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Dear Mrs Dunkley ➔ “Nine and my name was Helen Ford” ➔ “Private girls school in Geelong”= Elegant tone ➔ “Kindly Country”= alliteration which is creating affectionate tone of what school she came from ➔ She describes her teachers appearance by wearing black= It is a motif that she is dark and serious ➔ It makes her feel inferior when she gets picked on and Mrs Dunkley a bully when she mimicked her nasla and school accent= “You humiliated me” ➔ She used to go red and the kids used to bully her and that has stuck with her and she can’t forget that, kids would say “Hey fordie whats the colour red” ➔ Repetition of weak and it is evoking pity from us as we think of a little girl scared and the teacher is showing no mercy ➔ “Stand up, you great mooncalf”= It means idiot and its stuck with and its traumatizing ➔ She was making them mature and be more formal as the writer says “You made us queue at your table” and then Juxtaposition of “Hopelessly scratched out and blotted exercise books” this represents children being messy that messy aspect ➔ “Sinister marcasite brooch” This is personification adding that she is mean and scary ➔ The past impacts on the present as she can do maths without using her fingers as when they did matahs their hands had to be on the desk ➔ The nightmares are symbolic of the trauma that caused her because of the “Digit ring” having to do maths quickly. The mother was confused of the digit ring where was the daughter is traumatised by this ➔ “Sick with shame” Symbolense demonstrates the hiss of the teachers voice ➔ Listing of the different elements of what she taught them, of how to write a letter, the address, the date, etc ➔ Imagery of nervousness and intimated she feels because of her asking a question to the teacher. A turning point in their relationship that the teacher smiles at the student ➔ Positive hyperbole “Branching and blossoming knowledge” ➔ “I had turned you into a powerful orge”and how it helped the author develop and become a well known writer ➔ Contrast of what she wore in the past and in her dream she was dressed in happy colours and did not represent that she was mean and scary ➔ “Rainbow trail” the learning and the beauty of learning ➔ We get significance of a photo as we learn more and more of what is in the photo of the teacher ➔ Imagery as in the photo it describes her wearing black clothing and her features of her nose, eyebrows and lips ➔ Personification of the pencil being scornful and alliteration of the pencil point ➔ She perceives Mrs Dunkley fierce and now she realises that there is a fragility about her ➔ Repetition that her perception is changing “was an alcoholic” her hands shake because of the withdraws ➔ “Tamed”= emotional journey she tried to go on

➔ Metaphorical image she had and now she has a more truthful image “The real Mrs Dunkley shifted out from under the grid of my creation, and i saw you at last’ ➔ “Intense damage”= Emotive language and “Only just copping” which means hanging onto her life ➔ Metaphor “Of the lost soul” Learning more of the real Mrs Dunkley ➔ Shift in tone of feelings of regret this is because she always thought of her being so bad and now she realises the real her ➔ The way she speaks about “Language” is spiritual for her ➔ Pun= “I know that your first name was Grace; I hope you found some in the end” ➔ Changed of affection when she refers to “Of your great mooncalf” which means she is embracing what her teacher said to her Dear Mrs Dunkley is about a famous writer by the name of Helen Garner. She describes her experience in year 5 with her teacher Mrs Dunkely. She describes her as being a mean and awful teacher. This is because she describes the time when her teacher called her a “mooncalf” and how that has always stuck with her. Helen also describes the nightmares that she started to get from the “Digiti ring”, where Mrs Dunkley made all of her students have their hand on their desk and she would ask them a maths question and they would all have to answer without using their fingers. Throughout the article she describes Mrs Dunkley to be wearing black, although she had a dream of her where she was wearing soft warm colours and not black. -

Structure: ‘Letter To’: trying to tell a story about her childhood and how she has grown to be the writer that she is, and she’s doing it through a letter to someone that was a significant part of her life

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Story is split into sections that start with bolded words

