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evaluates and monitors own learning and adjusts individual and collaborative processes to develop as an independent learner identify and articulate how their own processes of response and composition are the same or different to others EA11-1 responds to, composes and evaluates complex texts for understanding, interpretation, critical analysis, imaginative expression and pleasure explain the relationship between responder, composer, text and context appreciate the aesthetic qualities of texts and the power of language to express personal ideas and experiences responds to the troubled world he encounters. Students can analyse Jimmy’s perception of the troubles he encounters in his life such as the impact of: uncertainty of employment and poverty on his family his father’s inner demons and eventual abandonment of the family Robbie’s escape from the family his mother’s failing health. How does Laguna’s portrayal of the inner life of Jimmy direct the reader to the values in the text? In what ways does this influence the perspective of the text on the world? How does this come into play particularly in the final chapter of the novel? (iv) Can an unreliable character be a reliable narrator? In this activity students consider how and whether their view of Jimmy has shifted as they have engaged with the text. In the opening discussion of the narrative viewpoint, students have considered whether they trust Jimmy as a narrator. Jimmy is an idiosyncratic, perhaps unreliable, character, but is he an unreliable or reliable narrator? To consider whether Jimmy is a reliable narrator, students might consider whether he is: too self-interested? too inexperienced? sufficiently knowledgeable? sufficiently moral? too emotional? too inconsistent? Based on these questions students: use evidence drawn from the text as a basis to determine whether they see Jimmy as a reliable or unreliable narrator consider how effectively Laguna has experimented with the conventions of narrative point of view reflect on their own engagement and empathy with Jimmy as an (un)reliable character and narrator.
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