Satirical end-of-year project: Activity 5

I think this poem’s about school

But I remember this poem is cool

I tell you now you’ll have a thrill

But then there are parts that’ll make you chill

School time starts at eight fifteen

But if you have band its seven twenty

If you come early then do your thing

Until the bell goes “Ring! Ring! Ring!”

At the start we have tutor

The teacher can be a him or her

But know this so you won’t drop balls

The bell will ring and you will fall

I tell you this because it’s true

The bell means period 1 and 2

And if your class is on the other side

I tell you now RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!

Three, four, five and six and seven

Count these all the way to heaven

When school ends you’ll feel cool

Cause that concludes the poem about school

Satirical end-of-year project: Activity 3

“This is CNNNN with Justin Khoong”

Good afternoon,

Today’s top story was certainly the most strangest anyone had seen and swallowed as a boy from China had swallowed and 10cm live leech and got stuck in his throat. Luckily it was pulled out alive. Yes, he is now nicknamed from the whole world "leech eater"! Now Chinese correspondent Justin Khoong reports

“Thank you Justin! I am located in the hospital at the Sichuan Province home of the most funniest and most strangest people I mean, people can have strange things that happen to them even worse than swallowing a leech.

Here with me is leech eater and his parents, the 16-year-old boy first started saying that he had a sore throat for two months and kept on complaining to his mother about this I mean, is he a crybaby just because he has a leech in his throat?

“I kept on saying that it is impossible to have a sore throat since there is no disease around Sichuan,  I normally think that he is playing up because when he is sick, he would solve it himself” Says the mother

But as time went by, the boy had started to lose weight and had difficulty breathing, in cases like this; the parents took him to hospital. Hey, leech eater loses a lot of weight! He should be a contestant in the biggest loser!

“At this point, I thought that my son has developed asthma but I clearly remember that the last time he went to be diagnosed that he is not born with asthma, he then started losing weight and breathing heavily.” Says the father

 Then the weird symptoms had been discovered, the boy did not suffer from asthma, it was a leech that is 10 cm long that was stuck and started sucking at the boy’s throat. I doubt the leech would find any blood to suck, keep licking that throat Mr Leech!

“It was pretty shocking to see something like that get stuck into a person’s throat. Definitely horrific seeing one of my patients having a worm in his throat I mean, how can it even get there!?” Says the doctor. Well hey! You're the doctor! Aren't you the genius!?

When the boy could speak, he talked about how the leech has got in his throat, the boy’s job was working in a field, during his break, the boy drank water from the stream therefore making it possible that a leech must have swam in his mouth. Wait a minute... Stream water? What field does the boy work in? A rice farm?

This is Justin Khoong from CNNNN News back to you Justin.

Analyzing satirical cartoons

The cartoon that I chose from the blog is comic number 19 which talks about a brother and sister quarreling about each other because the brother was carrying a fuzzy purple purse that belongs to their mother. This type of satire that is shown is normally challenging the gender stereotypes and the funny part is that the boy is carrying his toys in the purse which the parents conclude not insane. There are also words that expresses the girl's emotion "ARRRRGGGGHH!" showing that she is losing her temper and is very frustrated about her brother carrying possessions that are supposed to belong to a girl. This comic is showing just for entertainment.

This comic that is found online is basically a joke about politics, on how the White House needed a woman, NOT because to become president but to clean the oval office and other places. This character that is cleaning the oval office is Hillary Clinton, a famous M.P in America. The background is simple as this is the Oval Office in the White House. The flag of America is on the vacuum cleaner. This comic is just for entertainment. 

Why does it matter? Story Review- Chinese Lessons

Read any story that we haven't read yet and write a review of the story and explain why it matters. Why should anyone care about the story/read it?


The story I chose to review is called Chinese Lessons by Ivy Tseng


The author shows that she is describing how she dreads Chinese Lessons everyday with her father, but the main part of this story is that the author just wants to understand her Father.


What shows a lot of remorse is that the author's Father is a migrant from Taiwan and moved to Australia, he also does not speak English and so he would feel very lonely and left out, the father started the lessons with his children is because he wants to make sure that this language can continue in this country as it said in the book on why the the father wants to do the lessons "They were a way of ensuring he would still be able to connect to his past." This shows that Asians can have hardships in moving to a place that does not speak the same language.


The main importance of the story is that it shows how people would want to still learn their native ways especially if it is in another country, it is what of the advantages that different people carry with them. The result that is left with the reader is that the reader would wonder how a different language can get on with real life.

Conversations with my Parents

1. What is ironic is that they did not like each other as she left him, they started liking each other as the Father got his first illness and the author visited him.

2. I would characterize that when the conversation gets better, the sicker the Father becomes.

3. What worries the Author is that she doesn't really speak her native language and that there are supposed to be some traditions when speaking

4. The family still express their feelings by doing the right things for their loved ones.

My first kiss

1. Affection in Malaysia is sometimes referred to as Homosexuality and it is a very big crime in Malaysia

2. When the author hits puberty, she then started to become a tomboy and soon, she lost mind a little and then started to isolate herself.

3. When she first arrived at Melbourne, the white kids don't pay any attention to her until a further year into school.

4. What made the author feel that she wasn't Australian is because whenever she speaks English, there is always an Malaysian accent

5. What further alienated from her peers is because that she has started to now turn into religion for help. People nearly think that she is a ****ian.

6. The use of the description "crash hot" is to create that the author wants to show the shyness of herself to the audience.

7. The opportunity the University gave to the author is that she is allowed to film anywhere.

8. The role of creativity that is played for the author is that it can show the author that she can show the audience and her friends what she can do. Creativity is important to the author because it is her strong point and she uses this to complete her most important work

Teenage Dreamers

1. The first two sentences of the story is about the author pointed out that his father has a sixth sense and that this sense knows when people are going to die. This creates a rather spooky tension

2. What happened to the author's father is that he is just calm and said that the cousin is just "returning home" meaning she is going to die soon.

3. It is serious to his following statement because the father is always Leslie's No.1 Fan and his role model, it would be very sad for him to know that Leslie is going to die.

4. The father lives his life by normally crying when he knows someone he has been with for a long time is going to die. He may be called weird to some people but once people know the father enough, then friends would call the father intelligent

Lessons from my school years

1. The narrator was still nervous about going to the school and that he was helping his family out in the fruit shop before school. What is expected from him is getting a very good grade on his school and get a good job. This contrast shows a similarity to normal life.

