate the prawns and make racist slurs about the prawns.  Nona & Me and District 9 both get their points about racism across in different ways but down to the core are still trying to the same message.   

]]> 2016-06-09 06:24:57 UTC https://padlet.com/flash4957/n7mzb61zemp1/wish/114168397 flash4957 https://padlet.com/flash4957/n7mzb61zemp1/wish/114169441 In the part 1 test I feel that I could have thought a bit longer and harder about how I answered the question.  The question asked: 'How does their expressions support the overall tone of the article' .I probably could of addressed that question much better. To address that better I could've written less about their facial expression and more about the overall effect on the article.  To make my answer more complex I could have also analysed the picture and text more in depth than what I did.  If I did these things and slowed down during the test instead of rushing I feel I would’ve been able to achieve full marks. 

]]> 2016-06-09 06:41:49 UTC https://padlet.com/flash4957/n7mzb61zemp1/wish/114169441 flash4957 https://padlet.com/flash4957/n7mzb61zemp1/wish/114171285 Article on Claire Atkins website]]> 2016-06-09 07:06:08 UTC https://padlet.com/flash4957/n7mzb61zemp1/wish/114171285 flash4957 https://padlet.com/flash4957/n7mzb61zemp1/wish/114171521 2016-06-09 07:08:34 UTC https://padlet.com/flash4957/n7mzb61zemp1/wish/114171521 flash4957 https://padlet.com/flash4957/n7mzb61zemp1/wish/114185992 In District 9 racism is represented in multiple ways, in the scene below it shows (towards the end) the killing of an innocent prawn. In district 9 throughout the whole movie it is shown that humanity has a complete and utter disregard for the lives of prawns, this scene takes that even further. In the scene (once the prawn is put into the firing line) it shows Wikus refusing to shoot the prawn and him begging the Scientist to not make him shoot it.  Wikus’s obvious disapproval and urge to not shoot makes the audience feel that Wikus has the slightest bit of good still with in him.  But the main focus is on the scientists the head Scientists shows almost no regard for the prawn’s life what so ever by just instantly making Wikus shoot him without a second thought. This makes the audience feel more anger towards the Humans and sympathizse with the prawns.  That complete lack of regard helps District 9 fuel its portrayal of the humans being racist.   

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