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• Based in Ireland and collectively come together and create advertisements and conferences regarding women's issue.

• She chose these advertisements because it all stood out creating a shock factor.

• The primary message of the advertisements was to advocate for the gender pay gap in Ireland.

• The advertisements are rather minimalistic it focuses on the text rather than visual text.

• The ad only incudes of simple colouring with the hot pink and black; no sort of images to take away the audience attention from the message

My questions: What about the shock factor plays a recurring theme in JWT advertisements (how certain words are censored)

How does the lack of visual imagery in the advertisement still ensure the attention of the audience?

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In the memoir "Persepolis" written by Marjane Satrapi that unfolds the story of her experience at a young age as a girl living in Iran during the Iranian Revolution in 1979. Persepolis is also a series with 4 books in the series that progress as Marjane grows older though the first book inherently focuses on Marjane time during her pre-adolescent years in a way in which the story is narrated to the audience in a childhood-like innocence towards topics like war, oppression and cultural identity and all of these topics are tackled by what through Marjane head as a child indicating that she wasn't always exactly mature or knowledgeable on topics or understood the dangers of certain situations at time yet still being incredibly young at the time Marjane was knowledgeable for her age though didn't have the emotional intelligence of an adult and tended to approach situations in a concerning way.

Starting in the first chapter "The Veil" page 1, where Marjane shares when the veil became mandatory for all women a year after the revolution though with Marjane and the rest of the girls at her school expressed "We didn't really like to wear. The Veil, especially since we didn't understand why we had to" this line alone tells that the girls aren't aware of these decisions that the government makes and to the girls it was just a garment that had held no meaning to them at the time. Though with how older women reacted to the rule of the veil led to demonstrations with a split side with one being for the veil and the other being for freedom (as referred to in Page 8) with majority of the women viewing the veil as a symbol of oppression and a violation of their rights and freedom and following on with not only the veil rule but the ban on co-ed schools on what was deemed as a cultural revolution and a quote by Marjane which said "We found ourselves veiled and separated from our friends" that greatly would have an impact on her loss of freedom as a young school student she has been used to the co-ed schools and non-veil rule yet the sudden change has sent her and her friends ajar.

The veil is one of the main features to fall under oppression as it's the most visible representative symbol for it that a young one might not comprehend and even is considered as part of Marjane and her cultural identity with before the veil rule where most of women's style was influenced by Western fashion with clothing that would be considered immodest after the veil rule though Marjane wasn't as affected by the veil rule until later on during her teenage years around 13-14 when she was getting interested in the punk music and fashion style and that was very frowned upon as she had to do purchases in private and would've got in trouble if she got caught though on the cusp of adulthood and still relatively young she finds herself in this trying to balance her love for the western culture and obliging to her country rules and even the risk she put herself at when she was confronted by elder women on pages 133 to 134 and the conservative dress code in Iran symbolizes the tension between her individuality and national identity.

Though amongst the midst of this is the war that is happening throughout taking the biggest toll on everyone with the life-threatening demonstrations attended by Satrapi parents even though Satrapi always begged to intend one as seen in page 17 where is she notworried at the idea of getting hurt

Marji is relatively young as her mind tries to grasp her surroundings around her as the Islamic revolution and the Iran-Iraq war. Marjane tends not to fully understand the severities of the revolution and also is rather gullible into believing things too easily yet can also easily have her mind be changed. For example, in chapter 3 page 18 the dialogue follows with Marji going "As for me, I love the king, he was chosen by God" "Who told you that?" "My teacher and God himself" this dialogue implies how Marji is likely to believe something is true if her teacher tells her, it's true as the teacher is an older person and also having the role as a teacher who has a form of power over the students that it's more than likely for students such as Marji to take their teachers word for granted then from there her father takes the time to explain the actual story as the story told to students by teacher is the falsified version of history by the state that goes against everything they stand for but Marji parents believe it's best she hears the actual story of the Shah and his rise to power and how unfairly he treated the people Marji's grandparents included.

Marji also is quick to point fingers at her friends or she can be insensitive towards people's feelings without knowing it shows that she has a different understanding to the reality that's happening around her and outside of her daydreaming of wanting to be a prophet as she tends to be in her own world most of the time for when she was only a tween yet she starts to understand the truth behind things when she grows older later on the book. Through the novel she plays at such topics with satire and dark humour like with her straightforwardness and misunderstanding of

Noah Chomsky is a man of many professions but is known as an author and linguist born in December 27 in Penns Ayvia, United States and is still active today being 95 years old.

Where is he from

Noah Chomsky is Amercian and born from Ashkenazi Jewish immigrants and currently lives in Tuscon, Arizona

When did he write

Noah Chomsky wrote and published 50 books from 1957 to 2023 showing that he still an active writer over the course of 6 decades, his first published book was Syntactic Structures, and the book covered the arrangement of words and phrases within a sentence, following the rules of syntax in a specific language

What he does

To what political event or idea is the cartoon referring?

