Language A: language and literature Internal Assessment

Student outline form

Global issue: I’d like to address generational poverty, and how severe class divide forces the
poor to repeatedly face difficult, but uncontrollable situations.

Texts chosen
Literary work: Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood (2003), p. 21-22
Non-literary body of work: “Parasite” film directed by Bong Joon-ho (2019), 1:33:10-1:35:59

Notes for the oral (maximum of 10 bullet points):

- Neologism: “Plebeians”, Ancient Roman=low birth, security. Metaphor: Kings,

castles, barrier, physical-social (27-32). Imagery (2-4). Parallelism: Desperate =
immoral choices (10). Colloquial diction (11). Idiom: “loose-change” =
insignificance. OrganInc Personification + Anaphora: unsafe (26).
- Oryx (98): flashback, child-prostitute, sell(never return), poverty. Simile:
powerlessness, class divide, emotional toll
- HotTotts (64): neologism, alibooboo.com, “Alibaba and the Forty Thieves”, “filthy
Western currency” (stoning, child-pornography).
- BlyssPluss (247): Poor, no-consent, sex-clinics, Irony: “They don’t even know what
they’re taking”

- Themes: class-struggle, rich-poor divide. Thunderstorm, destroyed home (26-shots).

Facial expressions: fear, hopelessness, vulnerability, eye-level
- Low-key lighting = uncertain atmosphere. Hierarchy: High-angle close-up shot:
water, depressed-areas, “really sad element of that sequence”. White sneakers.
- Toilet, cigarettes (luxury). Low-angle shot: low ceiling: confined, cope
- Secret basement family. Elevation stairs = status. Low-end lightbulbs: technical,
aesthetic. Lighting + Composition, opportunities.
- Families fight, desperate for serving job, better than honest pizza, opportunities.
- False hope (546-years): escape poverty. Transition: fantasy. Same angles +
framing -> square-one.