2014 HSC English Advanced Short Answers

a. Sherry Turkle expresses in her book cover how modern society relies on
technology to belong to the rest of society. She paradoxically expresses
this in her book title, Alone Together showing how we feel like we are
together by being alone. This is further exemplified by putting pictures of
people looking at their phones and placing them all over the cover
highlighting how much our society relies on technology to belong to
society
b. Moved to Fitzroy in 1989 .. Where I landed in my skin hyperbolically
endorses her connection to Fitzroy. The author also further highlights using
truncated sentences, But I loved living in them emotively expressing her
connection to Fitzroy Rainbow Houses. Furthermore, towards the end of
the passage she changes to a negative tone when talking about the
suburbs, I (she) felt, poor, ripped off and oppressed further showing how
she felt as if she belonged to Fitzroy Rainbow Houses
c. The author has created a strong sense of place in his story using truncated
sentences at the beginning, This blue, indolent town. Its cats. Its pale sky
visually endorses how he feels connected to the place in which he is at the
point of time in the story, however at this point he has a negative opinion.
Nevertheless, towards the end, he begins to have a positive opinion on the
new town, the click is a pleasing sound auditorily and emotively
expresses how he is beginning to enjoy the new place. This is furthermore
expressed using visual imagery, the gravel, small as peas, moves beneath
my feet the perfume of the town also further endorses how he is
starting to have a positive view on the town showing his negative sense of
place changing to a positive sense of place.
d. The relationship between people and communities are well endorsed in
Text 2

Text 2 highlights the narrators feelings in two towns and comparatively

expresses how the community with which he is in greatly affects him. He
spends the first 20 years in Reservoir but ironically, Fitzroy was where I
(he) really grew up . Where I landed in my skin in which the
personification shows that he felt more connected to Fitzroy. Furthermore,
he states her opinion on Fitzroy Rainbow Houses, But I loved living in
them. The creaking boards ironically and emotively expressing how
even though the conditions were poor, he cared about the community, I
lived with three guys . We chained our bikes to the front fence using an
anecdote the author further expresses how he cared more his community.
Moreover, he also has great memories of that time emotively expresses