Rape 

What key person(s) are targeted in the cartoon?

Victims of sexual assault; women who have faced discrimination after being raped and those who were belittled when they opened up about their assault experience 

How has the artist depicted these people? Are they distorted in any way? Does the artist’s portrayal of characters cast them in a negative or positive light?

           To me the art style is similar to the illustrator/cartoonist Quetin Blake known for his creative work on famous children’s books written by Ronald Dahl which may or not be Liza artistic inspiration when it comes to drawing her cartoons but I can definitely see the similarities in the way she draws her characters compared to how Quetin draws his characters though they have no other correlation besides familiar art-style only as this drawing is supposed to be captured in a negative life despite having the art-style you would see that it’s suited for appearing in a children’s book with the background of the two girls playing being rough sketches of objects to make out the environment that they are in; the shapes drawn aren’t completely straight or parallel and it would seem strange to look at because a few might think it’s a rough sketch though this stylistic choice is how it’s done in other drawings that Liza done coloured or done with pencil only and shading to help distinguish the differences in the characters drawn (the young girl with the straight hair and headband and the young girl with the black curly hair hugging onto the doll) though with Liza’s cartoon’s it’s not about having the perfect drawing with the most precise details rather it’s getting the message across, the subject behind the illustration being women’s right and feminism and these sub-categories that are connected with women’s right though with her kid-friendly art style the caption written down below would create a shock factor for anyone reading it, something you would least expect and it definitely has the viewer rethink the whole cartoon and to try pick out if there’s certain objects or people drawn that would help anyone instantly recognize what the subject of the drawing is supposed to be about and most people would least expect for a conversation between two young girls to be circulated around rape.  

Identify and explain any symbols incorporated in the cartoon.

There aren’t any specific symbols in this drawing as the characters are drawn in the environment of a play area near an eating area and the living room with TV playing in the background and maybe the TV is broadcasting a message that could be related to the issue the young girls are talking about and the TV could be showcasing a new stories of someone who was S/A and wasn’t believed or told their wasn’t enough evidence for the suspect to be claimed as guilty. Though the TV might be drawn as an inanimate object to help viewers pick out perspective with the living room facing backwards towards the two young girls who are the focus point.

Identify and explain captions, labels, titles and/or speech bubbles. How do these contribute to the cartoon’s message? A written message below the two girls talking to eachother reads “When I grow up, I hope my rape allegations are believed” this contributes to the cartoon because it’s the main message in which two girls hope in a case that they are sexually assaulted then others will believe them since the girls are probably used to hearing about women who have opened about their cases due to occasions in which women’s rape allegations are not believed by others especially government (lawyers and policemen) 

What is the message of the cartoon? How is the artist trying to persuade the reader?

The message is based around the topic of Rape specifically allegations; when a women would exclaim to someone they know, a policeman or someone who has a high ranked job that’s related to crime and justice and with cases that women’s rape cases are either pushed aside or forgotten about can lead to other victims being terrified to open up to anyone about their rape allegations; the fear that no one will believe them or will ask them questions related to the idea that the victim was doing something or wearing something to trigger the act and it’s their fault and they should’ve expected it. 

What impact and/or reaction is the artist attempting to trigger?

From my point of view; Liza Donnely could have drawn this cartoon in particular to represent the struggles that women who experienced assault go through when they finally open up about what happened to them and she’s instead drawn two young girls instead of adults and it’s saddening because the message written below indicates that one day these two young girls expect that something bad will happen to them and that hopefully others will believe them when they open up though they might seem apathetic as in they’ll be expecting for a situation like that to happen to them in the near future; the blonde hair girl talking to the black hair who appears with a somber expression as either disappointment or sympathy towards the other girl comment though she could possibly be now thinking about what could possibly happen to her when she is older; what if she faces harassment, abuse and assaulted and the potential response she might get from those she trust or seek help from might not believe her.  The use of the two young girls being the focal point of the drawing shows that these young children have likely heard on TV or from conversations from older people related to rape which could be how the girls learned about what rape is and this could trigger the audience to feel angered because no child that young should have to worry about being sexually assaulted in the near future yet sexual assault has become a major issue in society that theirs’s no guarantee that young girls are likely to hear about it 

   Analysing the Method Used by the Artist

How does the method used by the artist effectively convey a political message?

Identify and explain the use of a. Juxtaposition (the state of being side by side or close together, in a figurative sense) b. Irony (the use of words or pictures to express something different from, and often opposite of their literal meaning) c. Exaggeration (representation as greater than is actually the case; overstatement)

Pilate: Pontius Pilate was the name of a Roman governor in the 20s AD who had to make a judgment about Jesus. Pilate was the one who gave the order of crucifixion of Jesus 

Galilee: A region located in Israel consisting of a river that Christians believe that’s where Jesus walked on water, calmed the storm and made Peter and Andrew into “fishers of men” and it’s also the river in which Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist

Pontius: In reference to Pontius Pilate

1. Setting

The poem takes place in a biblical setting which this poem is between 20 AD to 33 AD, here Pilate supposed unnamed wife “Claudia Procula” described her husband as a rather effeminate man because his hands were soft from ordering to be fed grapes by servants by clapping his hands and Pilate’s hands were clean and pure being compared to seashells from Galilee his pale mothy touch making her flinch. 

