Belonging related texts...novels (1 Viewer)

[benji_smithy93]

yer hey guys just wondering if anyone can hit me up with some good novels i could used as related texts for belong, cheers everyone

 

[Aerath]

Perhaps if you looked around in a few of the threads, instead of being so lazy, perhaps you'd find some related texts to your liking.

- Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
- My Sister's Keeper, Jodi Piccoult
- Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
- Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
- Storm Boy, Colin Thiele

 

[Cinnamonster]

Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice-Burroughs
Girl With a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
Notre Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo
And I guess The Time Machine by H.G. Wells would be a pretty good text too.

 

[Ethanescence]

For my HSC I did Call of the Wild by Jack London. It has excellent prose.

 

[annabackwards]

Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice-Burroughs
Girl With a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
Notre Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo
And I guess The Time Machine by H.G. Wells would be a pretty good text too.

I love that book! I never even thought of using it for a belonging related text >.>

My Place by Sally Morgan would be a pretty good related text too.

 

[Aerath]

My Place is ex-HSC syllabus though. So not the best related text out there.

 

[vtfan]

My Place is awfully dull. Don't do it. I had study it in year 11. *groan*

Would Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut be suitable?

 

[Pyrokinetic]

Yeah try not to use My Place. Otherwise these are quite good:

- Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man (good for discussing issues of post colonialism, possession/dispossession of a place and sense of identity)

- Catherine Ryan Hyde's Pay it Forward (common humanity/connections to the wider world, belonging to an idea/ideology, childhood)

- George Elliot's Silas Marner (truly diverse, can use this in a number of ways, particularly good for those doing Romulus)

- Mao's Last Dancer

...thats just from the top of my head, im sure theres heaps of other great novels, espescially since belonging is such a broad concept and its almost impossible not to find it in any one text.

 

[SoMeRaNdOm.]

looking for alibrandi
to kill a mocking bird

 

[annabackwards]

My Place is ex-HSC syllabus though. So not the best related text out there.

Oh is it? I guess not then. Thanks for the pick up, Aerath

My Place is awfully dull. Don't do it. I had study it in year 11. *groan*

Bahaha i didn't think it was too bad. But then again i read it at my leisure at home and skipped a few paragraphs here and there XD

 

[benji_smithy93]

thanks guys some good ideas aye

 

[SoMeRaNdOm.]

My Place is ex-HSC syllabus though. So not the best related text out there.

the novel yes but i don't think the picture book is .... but i could be wrong.

 

[Aerath]

There's a picture book My Place? I never knew?

Let's hope it's less crap than the novel....