2. He talks about where he lives and in other words, not living in a normal set of houses but living in a highway. He talks about the Sydney North Shore as if it is a very busy place.

3. The father's background in business is that he is not good in business at all, what helped him become successful is that he asks people what they like, chat with them and make sure customers leave the store happy.

4. What makes the father a complex character is that he likes a lot of modern objects and starts buying technology for his family, it also showed all of the father's good points.

5. The narrator describes his role that he is not doing good enough, that he is not getting enough merits to please his family.

6. The experience is that he made a friend with a white and he learned that it was his choice on what to do.

7. The tone in his voice showed that he does not have a like the events that are occurring around him

8. A person could get the strap by not knowing their middle name or mistakes in their work. There are not many ways to avoid it either, one way is to get a good mark or get their homework all correct.

9. The swimming carnival made the teacher evoke a racist speech.

10. Strap-Happy Jack didn't really mean a lot to the author even though it was insulting to the author

11. The school let the author choose what subject he can study and that made him lead the school

12. He had started a workshop program, he did it because of his lack at discipline, what motivated him to do this was the chance to work with other people.

13. His parents wanted him to do what the teachers wanted, he would fear that if he obeyed his parents, he would still be bullied and called names by other people.

14. He learned that he could to anything with his own type of thinking and uses it by saying that he has used his learning to get through his school years.

The early settlers-techniques

Pun: Title, "the early settlers"

Alliteration: 1st sentence "Great-Grandfather"

Vulgar Slang: Two words in the 9th sentence "******* *******"

Ambiguous Pronouns: 8th and 9th sentence

Question 6: The irony about the hatred of the settlers is that they called the immigrants bad names when the settlers were immigrants themselves.

The early settlers-Ken Chau questions

s1. This refers to two groups of settlers, they are the people who first settled in Australia and the foreign people.

2. This is successive in being forceful because of the work he was supposed to do (growing tobacco does not sound like a job he likes to do, therefore, it is shown that the Great-Grandfather was forced to work in Australia and grow the tobacco.

3. The early settlers are calling the immigrants horrible names like terrorists.

4. The great-grandfather's intention is that he thinks the early settlers have a bad attitude just like him as the Early Settlers called him a terrorist and The Great-Grand father swearing at them.

5. The action is that the author made another poem in the the Grandfather's point of view and it was called The Terrorist.

Growing up Asian in Australia: Intro + Pigs Questions

Introduction

1. The Asian-Australians were referred to as Power Points

2. She interpreted this title by saying that this is the introduction of a story when this is actually the introduction of the whole book

3. This title actually refers to the whole book, the author finds this demanding because she is the one that has created this book and she starts it by writing her own story

4. The techniques that are used is personification, it highlights her misunderstanding by talking about the fact of an Australian socket and so saying that it does look like a face

5. The author took away from the book about the different faces. This made her think that she needed an extensive plastic surgery because since she is an Asian, she wanted to take a plastic surgery because she wants to feel fit in with the other cultures that live in Australia.

6. She then turns to different authors such as John Marsden and Robert Cormier because they wrote because of raw honesty and that the authors have a real feeling about the coming of age.

7. The author uses repetition by using the word first when talking about experiencing so many first time things.

8. The metaphor that is used in the third paragraph is that she talked about that Asian-Australians are all outsiders.

9. It is to show that if changing the title will also change the whole story but this book is made up of a bunch of short stories. It shows that her reaction to the other stories is all about the same thing.

10. It is ironic that they show up in this book is because the people who wrote the books are related (brother and sister) the book is called "Water Buffalo" by Thao Nguyen and "The Courage of Soldiers" by Pauline Nguyen.

11. It is meant that the population in Australia that are Asians have been less social with people and so this shows a bit of racism for Asians.

12. The editors hopes for the stories is that people will not have to worry that Asians are feeling left out in Australia.

Pigs From Home

1. The author started this story by talking about describing what pigs are. This effect shows that this story would be about pigs

2. The core Vietnamese value that is in the author is born in a very good and sustained family that was instilled in the author.

3. What is humorous is that what she means by natural medicines are leaves, water and other nasty botanical things.

4. The killing of pigeons is to show that they are just an ordinary family killing things for food.

5. The authors opinion of pigs is that she really hates them because they smell, push animals about and are greedy.

6. One example on pg 53: Long line
One example on pg 54: Thankless task

7. The simile is minefield or droppings as if talking about the pigs leaving a lot of mess behind.

8. The simile used was called rotisserie chicken. It relates to the focus of the story because that is what pigs normally do.

9. It is described as basically saying that the author saw about what happens and the change between the old life and to new. It is to show that the author is starting to learn about different things.

10. The author's reaction to the pig slaughter is very ghastly and that he was scared of it. The author wrote how the neighbors thought that if they heard the commotion there. This is very important because it is to show that of what other people think of the family. Especially when they kill poor animals.

11. The parents do not have pigs anymore because a friend from the North has a pig farm and when the farmer visits, he gives pork to them. It relates to the burial because after that, they don't buy pigs anymore.

12. The description of the mom's treatment would be very disgusting and then once added to congee or noodle soup, it does not sound appetizing at all.

13. The irony is that the Vietnamese dish is mad from pigs and that his family owned pigs. He describes it by saying that it reminded him of home.

14. This story relates to the title pigs from home because this story is about pigs and at the end of the story, the author said that the dishes he ate reminded him of home.

15. This story is in the battlers section because it is talks about a lot of murder and how Asians can handle this.

Boy in the Striped PJ's Chapter 14

(150-1) What information do we get that makes the reader start to feel that he is becoming less innocent and more ignorant?
He realizes there are bullies in the world and so he becomes ignorant because he wanted a lot of things like the pajamas Shumel is wearing
(151-3) What is interesting about the weather and how does it relate to the overall emotion of this stage in the book?

(153) What does Bruno accidentally say to Gretel?

(154-5) Is Bruno able to consider Gretel's feelings? How do you know?

(155) What is it that motivates Bruno not to tell Gretel the truth? How does this portray Bruno as being selfish?

(158) What is it that Bruno realises when he starts recounting what Shmuel tells him? Why do you think that this is when he finally starts to realise what Shmuel is experiencing?

(159) What is ironic and hypocritical about what Gretel tells Bruno regarding imaginary friends?

