HL English - Comparative

cautioner

I'll be blunt: I'm not ecstatic about my teacher's choice for the Comparative (in particular the novel(or in my case the anthology of short stories:mad:)) and I was just wondering what others were doing. I don't have the balls to ask him for the list of texts; he'll know that I'm implying a distaste of his choice.

So I'm doing:

Philadelphia, Here I Come - Brian Friel
Inside I'm Dancing - Damien O'Donnell
My Oedipus Complex - Frank O' Connor

ryanj

you can find a link for this at

http://www.education.ie/robots/view.jsp?pcategory=17216&language=EN&ecategory=17313&subject=17601

JSK 252

Cinema Paradiso - Giuseppe Torratore
Philadelphia Here I Come - Brian Friel
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night time - Mark Haddon

cautioner

Sweet. Never was one for the obvious answer, me.

insinkerator

I wasnt too happy with my teachers choice eiither... we did How Many Miles To Babylon, a book that was rccomende to my cousin as reccomended summer reading, for going into first year:(

Stil tho, it fit like a glove onto our themes...

smndly

insinkerator wrote: »

I wasnt too happy with my teachers choice eiither... we did How Many Miles To Babylon, a book that was rccomende to my cousin as reccomended summer reading, for going into first year:(

Stil tho, it fit like a glove onto our themes...

How do you mean "themes". Your only supposed to answer on one theme in the leaving cert so studying more than one is entirely pointless!!!

insinkerator

apologies, i was generalising and answering without thinking.... by themes, i meant Cultural Context, Theme and Literary Genre

KnifeWRENCH

insinkerator wrote: »

I wasnt too happy with my teachers choice eiither... we did How Many Miles To Babylon, a book that was rccomende to my cousin as reccomended summer reading, for going into first year:(

Stil tho, it fit like a glove onto our themes...

I remember doing that book. Very simple and very boring (although the ending was pretty good.)
I didn't mind though because it was so easy to answer on!

OP if you're not happy with your teachers choices, you could always study other choices from the list yourself at home. I was gonna provide the link, but ryanj got in there first!

Aisling(",)

novel:jane eyre
film:the truman show(i think)
play:philadelphia here i come

were doing the journey of self discovery.

phasers

I'm not doing a film. We were meant to be doing strictly ballroom but just as we were going to start it the English department changed their minds.

So I'm doing:
Philadelphia, Here I come!
How many miles to Babylon
and My Oedipus complex

Not overly thrilled with this tbh

bythewoods

I'm a repeat.. so last year I did:
Philadelphia, Here I Come!
Cinema Paradiso
How Many Miles to Babylon?

Pretty boring texts, really quite easy to answer on though.

According to my new English teacher, "How Many Miles to Babylon?" is off the syllabus this year?
(Check that one out phasers)
So I'm doing "My Oedipus Complex" instead.

OP- I think your choice is good. The texts don't have to be in any way interesting, etc- as long as you can whack out a good few comparisons.
I was really disgruntled about doing an Italian film last year and was going to try do My left Foot on my own.. worked out a lot easier to do the same as the rest of my class.

ironictoaster

Im doing

Philadelphia, Here I Come!
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night time
The Truman Show

I quite like that selection

Pigwidgeon

i'm doing:

Philadelphia, Here I Come!
The Grass is Singing
Strictly Ballroom

really don't like the grass is singing, still trying to get through reading it!

blue-army

I'm repeating this year and our English teacher said that we can do 'Philadelphia, Here I come!' as the single text. I'm 99% sure we can't! Does anyone know?

xOxSinéadxOx

I want to do the truman show! I love that film, stupid cinema paradiso

djcervi

I'm doing
The Speckled People
The Crucible
Inside I'm Dancing

crunchycorner

I'm doing:
Philadelphia, Here I Come
Strictly Ballroom
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Jay P

We're doing:
Cinama Paradiso - Very good moviw, but I know it's going to be over analysed and I'll never look at it again
Philadelphia Here I Come - Meh, kinda boring. Not the most interesting thing I've read
Jane Eyre - The biggest load of crap I've read in a long time, and I'm pretty open-minded about stuff, so I don't say "it's crap" lightly

Mallox

were doing
the crucible
the truman show and
the curious incident of the dog in the nitetime

there is a common theme in these 3 texts which is the search for truth .. im very happy with these texts

degausserxo

Cinema Paradiso, Purple Hibiscus and the Plough and the Stars.

irishmonkey

i thought the truman show was last years?
epic film tho. wich we were doing it!

We're doing "Inside I'm Dacing", "A Curious Incident(...)", and "Philadelphia, Here I Come"

JSK 252

JSK 252 wrote: »

Cinema Paradiso - Giuseppe Torratore
Philadelphia Here I Come - Brian Friel
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night time - Mark Haddon

i'm doin the exact same

implausible

blue-army wrote: »

I'm repeating this year and our English teacher said that we can do 'Philadelphia, Here I come!' as the single text. I'm 99% sure we can't! Does anyone know?

You can. Do you not think that your teacher would have checked, rather than let an entire class lose 60 marks?!

Fad

Philidelphia Here I Come,
Cinema Paradiso,
The Crucible.

Not a single novel, and a film i HATED thats in Italian FFS.

andyman

Philadelphia, Here I Come!
The Plough And The Stars
Cinema Paradiso

Piste

Heh seems most people are doing Philedelphia!

I'm doing Philedelphia, Strictly Ballroom and The Speckled People.

Rancidmaniac13

Im doing Philadelphia..., Cinema Paradiso and Regeneration by Pat Barker.

Does anybody understand why an ITALIAN film is on the ENGLISH course?

Jello

Inside I'm Dancing - not bad at all
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - loadda sh*te
The Crucible - as above

Insect Overlord

Jello wrote: »

Inside I'm Dancing - not bad at all
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - loadda sh*te
The Crucible - as above

One of the most influential books in the English language

K4t

cautioner wrote: »

Inside I'm Dancing - Damien O'Donnell

One of the best (and funniest) films I've ever seen. I'd love to get to watch that in class.

I'm doing

Old School - Superb book!
Phili Here I Come - Funny play, but it would probably help if we got to watch it, even on tv :rolleyes:
Cinema Paradiso - Haven't watched it in class, but I have it at home so I will watch it soon.

boobookitty

K4t wrote: »

One of the best (and funniest) films I've ever seen. I'd love to get to watch that in class.

I'm doing

Old School - Superb book!
Phili Here I Come - Funny play, but it would probably help if we got to watch it, even on tv :rolleyes:
Cinema Paradiso - Haven't watched it in class, but I have it at home so I will watch it soon.

LMAO. The film is absolutely horrible. It differs from the book in so many ways. Actors can't act and character descriptions are totally off.
We saw it in Cork once, it was great, it gave life to the characters and helped you understand them more.