dexter Posted December 30, 2008 Report Share Posted December 30, 2008 Mine was Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys interview with main character ( Antoinette Cosway) Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abu Posted December 30, 2008 Report Share Posted December 30, 2008 How character stereotypes are evidenced in the novels: "Of Mice and Men" and "To Kill a Mockingbird" Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vvi Posted December 30, 2008 Report Share Posted December 30, 2008 Mine was Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys interview with main character ( Antoinette Cosway)Wow, finally found someone who's reading this book for IB! I did mine on this too, I presented about the significance of the book's title. What other titles did Jean Rhys consider using, how the mythical character of the Sargasso Sea reflects the tones of mysticism in the novel, how the vastness of the Sargasso Sea is symbolic of Antoinette's isolation from England, etc. I got a pretty good mark, and it was interesting to talk about. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KLSmash Posted December 30, 2008 Report Share Posted December 30, 2008 I did an oral commentary on an excerpt from Michael Ondaatje's "In the Skin of a Lion" and related it to the book, and its themes. I finished off quite Stalin's quote: "One death is a tragedy, a million is a statistic" which fit perfectly into my ending as I finished talking about the value of life within the novel. 1 Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
biochem Posted January 5, 2009 Report Share Posted January 5, 2009 Mine was Friendship analysis between Huck and Jim in Huckleberry Finn. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KiwiFruit Posted January 6, 2009 Report Share Posted January 6, 2009 Mine was " How does Anouilhs rendition of Antigone relate to the historical era that it was written in"I looked at the allegory of it in relation to french resistance and nazi occupied france, was amazing and i loved it. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
superkdude Posted January 9, 2009 Report Share Posted January 9, 2009 I've read the stranger by albert camus, the awakening, and the scarlet letter so far and idk how to do my iop or what topic to do. I have no clue how I'm goint to talk for 15 minutes on books I barely know, and I have this bad feeling that I'm gonna fail; I'm more of a math and sciences kind of guy :-) so any help would be much appreciated. Thanks Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tilia Posted January 9, 2009 Report Share Posted January 9, 2009 I've read the stranger by albert camus, the awakening, and the scarlet letter so far and idk how to do my iop or what topic to do. I have no clue how I'm goint to talk for 15 minutes on books I barely know, and I have this bad feeling that I'm gonna fail; I'm more of a math and sciences kind of guy :-) so any help would be much appreciated. ThanksHow can you say that you barely know the books if you've read them? Pick the one you liked the most/found most interesting and try to find some aspect of it that interested you. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted January 10, 2009 Report Share Posted January 10, 2009 The Awakening is a great book. Take a look at water imagry/metaphors in the book, especially the idea of the ocean as "heaven". Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
superkdude Posted January 12, 2009 Report Share Posted January 12, 2009 what I mean by that was I didn't think I could talk for 15 minutes about a specific topic on a book that I read a while ago, and the IOP is in a week. But thanks anyway Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiwi Posted January 15, 2009 Report Share Posted January 15, 2009 I'm doing the effects of Confucianistic beliefs and ideals on the characters and events based on the book The Woman Warrior: A Memoir of a Childhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston.I could've chosen the representation of ghosts in the story but someone else is doing that already... Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
may_2010 Posted January 16, 2009 Report Share Posted January 16, 2009 i did a disscussion on the significance of stage directions in the play A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennesee Williams Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sponge123 Posted January 17, 2009 Report Share Posted January 17, 2009 I did mine on Thursday. It was a comparative commentary on two short stories by Alice Munro, "Meneseteung" and "Hold Me Fast, Don't Let Me Pass." I discussed how unreliable narrative perspectives forward the ambiguity of truth. What was really handy was that our teacher let us double up assignments; basically, we had to submit a comparative essay on two stories for our class (not an IB essay, obviously, just course work) so everyone just used the content of their essays for their presentations. It really helped to have written my argument before hand, especially in structuring my presentation. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capa Posted January 22, 2009 Report Share Posted January 22, 2009 I chose the Kiterunner.. a lot of things to look at in that one 1 Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
balloon Posted January 24, 2009 Report Share Posted January 24, 2009 I did 'The Tree Sisters' By Anton Chekhov. I spoke about how the death of Tuzenbach was necessary to the purpose of the play (That being a representation of the futility and hopelessness of Russia). I pretended to be Chekhov, complete with VERY POOR Russian accent. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
theone00 Posted January 24, 2009 Report Share Posted January 24, 2009 It was a commentary on an Armitage Poem- Homecoming. Just talked about the themes, structures, devices etc etc etc Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chesire_Cat Posted January 25, 2009 Report Share Posted January 25, 2009 Mine was about the search for freedom in Winston's character versus Julia's character in 1984 Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
theone00 Posted January 25, 2009 Report Share Posted January 25, 2009 Mine was about the search for freedom in Winston's character versus Julia's character in 1984Now that's a good topic. Possibly the best book I've ever read Kudos. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clemroc Posted January 28, 2009 Report Share Posted January 28, 2009 Mine was on the use of oral traditions in Things Fall Apart by Chinuah Achebe. Talked alot about the literary features, but I lacked structure (did it as a presentation with the help of MS Powerpoint).Now I need to find a topic for another IOP...for Blindness, by Jose Saramago...planning to do something about how Saramago uses The Doctor's Wife as a tool to express his philosophy...not sure if that'll be good though...want to make something different from a presentation, maybe an interview or monologue, who knows. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
heartworthy Posted January 29, 2009 Report Share Posted January 29, 2009 My favorite classes were psych and TOK and I thought the book easiest to relate to was The Catcher in the Rye so my topic was Holden's psychological and epistemological issues. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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