Procula also explains the longing she had for wanting to go home which was Rome or to be with someone else likely someone who wasn’t as feminine and lazy as her husband was perhaps a preference in a man who was strong-willed and hardworking which is exactly how Jesus was when Claudia first encountered him after she snuck out with her maid to join a hectic group of Jesus followers from there she bumped into the bridle of the Donkey and for the first time she met Jesus maintaining a moment of eye-contact and to her he was ugly yet talented and the mentioning of his eyes using the phrase “to die for” referring to the beauty in Jesus eyes that Procula had saw despite describing him as a rather unattractive man. The night before the trial, Procula has a dream of Jesus and in that dream they were having a moment of physical contact with each other where Jesus was touching her but gradually his touch started to hurt and she was bleeding everywhere and noticed the palms of his hands were hammered with nails. The feeling that she had after the dream was aroused and afraid.

This dream sent a signal to Procula and she wrote and sent a note to her husband Pilate telling him to not go forth with Jesus trial and though she rushed as quickly as before it was too late since the crowd had already decided the outcome of the trial and Jesus was present wearing a crown of thorns, awaiting to be executed. Instead the crowd excused for a thief “Barabbas” to not be executed, Pilate did also notice Procula in the crowd but instead looked away rolling up his sleeves and washing his hands before Jesus is dragged away to be crucified on the hill known as the “Place of Skulls” 

Know locations

Galilee

Jerusalem 

Place Of Skulls 

Literary Devices

Irony

Hyperbole

Simile

Allusion

Alliteration 

Foreshadowing 

Historical Context: The context is based on an actual story from the bible that took place in AD (in the year of the lord) and the date of when Jesus was crucified in the bible is said to be in the spring of either AD 30 or AD 33.  Though there is no exact date of when Procula first came across Jesus as she only appears once in the bible referred to as Pilate’s nameless wife (Gospel of Matthew: 24:19) who urged her husband after a dream to not do anything about that “righteous man” in reference to Jesus because she suffered terribly in a dream because of him.  In other sources of work related to Procula she either goes by the name of Livia, Pilatessa and Longina. 

The poem “Pilate Wife” itself first appears in Carol Ann Duffy collection titled “The Worlds Wife” a retelling of myths, fairy tales, and historical events from the perspective of famous men’s female family members.

1. Form

The poem is made out of 24 lines broken into four line stanzas and is written in free verse meaning that the lines don’t rhyme with each other or follow a regular meter, formatted as the speaker “Procula” is sharing with the readers a story that is confidential and confessional as the story is being shared between the reader and Procula as something private. Throughout the poem whenever there is a break in stanzas via “, or .” thats used to indicate a change in subject or scene where most of the stanzas follow each other in a structure that makes sense with the changing of scenes yet at times the poem uses enjambment, an enjambment is to carry a scene across a stanza for the dramatic effect like leaving a major pause for readers to fill in the gaps for what happens during that between the lines. 

2. Meter

The poem is written in free verse meaning it has no steady meter, conservational and flexible rhythms help its reader to read it like a personal confession coming straight from Procula and though it follows no certain rhythm structure, it does use consistent line lengths and predictable quatrains. 

3. Themes

Marriage and women’s oppression 

Throughout the poem it’s shown their no visible bond between Pilate and Procula as it’s likely their marriage was arranged and that Procula had no choice in wanting to either accept Pilate proposal or not because it was likely during a time where arranged marriages were normalized and that Pilate who was a roman governor had the option to be able to pick any wife he wants as the family of the women who were asked about any proposal from a high ranking authority they would accept either in return for wealth or something particular in return. 

5. Symbolism

Hands 

Though hands are mentioned throughout most of the poem, it has significance and actual meaning biblical wise or to do with the figures mentioned Jesus Christ and Pontius Pilate whereby comparing only their hands are both two completely abstract from one another as stated from Procula point of view.  This is portrayed in lines; 1, 3, 14, 21 

“Firstly, his hands – a woman’s. Softer than mine,

 with pearly nails, like shells from Galilee.

The start of the poem is from Procula who brings up about the femininity of Pilate hands comparing it be softer than hers with clean cut nails which is rather peculiar as a man in that era would be expected to have rough and dirty hands of a warrior or a worker yet because of the major role he served as the fifth governor of the Roman province of Judea. Pilate hands were soft as he would often clap and expect his servants to come and feed him grapes and to that Procula viewed him as lazy and effeminate especially since Pilate hands can tell a lot about who he is as a person, his position and role in society and that he seems to live a facile life where everything can be served to him by any sort of command he makes showing him to be nowhere near of a hard worker or a man who actually fights for his society. 

