Twice before, a book had turned him inside out and altered who he was, had blasted apart his assumptions about the world and thrust him onto a new ground where everything in the world suddenly looked different — and would remain different for the rest of time, for as long as he himself went on living in time and occupied space in the world.
PAUL AUSTER, 4 3 2 1
© 4, 3, 2, 1 Paul Auster, 2017
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Compare how you have used language in part (a) to evoke emotion with the way writing has been crafted in at least ONE prescribed text from Module C.
The prescribed texts are:
• Prose Fiction – Kate Chopin, The Awakening – Elizabeth Harrower, The Fun of the Fair – Franz Kafka, Metamorphosis – Nam Le, Love and Honour and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice – Colum McCann, Thirteen Ways of Looking – Colum McCann, What Time Is It Now, Where You Are? – Rohinton Mistry, The Ghost of Firozsha Baag
• Nonfiction – Helen Garner, How to Marry Your Daughters – Siri Hustvedt, Eight Days in a Corset – George Orwell, Politics and the English Language – Zadie Smith, That Crafty Feeling
• Speeches – Margaret Atwood, Spotty-Handed Villainesses – Geraldine Brooks, A Home in Fiction – Noel Pearson, Eulogy for Gough Whitlam
• Poetry – Kim Cheng Boey, Stamp Collecting – Gwen Harwood, Father and Child – Wallace Stevens, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird – Alfred Lord Tennyson, The Lady of Shallot
• Performance Poetry – Kate Tempest, Picture a Vacuum