Thursday, 30 April 2015

Okwonko Character Analysis

The main character in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart Okwonko, is a complex character that was created in order to further enforce the themes in the novel. He is portrayed as a tragic character with his major flaw being his inability to accept change and weakness. This was a result of his father's failure and lack of strength and success in their community. He did not want to follow this path and instead was fully directed to becoming strong...

Sunday, 19 April 2015

An African Voice Discussion Takeaway

Chinua Achebe's interview, "An African Voice," provides great insight on the impact of his literature as well as the ideas behind his work. When assessing Achebe's replies, we can infer many things about the implications of the literature in this field. One of the most interesting concepts that were discussed in this interview was that of a "universal civilization". During the discussion, we looked at the idea of our worldwide community becoming...

Friday, 3 April 2015

Paper One Practice – Political Speech Analysis

Text Link The text I will be analyzing is a political speech by Adolf Hitler, which was delivered in January 1940 at the Berlin Sportspalast. We know this text is a speech because it uses second person in order to address the audience. Further, as it is a text spoken by a political leader, Adolf Hitler, we can further ensure that it is a speech. This speech is directed towards Hitler’s “comrades” as mentioned in the speech repeatedly, however...