IB Portfolioliolio

Daniel Arcega Mrs. Emerick IB English HL II IB Course Concluding Portfolio Over the two years of IB English, I’ve read a total of 14 works. When reviewing those works, I realized that The Things They Carried from year one and The Dew Breaker had similar themes and structures. When I investigated further, I realized the other books had similar connections. For each book in year one, there was often a similar book in year two. This portfolio will go over the connections I found between these stories and my thoughts on them. How to Read Literature Like a Professor and Hamlet           I’m going to start with the first book I ever read for IB, How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas Foster. I have decided to connect this book with Hamlet by William Shakespeare because of both novels’ relation to the art of literature. Unlike the rest of the novels on this list, these two do not have any overlapping themes and are not even the same type of work....

Daniel Arcega Mrs. Emerick IB English HL II November 3, 2021 How our relationships with others can help us Danticat uses the characters' relationships in The Dew Breaker in order to illustrate how people can be changed by their relationships with others. The main example of this comes from the relationship of the titular character (known as Papa) and his family. Through the first and last chapters, "The Book of the Dead" and "The Dew Breaker", we learn about Papa's past. He was a horrible man who took pleasure in carrying out terrible missions for a terrifying government. He used his power and influence to get what he wanted and killed any who got in his way. Danticat uses his actions and his physical appearance to characterize him as a monster. By the time we see him in "The Book of the Dead", he is a completely changed man. He is soft-spoken, and visually disturbed by violence. After he explains the truth of his past to his daughter, she is conf...

Daniel Arcega Mrs. Emerick IB English HL II October 7 2021   "The Dew Breaker" Important Character Web