Literature
Here you can discuss books, poetry, short stories, plays, etc., either for your reading pleasure or books that you have to read for A1 class. This forum is for the discussion of books only, whereas discussion of any literature assignments should go in the Language A1 forum.
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Hey there, first off, we are almost done analyzing the Tale of Two Cities right now in our English A Literature Class and so far it is going awesome. But the thing that I am scared of is about the IOC for this one since it is a really complex book. I am really scared about it. Can you suggest a great site where I can find helpful stuff about this book?
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In the sleep-walking scene ( ACT 5 SCENE 1) what do you think Lady Macbeth is writing in the letter, and to whom? I realise that her guilty conscious plagued her during these hours where she would confess to almost all the murders. But I'm curious as to who she is " writing" the letter to, and what would the content would be.
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I'm a quarter way through the book and i'm finding it interesting so far. I do agree with most of the reviews though that it's alarmingly different to the magical imagination Rowling put into Harry Potter. This one is just so... British Townsfolk drama. Sort of below her if anything! It is still well written I think, and it is a page turner so far. Has anyone else read it yet? No spoilers please!
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Heeeeyyy IB people!!!!! I am a new IB junior and we started school like a month ago from today. My IB English 11 class has received our first book and it is (drumroll) Walden!!!!! So I was wondering if anyone who already has a good understanding of this book has any words of wisdom for achieving a good annotation grade and annotations in general. Thanks, Pavan Suryadevara
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In a Street Car Named Desire I notice how the author includes music in the book. Can someone please tell me the significance of the songs in the book.
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any good sites for a jist of analysis for the poem Mid-term break by Seamus Heaney
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I have my creative oral coming up for English literature and I'm really stuck for ideas. I think I've decided on doing Sir Gawain and the green knight, the epic poem, but I can't decide on a format. Our teacher wants it to be creative and analytical, and the best ones last term were the ones where a second person was recruited and they performed a script of a conversation or scenario. Does anyone have any ideas for a format that would be interesting and allow a lot of exploration of characterisation, themes, etc? Please help!
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Hey Guys, Im starting IB next year and im taking english A SL and these are the books we will be covering Nineteen Eighty Four George Orwell The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald A Streetcar Named Desire Tenessee Williams Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays Oscar Wilde The VisitFriedrich Dürrenmatt I was wondering are any of these books good> if you have taken them or read them? any opinions will be helpful Thanks in advance
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I know a lot of people hate poetry but I am a total English nerd and I am looking for good poetry to read. My favourite poem is The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot, what are you some of your favourites?
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guys i'm doing my IOP on dances with wolves so i was wondering if i could show you my plan for the presentation.. then i was hoping to get some recommendations for changes, comments and what not.. thanks
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Hi fellow students, I need help deciding whether to take hl or sl in my English. How hard is hl. I am not very good in English essay writing. It is between this and Chemistry which i am getting 4 score. Please help i am stressing on this. My current subjects Maths sl Economics Hl Chemistry Visual Art Hl Spanish AB English language and literature thanks
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So we just had our exams for Year 1 IB, and she gave us a choice of passage or poem (I chouse the passage) I just checked my scores online and I got a 3! Thing is, I actually thought I did well in that passage but apparently not. I really don't know how to study for english lit at all. It's been almost a year and I don't even know how to write a commentary. Our teacher has never even told us how to and she gave us an example once and it wasn't even an IB commentary. She said that I have good ideas but I have no idea how to structure my essay. Can you guys please really help me on how I should structure my essay? Like intro, para1,2,3,4, and conc? I feel as if I don't unde…
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Hello guys, i've read the book Lord of The Flies recently and would like to see how you guys view this book! It could be anything (eg: Motifs, Themes, Characters, Feelings, Emotions, etc, etc)! I actually do enjoy the book a lot not only for its simplicity but William Golding's ability to convey deep implications of darkness in one's heart using just such simplistic words. This things i love about the book: -Language: Simple, yet profound and seeped with plenty of implications. -Theme: Savagery, Anarchy, Dystopia - Characters: Many say that Ralph and Jack are the more important characters but in my personal opinion i feel that Piggy and Simon play the biggest parts in the…
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ONi am a year 1 student and still struggling to search rq for my ee . I would like to do literature ON symbolism. Can anyone suggest me how to make a GOOD proposal that can convince a teacher to accept me as her / his advisee. And , what should i put on my introduction of proposal ? My teacher said something about justification and arguments in the introduction part of the proposal instead of description but i still dont get the picture .. Please help me
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Ok I'm a complete newbie to everything. I just transferred to an international school which has an IB curriculum. I only have a three weeks left. Some courses are giving holiday assignments such as English Language and Literature. They're giving few topics to choose from and instructing us to make it into an IA. Ok, what is an IA? It should be Internal Assessment. But what is it exactly? I honestly haven't encountered terms like this before so can someone kindly explain? The teacher hasn't replied to my email yet... and I didn't get to go to the orientation either.