- Juxtaposition of her description of Mrs Dunkley . “You were very thin, with short black hair and hands that trembled. You wore heels, a black calf-length skirt and a black jacket with a nipped-in waist”.(dark,serious,conservative,mean). This is how she describes her. In the dream she describes her as “Instead of your black grim black 1940s wool suit, you were dressed in a jacket made of some wonderfully tender and flexible material, like suede or buckskin, but in soft, unstable colours that streamed off you into the air in wavy bands and ribbons and garlands, so that as you walked you drew along behind you a thick, smudges rainbow trail”. (positive, creative, unique) Mrs Dunkley of her childhood: someone that she feared, an authority figure Mrs Dunkley in her dreams: someone she looks up to, respects and values

What do Helen Garner’s descriptions of Mrs Dunkley reveal about the teacher as a character?

Helen Garner’s description of Mrs Dunkley reveals about the teacher that she was a very dark, serious, conservative and mean teacher only because she was pushing Helen to her full limit because she knew that she was capable of becoming a good writer. She also reveals about her dream to be a happy and positive person, this is because Mrs Dunkley wasn’t a mean and serious teacher, she was a teacher that was pushing all her students to the best of their abilities. Helen talks more about a photo of Mrs Dunkley and describes her hands to be thin and sinewy and fierce looking, with purplish skin that seemed fragile. She then describes seeing her hands at school “as she skimmed your scornful pencil point down by wonky long divisions and multiplications”. She then speaks about Mrs Dunkley’s daughter writing a letter revealing that Mrs Dunkley “was an alcoholic”. Helen feels lost as she believes that she doesn't know who the real Mrs Dunkley is as she felt as if she was in a dark room and everything was being revealed about her, as she describe her to be a “intense, damaged, dreadfully unhappy woman, only just holding on and being a lost soul”. The way that she ends the story but saying that she wishes that she wasn't dead as she taught her everything that she needs to know in being a successful writer. She uses the quote “I know that your first name was Grace;I hope you found some in the end”. -

Mentions ‘hyperbole’ - personal anecdote about the English subject that connects the two characters “Rainbow trail”- Soft imagery representing her compassion and understanding of her teacher “Lost soul”- Empathy sees her as a flawed human rather than the angry stereotype built in her head.

Garner uses the imagery of her hands at the beginning and end of the letter, to identify Mrs Dunkley from different perspectives, Firstly, in her introduction, through the lens of a young girl, the teacher is introduced as having “hands that trembles” while later, when Garner’s husband sees a photo of Mrs Dunkley, de declares ‘what enormous hands:. She proceeds to recall the hands again, remembering them as “thin and sinewy and fierce looking” with a personification that associates them with something scary. This idea is then enhanced by the imagery of Mrs Dunkley’s “Scornful pencil”, another personification that follows. Once again, the reader is reminded that Garner's teacher has a menacing side, although this is quickly explained in the next paragraph when it is revealed that she was an alcoholic. Without explaining why, the reader understands that Mrs Dunkley trembling, quivering hands were not fuelled by rage, they were affected by her alcoholism. Immediately, the author, along with the readers of the letter, is able to empathise with Mrrs Dunkley and genuinely thank her for all that she had learned under her tutelage. The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination by JK Rowling ➔ “Proud parents”- Alliteration ➔ Use humour to appeal the audience

