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  • 08-05-2008 1:01am
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    Registered Users Posts: 549 ✭✭✭


    how many texts are you comparing? Our teacher is having us do 3 when lots and lots of people seem to be doing just 2

    We're doing:
    wuthering heights,
    strictly ballroom and
    philadelphia here i come

    some other students who are getting grinds (which is many of them) have had grinds teachers tell them to forget about wuthering heights because it's too difficult. I have no intention to forget about it because it gives me more to write about something I've never written anything about before yet so yerrrr..

    What do people think?


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  • Registered Users Posts: 8,011 ✭✭✭cHaTbOx


    we're doin three

    philadelphia here i come(i think a lot of people are doin it)
    cinema paradiso
    boyhood

    its seems ok just need to do one out on each over next couple of days ,get corrected ,improve and learn.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,056 ✭✭✭claire h


    With doing 2 there's a risk of limiting which questions you can do, though, isn't there? Some of them specifically ask you to write about one and then compare two others... doing 3 gives you a lot more choice, and more to write about.


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,851 ✭✭✭PurpleFistMixer


    There are some questions where you've to compare at least 2, so you could get away with only studying 2. But 3 texts means you've got more to talk about, more to compare, you wont need to know the texts in as much detail. Just makes it easier I figure, if you've already studied them in school like.

    We're doing...
    Lies of Silence
    The Truman Show
    The Crucible.
    Don't know the Crucible too well at all, but apparently because it's the third text we don't need to know it inside out.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,584 ✭✭✭Diarmsquid


    We're doing the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, The Truman Show and The Crucible.

    Theme of deception. There's loads to talk about.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 861 ✭✭✭KeyLimePie


    We studied

    How Many Miles to Babylon
    The Truman Show
    My Left Foot
    Philidelphia Here I Come
    :)

    Haven't decided what 3 I'm gonna use in the exam though


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  • Registered Users Posts: 4,944 ✭✭✭Jay P


    We're doing three:

    Philadelphia, Here I Come!
    Jane Eyre
    And either Cinema Parradiso or The Truman Show


  • Registered Users Posts: 83,535 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    The only thing Wuthering Heights did right was make me feel like it really did take 30 years to read through it all.

    really though if youve read it at all its easy enough to grasp


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,851 ✭✭✭PurpleFistMixer


    Diarmsquid wrote: »
    the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
    Such an annoying book.

    Though my class has come to the conclusion that The Crucible is crap, of course we're not going to go criticising Miller in the LC but come on man, what's with the "4 months later..." in the middle?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 241 ✭✭thatone!


    We're doing philadelphia, How many miles to babylon and cinema paradiso
    Have to say cinema paradiso is the best movie I have ever seen :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 787 ✭✭✭bUILDERtHEbOB


    thatone! wrote: »
    We're doing philadelphia, How many miles to babylon and cinema paradiso
    Have to say cinema paradiso is the best movie I have ever seen :)

    OMFG I'm doing them 3 as well.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 118 ✭✭glenn3ie


    This is a great question because u know it before u go in..

    It'll either be:

    "Write about a theme or issue in the texts you have studied"

    "Write about the cultural context in the texts you have studied"

    Or

    "Write about literary genre....."

    we're just doing cul. con. and theme or issue.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,492 ✭✭✭degausserxo


    We're doing three aswell; Cinema Paradiso, Purple Hibiscus and the Plough and the Stars.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,536 ✭✭✭Mark200


    Yeah we're also doing three....


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,173 ✭✭✭1huge1


    Philadelphia Here I come
    Old School
    The Truman Show

    great comparisons between the three, all about the main characters search for truth and a real life

    No one else doing Old School?, I like literary genre and theme and issue but not a huge fan of cultural context myself


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,011 ✭✭✭cHaTbOx


    Jay P wrote: »
    We're doing three:

    Philadelphia, Here I Come!
    Jane Eyre
    And either Cinema Parradiso or The Truman Show

    There is a lot of comparissons between Philadelphia, Here I Come! and cinema paradiso.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 232 ✭✭boobookitty


    - Strictly Ballroom
    - Philadelhpia, here I come

    - Lies of Silence

    I like the ones in blue, I hate Lies of Silence. PHIC and SB are my two best, so if the two part question is nice, I'll do them in (a) and LOS in (b).