Holocaust poetry #3

How is juxtaposition used in this poem to highlight an important them of Holocaust literature?
Juxtaposition is used to highlight that "Daniel" is a Jew and a very innocent kid playing with his mother. This is an important item to Holocaust literature because it shows a lot of major literature techniques

How is descriptive language used to enhance the reader's reaction to the poem?
Descriptive language is used for describing the boy using his innocence and being treated like an animal.

 Daniel
	Laura Crist

And the child held her hand
A child tiny for almost eight,
Deep blue eyes that dominated his face,
When he explained new events to her,
     that funny doggy,
     that pretty rock,
And the freckles on his cheek,
No one saw a sunrise more perfect,
     to her,
She so vividly smells the fragrance of
     his hair,
     his ears,
     his breath in the morning
She vividly hears that little heartbeat,
     that was hers
     always hers,
     and the laughter,
     that raspy little laugh,
     when he caught her in a conundrum.
All this,
But this is merely the surface,
As she watches her little God sheared,
     and stripped,
For the gas chamber.

Boy in the Striped PJ's Chapter 13

(134) How does the initial paragraph frame Bruno's state of mind?
The initial paragraph stated that he is not going back to his comfortable home in Berlin, seeing his friends and getting used to the life in Out-With. He is also getting loss of hope. 
(136) What does the question Bruno asks Maria show about his development?
It shows that he is also being less self-centered, getting empathy and caring for other people.
(137) What is important about Maria's reaction to Bruno's question?
It is important because her another perspective of someone else
(138) Why does Bruno want to tell Shmuel about Pavel? What does this highlight about Bruno's understanding of what is going on?
Bruno wants to tell Shumel about Pavel because Bruno thinks that Pavel lives in the camp. This highlights that he now knows that most of these people are from Poland and that they are capturing people there
(140) What do the boys argue about? Who does Bruno defend? Who is right/wrong? Why?
The boys argue about saying that there are no good soldiers. Bruno defends his own father. Shumel is right because all the German soldiers are killing innocent lives.
(140) Shmuel says 'You don't know what it's like here.' and Bruno reacts by saying 'You don't have any sisters, do you?' He says this to avoid an answer to Shmuel. What does this show about Bruno's understanding of what is happening?It is because he is starting to get an idea but his ignorance comes in so saying that he wants to avoid this(141) What connection do the boys have regarding Lt. Kotler?
The connection is that they both hate him and that they think they are bossy and a person that keeps on swearing.
(142) What has changed in the the way Bruno sees Pavel?
What changed in the way is that he starts to look scared and that he is now being very innocent. He also know know that people had lies before people became servants
(143) What important words are used to describe the way the father eats and addresses Bruno? What makes them important? How do they relate to the scene and the father as a character?
The important words are that he is talking very firmly and saying how history managed to get here. He also eats like a savage such as words describing his table manners "attacked his leg of lamb". What makes them important is to look like that he is a killer. It relates to the scene because it shows that he is a part of history and that the father is a character and stimulated in real life.
(145) We learn Lt. Kotler's first name - 'Kurt'. What is it about the sounds in his full name that are important? 'Kurt Kotler'
His full name sounds like he is the leader of a race which is not true but is arrogant actions sounds like he is. In the book, we did say that he was characterized as a arrogant person. Also have sharp sounds and alliteration. It also represents the perfect and stern Nazi.
(146-7) What do we learn about Kotler's father? What is Bruno's father's reaction/suggestion regarding Kotler's father leaving Germany for Switzerland?
Kotler's father was a professor of literature and left Germany. Bruno's father's reaction is wondering how Kurt's father would leave at an important time to Switzerland. Bruno's father even thought Kurt's father is a traitor and that he didn't believe about the German belief.(148) What happens to break the tension at the dinner table? What does Kotler do and what are everyone's reactions? What does Bruno decide regarding disagreeing with anyone anymore after seeing what happens to Kotler? What does this relate to historically in regards to the Nazis?
What happens is that Pavel had dropped the bottle wine on Kotler's lap. Kotler therefore started beating Pavel up. Bruno started to cry, Gretel gone pale but no one still stopped Kotler. Bruno decided that he started not to disagree with anyone about any thing and that he decided to keep his mouth shut at all times. This relates that Nazi's are very horrible such as beating people up and killing lives.

Chapter 11+12 (Evaluation)

Today in class we are going to listen to a discussion for 5-10 min on each chapter (11 + 12).

During the conversation you are to take notes on:

- participation
- what questions/answers they ask
- do they know what they are talking about
- overall what is your impression of their understanding of what is happening in the chapter

Give your partner an HONEST score out of 10 (10 being the best).

Notes on Amante:

• Talked about how the different races wear the armbands and symbolizing themselves
• NO QUESTIONS!?!?
• Bruno trying to keep information from parents while parents keeping information from him
• At end, Bruno said that Shumel can come for dinner but that is showing ignorance
• Dramatic because we know that Shumel is being starved because he is always hungry
• He doesn't know that they can't leave and that they are forced to stay here

5/10

The boy in the striped PJ's Chapter 9

Lieutenant Kolter was represented as another high person and the way that he walks around is that he is very proud and yet representing the Germans as the superior race. He also walks very arrogantly

Herr Liszt is going to change Bruno's way of thinking and imagination. Also to get rid of storybooks and where Bruno really comes from.

The connection is that the soldiers are very clean and friendly to Bruno while Bruno thinks that the people in pajamas are bad and mean people, he also makes a connection of separation and yet he can't make out that one is actually controlling the other. Plus, the Jews and Soldiers in their own group also wear the same uniform.

Bruno began to take notice that the people in the uniforms look very serious while the pajamas people look scared and not like Bruno. There is also the power in balance as the Soldiers hold and that the Jews don't

Chapter 10

1. It shows that they are normally insignificant like a dot and so when Bruno learns more, it starts to really form into similar things and when Bruno finally knows a lot.

2. It creates a special connection between the boys as if some kind of friendship and juxtapostition: Born same day even though living in different lives.

3. They were arguing about agreeing and disagreeing about soldiers. Bruno broke the argument saying about good soldiers and bad soldiers

4. This reveals that Bruno has no idea what was going on. Shumel thinks that Bruno is not intelligent and ignorant but then he realized that Bruno really had no idea and then shows that Bruno is innocent.

The boy in the striped PJ's Chapter 7

1. The mother's defense of Herr Roller is very ironic because she had known him for a long time. But then, she says that Herr Roller is very royal in the country meaning she is saying that war is good

2. Kolter's role in historical times is not just a soldier but very similar to Bruno's childhood and a Auschwitz guard and a rich person like Bruno. Also a representative of the perfect race Hitler talked about.