➔ Connecting with the audience by saying where you are now i was once too because of the graduation ➔ Uses Juxtaposition of formal carers to informal carers ➔ “You see”- Rhetorical qu ➔ Repeats personal pronouns of “I” and she is talking about the process she took as to how she is gotten to the position she is in now ➔ “Quixotic”- Extremely Idealistic ➔ “Paradoxical”- Self constricting statement ➔ She feels vulnerable from looking back at being 21 and now being 41 years old she's explaining the benefits of failure but she is doing it with an imaginative example of using “Time turner” ➔ Juxtaposition of her own ambition and what people expected of her ➔ “Only thing i wanted to do was write novels”- Hyperbole ➔ Uses emotive language about her background- “My parents, both of whom came from impoverished background and neither of whom have been to college” ➔ “Force of of a cartoon anvil” Metaphor because she is talking about the ridiculousness of thinking she would never make it as a writer ➔ “Scuttled” add humour to the situation ➔ “Keys to an executive bathroom” is a Metaphor for a key to success for business ➔ “Take the wheel” metaphor for taking on your own life choices and responsibilities” ➔ Repetition of “poor” that her and her parents faced ➔ Repetition of “and” is the continuous struggles ➔ Linking in title of a speech as she wasn't afraid of poverty but failure ➔ Uni life being at coffee shops for along time writing stories and then little time within the lecture ➔ “Fear if failure”- Alliteration ➔ Using Juxtaposition that they are successful because they studied at Harvard ➔ Builds up a list that symbolize the dspere she felt and the ways she failed ‘Marriage, Jobless, Lone parent, Homeless (these are what she experienced) ➔ She is talking about how failure lead her to success ➔ Failing in the worst way possible can only go up from there “And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which i rebuilt my life” ➔ You have to live to reach success don't be cautious ➔ “I Had friends whose value was truly above more the price of rubies” Which means friends are worth more than money- Metaphor ➔ “True gift”- Metaphor ➔ “Given a time turner”- Harry Potter reference ➔ Emotional impact “Executions and Kidnappings” ➔ Imagery- getting our Sympathy of the African man that was tortured ➔ “Life being shuttered by cruelty”- Metaphor ➔ He was very generous as he wished her future happiness ➔ “A scream of pain”- Highly emotive language ➔ Traumatic incident of mother being executed

➔ “The way you vote, the way you live, the way you protest, the pressure you bring to bear on your government, has an impact way beyond your borders”= She is telling them to listen and to vote carefully ➔ Her main message is that it is okay to fail because failure is able to help us to reach success. She talks about people suffering because it is able to show us that just because we fail it isn't the end of the well and that we are lucky to live in a country where we are kept safe. Basically, that is the worst out there. The main theme of this text is to compare Harvard students to other students who didn't make it into harvard. JK Rowling mentions during her speech that failure is something normal to experience and that failure helps a person grow and to help them with their career. In her speech, she mentions to the students that neither her mother and father went to university because they came from having nothing which is why they did not study and went straight into the workforce. This represents that the students are lucky to be able to have studied and received their degrees, due to this she has given back to her parents to thank them. She mentions during her early 20s she was reminded how incredibly fortunate she was to be living in a country with a democratically elected government, where legal representation and a public trial were the rights of everyone. She had worked with Amnesty International and she shares the story of an African man that was tortured and she was able to help him. -

In the same way that the people she was working with can think themselves into someone's situation and help (thinking themselves in that situation to help them) In the same way her books allow people to imagine themselves in that story

How does J.K Rowling use literary techniques to persuade her audience that failure is beneficial and imagination is important? Failure is beneficial: - Repeats personal pronouns of “I” and she is talking about the process she took as to how she is gotten to the position she is in now (She uses herself as an example) - “Fear of failure”- Alliteration - Using Juxtaposition that they are successful because they studied at Harvard - Builds up a list that symbolize the despair she felt and the ways she failed ‘Marriage, Jobless, Lone parent, Homeless (these are what she experienced) - Failing in the worst way possible can only go up from there “And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which i rebuilt my life” - You have to live to reach success don't be cautious Failure is beneficial because without it we wouldn’t be able to reach success. This is a statement that J.K Rowling believes and attempts to persuade her audience through her speech ‘The Fringe benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination’ at Harvard University. J.K Rolwing persuades her audience that failure is beneficial as she refers that failure is able to

