If You Could Choose A Text To Study For English, For Your HSC, What Would It Be? (2 Viewers)

[Luxxey]

My related text is my favourite movie in the world: Brick.

Holy fuck yes. +1.
Except I think I may be doing it as a related text for Extension 1.

Also, Vernon God Little. I would go nuts on the language alone.

 

[0bs3n3]

Film: Fight Club
Book: 1984...

 

[SSRabbitohs2009]

Film: Fight Club
Book: 1984...

Good answer. +1
I would have liked to study Doctor Who for Extension 1 (crime writing)

 

[postnatal]

Good answer. +1
I would have liked to study Doctor Who for Extension 1 (crime writing)

i did for a related text. the one where he was a detective in the agatha christie episode

 

[SylviaB]

Atlas Shrugged

I know it inside out, but no one else would be bothered reading the whole thing/getting a thorough understanding of it, so I win.

also its obviously an amazing book that should be read by everyone etc etc

 

[nutcracker]

TV: Scrubs
Book: Harry Potter
Movie: Harold and Kumar go to White Castle

omg LOL. BEST MOVIE EVER. hahaha.

 

[x.christina]

why would you want to use your favourite tv show/book as a your english text you'd hate it so much after dissecting it

 

[gouge.away]

why would you want to use your favourite tv show/book as a your english text you'd hate it so much after dissecting it

doesn't always happen. sometimes it doesn't feel like work when you actually like what you're doing. each to their own, i guess.

OP: the fountainhead or any of patrick wolf's songs for romanticism.

stupid era constraints. wish we did 'after the bomb' - it would've chimed well with my strange fixation on war literature/film.

or scrubs for teh lulz.

 

[stackman]

I used the Power of One br Bryce Courtenay. Good book. Use the part where they are doing the black singing in the jail. You can tlak about the uniformity of all the black people and the young boy Peekay.

 

[Gmac_0]

1. Fight Club - for sure, be heaps to write about.
2. The Silence of the lambs. Awesome book, great writing, don't know much could be written in terms of analysis on it though.
3. One flew over the cuckoo's nest.
4. Catcher in the Rye.

The first three have the bonus of the film, #4 is on VCE english lists under 'Context' I believe, but my school did not pick it :/

 

[Taketheatrain]

doesn't always happen. sometimes it doesn't feel like work when you actually like what you're doing. each to their own, i guess.

This. Sometimes you get so much more out of the book by doing this.

 

[kawaiinlove]

That would be awesome, though US series only

Agreed. The host on the UK was a douche. EVERY time something got interesting (ie possibly implying themes of profanity or sexual references ), he'd wrap it up. -_-

Anyway, Mean Girls. I know it's over-used but I wouldn't have to bother memorising quotes, ever .

 

[Petalhead]

Did it as a related text for EX1. Much fun was had.

Black books! now that is a good choice, but what elective unit were you studying?

 

[gella]

I was to choose a text I would choose A Clockwork Orange or The Picture of Dorian Gray, two of the most interesting novels I have read.

And 1984 as well, but we actually did that at school

used this for year 11 yieww, power

 

[iRuler]

Big Bang Theory

 

[Absolutezero]

Black books! now that is a good choice, but what elective unit were you studying?

Retreat From The Global. I did the episode 'Blood'.

 

[Nashie]

well first I would make a short film which shows copies (possibly all copies?) wuthering heights burning, possible alongside bronte's exumed corpse

then i would study that

aggghhh.. high school english

 

[meilz92]

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