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In snow falling on Cedars and the divine wind what techniques were employed to influence your understanding of the authors shared concerns

Intro - approx. 80-100 conclusion same same no quotes in conclusion – 200 words for each paragraph

Explicity state both authors and titles

Foreshadow concerns

Foreshadow techniques

Each paragraph needs textual example form each text – explicit quotes, explicit reference to individual event mix it up - need a balance of quotes and event for each paragraph and overall

Key thing she’s looking for is a linking sentence moving from text to text this is also highlighted this can be seen it is worth noting that hicks similary etc

Concluding statement – make sure you say something about authors influenced my understanding before I start my next paragraph make sure the paragraphs say to the question

Possible links

This is also demonstrated

This is mirrored

This is also evident

It is worth noting that blah similarily

It is worth noting that blah contrasts

Blah has taken a different approach

Influence of past on present

In both the Divine Wind and Snow falling on Cedars the authors convey through their use of narrative perspective that the past influenced the present for their respective communities and characters. In the Divine Wind the narrative is written from the perspective of Hart and is written as a recount with a present day prologue and epilogue. This allows the reader to emphasise with Hart and allows Hart the chance to control what goes into his story to show exactly what past events he believed influenced his present. Through editing his own story we see that the events that are more detailed are more important to him and there is almost a twisting of words. Hart chooses to say blah blah and there is not much focus on the community There is a contrast between this and Snow Falling on Cedars which uses a multi narrative perspective and cuts back to the past when the relevant memory is triggered. For example Etta’ Heimann’s memories of the past make her dehumanise kazoo and Horace has been influenced by constant propaganda. We see a wide range of community perspectives. Perhaps the most focused on perspective is Ishmael’s. Through his flashbacks of the past we begin to see how and we get to see how in caught up by every past event that has turned his love into an obsession. Nell’s quote

Also talk about community etc

To show hwo all the events said in the past impacted on the present Narrative perspective – singular and the time thing – marginalised voices ( Jamie, Ida, Mitsy

- Contrast with multi narrative perspective – while divine wind is a recount, SFOC supposedly present goes back to memories get whole community see how it affected them and then see what it was that did it

- European is Horace and ettas memories- Individual one of Ishmael- so caught up in past every individual relationship he

doesn’t let form becomes an isolate- Nells quote about moving on – Ishmael’s memories also shows community views

influences all of us however for some of us it turns into an obsession – nice segaway to the next paragraph

Obsessive nature of love \

Leg in tdw Obsession with past not obsession with the love

Links in with previous topic

Arm in SFOC

Mike’s journal – tdw – realises that he is the same links in with lecagy of noble fathers

Lecacy of noble father

When

Symbolism however no symbolism in TDW boxy derby thing – put it into context don’t just say what happens

Obsession with past not obsession with the love

Key things for book trailer

Must have voice over Discussing Giving book context – when written etc cost critical acclaim ( go on amazon read

some review) talk about intended audience – whose it meant for and how would I know that – talk about techniques

Whats the basic theme in my case strings and how you see a person. Say what I would pair it with and grounds in which they pair probably list 3 Don’t need to go to enormous trouble with snippets from films

In a word where every town is a papertown lives Quention Q Jacobson, an anxious senior highschool student living in Orlando, Florida next door to the unamiousanly perceived beautiful Margo Roth Spielgman. Since the discovery of a dead body at age 9 the pair has separated with Margo now being the most popular girl at school and Q a tone deaf band geek. However everything is not as it seems when after a series of unfornate events, Margo

recruits Q in the middle of the night for a long list of elaborate pranks before disappearing into thin air a mere month before her high school graduation. Will Q ever discover who Margo really is before it’s too late or is she gone forever?

John Green’s papertowns was first published in October 2008 and has won several awards since including Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Young Adult MysteryNew York Times bestsellerUSA Today bestsellerPublishers Weekly bestseller

Green’s writing style is best suited to young adults as the book is set in a highschool, uses frequent colloquisams and features characters a young audience will relate to. Quention Q Jacobsens anxieties and thinking etc and margo being the unattable type girl The themes present in the book are similar to those experienced by adolescents exiting puberty. Who we are vs who we present ourselves to be.

Go on a journey first discovering strings, then grass, then the vessel

At first he’s like saying we all have strings that can become broken, how we attach to the world what matter to us how we relate to others but then you realise we are like grass, all interconnected, we can relate to one another feel sympathy and empathy and see ourselves in them but it’s not until we see them as vessels and they crack the light can get in and out.