bring us to where we want to be today. In the beginning of her speech she uses the personal pronoun“I” when she is talking about the process she took and how it got her to the position she is in now. She uses herself an example because she started off from having nothing as her family didn't have much, whereas now she is a successful writer. She uses the quote “Fear of Failure” which she uses the techniques Alliteration. The alliteration of this quote helps her persuade the audience that failure is able to make a person stronger and is also able to build them up and work harder in order for a person to reach their final goal of how they want their life to be like. As well as, using Juxtaposition that the students are successful from studying at Harvard University. In her speech she continues to build up a list that symbolizes the despair she felt and the ways she failed she uses the examples such as: ‘Marriage, Jobless, Lone parent and Homeless, these represent as to how she has experienced all of these during her life. A piece of advice that she gives to the students because they are already successful by studying at a prestige school is that she uses the quote “And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life” because failing teaches you what you need to know to succeed. This quote persuades her audience that in their life they may encounter failure which is okay and normal, but the need to know that they must rebuild their life and not give up. Therefore, J.K Rowling in her speech is about inspiring young people that failure can be beneficial as she shares her own experience with them and how it wasn’t easy in becoming a successful writer. Importance of Imagination: - “Only thing i wanted to do was write novels”- Hyperbole (She is now a successful writer because of her continuing to her dreams in being a writer) - “Force of of a cartoon anvil” Metaphor because she is talking about the ridiculousness of thinking she would never make it as a writer (Through her imagination she continued to write to prove herself that she can make it) - “Keys to an executive bathroom” is a Metaphor for a key to success for business (She make a joke about studying the subject Greek Mythology and how she liked it as it booster her imagination and writing but it wont giver her they keys to an executive bathroom” - “Take the wheel” metaphor for taking on your own life choices and responsibilities” - She is talking about how failure lead her to success (Through her imagination she visualized how she wanted her life to be and how she had dreamed of becoming a writer and she turned this into a reality) - Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation - It is power that enables us to empathise with humans whose experiences we have never shared J.K Rowling persuades her audience that imagination is important through the use of her quotes and literary techniques. In her speech to the Harvard University students she says to them “The only thing I wanted to do was write novels”, the technique that is being used here is Hyperbole. She is now a successful writer because of her continuing her dreams of becoming a writer.

Another technique that she uses is a metaphor through her quote “Force of a cartoon anvil”, which means she is talking about the ridiculousness of thinking she would never become a writer. However, through her imagination she continues to write to prove herself that she could make it. She adds humour to her speech as she makes a joke about studying Greek Mythology abs show she liked it as it boosted her imagination and writing. This links with the quote “Keys to an executive bathroom”, this is a clear representation of a metaphor. However, in her speech she says “Take the wheel”, which is a metaphor but she wants to send a message to the audience saying that you are now incharge of your own life choices and responsibilities. Through this she speaks about how failure led her to success, because through her imagination she visualized how she wanted her life to be and how she dreamed of becoming a writer and she turned this into a reality by writing the books “Harry Potter”. J.K Rowling also makes reference as to how imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. This means that it is the power that enables us to empathise with humans whose experiences we have never shared. Therefore, in her speech she expresses how imagination is important as it can assist in making your career become a reality. In her speech how does Rowling use metaphor to explore important themes? (failure + imagination) In J.K Rowling's speech the main themes that she explores are failure and imagination, as she uses the literary technique ‘Metaphors’ to send a message to her audience. She uses the quote “Force off of a cartoon anvil” this is a Metaphor because she is talking about the ridiculousness of thinking she would never make it as a writer. Through her imagination she continued to write to prove herself that she can make it. Another quote that she uses is “Keys to an executive bathroom” this is a Metaphor for a key to success for business. In her speech she makes a joke about studying the subject Greek Mythology and how she liked it, as it boosted her imagination and writing but it wont give her the keys to an executive bathroom”. The quote “Take the wheel” is a metaphor for taking on your own life choices and responsibilities”. In her speech she emphasizes how important this is because by taking your own wheel you are in control of it and you can design it the way that you want it to be. Throughout her speech she then talks about how failure leads her to success. This is because through her imagination she visualized how she wanted her life to be and how she had dreamed of becoming a writer and she turned this into a reality. Therefore, through using literary technique such as a Metaphor she is able to explore the important themes in her speech to the students of failure and imagination.

What is the text about? Rowling tells of her time working with Amnesty International, after finishing University. During her time at the organisations she was surrounded by stories of refugees and victims of abuse and torture. These experiences fosters a strong empathy for others, a skill that ...