3. The character that Kolter is juxtaposed as a rough and bad person and so is just like Bruno's father. This shows that nearly most of  the characters who are soldiers are very rough and mean

4. The interaction of Bruno and Pavel is that it is much more calm and that it is not an order from Bruno to do something. In fact, Bruno was acting very nice to Pavel because Bruno is in pain and Pavel is helping him heal the wounds so Bruno talks nicely to Pavel.

5. Juxtaposition is a key element to the holocaust story because people would tell the stories of the Holocaust in different characters and different point of views.

The boy in the striped PJ's Chapter 7

1. The mother's defense of Herr Roller is very ironic because she had known him for a long time.

2. Kolter's role in historical times is not just a soldier but very similar to Bruno's childhood and a Auschwitz guard and a rich person like Bruno

3. The character that Kolter is juxtaposed as a rough and bad person and so is just like Bruno's father. This shows that nearly most of  the characters who are soldiers are very rough and mean

4. The interaction of Bruno and Pavel is that it is much more calm and that it is not an order from Bruno to do something. In fact, Bruno was acting very nice to Pavel because Bruno is in pain and Pavel is helping him heal the wounds so Bruno talks nicely to Pavel.

5. Juxtaposition is a key element to the holocaust story because people would tell the stories of the Holocaust in different characters and different point of views.

Boy in Striped PJ's- Chapter 6

1. The radical shift is that Bruno finds out who Maria really is and that she is a person just like Bruno. When she was young, she was given work to do from Bruno's Father and has taken care of her like another family member. This shows now that Bruno is starting to learn responsibility and things that he is supposed to do himself.

2. At this point, Bruno now treated her as a person but Gretel still treats Maria as a nobody and always gives orders because she has never heard about Maria's tale. Bruno now acts kindly while Gretel still acts like she is spoiled.

3. It is for Bruno stop complaining about this and worrying his parents to death. She gives this advice because she does not want to lose her job. I think that this is good advice

4. Bruno's reactions is that he now starting to cry and get angry because of how he and his sister are treating Maria. He reacts this way because he is trying to do something that is wrong but then he was being stopped by Maria

Holocaust poetry #2

1. The imagery used are suffering, murder and sadness: Some examples are that "and filled their little bellies not with bread but bullets". Little tiny bodies with horror on their face with bullet holes with blood pouring out of them.

2. The effect of simile is that the poet compares Christmas tradition with Jews slaughtered by Nazis.

3. The alliteration is used in the poem is as saying that the Danube is the river and that the children are like tiddlywinks and thrown into the river

4. They juxtapose by saying that saying because Jews are being persecuted by animals and Nazi's standing proud and as the Major Race.

5. It means that the bodies had been going through the seas and all around Europe before going to the homeland and then them dying and going to heaven.

Boy in the Striped pajamas- Chapter 5

1. It is because that even though Bruno's father causes a lot of the action, the author shows that he is not important and so he shows how powerful he is and too powerful so that he was later described in the book.

2. This theme introduced the part on where Bruno's father is trying to be ambitious to get an even higher position and to do that harm more people as Bruno's Father was assigned by this job from "The Fury" when he came for dinner. As after the day The Fury came for dinner, they started to move to Out-With, the father thought of trying to make a better life was giving a lot of harm to his family. This shows that he is very selfish and is always self-centered so therefore, he was

3. Bruno's father speaks to him as if Bruno was his very cherished son. But even though he talks very kindly to Bruno, the father is not very happy when talking to the soldiers.

4. Bruno's way of speaking the world is about basically a very young kid because he doesn't know about the Wehrmacht and that his Father is at least in a very high position and just one rank below Der Fuhrer or the Fury in Bruno's way. Bruno also said that the Jews think they are people but the father said they don't

5. The father rationalizes the things that Bruno says by sometimes interrupting and laughing at him and can upset Bruno and saying things to try and tell the truth.

6. It is when he goes around the desk, it shows how weak he was when he was at childhood and that when Father is at the desk, he is very powerful

7. I do not think the Father really cares about Bruno because it says in the book that he had interrupted Bruno because none of the rules of normal family every applied to him.

8. He does not because he does not know who Hitler is even though Hitler is named "The Fury"

9. The juxtaposition of this description is that he that he is basically stowed away like the Jews.

10. Bruno's reason for not talking to the Jews on the train is because, they look poor to him. This shows that Germans have more welfare than the Jews showing a lot in power of money.

Holocaust imagery: Hitler at a Nazi Rally

1. How are vectors used in this image? What effect does it have?
2. Describe the composition of the image and what is tells us about the Nazis and Hitler.
3. How is symmetry used? What effect does it have?
4. What effect does this picture being in black and white have?
5. Discuss the use of line in this image. What effect does it have?

The vectors used in the image is the size of the people, basically, the small the person, the weaker the power, in this art, Hitler is probably the biggest in the photo despite the stairs where Hitler is climbing up, it shows that Hitler has more power then any other High-ranking Nazi officer. Also used to focal the point of the image (Adolf Hitler), the flags also show a few points of the image too. Gives us point that Hitler has a lot of power and that he is an important character in history

The composition of the image is that the Nazis and Hitler are more clearly shown because they have the ones that have more power that the citizens who are blurred out because they are weak. 90% of people in the image are citizens who are pushed across the side. The stairs in the picture shows that Hitler will be rising to power.

Symmetry is used by showing straight lines when compared to Hitler since he is standing straight while marching up the stairs. He is in the middle of the symmetry line of this picture as the other officers are sometimes not standing straight and are placed not in a good part of symmetry.

The effect showing that this picture is Black and White has many effects: Shows that this picture is very old, the people are not happy and that this is a picture of bad people, they drain the happiness removing all emotion and making it very serious, it also makes them ruthless killers. All the citizens are white and the soldiers are black which shows a difference which shows the Nazi's are more important because they have more power. The color white of the citizens shows innocence and hope while black from the soldiers shows darkness and evil.

The use of lines show that the citizens in the background have very curve lines while the soldiers are sharp and straight.

The boy in the striped PJ's chapter 4-what they saw through the window

The author continues to use juxtaposition by telling the description of both the houses by using similes and many other word techniques: It shows that Bruno's family is very small while the Jews family contains many people

The reason why the children find it difficult to understand about what they see through the window because like the people in the POW, they are not children but people of all ages and the children think they are like big boys, little boys, fathers, grandfathers and maybe uncles.