Galilee is mentioned in the second line in relation to Galilee, a region located in Israel and it’s a location that holds importance in the bible as it’s where Christians believed Jesus walked on water, calmed the storm and made Peter and Andrew into “fishers of men.” and it’s also believed to be the region in which Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist.  

His brown hands touched me. Then it hurt.

In this line coming from the dream sequence Procula had about Jesus where she dreamed of him remarking the touch of his hands and the feeling of pain it brought to her, the touch likely starting as gentle and steadily increasing in pain as there's a stop after “His brown hands touched me” implying a pause with the next sentence followed by “Then it hurt” the pain she endured from his touch led to her bleeding everywhere waking her up to leave her feeling aroused and apprehensive. 

Compared to Pilate, Jesus hands were the exact opposite as in terms of appearance but also personality, both sitting on opposite sides of one another on the scale of class and society as held to little political power as he originally served under his father Joseph as a carpenter dissimilar to Pilate and his role as the roman governor, a high ranked individual in society showing he was no working man and that he sent out demands to servants and soldiers who fed him grapes and seized Jesus for his execution. Pilate's hands symbolizes his wealth and power to remain idle meaning he wouldn’t have to deal with getting blood or dirt on his hands as those commands were done by his servants and soldiers.  

The crowd was baying for Barabbas. Pilate saw me,

  looked away, then carefully turned up his sleeves

  and slowly washed his useless, perfumed hands.

During the trial for Jesus' crucifixion, a prisoner by the name of “Barababbas” who was selected by the crowd to be excused and discharged over Jesus by Roman governor Pontius Pilate at the passover feast mentioned in the first sentence “The crowd was baying for Barabbas” (baying a word that means to shout out, the crowd was shouting and protesting for Barabbas to be let go and not be crucified over Jesus) The sentence afterwards “Pilate saw me, looked away” shows that Pilate noticed Procula who was among those in the crowd yet he decides to ignore her knowing of her warning note from earlier and to avoid going forth with the execution of Jesus though because of the overall verdict from the crowd in Jerusalem leading to Jesus to be executed by the romans. Reason being why pilate washes his hands “and slowly washed his useless, perfumed hands” is that the washing of his hands aligns to the biblical story of Jesus crucifixion and how he washed his hands before the crowd to show that he was symbolically  clean of Jesus blood as it’s the crowd who decided for Jesus to be executed through the washing of his hand symbolizes how Pilate also had the ability to prevent Jesus from being executed.

Nail/ Hands

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“Then blood. I saw that each tough palm was skewered

by a nail. I woke up, sweating, sexual, terrified.” Procula intimate dream with Jesus and that when he was touching her, she noticed his palms were skewered by a nail, the nails symbolize the crucifixion of Jesus, as if the dream was foreshadowing what was to come for Jesus.

In the bible, the nails are in reference to Jesus and his sacrifice to humanity (dying for people’s sins) and each nail represents a certain aspect of redemption: forgiveness, reconciliation, and restoration.

Global Issue/Theme: Culture, Identity, Community and Art, Imagination

Line of Inquiry: In what ways do texts serve as mirrors, lenses or distortions through which cultures are represented and understood?

Specific texts such as memoirs, poetry, graphic novels, stories can all be considered eye-openers to culture and ways culture can be represented and for the audience to try and understand through the lens of the author, by expressing certain cultural values in literature is an author way of presenting to their audience, the traits and concepts that define said culture. An author heritage, gender, background, location, ethnicity and other factors contributes to how an author perceives cultural attitudes, ideas and beliefs. An example depicted is Amy Tan novel "Joy Luck Club" a fictional work tied in with some autobiographical elements

Culture

Literary Text: Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

Non-Literary Text: Crazy Rich Asians

• Amy Tan was born in Oakland, in 1952

• Parents emigrated to the USA from Shanghai, China, 1949

• Amy Tan wanted to conform to American culture and felt as if she came down the wrong chute and was supposed to be born into a nice Caucasian family

• The only literature in her house were bibles in a multitude of different languages, an encyclopaedia and some reader digest condensed books.

  
  

  What type of text is The Joy Luck Club

• Has autobiographical elements but is fictional

• Draws on family, social and political history

  
  

  The Historical Background

• Period: Between the mid 1920s and late 1940s

• All mothers were born and raised in China

• The exodus of the mothers from China is linked with internal struggles between different factions, as well as with the occupation of China by Japan between 1931 and 1945

• 1924, the KMT or nationalist party, held its first National Congress in Guangzhou (Canton) gaining control of most of Eastern China

  
  

  Members transfers to another family:

• Lindo Jong (The Red Candle)

• An- Mei Hsu (Magpies)

• Ying-ying St Clair (Waiting between the trees)

  Disruptions on Family Life

• An- Mei Hsu (Scar)

• Lena St. Clair (The voice from the wall)

  
  

  Needs, expectations and desires of the Mothers

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Character development

Protagonists- what do you know about the character actions, thoughts, relationships

How is the protagonist presented in the novel

• Consists of Four Sections. The First and Last Sections are narrated by the first generation, the mothers of the story (Feathers from a Thousand Li Away and Queen Mother of the Western Skies)

• A series of short stories; told by the mothers and daughters involved in the club, most characters at least have 2-3 stories dedicated on their life, events that happened in the past and current

• The middle two sections are narrated by the second generation: the daughters (The Twenty-Six Malignant Gates and American Translation)

• The four sections share a connection with a mahjong table, a mahjong table is known to have four sides. In Joy Luck Club a mahjong table marks the beginning of the connecting between two generations, the west and the east, representing the unity between mother and daughter.

