Language A: language and literature Internal Assessment

Student outline form

Global issue:
Impact of child molestation on their metal health

Texts chosen
Literary work: The kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Non-literary body of work: Spot it, stop it campaign poster by UNICEF
 Notes for the oral (maximum of 10 bullet points):

1. The kite runner explores the difficulties of developing into an adult relationship with your
parents while simultaneously exploring ideas about the human capacity for good and evil, and
the relationship between sin, forgiveness, and atonement.
2. The physical seizure is quite prominently scene through Sohrabs behaviour in the past few
instances as well as further in line 19 when Amir tries again to hold Sohrab while explaining
him that he was not full of sin and dirty as Sohrab mentioned about being full of sin and dirty
due to being raped from lines 10-18.
3. The author has used foreshadowing as a literary device as Amir does not want Sohrab to
put him back at the orphanage and knows that he won’t react positively because of how
emotionally affected he was as he offers to take Sohrab back to America in line 32.
4. Sohrab is innocent and brave, the fact that his innocence was taken away against his will
shows that he had no power to claim over his human rights and as a result he was emotionally
traumatized.
5. Attempt of Suicide
6. The campaign commenced on 16 July 2022 and seeks to address the normalization of
violence by creating a grassroots movement that encourages everyone to take responsibility
for children’s wellbeing and champion their right to be protected from violence.
7. In response to the significant experience and threat of violence faced by children in Kenya,
UNICEF and the Department of Children’s Services (under the Ministry of Labour and Social
Protection) developed the Spot it! Stop it! Campaign, a social and behaviour change
communication intervention that supports Kenya’s costed VAC National Prevention and
Response Plan in Kenya 2019-2023.
8. The image is of an adult abusing his power over a child and the response of the child being
resistance and looking away.
9. I need protection which considers being supported mentally, physically
10. Both the texts talk about the transition form childhood innocence to atrocities committed
against the children like slavery, sexual abuse and violence and its impact on mental health.