Gretel described the camp by saying that it is a nasty and horrible looking place because this is from a rich person's point of view (huts only have one floor, barbed wire all over.)

What Gretel attempts to do is to try and think what the place was. She tries to understand what she was looking at.

Her attempt was not successful as Bruno was not convinced that she understands and so Gretel gave up saying that this is not the countryside and that this is not a holiday home.

The children can't see that the people in the camp are Jews and are the lesser race in the Germans point of view. The group that can understand would be the soldiers and the people today. I think that this is the case because they are children and are not old enough to learn about the Jews.

The author uses the understatement using the children by describing the POW camp and how the Jews are like.

Holocaust poem write out

Holocaust
by Barbara Sonek

We played, we laughed
we were loved.
We were ripped from the arms of our
parents and thrown into the fire.
We were nothing more than children.
We had a future. We were going to be lawyers, rabbis, wives, teachers, mothers. We had dreams, then we had no hope. We were taken away in the dead of night like cattle in cars, no air to breathe smothering, crying, starving, dying. Separated from the world to be no more. From the ashes, hear our plea. This atrocity to mankind can not happen again. Remember us, 
for we were the children whose dreams and lives were stolen away.

Poem
I play, I laugh, I was loved
But I was taken from where I came from and thrown to a world with unhappiness
Yet I was not younger than an adolescent person
I had thought of many things that would happen when I get older. I was going to be a doctor, lawyer, fireman, police officer and had many dreams but is gone. I was taken away from my house and sent into what was worse than being trapped in a tower. I was sent to a place with no air to breathe, no one to play with, nowhere to explore, and no place to have fun. I am separated from the world till my time has run out. From 6 feet underneath the ground, hear my message. This atrocity to mankind can not happen again. Remember me for I was one whose hope and life was taken with injustice.

Chapter 3- The Hopeless case

1. Bruno and Gretel's relationship is that they both hate each other even though they are brother's and sisters.

2. "I know what you mean" she said "It's not very nice is it?"

"It's horrible" Bruno said. This shows that both kids say that the house is very horrible and that they want to go back to Berlin.

3. What is significant is that he thinks that the house is very old and if he jumps around, he can make a lot of damage and one bump can tear the whole house down.

4. Bruno's reaction is that he was very angry at his father because he was moved to this place where there was no one to play with.

5. The new house was smaller and old while the house in Berlin is big and new.

6. Gretel is just like her father because she is arrogant, mean and cruel like her father.

7. He does not understand where they are because he does not see any houses next to it, no kids to play with and just in a barren and desolate place.

8. Gretel says that they are at Out-With and that was what the house was called.

9. Bruno's description about Out-With is a motif because it as a few horrible words such as "Out with you" or "Get out". What is ironic about this is that the house does sometimes match the houses name.

10. Their reaction was that they were shocked at how different the Jews were because they thought they were lonely but now there were other kids and so they could have a chance to play with them. 

The Holocaust Poetry

Holocaust
by Barbara Sonek

We played, we laughed
we were loved.
We were ripped from the arms of our
parents and thrown into the fire.
We were nothing more than children.
We had a future. We were going to be lawyers, rabbis, wives, teachers, mothers. We had dreams, then we had no hope. We were taken away in the dead of night like cattle in cars, no air to breathe smothering, crying, starving, dying. Separated from the world to be no more. From the ashes, hear our plea. This atrocity to mankind can not happen again. Remember us, for we were the children whose dreams and lives were stolen away.

1. The initial reaction to this poem is pretty sad because it is from a ghost's point of view

2. The word 'we' used in this poem are relating to the Jewish children who were captured and killed by Germans. Also using inclusive language meaning more to the reader. Also, this is used in first person talking about each other, it also uses repetition.

3. The verbs are: Played, laughed, loved. These are the children's lives before they were taken away from the camp

4. The verbs are ripped and thrown. The verbs are more horrible and crude than the first one and it gives a negative feel.

5. It was meant to signify the future careers and jobs and what they think they would have in the future life but the Germans killed them when they were young.

6. The simile that was used in the poem was "We were taken away in the night like cattle in cars." It's effect was that they were taken away and stowed in vans driving to the concentration camp. They were also treated like animals. There are also alliterations there

 7. The poet has represented herself as one of the Jewish kids who were slaughtered in POW camps and dreams stolen. She also gives us a first person view. She also said in the poem "remember us" as it is telling us that to remember her and the dead Jewish kids.

8. If I would, then I would talk about our present saying that there is no war, there is no slaughter, the Germans are peaceful, the Jews are safe. This poem has motivated us to stop anything that can cost someone's life.

Boy in Striped PJ's- Chapter 2

The new house was described as the "opposite" as the house in Berlin as it said in the book. The house was small, dirty, less floors and no banisters and it was a lonely house.

It has may much more different characteristics in Berlin by saying the lonely house was the opposite (as in architecture and interior) as the house in Berlin. This is an example of Juxtaposition because it talks about two different houses.

His reaction is that he keeps on winging and talking about how bad the house was.

I feel empathetic for Bruno because it was unfair to him that because he didn't know what his Father's job is and that it was his Father's job that moves here.

Boy in Striped PJ's- Chapter 1

Bruno's voice, introduction of characters, and victims

Bruno's voice is very polite even though he should not if someone is going through his possessions but the person who was packing Bruno's possessions was the maid and Bruno's mum told Bruno to treat her with respect.

The characters who are introduced are: Bruno (the boy) The maid (or known as Maria) Bruno's mother (A very tall person who is also very nervous), Gretel (Bruno's older sister and a hopeless case as she bullies him.) and Bruno's father (a high ranked commander in the Wehrmacht.)

The victims are Bruno, the servants and everyone except the Father. I do not think that it is fair to consider them as victims since they are the same family together.

It is used by saying that Bruno and his family are moving because of his Dad's job and Bruno does not know what his father's job is.

The setting is presented in a very big house in Berlin and at least more than 2 floors. The reason why is because of this is that the family is very wealthy.

Auschwitz

This is an image of Auschwitz taken 65 years after the closing of the camp. Take a moment to look at this photo and consider that approximately 1 million people were killed at this camp (that would be 1 out of every four people living in Sydney).

Key Visual Techniques

There are some powerful visual techniques being used in this photo. Take 5 minutes to point out at least 5 aspects of the photo which stand out to you and how they relate to the great anguish that was experienced at this site (create a post on your blog with the photo - don't try to copy and paste photo it won't work).