• Sometimes a story of an event will be retold twice: showing the perspective between the mother and daughter

• Some stories share connections with one another

• The mother's stories are set in China before migrating to San Franciso while the daughter stories come from there time in the U.S

Themes:

• Sacrifice

• Mother and daughter relationships

• Storytelling and tradition

• Immigration Language and Translation: "

  
  

Jing-mei Woo: The Joy Luck Club, two kinds, best quality, a pair of tickets

An-mei Hsu: Scar, Magpies

Lindo Jong: The red candle, double face

ying-ying St. Clair: the moon lady, waiting between the trees

Waverly Jong: rules of the game, four directions

Lena St. Clair: the voice from the wall, Rice Husband

Rose Hsu Jordan: Half and Half, without wood

• There in a forest setting

• A lady who seems to be a teacher, is in the middle holding a book or a few pages

• On her right side is two children which are boys and on her right side is three children which are girls

• The teacher attention is focused on the girls, they are engaging in conversation, one has her hand raised up and the rest have their books open and three of the girls are initiating eye contact with the teacher, the girl closest to the teacher is staring the opposite way

• The three boys are seen, playing around with each other, not focused on the lesson and messing around

  
  

  Connotation

• The image shows the con

  
  

Global Issue

Literary Text

Non-Literary Text (label the two texts)

Identify the extracts (include the lines and page stamps)

Acronyms: Joy Luck Club (JLC) and Crazy Rich Asians (CRA)

"Why is Tita forbidden from marrying Pedro? Explain the family tradition that Mama Elena enforces"

The novel takes place in a ranch near the Mexico-United States border circa 1910 with the main character Tita De La Garza who desires to be with her lover Pedro Muzquiz. Only problem is that Tita is born under a traditional Mexican family which adheres strict rules in regards of marriage and familial duty and this rule best applies to the youngest daughter who is expected to serve her parents for the rest of her life.

In Tita's family, sausage making is an important family tradition that occurs on Mama Elena Ranch and all of the women in the family/household are expected to participate in preparations the day before. The day before Mama Elena and her daughters Gertrudis, Rosaura, Tita as well Nacha the cook and Chencha the maid spend time together around the dining table peeling garlic, cleaning chiles and grinding spices. Though on one afternoon before Mama Elena could send all of the woman table off is when Tita drops the news of Pedro wanting to come and speak with Mama Elena who clearly knows it has something to do with a proposal with Tita.

"If he intends to ask for your hand, tell him not to bother. He'll be wasting his time and mine too. You know perfectly well that being the youngest daughter means you have to take care of me until the day I die." This statement made by Mama Elena is reflecting on the expected family traditions for the youngest born daughter Tita who's assigned as the caregiver for Mama Elena until Elena passes away and Tita rebuttals and Elena responds with "You don't have an opinion, and that's all I want to hear about it. For generations not a single person in my family has ever questioned this tradition, and no daughter of mine is going to be the one to start" Here Elena explains how consistent the tradition has been followed and how improbable it would be for Tita to be the first one to break such a tradition which the rest of the family won't take lightly especially Elena if Tita ever wed and had children she wouldn't be able to dedicate all her time into taking care of Elena which is Tita original duty.

Analytical Question 5

"How is magical realism introduced in this chapter, particularly in relation to Tita's emotional connection to food?" Provide examples

"Tita was so sensitive to onions, any time they were being chopped, they say she would just cry and cry; when she was still in my great grandmother belly her sobs were so loud that even Nacha the cook, who was half-deaf, could hear them easily"

"Nacha swept up the residue the tears had left on the red stoned floor. There was enough salt to fill a ten-pound sack"

Creative Questions 3

Choose one ingredient or recipe from the chapter and explain how it could symbolize a broader theme in the novel

Onions: A representation of Tita sadness, onions tend to make people cry, Tita is devasted because her sister Rosaura is getting married to her lover Pedro. One of the main ingredients of Christmas rolls which is one of her favourite dishes, now Christmas rolls feel bittersweet to Tita

What was the feedback

Things to Note

1. Incomplete Introduction

2. Ideas are joined in one big paragraph. You need to separate your paragraphs

3. Follow the paragraph structure: FEEL/Taxi

4. Explain how your idea and example, persuade the audience - this is the main analytical part

   
   Your understanding of the text is fine, but the analysis didn’t come out clearly as you didn't develop your points clearlybecause your paragraphs were jumbled up. Right now, the structure of your essay and paragraphs are weak. Follow thePEEL structure for your paragraphs, and make sure your introduction is effective. Watch The IB Guys video on how to writea proper introduction for Paper 1. To strengthen your analysis, you need to engage more deeply with the text, identifying the speech features and figurative devices the author used. These authorial choices were employed to convey the message, persuade the audience, and call
   

