Navigating the Global: A time when global connections blur the division between old and new, provoking a reconsideration of traditions and values.
To what extent does this statement hold true for TWO of your prescribed texts and TWO texts of your own choosing?
How did you guys go in your half yearly exams? What are the areas you need to improve? What went well?
My exam introduction:
To what extent does this statement hold true for TWO of your prescribed texts and TWO texts of your own choosing?
How did you guys go in your half yearly exams? What are the areas you need to improve? What went well?
My exam introduction:
In a late 20th century and early 21st century context, global connections abound in a way that creates a blurring of traditional concepts in order to create a new ‘global context’. The division between the old and the new is not as distinct in this context due to a blurring of time and space and a variety of reactions to this changing reality. The changing reality has provoked, in many instances, a reconsideration of traditions, values and ways of thinking as individuals navigate how the local and global contexts are becoming inextricably linked. Annie Proulx’s The Shipping News (TSN), Seamus Heaney’s poems “The Strand at Lough Beg” and “Casualty”, (related material 1) and (related material 2) are texts that communicate how the formation of global connections blurs the division of the personal and universal in order to express new ideas about traditions and values. These ideas are extensively expressed through a variety of language forms and features.