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 37 ryanj


    do 3 texts - it means you get two comparisons per paragraph and you need 8 in total minimum so you can easily write on four paragraphs in your answer. if you used two texts you would have to write 8 paragraphs


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,632 ✭✭✭SligoBrewer


    We're doing Philadelphia, Here I Come
    The Plough and the Stars
    and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime.

    All three very good texts.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 232 ✭✭boobookitty


    ryanj wrote: »
    do 3 texts - it means you get two comparisons per paragraph and you need 8 in total minimum so you can easily write on four paragraphs in your answer. if you used two texts you would have to write 8 paragraphs

    I'll do that, thanks!

    How many quotes are required? Is it something like 1 quote for each point? :o


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,251 ✭✭✭The Walsho


    I'll do that, thanks!

    How many quotes are required? Is it something like 1 quote for each point? :o

    Quotes aren't as important here as in the Othello question. I personally just put them in where I see appropriate or when a good, relevant one comes to mind.

    My three texts are :
    Wuthering Heights
    Plough and the Stars
    12 Angry Men

    I don't mind them. While WH was a little difficult, I find it useful for the comparative question because it's so vast.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 5,851 ✭✭✭PurpleFistMixer


    We were told we didn't need any quotes for the comparative. o.O


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 33 anie_bawny


    We've done phidelphia here i come,the trumann show and the secret life of bees.Major problem though,,we have only done theme so far and still have two poets left to do with just 4 days of school left.I've come to accept that we arnt going to do any more on the comparative....any advice anyone,because i havnt a clue of cultural context or literary genre,we havnt even touched on it!:eek:


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,173 ✭✭✭1huge1


    We were told we didn't need any quotes for the comparative. o.O
    Well you don't need too many at all from my understanding, well not like the single text at all anyway


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8 Raichu-17-08-2008


    We're doing
    • Strictly Ballroom
    • The Plough and the Stars
    • How Many Miles To Babylon.
    I'm not sure about the quotes though, so I always stick one in where I think it's relevant..


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16 Steveo12345youg


    Would u say it will end up Theme or issue/ Cultural Context????????


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8 Raichu-17-08-2008


    I'm leaning towards more Lit Gen and Theme or Issue rather than Cultural Context..


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,796 ✭✭✭GERMAN ROCKS


    we are doing
    the curious incident of the dog in the nightime
    strictly ballroom
    old school


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,005 ✭✭✭kirving


    Our teached said that were should refer to all three texts over the entire answer. We don't have to write about them all equally, or compare all three for each point we make, but all three are supposed to be in the answer.

    Im doing the theme of "a young mans journey to self discovery" using
    • Philadelphia, Here I Come
    • Strictly Ballroom
    • The Curious Incident of the Dong in the Night-time

    It's easy enough once you have the basic points.


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,173 ✭✭✭1huge1


    Our teached said that were should refer to all three texts over the entire answer. We don't have to write about them all equally, or compare all three for each point we make, but all three are supposed to be in the answer.

    Im doing the theme of "a young mans journey to self discovery" using
    • Philadelphia, Here I Come
    • Strictly Ballroom
    • The Curious Incident of the Dong in the Night-time

    It's easy enough once you have the basic points.
    Same theme as mine basically

    Mans journey to self discovery

    but im doing

    Philadelphia Here I come
    The Truman Show
    Old School


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  • Registered Users Posts: 5,534 ✭✭✭Dman001


    Philadelphia, Here I come
    The Truman Show
    The Curious incident

    Is there any websites that give any help and tips on the comparative?


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