Introducing literature that exposes students to global issues is an important aspect of the IB curriculum. “Graffiti Knight” by Karen Bass and “Wanting Mor” by Rukhsana Khan, both offer a great plot structure, characters and historical context that would teach IB students about risk-taking. Graffiti Knight is about Wilm and his friends who rebel against the Soviets in Germany during the post WWII. Wanting Mor is about a girl named Jameela who her father abandoned and left in the orphanage in Kabul, where she learnt how to read and write along with making 3 friends. Both books are great options for IB students, however, Graffiti Knight will provide IB students with a much better option to read considering its detailed plot structure and historical
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The plot in Graffiti Knight is straightforward and hardly goes off track. It doesn’t create many subplots, but instead develops small ideas and then drops them to go back to the main conflict. Unlike Graffiti Knight, Wanting Mor has multiple subplots that take the story off track onto different ideas. For example the subplots in Graffiti Knight were there to explain more about the perspectives of different characters, whereas Wanting Mor’s started off explaining about the historical context, but then moved of to topics like the story of the orphanage. Graffiti Knight executed the conflict with a lot of flow unlike in Wanting Mor, where the conflict was not evident and didn’t flow with the rest of the story. Bass also made it clear that the setting was driving the conflict because without the Post WWII, the conflict between Wilm and Ernst wouldn’t have occurred. The conflict between Wilm and Ernst continued to keep it’s shadow throughout the entire rising action building up suspense whereas Wanting Mor just dropped the conflict between Jameela and Baba and then dragged onto irrelevant stories. Graffiti Knight got straight to the point and dropped any unneeded information to stay on track, which sadly, Wanting Mor didn’t do. Therefore Graffiti Knight is a better choice for IB kids because of the detailed and thoughtfully laid out
The plot in Graffiti Knight is straightforward and hardly goes off track. It doesn’t create many subplots, but instead develops small ideas and then drops them to go back to the main conflict. Unlike Graffiti Knight, Wanting Mor has multiple subplots that take the story off track onto different ideas. For example the subplots in Graffiti Knight were there to explain more about the perspectives of different characters, whereas Wanting Mor’s started off explaining about the historical context, but then moved of to topics like the story of the orphanage. Graffiti Knight executed the conflict with a lot of flow unlike in Wanting Mor, where the conflict was not evident and didn’t flow with the rest of the story. Bass also made it clear that the setting was driving the conflict because without the Post WWII, the conflict between Wilm and Ernst wouldn’t have occurred. The conflict between Wilm and Ernst continued to keep it’s shadow throughout the entire rising action building up suspense whereas Wanting Mor just dropped the conflict between Jameela and Baba and then dragged onto irrelevant stories. Graffiti Knight got straight to the point and dropped any unneeded information to stay on track, which sadly, Wanting Mor didn’t do. Therefore Graffiti Knight is a better choice for IB kids because of the detailed and thoughtfully laid out