Satirical comics Analysis

1. What is the event or issue that inspired the cartoon? That everyone is becoming more and more distracted by all the new technology that we can't see what's going on around us
2. Are there any real known personalities depicted in the cartoon? Even if this is not the case, what type of person is being depicted? The average person is being depicted because everyone has been distracted enough to not hear what someone else says. There aren't really any personalities being depicted
3. Are there symbols and/or signifiers in the cartoon? What are they and what do you think they represent? There aren't really any signifiers or symbols in the cartoon.
4. What do you think the cartoonist's opinion is about the topic? Do you think it is his alone or expresses the view of the publisher too? Why? I think its everyone's view, because we can all relate to a point in time where this has happened to us (not getting replaced, being distracted) and I think that the author shows this in a very clear way.
5. Do you agree with the cartoonist's opinion? Why?? The author doesn't really express an opinion but if it was what i think it was, that we are getting to distracted by things around us to see what is right in front of us, then yes, i do agree and if we keep this up we will end up missing something really important.

Satire

Picture no.?                            why it made me laugh?                                       techniques?

10                                           Its over exaggerating things that                        exaggeration

                                               don't really matter in prep and                          incongruity

                                              highlights the ridiculousness of report

                                              cards in prep schools

15                                        It shows the exaggeration of the military                 Exaggeration

                                             guy shouting at Hicks, the small guy,

                                             for training terrorists when the big guy is

                                             holding rockets and warheads  

19                                         Its funny because its a short comic with                Stereotypes

                                             which a little girl states that only girls can

                                             carry purses whereas boys carry briefcases.

                                             Its playing on gender roles where boys carry

                                              briefcases whereas girls carry briefcases                

Lessons from my school years

1. There is a stark contrast created in the opening of this story between what the narrator had been doing before entering school and what will be expected at school? What is this contrast and what does it immediately create in the story?The contrast is between the school and what people do there, and her parents fruit shop and what she does there. It immediately creates juxtaposition between what she will do at school compared to what she does at home.

2. The author continues this theme of contrast at the start of the story. How does he do this in his description of his experience of Sydney’s North Shore? He describes the fruit shop as clean and friendly and that there were streets out back and the train station behind that and he explains that he has become very familiar with his town. Whereas when he explains the school he says that its leafy and there are houses made of solid brick and that he doesn't belong there

3. What was the father’s background in business before he opened the fruit shop? What has helped him become successful? The book explains that the father came to Australia when he was seventeen and knew nothing about business and no English. Then to go from nothing to opening a fruit shop and becoming very successful, it shows that he has become successful.

4. The narrator’s description of his father is complex. What makes the father a complex character?The father is described as complex because he has many different aspects about him. He is 'happy, chatty, friendly', but is also a hard worker, as he had no business or English skills when he arrived in Australia

5. (91) How does the author describe his role in doing ‘things that counted’? He described his role in the family as he had to listen and watch what his siblings had to say about school in order to learn for himself what is acceptable and what isn't in a schooling life.
6. What experience does the author have at school while keeping to himself? What does he learn from this experience? He gets into trouble by keeping to himself. Its no just because he's a different race or colour, but also because he doesn't talk to anyone and keeps to himself.

7. How would you characterise the narrator’s tone in regards to the events that are occurring around him? He uses a mono tone, which is a single tone, meaning he sees the world in one major way which is that the world is a horrible place.

8. How does the narrator characterise the ways that one could ‘get the strap’ and ways that one could avoid it? He characterizes that the 'Strap' is very easy to get, but very hard to avoid. It was very easy to get the strap, mis-spelling a word, walking to slow/fast, and there was very few ways to avoid it

9. What event evokes a racist speech to the class by the teacher? The event was that there was a boy who couldn't swim, so his mom wrote a note excusing him from the carnival. The teacher read it out to the whole class and at the end said 'like Chinese people never contribute'

10. What effect did the author’s experience with ‘Strap Happy Jack’ have on him? It made him think about the minority of Asians in the area.

11. What was the one advantage school provided the author? That when he was going through high school some teachers saw some talents.

12. What did the author do at his school? What was his motivation for doing it? What did he feel was lacking at school? The author started a workshop program which he found interesting and enjoyable, and he felt that school was lacking the ability of him being able to choose his own future.

13. What did the parents want their son to do at school? What did the author fear would happen by obeying his parents? His parents wanted him to learn something of a specific profession, in this case a doctor, something which he hated and feared. The parents wanted him to learn what was being taught at school, and then what he wanted to learn after, which he feared he would miss if he followed his parents.