The color shows that is is alone and cold. Vector lines that show the guard tower meaning the Jews are kept at watch. More techniques is that the range of the photograph is very long and never ending making it show that this camp is very far away. The barbed wire can show that the Germans would never let the Jews get out and yet again having power over the Jews. The wintry sun is shining down on the the camp but on the inside of the camp that is covered by barbed wire, it is not shining at all showing that in the concentration camp, it is very sad and gloomy in there.

Auschwitz is represented by a bleak and lonely spot. It also says in the description is that a million Jews were killed there meaning that the Germans were very horrible at the time of the Holocaust. Here is a picture of the Auschwitz, the picture shows the entrance of Auschwitz. The photo is grey showing gloom on the camp.

Auschwitz is one bad mark of the holocaust even though it is now a tourist place.

Donald Duck In "Der Fueherer's Face"

1. They are portrayed by saying the Germans are big and the Japanese (showing scale of power, humorous type of nature) are small and that they are all happy and that they are singing the parody of the real Nazi song, they are singing how great Hitler is and then mock him. The irony shows that anytime there is a literal meaning, we know that the person is trying to save itself.

2. If is effected that they are pervasive and saying that the propaganda is everywhere, they also force it on Donald Duck

3. This is by Donald Duck being a Nazi, the quality of his breakfast was very bad because the soldiers looking fat but the citizens have bad food. He is like treated as Jews.

4. It is portrayed as a giant factory, as some massive evil place, how this looks hellish is because the lighting is dark, a red background the the steam coming out of the buildings.

5. The song said that they are not slaves but then the irony Donald Duck is still being treated like a slave.

6. The conveyor belt says that the keep on doing this and just doing this to help Germany win the war.

7. This is shown that the people that are above him, there are no people who are the same thing. This shows that everyone is pervasive and that they even put bayonets on their own people

8. The irony is that it is not a vacation at all and that it is supposed to be an exercise.

9. The Germans are portrayed as weapons, the idea is that they are killers, cold and how many weapons that they have.

10. The pajamas shows that Donald is an American Citizen

11. The Statue Of Liberty shows that Donald is free

12. He is portrayed as a disgrace to the Americans

13. It is because Hitler is hated in America

14. Villains: Germans Victims: Donald Duck Heroes: Donald Duck

15. Camera and visual techniques

16. These characters and this cartoon belongs to U.S.A and that normally they mock the Germans by making this cartoon about Germany and Hitler. They say the Germans work non-stop and even put their bayonets onto their own men. The techniques used in this show is the size of the characters big characters show that they have power over Donald Duck. The music is also mocking the Germans and goes with the story as well.

Auschwitz

This is an image of Auschwitz taken 65 years after the closing of the camp. Take a moment to look at this photo and consider that approximately 1 million people were killed at this camp (that would be 1 out of every four people living in Sydney).

Key Visual Techniques

There are some powerful visual techniques being used in this photo. Take 5 minutes to point out at least 5 aspects of the photo which stand out to you and how they relate to the great anguish that was experienced at this site (create a post on your blog with the photo - don't try to copy and paste photo it won't work).

The color shows that is is alone and cold. Vector lines that show the guard tower meaning the Jews are kept at watch. More techniques is that the range of the photograph is very long and never ending making it show that this camp is very far away. The barbed wire can show that the Germans would never let the Jews get out and yet again having power over the Jews. The wintry sun is shining down on the the camp but on the inside of the camp that is covered by barbed wire, it is not shining at all showing that in the concentration camp, it is very sad and gloomy in there.

Auschwitz is represented by a bleak and lonely spot. It also says in the description is that a million Jews were killed there meaning that the Germans were very horrible at the time of the Holocaust. Here is a picture of the Auschwitz, the picture shows the entrance of Auschwitz. The photo is grey showing gloom on the camp.

Auschwitz is one bad mark of the holocaust even though it is now a tourist place.

Visual Techniques- Life is Beautiful

The visual techniques are used by showing that the villains have power by using low angles and straight lines of symmetry, in the you tube clip, it shows that the villains are the Germans. How the visual techniques show the heroes are normally be zooming in high angle (showing weakness) and since the heroes keep on slouching showing that they have weakness within them. This can evoke the audience because it can cause fear on the the audience especially the muscular German waiter viewed from a low angle and a close up view.

The victims were easily shown as the same as the heroes by being shown at a lower angle and in another close up view but shown in the movie, they are small and so the victims are also showing weakness. This is how the visual techniques are used to evoke the audience.

Finding Visual Techniques-Life Is beautiful

(4:20) the camera angle of Joshua is a high angle which shows weakness while the German waiter's was a low angle showing superiority. Guido however is eye level.

(4:45) This shows eye level and normal shot since it shows Guido's torso. The German waiter's body language looks intimidating for a little boy. Guido looks tense, scared and very concerned.

(4:46) The focal point was in the middle as this is where the German waiter is which shows superior, there are symmetry lines that goes straight which shows superiority, Guido may have a few lines but the shot is not symmetric as well as expression which shows his concerned emotions.

(5:02-5:05) Guido is more emotive and teaching people by pointing and slouching to the children's level. There is also a slightly high angle. Meanwhile the Germans view are slightly low and have a serious body language.

'Life is Beautiful' characters representing an engaging an unique presentation of the Holocaust experience.

The characters represent an unique and engaging presentation of the Holocaust experience.

Why it is engaging

• It is a comedy which can grab the audience's attention so they won't be bored by the movie.
• This shows a giant holocaust experience because in some parts of the first point of the movie, there were people doing the Nazi salute.
• In a concentration camp, it is supposed to be horrible but Guido still tricks Joshua that this is a game.
• A big romance story
• A Jews' perspective
• A Holocaust movie that has some humor which is not supposed to be.
• We know that Joshua saved his own life because he doesn't want to take a shower (or being gassed and killed in the POW camps)

The character in ‘Life is Beautiful’ has very successfully represented the holocaust experience in an engaging and unique way. The holocaust is often thought as a human tragedy and yet the movie is called "Life is Beautiful". The engaging part of the movie is that Guido has a different perspective to life even though he was suffering from persecution. The perspective is that he has a very positive way and that he always looks to the good things in life. The movie is also very unique because the holocaust is built upon a romantic story. Guido and his wife Dora were deeply in love with each other that they never let themselves fall apart. During the holocaust when people are married to Jews, they may not care about their husband or wife when they were taken away but in the movie, Dora did care about her husband and son and so she went to the concentration camp with them even though she was not a Jew. In the movie is full of symbolism. For example, in the scene where the German was talking about the rules of the concentration camp and getting the main character (Guido) to translate, the opened door was used as a dividing line between Guido and the German soldier. This symbolizes that the German and the Jew are different races; another important symbol is that on each side, there is a soldier. The soldier over in the Jew's side is small and the soldier on the German's side is big. This symbolizes that the German's have more power over the Jews or otherwise known as "the superior race". This is another example of how the characters represent the Holocaust in a unique way.

