There have been various texts I have been reading, coming across a broad range of topics and types for example articles, newspapers, books,poems and documentaries/films, some of which share in common of the same genre or idea; identity. One of my latest and the eighth text of the diary entry,(the last one) is a poem which explores the theme of identity. I will place this poem down below and explain briefly how effective this really is. The poem is called, ”Presents from my aunt in Pakistan.”The poem is down below:

Presents From My Aunts In Pakistan

As we delve more and more into our English lessons,  we discover more inside this book. We have only read the 1st chapter of this book and we are getting more and more curious. We are now answering a collection of questions adjoined with this topic. There have been many questions, most of which asking of the father’s so mysterious job. It is about a boy named Bruno who is now moving houses due to his father’s job which in fact catches the readers’s attention and makes them read on to find out what the answer of all this drama is going to be. As a class, we discussed key events that have occurred so far including the number of questions. Secondly, we drew a circle to show the respect between the characters that have come up in this story so far. It makes the reader curious and inquisitive.

What make the reader curious:

The reader will be first fascinated by the amount of questions that the mother is dodging. She has been asked many questions by her son Bruno yet she seems to be skipping all of them without an accurate, full answer. This is quite suspicious and gets Bruno stirring to actually be more drived, passionate to find a good answer.

The book I am reading for this project was the Percy Jackson’s series. I have only read both of the first two books of the series yet it is a truly captivating story, both of them. They have an intriguing plot which immediately catches the reader’s attention and don’t want to leave the book on the table unless all of it is finished. It follows the life of young boy, Percy Jackson, as he struggles through hardship of surviving monsters and creatures as he is the son of Poseidon, one of the big three main gods. He meets new friends while making enemies but every book always ends with a twist that puts the story back onto its head. Secondly, he goes on different missions all which seem impossible yet manages to complete it. One, will he be able to rescue Zeus’s lightning bolt from the clutches of Hades in time before Zeus commits world war 3? Another, can he rescue his friend and get the Golden Fleece before the world of half-gods will all be revealed? I have now moved onto a series by Philip Pullman, starting with the Northern lights.

Questions for the poem:

1. What made you write this poem? Who inspired you?
2. Does the poem relate to your recent experiences?
3. Does it express your feelings to how the mountain is?
4. What language features are used in this poem? What are their effects?

What the poem is about?

There are many words that I have not yet understood about this poem. It is a poem of mystery that is very vague and silent.This poem is short yet powerful with many language features. The background is probably about someone’s experience of the mountains and what they feel of it especially of their feelings and emotions. One example of a language feature is repetition but also alliteration. A thought that conveys this is” Full of threats, full of thunders.” This tells us of how probably it is quite intimidating, threatening and scary. There are two f’s and is repeating”full.” It is a very deep poem with many thoughts.

Today, we made predictions(hypothesis) on the start of the new book,”The boy in striped pyjamas.” We predicted on what we would find in the plot in later lessons and work together reading through it. We looked at three pieces of evidence- the two boys with only half of their face seen, the dirty pyjamas and the blurb at the back of the book. I have drawn to the conclusion that there is a nine year old boy called Bruno whom follows a journey from his home to the later concentration camp or prison. I think he is Jewish which is associated to the world war 2 and how they were judged.There were specific questions that we had to answer in order to gather up our evidence and make a prediction. There are many important questions I have picked out and answered.

Q:Why do you think we have not been allowed to see his whole face?

A:We have not been allowed to see his whole face to remain secret and keep it as a mystery. Also it makes the reader engage within the questions and get them inquisitive to move and go on reading the story.

Q:Barbed wire.Why?

A:The barbed wire is to show that someone might have probably smuggled it. Also to show that life in concentration camp is torture and brutal.Secondly, it might show what the fence is like.

It had been days since I had drank a single ml of water.It felt like more;more than my whole life ever lasted. Clouds gathered around me; there was something wrong. I was being encaged in my own cage; that felt different and wrong surely. Every footstep I took, made me think more and more of how I missed my family especially my mother and father. Footsteps were like the cracks of twigs, sunrise to sunset was as if it lasted my whole life. I could only contemplate whether or not I would get out of the mountains safely let alone climb it.