Tonight's homework is fairly simple, in that it requires you to go back to the Prologue of Alice Pung's Unpolished Gem and write a paragraph that discusses how the author utilises language choices to construct the colourful atmosphere of the market and the interaction between Alice's father, the stall holders and other customers. In your paragraph, you should aim to explore how Pung positions the audience to view the market place and its customers though her use of language. Your paragraph needs to be proof-read and edited before you place it on your blog and the task must be completed by tomorrow's lesson.
The prologue for Unpolished Gem utilises many different language choices to construct the colourful atmosphere of the market. She uses descriptive language, metaphors, similes and many more. Her descriptive language is interesting though; her word choices are not normally the kind of works you would use to describe something. By doing this she has created a very convincing picture of a foreigner in a new land. “When they haggle over the price of trotters, there is much hand gesticulating and furrowing of brow because the parties do not spick da Ingish velly good.” The significance of this quote is that it is showing us the strange but successful way Pung has used slang to help set the scene of a foreigner in a new land.
2 comments:
Courtney, you are starting to demonstrate your ability to analyse here but the response lacks depth.
You need to actually explain and provide evidence about these language choices instead of simply listing them.
Your synthesis of the one piece of evidence that is used also has potential, but again you don't provide the necessary depth - how is it strange/succesful?
Well done :)
Post a Comment