2. What are areas you need to improve on

   I need to improve on paragraph structure: I tend to write everything into one big paragraph instead of spacing it out and having to persuade the audience which was the main analytical part

3. What was done/or you improved from the last assessment

I was completely unprepared, and I know I didn't perform to what I'm capable of especially being a high-level student I missed important components that answered the essay question. Now I'm worried because it feels like I'm not getting any better in essay writing because I haven't fully grasped paragraph structure, how to write a good thesis and introduction because I repeat the same things, or I forget about the question being asked. Getting a 9/20 is not what I'm aiming for, perhaps I'll need to take in consideration learning the PEEL structure and how to write a proper introduction for paper 1 paper

IO: LWFC AND CT

• Historical Context: Set in Mexican revolution (1910 to 1920) The war has minimal impact on the character lives around the first chapter. The novel doesn't describe the end of the war, final chapter fast forwards to 1930's when t-cars with multiple gears became available in Mexico. Novel focuses on the conflict between traditional values and modern moral relativism

• Key Facts: Original title is Spanish which means "Ones emotion are on the verge of boiling over' in the book it's a reference to Tita and Pedro love. Written in 1989, published 1989 in Mexico and 1999 in USA, literature period of contemporary fiction and the genre is magical realism. The story is set in Northern Mexico, during 1895 to 1910 (climax in chapter 11) protagonist is Tita and antagonist is Mama Elena, the novel begins in first person and majority of the story is in third person and ends with a first-person narration

• Characters: Tita, youngest daughter of her family, being young forbidden her from marriage and she must dedicate her life into taking care of her mother. Tita experiences emotions with great intensity, a people person with great emotions. She enjoys cooking and she has a magic ability to infuse her feelings into her cooking causing those who consume her food to feel her emotions as their own. She is nurturing and self-sacrificing Pedro children and her sister children and she wants to seek freedom from her abusive mother, Tita deeply in love with Pedro and struggles with the internal conflict and suffering that comes from forbidden love

• Mama Elena is Tita mother is emotional abusive and violent towards Tita and is matriarch of the De La Gaza family. She has three daughters: Rosaura, Tita, Getrudis and became a widow after Tita birth, as a young woman she had to run the family range and did it efficiently and was also forbidden to be with her sweetheart Jose due to his skin-color. She continues to have a secret affair with Jose and one of her daughters is a result of that affair, she is hardworking but rather harsh towards her children especially Tita. The way she is makes her powerful protector but at the same time she is hurting Tita.

• Rosaura: Pedro wife and has two children Roberto and Esperanza and is afraid of the kitchen as well being a picky eater and is attached to following traditions and family values. She agrees to marry Pedro despite knowing he's Tita sweetheart and obsessed over social status and will do anything to keep up her appearances. She loves her children and sisters and struggles to connect with them

• Gertrudis: Loves music and dancing, suddenly inspired by passion and runs away with someone and ends up in a brothel, as the novel progresses, she joins the rebel army and works her way up the ranks and becomes a general. Eventually marries Juan and has children with him, she someone who is joyful, affectionate and independent minded and represents positive aspects of being a passionate and strong woman

• Pedro: Tita childhood sweetheart and remains in love with her throughout his life, also the husband of Rosaura and the father of their two children Roberto and Eseranza. He's someone afraid to show disrespect and finds discreet ways to be alone with Tita as he gets older and he becomes more jealous and possessive of Tita and more fearless in expressing his love for her. Sometimes he acts with self-restraint and considerate and other times he acts rashly, selfishness and aggressively

• Nancha: The elderly cook on the household and begins working there from Mama Elena childhood and becomes engaged but Mama Elena mother seperates her from her lover. Nancha spends her time looking after the De La Gaza family and Tita views Nancha as her real mother unlike Mama Elena who mostly spending time running the ranch and unfortunately dies after Pedro and Rosaura wedding and after her death she keeps appearing as a sprit and whispers remedies and recipes in Tita ear. Nancha is empathetic and quietly subversive of Mama Elena rules

• Themes: Challenges social and political systems and provided a context for individuals and to question existing values and structures, Society expectations of women, parallelism at national level with Mexican revolution and show through the De La Gaza women. Tita and her sisters struggle to rebel, similar to the Mexican Struggle for national liberation, personal freedom and breaking away from authority. The family unit is traditional to the central family order, within the social order and with the old system of life in Mexico, children are counter able to their parents, parents are seen as authority well into adult hood and from an early age Tita and her sisters are taught to be obedient towards their mother and the rules regarding profile female behaviour. Mama Elena informs Tita she's unable to start her own family reflecting the theme of tradition vs revolution, Tita resigns to a life of serving her mother despite unhappiness. The revolution serves an important role and becomes a catalyst for disorder for violence and leads to suffering, revolution threatens people's safety, wellbeing of communities and creates famine and makes everyday life dangerous. Eg: Roberto Nurse dies of a gunshot wound; the revolution brings the promise of positive social change. Tita hates tyranny in all forms and supports the revels. The revolution provides context for Getrudis to break through gender roles and reaches powerful status, breaking free from society expectations of women