14. At school, what did the author learn about his own type of thinking and how to use it?He learned that his style of thinking is different and if he wanted to use it to its up most potential, then he has to do what he wants

Relative advantages of learning my language

1. The author opens the story with an anecdote. What is the anecdote and what effect does it have on the reader?

The anacdote is that when her grandfather sits down,, she says 'i hope he doesn't sit down'. It lets the reader know what the story is going to be about (grandfather) and that she was pretty harsh to her grandfather.

2. What is the author’s view of the Chinese language in the 2^nd paragraph? 

That its not needed very much when growing up in a English country.

 What is ironic about the inhabitants of this house?

3. What is symbolic about the house that the Grandfather mistakes for his own? What does it say about the assimilation of his family into Australian culture? What does it say about his understanding of Australian culture?

Its symbolizes the similarity in of living standards Australian culture. The Pakistani family symbolizes that other cultures also live the same as other cultures, ie. Chinese and Pakistani.

4. What does the death of her grandfather inspire the author to do? To learn Chinese again and realize that she should have listened to her grandfather a lot more than she has over the years.

5. Why is she motivated to know Chinese? What is it she wants to ensure she is able to, regretting that she couldn’t do it with her grandfather? She wants to be able to speak in Chinese so that the next time she meets a relative, she can listen to what they have to say in there native tongue.

Why does it matter 2-The year of the rooster- Bon-Wai Chou

In this story the author portrayed a very deep story about the stages of her father’s death in great detail.

The story started off by cutting to the chase. The second line in it states that her father has terminal cancer.  From the very beginning the story it could be seen as a very sad one, with the soft way the author writes and the calm way she thinks, the story could be seen as a very deep one. The author goes into the stages of her father’s death in great detail, examples of how his mind started to fade away, saying things out of context, out of line and not on the same topic at all. The honesty and detail that the author put into this, clearly stating how she felt and what he thought was very sad as for someone who hasn’t experienced death before could see that it was not a thing you want to experience.

The story was very confronting in a way that something so sad and happens to everyone is explained so clearly and detailed that it makes you feel cold. “He was in two minds; he didn’t want to stay but didn’t fell like going just yet”. The way the author writes that in a third person way makes the readers feel like they know how they feel and can feel that the pain that both the author and father feels. And finally, when her father dies, the way that she describes how she felt and what she was feeling and what she wanted to do was written so calmly that it made the reader feel sorry for her lose. The story gives readers an insight to what it feels like to lose someone at such a young age, and what you do to try make them happy and how happy it makes them to see them happy. She describes it in such a way that it makes the readers feel like they have experienced it. This story to me shows that even thought they are immigrants, and that they are of a different culture, their not so different in the way that they may look, speak and sound different, but they can still have family members die and that the pain that they feel from it is the same as if another Australian families dad died. They can still feel pain and hurt inside, even if they are different from us on the outside.

Why does it matter-The courage of soldiers

This story is based off what life is like living in one of those families which are mean and don't care what there children think. Its about a father who runs his children's lives. He doesn't let them out with friends and he doesn't let them get bad marks. If they do get bad marks, then they beat them. Then, the olders child, his daughter, runs away from home in her teens. Even though its onhat  a pretty sad and dark topic, i found it quiet a good read. I didn't want to put the book down until I finished the story.
It makes you see that if you think your life is bad, there is someone else out there who's is worse. While reading it I felt sorry for the author. She put a lot of detail in the story explaining what it was like, how she felt and what she thought about what she had done. I think you should read it because it is a good story detailing about what it would be like to live in one of those stereotypical Asian families where you have to do well in you exams and your studies or else you will get in heaps of trouble.

My first kiss

1. How does the author describe Malaysia in regards to showing affection? its censored, it doesn't show people kiss in public and all in all not a very affectionate place.

2. What happens to the author when she hits puberty? She lost her footing in her tom-boy world,  her dynamics of he r male playmates changed.

3. What is the author’s experience at school when she first arrives to Melbourne? The only people who approached her were the other overseas Asians. None of the white kids took interest in her.

4. What is it that made the author feel that she wasn’t Australian even though she spoke English fluently? She went to the ESL class, English Second Language, with all the other overseas people.

5. What else was it about the author that further alienated her from her peers? The fact that she was still Asian and still referenced her self as a tom-boy. All her characteristics were different. The way she talked, she never said g'day or anything like that.

6. What does the use of description like ‘crash hot’ do to the audience’s perception of the author?

7. What opportunity does university give the author? What is it about university which would allow her to express herself more freely?

8. What role does creativity play for the author? Why do you think that creativity would be so important to her?