Reflection on the final themes of the year
For the last two themes of the third year of high school, we have read, analysed and discussed the topics of colonialism and post- modernism. I found that the most intriguing thing, about the first topic of the two we read, which was colonialism, to be how writers at the time criticised the authority concealed right under the surface of the story. If you delved just at bit into the story it was easy to stop what the writers real intention was (e.g The Park) which often was to show the inequality that went on at the society that the writers lived in. The stories we read were not as dated as I had initially thought they would be and most of the ones we read still hed up great as fictional litteratur(gentlemen of the jungle) even if the subject matter of the text aren’t of as much relevancy as they used to. I think that relevancy of these texts and stories now lay in learning about the past and how they portrayed the atrocities that went on. Over all I ...