Week 20 Homework

Vocabulary Building
Subjective (example): The taste of a dish is subjective to an individual’s likes and dislikes.

Writing Task
Textual Grounding Situated in the genre of Bildungsroman, Auster narrates the psychological
development of the persona and how imagination empowers children to access
different realms under the pressuring mundanity of life.
Analytical statement 2 Auster successfully employs anthropomorphism where the persona imagines
“scissors could walk” and “smallest objects were endowed with beating
hearts” to vividly illustrate the extent of which imagination compels children
from the monotonous reality to an exhilarating realm where objects are
imbued with spiritual essence.
Analytical statement Furthermore, the composer intertextually alludes to children’s fairytales
3 where “it seemed perfectly credible that a cow could jump over a moon… a
dish could run away with a spoon” to powerfully encapsulate how it aids in
creative exploration and provide children with a supplement for emotional
intelligence.
Reader reflection Readers are thus invited into a persona’s creative interiority and how man’s
childhood imagination still lingers behind our matured self through nostalgic
memories.
Linking statement Ultimately, through the manipulation of language, Auster effectively captures
childhood imagination as exhilarating and illuminating as an approach to
nonconformist dimensions and realms.