This movie is from a Jew's experience and point of view. From a Jews point of view, it is full of emotions and feelings and that’s why the movie is so engaging. A concentration camp is a prison for Jews and that it is where they will also get executed (gas chambers). But Guido is still trying to make his son (Joshua) happy by saying that this is all a game and that first prize is a tank. This shows Guido’s love for his son and Guido’s positive life, he would not give up making Joshua happy and that he would not cry. Luckily, Joshua still played with his father and everything was lucky for both of them. Such as this ‘willpower’ that Guido uses to get Joshua out of trouble and out of his death. Guido was killed but Joshua was reunited with his mother at the end (and he rode on a tank). Joshua even said when he was older “this was the gift my father sacrificed for me." This is a very touching part of the movie. Finally, this movie is also a comedy when the main character started to behave and speak in ways that make the audience laugh. Therefore, his actions mostly end up humiliating the German characters in the movie, symbolizing the main character, and ridiculing the holocaust and the Nazi's. The holocaust was cold blooded and costed the life of millions but in the movie, they did not show the scenes of both executions (gas chambers and Guido being shot) by doing that, it shows that the audience would not see the execution before their very eyes. These are all the reasons why the movie characters represent and engage a unique presentation of the Holocaust experience.

Heroes and Villains in Le vita e bella

1. What is happening is that the German Guard is talking about the rules in the concentration camp and Guido was used to translate the rules but Guido says things that are different.

2. Heroes are: Guido

Victims are: The Jews

Villains are: The Germans

3. In the shot, it shows that the two opposing people as a dividing line which shows that they look like two different races and the size of the soldier in Guido's side is very small and the other soldier on the guards side is very big. This shows that the guard has a lot of power.

Another shot is when the Joshua was standing in the middle and was wearing different clothes from the other people in the cabin. Joshua is very important to Guido as well.





























































































 POULOS IS TEH IDIOT!!!! HE NEVER LEAVES ME ALONE LOLZ!!!!

Holocaust unit: Key question and 'Life is Beautiful'

1. A tragedy is a story, play or movie that has a very sad ending. Mostly when the main character dies.
It is a real form of drama

2. Life is Beautiful is a tragedy because the protagonist of the story (Guido) was killed by a German but his son (Joshua) and Wife (Dora) survived. The story was written in the 2nd World War where the Jews like Guido and Joshua were persecuted by Germans.

3. It could also be a comedy because the main character makes the audience laugh a lot because of the gestures of the characters are funny, weird, naive and light hearted. This can be found throughout the movie,

4. A villain is a evil man or woman who deliberately harm people or break the law to get what he or she wants. It is also known as the antagonist. A victim is a person who has suffered as a result of someone else's actions or beliefs, or as a result of unpleasant circumstances. The hero is the person who are greatly admired by good and great qualities, also saves the victim, finds solution to problems

Example of a Villain in Fiction: Darius Sayle (Stormbreaker-Antony Horowitz)
Example of a Villain in Real life: Julia Gillard (Financial villain-Carbon Tax)

Example of a Victim in Fiction (sometimes heroes): Nick and Tim Diamond (The Diamond brothers series-Antony Horowitz)
Example of a Victim in Real life: The young people that were killed in Utoya by a Norwegian person. Person who shot the people is called Brevik

Example of Hero in Fiction: The Five Gatekeeper Kids (Book of the Gatekeepers series-Antony Horowitz)
Example of a Hero in Real life: Cadel Evans (Tour de France 2010-Yellow Jersey Winner)

5. The Villains in Life is Beautiful: The Nazi Soldiers, capturing and exterminating Jews in gas chambers

The Victims in Life is Beautiful: The Jews: Captured by Germans and forced to work: Guido is also a victim.

The Heroes in Life is Beautiful: Guido, he has a kind heart for people especially his son and wife. He has a very positive spirit.

6. Villain: The lady Nazi Officer
role she plays in plot: She controls the female Jews and the German children
role she plays in history: One of the officers in the concentration camps in Germany and executioner of Jews in the Nazi party and persecuted the Jews ruthlessly
role she plays in audience: Fear, Hatred, Cruelty, Dark ages in history, makes audience hate the Germans
Hero: Guido
role he plays in plot: Heroic
role he plays in history: Victim of Xenophobia, racism, inequality.
role he plays in audience: Arouses a sense of sympathy, empathy and rage, makes the audience see the view of the Holocaust.























 OMG! LEIGHTON, POULOS AND SPEZIALE ARE ANNOYING ME!!!! MEGALOLZ!!!!

Thoughts about Ender

Story based Conclusions on Ender from Chapters 1-7

• Ender adds to the story a sense, of sensitivity because he is super sensitive.
• The story would change because if there was no Ender or a character with less sensitivity the story would change into a story about
• The bullies wouldn’t be needed in the story
• If Ender wasn’t in the story then we wouldn’t have a theme, main character or have any point of the ideas of buggers, battle school and command school
• There is pressure on him, he gets bullied everywhere he goes and is always the one put out
• Maybe its not they great to be the chosen one because he would get bullied and have to be isolated
• The idea of being exploited for being the chosen one
• The story would become more about the Buggers rather than the boy himself. Ender is one of the only characters that is super sensitive.
• We have a story based around the chosen one.
• Main characters need to be smart and sensitive in order for a story to be more interesting and people being feeling sympathy for Ender and his struggle throw
• This story should not be about Ender massacring buggers but making peace with them and forgiving them
• Ender is the main character in the book. He is bullied everywhere he goes whether it be Earth or at Battle School. The story would change dramatically if Ender was not in the book as the buggers could not be defeated, Mazer Rahckman would not have to ''Babysit'' or teach Ender in Command School, his family wouldn't have the burden of a third in the family and would defeat the purpose of Graff in the story, looking after Ender and pushing him far to have a chance to defeat the buggers. All of these points could not be achieved if Ender was not in the book.