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Which do you like more and why?
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Hello there! I am currently finishing up 10th grade, so I wil be in IB next year. This may be a kind of stupid question but I was just wondering about what books I should read over the summer. I will have a lot of free time so I'm planning on reading a lot to get ahead, I guess you could say, so I won't have to worry about that as much during the school year. I have already bought Catcher in the Rye, Farienhiet 451, The Great Gatsby, and a few others. Thanks in advance for your advice!!
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So I am supposed to format a thesis statement for my IB English class, we are writing our 1300-1500 ib essay and I have no clue what the thesis is supposed to include because my teacher is very vague. are we expected (in world literature our books are The Stranger, Woman at Point Zero, and Chronicle of a Death Foretold) to compare or contrast two of the 3 books?
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Topic question: What idea does F. Scott Fitzgerald suggest about the pursuit of ideals? My thesis:Through the ideals of Gatsby, Myrtle and Daisy, F. Scott Fitzgerald suggests that pursuing ideals of recapturing the past, achieving wealth through others, and wanting to be loved by having an affair are futile aspirations. Is it good? Bad? Confusing?
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Well, my Eng b teacher has decided to do 1984 , its all good, but in the entire year she only made us do the chapter reviews and in class we just chat about the book and its implications. Pretty easy stuff, she doesn't even make us do any essays on the book, such as the themes etc. It isn't much of a challenge at all, so i was wondering if anyone could give me some good questions on 1984 that I could write an essay on for a bit of practice for my finals next month.
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The Hunger Games have become very popular since the film came out. I don't consider myself a fan but I enjoyed the books (I didn't like Mockingjay very much though..). Before watching the movie my friends and I discussed whether the books can be considered as literature. My first response was no. It is a YA novel, and most novels of that genre can't be considered as literature. *cough cough* Twilight (btw I hate it when people compare The Hunger Games with Twilight just because of the love triangle). We reached to the conclusion that The Hunger Games describesa a dystopian society and it portrays significant themes (like the control of the government, or the power of mass…
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I was wondering...Prose writers often use capital letters and ellipses in their pieces. What effects might this have?
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Death of a Salesman, along with Pygmalion and Othello, are the Dramas I've studied for Paper 2 (which is in two days time ) but I cannot seem to pick out relevant quotations from Death of a Salesman. I've used Shmoop and Sparknotes but they are useless to me. Does anyone have any theme related quotations, or even ones that can be applied to pretty much any essay question?
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Hello, did anyone take Leo Africanus by Amin Maalouf for English A1? And do you have notes for it? thank youu
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I've started thinking about what i should do for my english IOP, but every time i think of something i just end up with nothing. I was going to use the caliphs house by taher shah, but decided not to. i was thinking about poetry by john keats, but now i think i should do the great gatsby.. i cant decide, does anyone have any good ideas?? please helpp
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So in our English class we are doing our practice iop and the book is The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien. Our teacher said to pick one topic from the book and research that. But I don't really understand how the format of it should be. She said that the Green Berets would be a good topic. So would I research that as an intro and then analyze how its presented in the book ? Also am I supposed to have a question or can I just say that the topic is Green berets? Also how do you get a good grade on the IOP's? Thanks
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Does anyone remember the name of the Poem in the November 2012 paper for HL? Thanks in advance!
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DOes anyone agree with James Hafley's opinion that Nelly Dean is the real villain in wuthering height? I have read part of his article and I am not quite convinced, because afterall, Nelly is only human what do you think?
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please inform the important aspects of survival literature
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I have to read several books this summer for English A: Literature, and I can't decide whether I should by normal paperback versions or digital versions to read in iBooks on my iPad. I like reading on my iPad: it doesn't hurt my eyes as some might think, I can make bookmarks, highlight and underline text (using different colors), add notes, and then easily access all my bookmarks, highlights, and notes from one place. Moreover, I can search through the book and look up words in the built-in dictionary. The two are very useful to me because the search tool allows me to quickly find a passage and the dictionary lets me better understand the text (whenever I read a physical …
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I have to do a report on Chekhov and how he uses staging+ other literary devices to explore the idea of estrangement in Uncle Vanya. Can someone please give me a few ideas as to how i should write this? Thank you so much!
