Day: 26 February 2016

Chris McCandless and Carine McCandless

1a. Chris was talented with the french horn.

1b. Chris quit playing the french horn because he didn’t want to sit next to his sister. He also didn’t like the rules.

1c. Chris and Carine spent hours building forts out of cushions.

1d. Chris and Carine held each others’ hand as they walked down the street.

2a. the detail in the text that suggest Chris disliked authority because he decided to leave the band.

2b. Carine says she wants to “be like Chris” this suggest she looks up to him and sees him as a role model and has a lot of love for him.

2c. Carine says “no way he is going to sit behind his damn sister” this suggest that he looks down on her and should be respected more than his little sister.

2d. Carine says Chris would “hold my hand down the street.” This suggests that Chris is protective and cares about Carine very much and doesn’t want to let her go.

3. the first thing i learnt form chapter 11 is that

English work

1a. Jon Krakauer had climbed ” nearly seven hundred “, since he stopped off the glacier.

1b. Jon Krakauer says that “the rime was plastered over the rock to a thickness of two or three feet ,so I kept plugging upwards.” This shows that Jon krakauer had the confidence to climb the mountain.

1c. The frost feathers was 5 inches thick . This suggest that the ice was weak and there is a risk of getting killed .

1d. Jon krakauer hat to climb back down the mountain simply because he couldn’t go any further. Due to the ice being to thin. And he had nothing to cling on to.

2a.

Drama hw 1

  • The distancing effect, more commonly known (earlier) by John Willett’s 1964 translation the alienation effect or (more recently) as the estrangement effect (German: Verfremdungseffekt), is a performing arts concept coined by playwright Bertolt Brecht. Brecht first used the term in an essay on “Alienation Effects in Chinese Acting” published in 1936, in which he described it as “playing in such a way that the audience was hindered from simply identifying itself with the characters in the play. Acceptance or rejection of their actions and utterances was meant to take place on a conscious plane, instead of, as hitherto, in the audience’s subconscious”.my scene was about recruitedments couldn’t training properly or following instructions for example I wasn’t doing push ups properly. The general was shouting at us and trying to make us work harder then he made us stand up in a line but we couldn’t do it then the scene ended

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Drama hw 4

Talk about how the character of the FOREMAN would be performed according to his motivation and objectives.
The Forman’s motivation would be fear . He knows that if he didn’t get the work done in time he’d die. The Forman is the head of the building operation but still a builder himself . But because he’s the head and in charge it’s his fault if the wall isn’t build in time . So he only wants to finish the wall to get paid and keep on breathings as if the wall isn’t ready in time he’s dead . I would portray the foreman as a person who moves a lot and rushing his men to working . As well as nervous and scared around his superiors . I would hope that the audience would think of him as a jumpy character never relaxing and always moving . Hopefully they would learn from the scene that he is worried , scared and anxious