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Ender's Game Quiz

1. The narrative is told in first person

2. A third is the third child in a family

3. Buggers and Astronauts

4. Miss his family and he is not a fighter

5.

6. Graff treat Ender him like dirt

7. The room leader is Bernard

8. Ender decided to play against the big boys

9. Bernard was a Stilsion and had a very bad relationship towards Ender by picking on him

10.

11. His mistake was that Bonzo did not allow Ender to fight

12. Ender broke the rules and prevented the opposing team from winning

Settings of Ender's Game

The book Ender's Game was about the main character going to space. I thought this book was a modern piece of work but then, this book was actually written back in 1985. This shows that the author had a lot of imagination about what it was like in the futuristic world. One was the internet and these desks in the book that can move words around. Orson also created an imaginary space centre like the Battle School. Orson also created laser guns which freezes people. Also, there is this high-tech monitor that is implanted on the protagonist's neck to observe his every move. All these are typical characteristics of science fiction with advanced technology in a futuristic setting.

A story would normally start with the description of a character but instead in Ender's game, it started with a conversation. This shows that Orson Scott Card uses a mystery style to write the story to create suspense. Its language is for young adults and about middle complication and sophistication. The narrator is 3rd person and that there are two types of third person narrators
Omniscient- The narrator knows all the thoughts of the characters
Limited- Narrator knows the thoughts of only one character

Ender's Game: Chapter 1: Third

1. The chapter is called third because the main character is a third child in the Wiggin family.

2. The bold formed represents two characters (not the main character) talking to each other about the main character, the non-bold form is the narration of the story.

3. The narrative is told in third person

4. Ender is from a special family because the kids in the Wiggin family were monitored: Ender/Andrew, Peter and Valentine. The people who were at the start were watching the children using the monitors because they believe the kids have a special ability to kill and other deadly things and save the World.

5. The speakers were watching Ender's actions and they decided whether they will recruit Ender, the irony is that we will know what will happen to Ender before he finds out what happens to him as if it is like it is a real reality T.V show.

6. The name Ender sounds as if the person would bring an end to a war,  argument or even someone else's life. This seems to be the role of the main character in the story.

7. The narrator is presenting the events in a very factual and unbiased way. Very descriptive but unbiased.

8. In Ender's world, nobody tells the truth and that the truth is the opposite of the lie. The central theme would be a very chaotic word where a lot of people would tell lies.

9. The title "monitor" to Ender's classmates would think that Ender is probably a robot or not human at all.

10. The connotations is that a third would be very smart or acting like he is still a baby and that he is learning or if he is an alien and people treat him differently.

11. Ender knows that he is smarter than the other boys because the teacher wouldn't bother him if he did not pay attention because Ender knows the answer

12. Ender stood up to the bullies and beat Stilson up very badly.

13. The narrator is sympathetic and said that Ender has stood up for himself.

14. His emotional state on the inside is fear and loneliness that he hasn't got any help and he didn't like to be different from the rest of the boys and be bullied, he was bullied because he was young and that his monitor shows if he is a robot

15. This implies that Peter is very brutal, mean and can injure people

The Sci-Fi genre

Question 1

It is not easy to define science fiction genre because there are so many subcategories genres. Such as horror and fantasy science fiction like Frankenstein and space western science fiction like Ender's Game. The setting of Sci-Fi in general is futuristic based on space and science and exploration. The plot usually involves, advanced technology and imagination. The desire to write such stories can be traced back as early as the second century. For example Lucian's True History in the 2nd century, some of the Arabian Nights tales, The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter in the 10th century, Ibn al-Nafis' Theologus Autodidactus in the 13th century, and Jules Verne's A Journey to the Centre of the Earth and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea in the 19th century. In the 21st century, we have Star Wars, 2012 and the day after tomorrow are all written in the 21st century. There are many other genres that directly or indirectly affecting sci-fi such as millitary SF, superhuman and apocalyptic.

  

Source:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_fiction#Military_SF

Question 2

There are too many sub categories to put down, these are some general ones.

·         Hard science fiction – Type of stories that rely heavily on classic science fiction. Writer generally needs to have a good knowledge of Science and Technology, for example, Issac Asminov

·         Other worlds – Setting are on other planets, for example, Frank Herbert’s “Dune”

·         First contact- Stories based on contact between aliens and humans for example, the movie “E.T.”

·         Space exploration – Stories where characters explores space

·         Cyberpunk- Stories that write about advancement through technology such as robots

·         Near-future science fiction- Stories that take place in the future and includes technology that is in real life or in development

·         Time Travel- Stories where characters that travel to the past of future or visited by time travellers.

·         Military science fiction- Combat and wars in the future against aliens, “Ender’s game” by Orson Scott Card is an example

·         Sociological science fiction- Stories that talk about future of social sciences instead of hard technology and focusing on individuals and social groups.

·         Light/humorous science fiction- Spoof of science fiction, one example of a book made to a movie is “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” by Douglas Adams

·         Science fantasy/future fantasy- Based on a few elements on science but ignore scientific principles involved.

·         Cross-Genre- Novels mixing science fiction with fantasy, romance, mystery, suspense and other genres.

·         Space opera- Similar to space westerns where good guys shoot bad guys in space, one famous example is “Star Wars”

Source:

http://wordsharpeners.wordpress.com/2009/09/20/science-fiction-genre/

3.

When reading a book or watching a movie, there are techniques in the book that is made as science fiction, it very easy to see if a movie is Science-Fiction, basically because if you see any movies or read any books and if it includes robots, space, aliens and about the future or future wars, then it is Science Fiction. Here are a few example on which types of sub genres which include science fiction:

Hard SF- "A fall of Moon dust" by Arthur C. Clark: Talks about space and planets such as the moon.

Soft and social SF: Psychology, economics, political science, sociology and anthropology


Cyberpunk- "Cyberpunk" by Bruce Bethke. Timeline of the story was in the near future


Time travel- "Back to the future" by Michael Klastorin and Sally Hibbin. Going to the past (and the future) using a time machine car.


Alternate History- Historical events that were not written as in real life (history was tweaked for a few stories) "The man in the castle" by Phillip K. Dick, this was where Germany and Japan win World War II.


Military SF- "Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card. Space and galactic wars.


Superhuman- Human Enchantment, basically, humans having powers such as super strength and many other things.


Apocalyptic: End of civilisation through wars, spacial impact and other things


Space Opera: Adventure science fiction on other planets


Space Western: Good guys shooting bad guys in other planets with future weapons