Blog - Exam Practice Paper 1 Question 2

       In the passage that we see in unit six question two we are proctored to focus on the form, language and structure. The form that is in the passage in unit six question two, is qualified as a short story which entails that it uses, the structure of the passage is going to include a beginning, middle and end, as a result of the domain that it is classified in. Structure includes also the form of sentences, the fundamental sentence structure. The language that is used throughout the passage consists of the author being descriptive but also can Include the phonemes, morphemes, lexemes, syntax, and context, there are also many other configurations of Language. 

Form: 

The qualification of the form is a short story. Meaning that it has a beginning, middle and end and in between has many details about the passage in itself. However, this does not entail that it goes in chronological order, this can imitate it in many different ways signifying that the end of the story could start at the beginning to the end it could work backwards from there. To say back to the passage, the passage starts when he is in a grocery store which is the beginning of the story so you could say it does go in order. Beginning: ‘We went into Little Lanesboro Joe's country store. ’ Middle: ‘my running commentary on why those were Necessary…’ The end: ‘collection of several houses around a general store…’ nevertheless in this case it was in chronological order. 

Another sense of form is the way the passage was portrayed, an explanation of how they got the message across. The message got across in a writing, the writing of a story. Not a speech, poem, or reading. 

The story is put into a first person point of view. The reason for this is because he doesn't give any examples of another person's point of view, but also that the author uses the word ‘i’ often. 


Structure: 

Throughout the passage the structure is understanding the organization over all of the passage. Which we clarified is a short story when stated in form. Going into more depth about the structure of the sentences. Example of this in the passage in when the author states ‘We went into Little Lanesboro Joe’s Country store.’ is a complex sentence. Since it uses descriptive words and gives an exact location of where they are at. The reason why this is important to the structure of the passage is because it can make the passage either sound very bland with the simple sentences that they can use or the passage or story can sound multiplexed when you are reading. An example of a Compound complex sentence is when ‘About the time Q2 and i finished our hoagies, Sarah returned and sat down with us In one of the four wooden booths.’ The Structure of the sentence is called a compound complex sentence. Even though the simple details seem like they don't matter such as the sentence structure it does impact the passage exceedingly. 

The shape of an organized plot that is happening. Which includes; Exposition —> rising action —> climax —>falling action —>denouement. They were at a store getting food. —> talking and Describing the food that he had gotten, in this Historical town. —>Sarah ran home to get her laptop and showed a video of a susquehanna that once was in the town. —>talking about what the susquehanna did. —> talks about the houses that Surrounded the store. Evidence; (‘We went into Little Lanesboro Joe’s Country store.’---> ‘contained…’ ‘meat and cheese…’ ‘banana peppers…’ ‘greek olives…’ ‘ you might be interested in this…’ ‘historical highlights of the village…’ —> ‘run home and bring back your laptop…’ ‘her computer to run a video of old man susquehanna into town and, invitation nor a wiping of his feet… ’ —> ‘to everyones sorry, that's what he did in the historic hotel…’ —> ‘several houses around a general story…’)

The form may be there, in the story but the structure of the passage is not well done. The meaning is that the author didn't do a good job of trying to Correlate the two ideas which are talking about food and the river. These two things are vastly different and have nothing to do with each other. 






Language: 

The Language used throughout the story is often very Descriptive. Example of this is when he is talking about the sandwich that he is thinking about and eating the hoagie. Some of the words that he used were ‘my short loaf pat stuffed…’ ‘chopped lettuce…’ ‘black pepper held in place…’ and so on. This is only when he was talking about the sandwich that he was consuming. However he did Use descriptive language talking about the susquehanna as well, an example of this is after he saw the video and what talking to Sarah. He had said ‘To everyones sorry, that's what he did in the historic hotel…’ Then later he Decides to talk about the village and what the appearance of the Village looks like. Example of this is when he says ‘village rather than a mere collection of several houses around a general store. ’


        These were the key ideas that we were proctor to focus on and what I think that he did throughout the story that was being told. 

My Analysis On The Passage "Excerpt Form Shooting An Elephant"

When I was analyzing this text it was very easy to understand the form, structure and language. It seems that the form of the text is a story since the fact that it doesn't state anywhere in the text that it was based on a true story, or any other document along those lines. The structure of the text was set in chronological order, the reason that I say that is due to the fact that the story is developing throughout the story excerpt form shooting an elephant. The type of language that is used to route the passage is very exquisite but an example is when they use modal verbs; they are auxiliary verbs that can demonstrate necessity. The verde include should, would, could, can and so on. 

Stated in the previous paragraph we went over a brief idea of the form in the text. A form that was illustrated in the document excerpt form shooting an elephant, it is a story. The reason I say the form is a story is due to the fact that it doesn't have any documentation of it being based off of a true story or along those lines. The reason why I say it is a story and not another source of documentation is due to the fact, besides the reason that was stated in the previous sentence but also because it develops over time; the storyline. An example of this is in the beginning it states that “it was perfectly clear to me what I ought to do. '' This is the very first sentence in the beginning and it doesn't give any background before starting with this sentence, that plays a part in why it is in the form of a story. 