  Theme: Femineity and women's roles, novel allows family unity to be defined differential between characters and within each character's devotement, different definitions of being feminine. Tita femineity is the pure and virginal archetype and to ignore her loneliness, she also embodies the concept of a perfect wife and mother

• Good understanding of the article and identifying multiple techniques used by the author

• Mentioned the effect it had on the audience

  What I need to improve on:

• Organization of the paragraphs and essay + Get the introduction right.

• Sometimes I mention literary devices, but I don't include why the author used them

• Pay attention to the language that I'm using and the general style & writing: sentence structures. (Sometimes the language is informal)

  
  

  MARK

  A - 4

  B - 3

  C - 3

  D - 3

  
  

Theme Woman Role and Family Unit

Look at each of the female characters and the gender roles they depict within the mexican community

Tita role and her portrayal

Getrudis role and her portrayal

Rosaura role and her portrayal

"Do you think in like water for chocolate, such a thing as a bad or good women (a suggestion in the novel)

Women are capable of array complex and contradictory emotions and characteristics

Does the novel favour revolution over tradition: if so, why? (answer in response to female characters)

Theme: Love

• Portrays love as a magical force that defies reality

• True love is very resilient

• True love doesn't answer to social codes and moralities; it makes people do things and behave in certain ways

• True love and romantic love has a spiritual bond, which super seethes the formal structure of marriage

• Their love for each other survives despite the given circumstances with Mama Elena, remaining loyal to one another (Pedro and Tita)

• Tita love for Pedro biological children (maternal love outside of biological mother and child relationship) similar to Nancha and Tita bond

• How would you link the theme of love to magical realism in the novel (forbidden love, heartbroken, pain, transfer of emotions)

• Do you think the novel validates the concept of true love and how is this shown in the ending of the novel

• Who are the characters that are depicted as most unhappy (didn't get true love) and in contrast with characters who are joyful and loving (received true love)

  Theme: Emotion and Repression

• In the novel, which characters are portrayed as fully alive? (Getrudis)

• Bound by expectations and abusive relationships (Tita and Nancha)

  Theme: Food

• Central to the novel structure and meaning

• Each chapter refers to a recipe that Tita cooks

• The author uses food as a constant fixture in the characters lives while it's changing drastically and food is used as a medium to express many different truths

• Within the confines of her abusive relationship with her mother and with traditional female domestic roles, Tita finds freedom and expression through her relationship with food. Tita feels most powerful in the picture where she is free to exist without the threat of mama Elena cruelty

• Tita is born in the kitchen and spends most of her childhood in the kitchen with Nacha. Loves exploring the mysterious of cooking

Introduction: Paragraph 1: Similarity 1

Paragraph 2: Similarity 2

Paragraph 3: Difference 1

Paragraph 4: Difference 2

Conclusion

Things to Note

• The essay structure is messy, and the use of signal words and the arrangement of topic sentences are difficult to navigate around

• Similarities are present yet other elements such as authorial choices and intention or author relation to the question isn't mentioned

• The differences weren't clearly outlined, although the teacher could see differences from what I was trying to discuss

• Need to develop and follow a compare and contrast essay structure.

rejects traditional divisions between masculine and feminine behaviour

• Nora paid Torvald medical expenses "The person who saved Torvald's life - it was me" "We didn't have a penny from daddy. I paid I got the money" "A wife can't borrow without her husband permission

"No religion, no ethics, no sense of duty"

"Have you nothing to guide you? No... belief?

Nora's optimistic tendencies normally lead her to decisions that instead should be handled by her partner Torvald, her ambitious nature of wanting to do things that only the men of the household should do. In Act 1 of the story, Nora reveals to her friend Ms. Linde on the truth of Torvald recovery; the pair had visited Italy and Torvald fell ill, and Nora paid for which she expresses to Mrs. Linde "The person who saved Torvald's life - it was me" and Mrs. Linde responds by stating " "A wife can't borrow without her husband permission " Nora disacknowledges this rule as she believed she's done the right thing by going the extra mile to save Torvald life, even going as far to forge a signature, an act that would get her into trouble "Mrs. Helmer, this is your father's signature? No it isn't. I signed father's name"

Nora abides to Torvald, being his little bird/doll, she lived in a mindset where she had to act in a way to fulfil Torvald expectations by acting submissive and letting Torvald be the one in charge

Literary: A Doll’s House

Refer to the wider work: the other chapters in the story

2. Structure - workout where you made mistakes in the structure of your IO. Did you miss anything? What do you think you could do to improve on this?

