Related Texts for belonging. (1 Viewer)

[willchayz]

Hi everyone,

I do English Advanced and I was thinking about what related texts I should use for belonging. I would like to use a hip hop album as it deals a lot with belonging and all that jazz. My only concern is it may be a little too long. The album is "good kid m.A.A.d city" by Kendrick Lamar. What are your thoughts?

Also, what are some other interesting related texts that I can use for my 2nd choice?


Cheers.

 

[kwu1]

A good standout is Nam Le's book The Boat. I picked Hiroshima because I felt it was one of the more interesting short stories for belonging.

 

[Girls]

While virtually any related text will be accepted at the marking centre, you are making life a lot harder for yourself by picking an aural text e.g. an album because you have to analyse techniques unique to the form. This would mean analysing things like timbre, pitch, tempo etc. (I'm not a music student lol idk) rather than simply the lyrics. As such, forms like poetry, play, film, novel, short story, essay (among others) are recommended instead.

As for good related texts, I like T.S. Eliot's Prufrock (poem), Submarine (film), Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis (novella), Persepolis (animated film) and a recent Australian television show Redfern Now. Allen Ginsberg's poem America is my related text for After the Bomb in extension 1, but thinking about it now its demonstration of alienation in Cold War America relates to the topic quite well.

 

[Spiritual Being]

While virtually any related text will be accepted at the marking centre, you are making life a lot harder for yourself by picking an aural text e.g. an album because you have to analyse techniques unique to the form. This would mean analysing things like timbre, pitch, tempo etc. (I'm not a music student lol idk) rather than simply the lyrics. As such, forms like poetry, play, film, novel, short story, essay (among others) are recommended instead.

As for good related texts, I like T.S. Eliot's Prufrock (poem), Submarine (film), Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis (novella), Persepolis (animated film) and a recent Australian television show Redfern Now. Allen Ginsberg's poem America is my related text for After the Bomb in extension 1, but thinking about it now its demonstration of alienation in Cold War America relates to the topic quite well.

This is fundamental in remembering.