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    #32
    Gloom
    Registered Users Posts: 516 ✭✭✭Gloom


    I saw it in Cork last year along with a school from Midleton. Private was great, the rest were meh. If I remember correctly, about 50% of the class (including the teachers!) ended up falling asleep because it was so bad.

    Thinking about the theme at the moment. Ours is parent/child relationship or more specifically "father/son". How is it broken down and what would be the main points? (My Oedipus Comples / PHIC / Strictly Ballroom)


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    #33
    cautioner
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    I'm doing the same theme, except with Inside I'm Dancing instead of Strictly Ballroom.
    When comparing between MOC and PHIC I'd usually mention that in both cases (ie Gar + SB/Mick + Larry) father and son share a frosty, if not hostile relationship at the beginning of the texts. In both cases, revelations are made to the reader that, if known to the characters, would strengthen or improve that relationship. Mick is as jealous of the new baby as Larry is. We find out that Gar and SB both secretly love each other and treasure fond memories of each other. The difference is that in MOC the characters do learn of their shared enmity with baby Sonny, basically resolving their differences, whereas in PHIC, neither Gar nor SB can adequately express their emotion and the situation remains unresolved.
    Sorry if that's a bit messy, sometimes I lack coherence.


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    #34
    9wetfckx43j5rg
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    PHIC
    Strictly Ballroom
    The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime.

    We only really started this now. We're dong cultrual context and father/son relentionship however she leaving Curious until after the mocks so we dont have a option of whch question to answer in the mock we have to do the 70 marks so we can only use 2 texts.

    As for the two text three text argument, the 70 mark question will only ever ask for at leat two texts whch means they cannont dock you marks for not incorporating a third. The two part question insists you bring in the third however.


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