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Question 2: Explain a perspective on growing up offered in Text 2
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- TOPIC: Text two offers the perspective that growing up is an experience of greater difficulty for the parent, who is disempowered by the fleeting nature of their role, than for the child who is empowered by the future experiences to come.
- reference to text: โtext twoโ
- โoffersโ
- an idea on growing up: an experience of greater difficult for the parent than for the child
- explained: parent is disempowered by the fleeting nature of their role, the child is empowered by the future experiences to come.
- empowered and its antonym.
- does not talk about language devices - maybe because question didnโt ask about it.
- EVIDENCE 1: The textโs exposition features the event of a father and daughter waiting to cross a busy street, the narrator centralising on the way the father โgrip[s]โ his daughterโs hand.
- device/metalanguage - โexpositionโ
- features - [scene]
- โcentralisingโ and then quote
- [] is used to edit and make the quote make more sense.
- EXPLAIN 1: The intensity of the verb choice conveys the desperation of the father to protect his daughter and the text reveals the gesture gives the father the โcertainty that โshe is safeโ, communicating the fatherโs desire to fulfill his role as a parent in emotionally and physically protecting his child.
- intensity conveys [idea]: desperation of the father
- bad use of quotation marks, might be a typo mistake?
- EVIDENCE 2: The text continues to delineate the future experiences of the daughter through the anaphora of โshe willโ.
- EXPLAIN 2: The high modality of the future tense verb connoting the powerlessness of any person who attempts to stop her future, including the father.
- apparently modality means a word that convey something is likely e.g. โshouldโ โcouldโ โwouldโ
- in this case, the high modality word is will
- EVIDENCE 3: The text further reveals in its portrayal of the daughterโs future in which she is getting married that her father will have to do the one thing he never really wanted to do and โlet go of her handโ,
- good quotations, quotations are short but explanations for the quote are longer (blah blah reveals in its portrayal blah blah her father will have to do the one thing), this is nice to tie it into the explanation below
- EXPLAIN 3: the inevitability in the verbial choice conveys a sense of grief on the fatherโs part. The anecdotal tone constructing the daughterโs hypothetical future experiences in the elongated sentence structure implies a sense of empowerment in the abundance of experiences she will undertake as a result of growing up.
- verbial choice is NOT a word, but it is the choice of verbsโฆ
- use lexical choice or diction
- anecdotal - based on what we see rather than proven facts
- verbial choice is NOT a word, but it is the choice of verbsโฆ
- EVIDENCE 4 + EXPLAIN 4 (?): The contrast between the nostalgia of the father who in โletting goโ literally and figuratively sacrificing the power he has to protect his daughter and the empowerment of the daughter through the suggestion of inevitable and unique life experiences conveys the bittersweet perspective of the father which is the process of graving up is of greater difficulty for the parent than the child.
structure seems to be thrown out the window in exchange for a more effective analysis of the text, instead of the popular bp1, bp2 structure, author did it all in 1bp