Now for the structure that was talked about in the very first paragraph in this blog, we scrape the top of what the structure was in the text excerpt form Shooting an Elephant. What was talked about in the first paragraph about structure was that it was in chronological order. This means that as the story is progressing the author or the narrator is explaining in each separate paragraph what is happening next. To expand on that it entails what is happening as time is going on throughout the story. A few examples of that is when in the first paragraph he is only talking about if he should shoot the elephant or not. “I ought to walk up within say, twenty-five yards for the elephant in test his behavior.” In the second paragraph he focuses his structure on the gun and how it is made. “The rifle was a beautiful German thing with crosshairs sights.” But skipping to the last paragraph the author begins to expand and talk about the death of the elephant and what he has to do and how he died. “it seemed dreadful to see the great beast lying there, powerless to move and yet powerless to die…” and “in the end I could not stand it any longer and went away ” this is the structure that is produced throughout the story. The structure can be defined as the bold of a story or documentary or article. 

The last one that was brought up in the very first paragraph was language. The type of language that I will be talking about that has been said throughout the passage or modal verbs. Modal verbs are verbs that indicate likelihood and express possibility. Examples of modal verbs that are just used in general not aiming towards the passage for say are “can/could” “may/might” “”should/shall '' and so fourth. Some examples that were used throughout the passage excerpt form shooting an elephant were “could” “lay” “should'' and “still” these are just ones that I could name off the top of my head that were from the passage but I am sure there are many more modal verbs that you could find in the passage. 

These were just some key points that I focused on when reading the passage and that I could really define throughout my blog. When analyzing these are the most looked for in  passages, that's the reason why I focused on these three points. 

question 1

 A look into the mind of Usain Bolt

Usain Bolt, many people know him as the fastest person in the world.   

Most of us found this out in the 2008 Olympics. 

Usain Bolt tells us about how he won his first Olympic gold medal in the summer of 2008 in Beijing, when he was running the 100 meters. The reason why he talks about his first gold medal is because that was when he knew he was one of the best. 

 He talks about what motivates him during his races. It seems by degrading himself; it pushes him to his limits during this race and others. “I've talked garbage to myself and every race I've ever ran in.” Many versions of this quote are in the autobiography. 

He seems to be worried about multiple racers. 

Particularly Asafa Powell.  Asafa Powell a teammate of bolts but the former 100 meter world record holder. 

Usain Bolt knew that he was the Olympic champion of 2008, when Asafa Powell was nowhere in sight, even when he was still 10 meters away from the line he threw up his hands in the air “i was the Olympic champ.”

When looking at my newspaper report on the autobiography about Usain Bolt and trying to pick it apart you can tell that there are many differences between the autobiography and my newspaper report. 

The autobiography and the newspaper article that was written by me aren't structured differently when coming down to the basics. The autobiography and the newspaper article both have extremely short paragraphs, some of them early two sentences. The newspaper article that was written about the autobiography has a maximum of three sentences. It is very similar to the autobiography about Usain Bolt.  The structure of the article in the newspaper is mainly trying to get to the key points about the autobiography about Usain Bolt; by pointing out key details such as how he pushes himself during his races.“It seems by degrading himself…” On the other hand the structure of the autobiography is trying to tell a story about how Usain Bolt thinks and how he regulates his mental mentality during his races. This is one Detail about the structure that is vastly different from the article in the newspaper. 

The newspaper and the autobiography and itself are two very different Forms of literature that are already structured completely differently. Meaning that there can only be so much in common but the two are so Vastly different that there has to be a contrast between the two, and that is because of how they are portrayed to elaborate on that is what is trying to tell a story about the person and the other is getting key details almost as if they were bullet points. You can see that very well in the newspaper article that I had written. 

The point of view in the newspaper article is third person since it is talking about Usain Bolt and using his name quite often and says “he” Unlike the autobiography which is talking in first person since Usain Bolt is talking about himself and using the context all “I” And then he keeps talking about himself so that would be in first person. A quote from the newspaper that is talking in third person is “He talks about what motivates him during his races.” A quote from the autobiography in which Usain Bolt is talking about himself is “I burst from the blocks…” Those two quotes from the newspaper and also the autobiography are great examples of first person point of view and third person point of view. That's also a compare and contrast from those two. 

The type of language that I used in the newspaper is very direct and getting straight to the point But if we're talking about about the words that I used I didn't use complicated words to understand because I wanted the reader to get what I was saying And what I was talking about some language that I used or some examples are “degrading himself”, “Many versions” and “fastest person in the world…” This is the type of language that I used in the newspaper article about Usain Bolt. Now for the language in the autobiography it's vastly different because the autobiography is taking the words that he is physically speaking such as “I was still 10 meters…”, “then it dawned on me. ” and “I kept my eye on him all the way…” These are examples of the type of language that the autobiography used. This is a comparison between the language in the newspaper versus the autobiography and how they are very different. 

Something that both the newspaper and the autobiography have in common is that they're Targeting the same audience which is Usain Bolt fans or people that really look up to anybody that really cares about Usain bolt. I think in the newspaper I did a really good job of getting straight to the point and getting people that are fans of Usain Bolt willing to read my news article.