3. Did you use cohesive devices to guide the listener? What were those, and at which points? How do you think you could improve on this?

4. Did you follow the 10-minute timeline? Did the individual parts follow the specified timeline? Where there a balance in how much time you spent on each section?

5. Did you address the global issue in each example? Explain where and how?

6. Did you identify and discuss authorial choices and how they were used? Tell me what they were, and what you were trying to show through the discussion of the authorial choices?

7. Did you understand the questions asked? Did you give a clear answer? Explain.

2: (Structure) 

3: I used cohesive devices when transitioning from one extract to the next, and I could do transition sentences when introducing my literary extract non non-literary extract, and both the wider work and wider body of work.  As for conjunctions, it was inadequate as I didn’t use phrases like (furthermore, meanwhile, for example, similarly, however, alternatively). These phrases are examples of adding, sequencing, illustrating, comparing, qualifying, and contrasting conjunctions, which are to be used to help link back my extract examples to the global issue, or when comparing/contrasting another scene from my literary extract for my wider work examples through a conjunction device I used a fair amount was the word “because” since “because” signals a dependent clause which links to an independent clause showing a cause and effect relationship between them, an example from my oral was when I disclosed during my literary extract example (Like Water for Chocolate) when Mama Elena was notified of Pedro wanting Tita hand in marriage and told Tita to reject the offer due to Tita being the youngest daughter of the family which subjects her to serving her mother when she grows old.

Because example:“This links back to the global issue on culturally imposed roles, since Tita's role in her family is to be subjected to her mother, as the youngest daughters are expected not to marry anyone. (1:54) Of course, this leads to her being extremely heartbroken by the fact because she's unable to be with Pedro. This links back to the global issue because this is a representation of general repression, her tears, and her own fate and identity being crushed.

 “Moving on, I will begin with my literary extract.  

“Then I will move on to my literary wider works” 

“This transitions us into the next wider work example” 

“Now I will be moving on to my non-literary extract”  

“Moving on to my non literary wider body of worker” 

4: (10 Minute Timeline) For the introduction, which is 1 minute and from 0:00 to 0:51  I introduced my global issue and explained how I will be exploring the global issue in my literary text and non-literary text and how both texts portray “ how women deal with facing the restrictive expectations placed on them by family, tradition, and society” and after that I transition into my literary extract properly starting the discussion part of the oral. The introduction was less than a minute, and I expressed the two texts and the global issue clearly, as for the first literary extract, I spoke for 1 minute and 49 seconds (0:51 seconds to 2:40 minutes), and for the literary wider works, I talked for 3 minutes and 13 seconds which took up the required time for the wider work which is meant to be 2 minutes.

The non-literary extract I talked for 1 minute and 13 seconds, which is below 2 minutes, and I should’ve spoken for an extra minute since I was starting to rush through the oral and poorly explained my non-literary extract and for the non-literary wider body of work I spoke for 2 minutes and 22 seconds going overbroad just by 22 seconds. The conclusion itself was only 23 seconds and rushed, as I didn’t take time to explain both texts and how it relate to the global issue, techniques used in depth. 

5 I always did my best to refer back to the global issue, though it sounded like I was referring back to the global issue just for the sake of it, instead of giving proper reasons why a certain part in an extract connected to the global issue, also because I kept reading off my bulletpoints and randomly repeating and picking notes thinking it related to my global issue, some parts were reasonable and did relate to the extract yet most of it was insufficient. 

6: For authorial choices, there was a lack of it since the time I took on each of my extracts was more on myself describing what the scene in a chapter or painting was, rather than analysing certain parts of said scene or painting and when I did describe any authorial choice like a literary device and didn’t explain how it related to what I was analysing in proper detai like in my oral when explaining my non-literary extract painting “Girl With A Death Mask” I said death is being used as a metaphor but didn’t connect it to the global issue or explain how exactly death is a metaphor in that painting like “Death is a metaphor because (explain what makes it a metaphor, whats it a message for in the painting) though a positive note was when I mentioned the literary device of symbolism and gave reason to how a specific part in my literary extract related to symbolism.  I found myself focused on trying to refer to the global issue all the time, which is good, but referring to an author's or painter's authorial/stylistic choices would’ve helped better explain why certain parts in my extracts related to the global issue 

7: With most of the questions, I was partially answering them, where I would answer one aspect of the question and completely ignore the other. Example: The teacher asked me the question, “How does Laura Esquivel use magic realism to challenge patriarchal structures,” and when I gave my response, I talked about examples of magical realism being used in the story, but didn’t explain how those examples challenged patriarchal structures.  One of the questions I didn’t answer was the main point of the question at all, and it was when I was asked, “How does Kahlo use symbolism in this particular artwork to express her inner emotional and physical experiences?” My response talked about my own interpretation of the painting and the story behind the painting, or only describing the painting like “The girl is holding a flower,” yet didn’t explain what the flower she was holding symbolismed and how it expresses Frida inner emotional and physical experiences.