MissSavage29
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Here are a couple of practice essay questions for the Critical Study of Wild Swans
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· “It is both a strength and weakness of this book that the responder is limited to a female view of the events that unfold.”
Discuss the extent to which this view of Wild Swans reflects your own response
· 2004 HSC – ‘Interpretations of texts can shift and change with time and place’
Considering your time and place reflect on the ways in which context has shaped your critical interpretation of the prescribed text
In your response refer to TWO extracts from your prescribed text
· How does the personal voice shape our response to the historical and social context presented in Wild Swans?
· Two people who value your prescribed text in different ways and for different reasons are having a conversation. Compose their conversation which should include consideration of the structure, language and ideas of the text
· ‘Jung Chang’s story is focused on three generations of women who lived in different times and contexts.” Compare the contexts of each woman’s world discussing the similarities and differences and the impact on their lives.
· How does Wild Swans contribute to the genre of non-fiction
· In Wild Swans official history is seen as being changeable, able to be manipulated and transformed by political powers. How is this official history portrayed and how does Chang show that an alternative history can be told and preserved?
· While the narrator of Wild Swans is positioned to attract the sympathy of Western responders a skeptical response is to suggest that the narrator’s eventual success is primarily due to her parents privileged position in their society. To what extent to you agree?
i should have more to come later when i find them
· “It is both a strength and weakness of this book that the responder is limited to a female view of the events that unfold.”
Discuss the extent to which this view of Wild Swans reflects your own response
· 2004 HSC – ‘Interpretations of texts can shift and change with time and place’
Considering your time and place reflect on the ways in which context has shaped your critical interpretation of the prescribed text
In your response refer to TWO extracts from your prescribed text
· How does the personal voice shape our response to the historical and social context presented in Wild Swans?
· Two people who value your prescribed text in different ways and for different reasons are having a conversation. Compose their conversation which should include consideration of the structure, language and ideas of the text
· ‘Jung Chang’s story is focused on three generations of women who lived in different times and contexts.” Compare the contexts of each woman’s world discussing the similarities and differences and the impact on their lives.
· How does Wild Swans contribute to the genre of non-fiction
· In Wild Swans official history is seen as being changeable, able to be manipulated and transformed by political powers. How is this official history portrayed and how does Chang show that an alternative history can be told and preserved?
· While the narrator of Wild Swans is positioned to attract the sympathy of Western responders a skeptical response is to suggest that the narrator’s eventual success is primarily due to her parents privileged position in their society. To what extent to you agree?
