13th October 2020

Essay practice

Analyse how one or more ideas were used to comment on an aspect of human nature.

Ideas – Death ,

Human Nature- being the true good and evil

Intro

  • Restate question
  • name author and their intentions
  • outline of the structure
  • quote for impact?
  • further develop intentions

Quotes

“The survivors. They’re the ones I can’t stand to look at, although on many occasions, I still fail. I deliberately seek out the colours to keep my mind off them,”

“Somewhere, far down, there was an itch in his heart, but he made it a point not to scratch it. He was afraid of what might come leaking out.”

“Oh, how the clouds stumbled in and assembled in the sky. Great obese clouds.”

“Trust me, though, the words were on their way, and when they arrived, Liesel would hold them in her hands like the clouds, and she would wring them out, like the rain.”

“something grotesque and alien that had somehow landed miraculously in the middle of town and needed to be snuffed out, and fast.”

“I guess humans like to watch a little destruction. ”

“Quite a few things, however, were most definitely wrong: Smoke was rising out of Liesel’s collar. A necklace of sweat had formed around her throat.”

“she felt an innate sense of power. It happened every time she deciphered a new word or pieced together a sentence.”

“She was a girl. In Nazi Germany. How fitting that she was discovering the power of words.”

“The injury of words. Yes, the brutality of words”

“The streets were ruptured veins. Blood streamed till it was dried on the road, and the bodies were stuck there, like driftwood after the flood.”

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