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Can somebody help me with this poem "Men Talk" by Liz Lochhead? I am doing a WT2 for it and I don't really understand the meaning of the poem. Help pls? Thanks
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Extended Essay Topic Advice
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I have to develop my Extended Essay Topic and one of the things I wanted to study was the role of the Church in Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials. I actually wanted to focus on the entire censorship issue with the novels and how it affected the film adaptation, but I don't think with my topic I would be able to. Would I be able to write about those issues in relation to my topic?
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I'll be working on my IOPs soon and we have the choice of Wuthering Heights, Pride and Prejudice and The Road. Currently my idea is to do Wuthering Heights about why Hindley became so twisted and how he could have improved his attitudes, but in the end why Emily Brontë did what she did. Do you think that this is OK? I would love to see any suggestions.
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Has anyone read Crime and Punishment? We are reading it a bit later this year but I've heard different opinions on the book. Any thoughts or comments?
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So I was ranting about Shakespeare the other day, and I realized that while I'm not a big fan of his plays, it's mainly because I can't understand them. But even so, I just don't see how he's the greatest there ever was and think we should be exposed to more playwrights. The sonnets I've read by him are just easier to discuss and to enjoy. What do you think of old Willie? Like him? Hate him? Want to build another monument in his honor for CAS?
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Just started a book (physical book, in one volume, in English) that is 2192 pages long, tiny text, huge pages (Concise Anthology of American Literature 2nd Edition if you're wondering... and yes, it is called concise, and no, it doesn't make sense!) - but the longest I've ever managed so far is some Robert Jordan book, probably 1000+. What are your greatest achievements? What is the longest book you have browsed?
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Has anybody read this book series because I would like some feed back on this due to religious and moral views. I added in the attachment book 1 if your interested. Paradise Lost Book1.doc
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Hulllllllooooo I am a fan of Haruki Murakami, I don't know how many of you out there have a weird obsession like I do (but you already click the topic mean you pretty much like him too, are you not?) I just finish reading Sputnik Sweetheart and I find that love that book very much. I have no idea why this book is not as famous as Norwegian Wood or Kafka on the Shore (I love those two books too though). As usual, after I read any book I like, I have this desperate feeling that I need to talk to someone about the book or go online to read the discussion. But as I've mentioned, this book is not popular enough and I don't feel so satisfy at the discussions I came across. This…
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has anyone read Persopolis by Marjane Satrapi? I'm going to be discussing that book for my IOP. My theme is not yet defined but surrounds the Islamic revolution VS Islam and political ideals. I will be presenting it on December 10th, but I'm not so sure where to start and what a good way to present my information while being engaging. This is my first year so I would appreciate any help.
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If you have any creative...insane ideas for an IOP presentation do feel free to share....i would think teachers are bored of the same old stuff
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Hello guys, I read this poem, 'Executive' by John Betjeman, and wasn't quiet sure about how it relates to the modern society. If any of you guys have studied, or read the poem can you please give feedback on your interpretation of the poem. Hence, the techniques utilised by the poet? The poem goes like this... Executive by John Betjeman I am a young executive. No cuffs than mine are cleaner; I have a Slimline brief-case and I use the firm's Cortina. In every roadside hostelry from here to Burgess Hill The maоtres d'hфtel all know me well, and let me sign the bill. You ask me what it is I do. Well, actually, you know, I'm partly a liaison man, and partly P.R.O. Essent…
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Hi All, I am a librarian in a IBDP school, and I need some help from you with some suggestions for books. I am looking for fiction or non-fiction that you found either useful or just enjoyed reading. I have already had a look through the forum and have got some great ideas, but the more the better. Any help will be gratefully received, thanks.
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If you read Historical fiction, what is your most favorite books ever? The Alexander Tri-ology by Valerio Massimo Manfredi- my favorite books <3
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Amaaaazing Books? 1 2 3 4
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This thread is for everyone that loves to read~~ What are your favourite books/authors/series? I really like Matthew Reilly, he has a pretty awesome fast pace and has a pretty grand plot I also liked Kite Runner, it was written quite well
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I need suggestions for topics that I could use to write a World Lit about Romeo and Juliet ? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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Getting other people's oppinions on the matter would be helpful in making my presentation more well rounded. Specifically hypnopaedia, but any observation is helpful
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paper due tommorow, so how it needs to be under 1000 words right? Also, do quotes in the paper count towards the word count?
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As you may know, summer holidays for North American students are in one week (for me). I really want to get back to my habit of reading books. Are there any good novels or series to go after? I really open to any genre of novels... So just fire away with any novel that you think is good Thanks
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hey guys would you suggest me what are the aspects of geographical setting to look at when writing critical analysis on geographical aspects? I am doing on 'Chronicles of a Death Foretold' by Garcia.
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