The+Messenger+by+Markus+Zusak

= = =The Messenger by Markus Zusak=

Protect the Diamonds Survive The Clubs Dig Deep Through the Spades Feel the Hearts

And what of the joker?

Here is the worksheet for holiday homework
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=Here is the worksheet for Thursday's Lessons 1 and 2. If finished read the above interview with Markus Zusak.= ==

This table was created by Ms Grear and will help you in this unit:
Ed’s Messages - Revision

He is loved || Beauty & purity || Better friendship || =**Summative Assessment**=
 * || Character || What Ed Gives || What Ed Gets ||
 * || DIAMONDS ||  ||   ||
 * PROTECTION || Milla || Company, love and closure || Confidence to face Edgar St.
 * ^  || Sophie || Freedom and confidence || Confidence to face Edgar St.
 * ^  || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edgar St. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Safety and caring || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Confidence – physical and mental, toughness ||
 * |||||| <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">CLUBS ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">BELONGING || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Father O’Reilly || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Parish, community & brother || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Lust for life, faith in himself ||
 * ^  || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Angie Caruso || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Something of her own & belonging in her own family || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Satisfaction ||
 * ^  || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Gavin Rose || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Unity and brotherhood || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Physical confidence through sacrifice ||
 * |||||| <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">SPADES ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">DIGGING DEEP || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Tatupa Family || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Christmas lights – something little that meant a lot || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Family love, appreciation of simple things & beauty ||
 * ^  || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ma || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Chance to be honest about her feelings for Ed || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Truth about his Ma’s view of himself and family secrets ||
 * ^  || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Bernie || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">To relive his youth for a moment || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A date with Audrey ||
 * || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">HEARTS ||  ||   ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">LOVE/ FRIENDSHIP/ FEELINGS || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ritchie || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Self-honesty, motivation (“to want”) || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Self-honesty,
 * ^  || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Marv || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Courage & chance to be more emotionally open. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Satisfaction of seeing friend happy & a deeper friendship ||
 * ^  || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Audrey || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Allow herself to love || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">To be loved by Audrey ||

Option A
<span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">Zusak references many other texts in his novel //The Messenger.// In an 800 word essay, discuss the significance of a minimum of 3 literary allusions to the development of some ideas and themes in the novel.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">In your essay you must:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">Identify what you consider to be the important literary allusions, and explain why Zusak has included these texts.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">Follow the correct structure and conventions of an analytical essay
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">Use references from the text to support your ideas
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">Write in an accurate and fluent style.

Here are some of the literary allusions in the novel: > //Ben Hur//
 * films such as //Cool Hand Luke, See no Evil, Hear no evil, Stir Crazy,//
 * authors such as Grahame Green, Morris West, James Joyce (//Ulysses//), Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, and Emily Bronte (//Wuthering Heights//)
 * songs about challenge by Bob Dylan (//The Hurricane, Oxford Town//, etc.), The Beatles (//Eight Days a Week//), Bon Jovi (//You Give Love a Bad Name)//
 * poetry by Sylvia Plath,

Here is a list of all the allusions in the novel:
Artists: Bob Dylan Salvador Dali Joan of Arc Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder (Stir Crazy, See No Evil, Hear No Evil) Jimi Hendrix Raskolnikov The Proclaimers “Five Hundred Miles” David Helfgott The Ramones The Beatles Stories/Authors: Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights Sylvia Plath: Bell Jar Morris West: The Clowns of God Graham Greene: The Power and the Glory James Joyce: Ulysses Shakespeare: Macbeth

Movies: Cool Hand Luke: Paul Newman Mr. Roberts (musical) The Dirty Dozen: Lee Marvin The Suitcase: Pablo Sanchez Ben-Hur Chariots of Fire Cat Ballou
 * Roman Holiday: Audrey Hepburn **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Here are some of the important themes and ideas we have studied in class with quotes to support:
//**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The meaning and value of aspirations **// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ed thinks he’s a ‘nobody’. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">'Now you’re somebody Ed.’ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">‘You’re a dead man.’

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">‘You can kill a man with those words.’ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">'But he knows that Audrey has her reasons and that ‘she just can’t do that sort of thing with me.’ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">‘Believe it or not – it takes a lot of love to hate you like this.’
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//Love and the need to be selfless in love// **

//**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The need to break free from social class **// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">‘kind of like everyone’s dirty secret’ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">‘You don’t do that sort of thing around here.’ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">‘It’s not the place, I think. It’s the people.’

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">‘If I’m ever going to be okay, I’ll have to earn it.’ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">‘There’s only one thing I want…To want.’ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">‘I love the laughter of this night. Our footsteps run and I don’t want them to end … For now, just let us run. We run straight through the laughter of the night.’
 * //<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The need to enjoy life and accept its reality //**

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Option B
<span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">Choose a novel and film adaptation OR a text that has close links to //The Messenger// by Markus Zusak and write an 800 word essay that explores the connections between the texts.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">Identify the significant relationships between the texts - characters, themes, settings, contexts, style
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">Demonstrate a sound understanding of the texts
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">Use references from the texts to support your ideas
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">Follow the correct structure and conventions for an analytical essay