The Piano The piano groans under the curled fingers of the girl hunched over the keys. Her hair hangs long, dark and matted around her shoulders: she is young, but traces of grey are coming through the roots of her hair. She looks cool to the touch, of course she will be cold, it’s always […]
Friday, 18 August Scene analysis: General Aung San is assassinated What is happening in this scene? (Give Context) General Aung San is meeting with his cabinet members to bring Burma into independence from Britain. Military rebels who do not want to see democracy in the country and in fact would prefer military dictatorship stays in […]
Literature is most successful when it is dealing with the big issues of the world. Barbra Demicks’ profound novel ‘Nothing to Envy’ gives readers shocking insight into the issues of the world today and how we have not learned from our past. Nothing to Envy is a prime example of how successful literature occurs when […]
1:Central to the purpose of a text is the examination of a relationship in conflict. “In the futuristic dystopia imagined in 1984, George Orwell wrote of a world where the only colour to be found was in the propaganda posters. Such is the case in North Korea.” Barbara Demick’s 2009 part novelization ‘Nothing to Envy’ […]