1a) Feedback:

 remember Southern Gothic is different to Australian Gothic

 intro must improve and needs to include the conventions and ideas
 need to avoid jumping to conclusions and instead further improve setting up the
what the conventions are and the ideas
 work on embedding of evidence
 central ideas
 need to link paragraphs to the question

b) 1. The 1960s was a time of increased social mobility, meaning people from previously
lower socioeconomic backgrounds had more opportunities to gain higher status and
accumulate wealth (good context of the settings time)

2.this glimpse of opportunity for previously lower? working class people and even women to
be able to get a higher education and climb the social and economic ranks was sought to be
too good to miss. (great expression used and great context)

3. Tom also acts as a fort to the other male characters in the text who embody more
traditional, patriarchal views of gender roles

f) re write this paragraph: Despite the two text's differences, both exhibit the southern
gothic conventions of off-kilter and outcasted characters and the loss of innocence to a
certain degree causing the readers to speculate the central ideas of the texts. from a very
early age, the character Kya, from Where the Crawdads Sing can be seen facing many
situations that lead to a loss of innocence, these including the domestic abuse she and her
family faced from her father, the abandonment by her entire family and later in life feeling
so threatened she felt the need to murder someone. an example from the film of this loss of
innocence can be seen with Kya subtly referencing her murder of Chase Andrews and can be
quoted saying "And that sometimes, for prey to live, the predator must die", she states this
as she is the metaphorical prey and Chase is the metaphorical predator, due to his actions of
attempted rape and trashing Kya's, that of which lead up to his own demise at the hand of
Kya. In Jasper Jones, clear themes of outcasts are present through the character Jasper
Jones, and Aboriginal boy, that of which is racially discriminated against by the town people
and hence lives out in the bush of Corrigan for the majority of his life, and the occasional
stay at home with his abusive father much like Kya's in Where the Crawdads Sing, and the
lack of a mother figure. A clear example of Jasper being outcasted is when Charlie narrates
"He's a thief, a liar, a thug, a truant... He's the rotten model that parents hold aloft as a
warning". This quote is a powerful example of the discrimination that Jasper is faced with
and therefore leading hum to be an outcast. This evidence helps a reader to understand and
be informed of the gothic conventions evident in both the novel and the film that are used
to convey central ideas.