The grass is like saying we come

The vessel is like saying when we finally see the cracks in people we can see how they truly are we need to crack their vessel carrying on the journey to let the light shine through

Intended audience is teenagers

$5.72 for paper back

10.74 for hardcover

12.12 for kindle

4 and a half stars

123 of 131 people found the following review helpful The Compulsive Reader's Reviews,October 2, 2008

By The Compulsive ReaderThis review is from: Paper Towns (Hardcover)

To everyone who surrounds Margo Roth Spiegelman, she is an adventurous, unconventional, and intelligent person and a highly admired someone that everyone puts on a pedestal. So when Margo sneaks into Quentin Jacobsen's room one glorious night and involves him in her crazy exploits, he can't help but feel as if a new page has been turned, and just maybe he can be a part of the marvelous Margo's life.

But the next morning all of Quentin's hopes are dashed with Margo's disappearance. Her parents and the police think this is just another one of her stunts, but Q's not so sure. Because Margo has left him a string of clues, one right after another, which just might lead him to her. But the thing is, he's not sure what he'll find.

John Green brings readers another surprising, witty, and fully honest book in Paper Towns. His writing is captivating from the very beginning as multitudes of details, no mater how large of small, flow seamlessly together. Green has a knack for highlighting the little distinguishing factors that make us human, making for more believable characters and completely enthralling book.

The mystery in Paper Towns is clever, and will leave readers scratching their heads as Q and his friends struggle to piece together the clues with some frustration and tons of humor. But the teens are just as quick to get serious as they contemplate what has actually happened to Margo and as Quentin especially comes to see her in a completely different light with a little help from the poetry of Walt Whitman.

Though Paper Towns did slow down a little bit in the middle of the book as Quentin hits a brick wall in his search, this novel is suspenseful, hilarious, and quirky, and especially appealing to the well read teen. The characters are as real as your own friends, and teens can't help but see pieces of their own lives in this amazingly candid book. Read at your own risk though--Green's works are completely addictive, and once you start, it's impossible to stop.

The characters were well developed and easy to relate to.That1girl

If you would really like to love and hate and evolve and feel with a character this is a really good book to exercise your right to do that.maria

The idea of the story was good but for me I felt as if it was dragging on and I was just excited to be done with the book.Kris F.

Idea for number 1

Similarities in terms of techniques

Introduction

2 body paragraphs

1 similarites 1 differences

1 compare 1 contrase

Both protagonaists fail to engage in present both social isolates – Ishmael sits away from community – viewed as eccentric by rest of community petrol guy says he is doesn’t have a real ob he always jeep him self busy so he doesn’t have to reflect hicks has a focus on Ishmael going through archival evidence of ishmeals final year of highschool when the war starts out – when Ismael does have free time he wonders around revisiting landmarks that he visited with Hatsue.

Hart – structure of text, the fact that the story is told as a recount that is then brought back. Recount gives us important memories from hart. He gives it in lots of detail means hart has thought about it lots and lots

Hart social isolate first meeting with Jamie description is of someone who has wanted a friend for a long time. Hart takes a gamble with befriendly Jamie because Jamie is there in a temporary way. For hart to make friends with Jamie shows harts great need to have a friend overwise he wouldn’t do it

Few oppurtunies for social interaction – hart even invites Jamie to own birthday party. Not too many people that can be considered apporiate friends of hart

Get to see community doubt about Sadako and Mitsy living in house I hope you’re watching those japs you’ve got there house is slightly far away which isolates them further

Injury is another way to isolate him because he is unable to enlist.

Their behaviour is similar in which they become obsessive, they become stalkers where all of there focus is shown with extreme closeups of hatsues lip and in the divine wind descriptions of where they would go to and how he would follow her power to rid themselves of a rivial.

They both use symbols books become a major one for hart snow falling on cedars uses school yearbook ishmaels arm

Contrast

Ishmael is aware of his obsessive nature whereas hart is not Ismael is wanting to break that cycle particulary after coming back from war convo with hatuse if I could hold you one last time. Hart is absolutely oblivious, only when come across father’s jounrals in a slightly more objective fashion. Other differences include communitys are influenced by the past, broome is a little more harmious than san pedro at beginning of war. Whole idea of don’t tend to people in san pedro lot of people come back from own war time experience whereas relocation of japense – divine wind and opposed to people coming back from war in san pedro. Only one narrative perspective. San pedro has other forces at work.