Task 1A
Tanya Gold’s message is that sexism and misogyny is alive and well even today. By her clever use of sarcasm and comparisons, she manages to give an accurate portrayal of modern society, which holds men and women to different standards. With this text, Gold wishes to raise awareness for prejudice against women and warn the public about the dangers of stereotyping and generalisation.
Task 1B
In her text, Tanya Gold uses several different literary devices and language features to get her point across. Firstly, she uses hyperboles, obvious exaggerations. There are numerous instances of this, my favourite being “Simon rolled his eyes until they threatened to roll out of his head, down the aisle and out into the street”. This literary device emphasises Simon’s reaction to Susan Boyle. By using this exaggeration, Gold manages to make the reader understand exactly how abhorrent Simon’s reaction was. It is not enough simply to say he rolled his eyes, because it does not accurately describe his reaction. The second literary device Gold …show more content…
Just as the painting, the poem portrays the experience of being a shift worker as something negative and unwanted. As opposed to the painting, the poem focuses on the life outside the factory. How this effects family relations is also a theme. Charlton describes how working in a factory is terrible, as the only light comes from fluorescent strips and the machines growl so loudly it makes their ears numb. As they get home, their family is awake and starting their own workday. The sentence that really struck me was “They live in a dislocation of hours, inside-out like socks pulled on in darkness”. Shift workers live a life opposite of everyone else. As with the painting, I interpret this as a poem meant to enlighten others about the hardships suffered by factory workers. Charlton wishes to reveal the daily life of these workers, just not in the factory, but also in their daily
Tanya Gold’s message is that sexism and misogyny is alive and well even today. By her clever use of sarcasm and comparisons, she manages to give an accurate portrayal of modern society, which holds men and women to different standards. With this text, Gold wishes to raise awareness for prejudice against women and warn the public about the dangers of stereotyping and generalisation.
Task 1B
In her text, Tanya Gold uses several different literary devices and language features to get her point across. Firstly, she uses hyperboles, obvious exaggerations. There are numerous instances of this, my favourite being “Simon rolled his eyes until they threatened to roll out of his head, down the aisle and out into the street”. This literary device emphasises Simon’s reaction to Susan Boyle. By using this exaggeration, Gold manages to make the reader understand exactly how abhorrent Simon’s reaction was. It is not enough simply to say he rolled his eyes, because it does not accurately describe his reaction. The second literary device Gold …show more content…
Just as the painting, the poem portrays the experience of being a shift worker as something negative and unwanted. As opposed to the painting, the poem focuses on the life outside the factory. How this effects family relations is also a theme. Charlton describes how working in a factory is terrible, as the only light comes from fluorescent strips and the machines growl so loudly it makes their ears numb. As they get home, their family is awake and starting their own workday. The sentence that really struck me was “They live in a dislocation of hours, inside-out like socks pulled on in darkness”. Shift workers live a life opposite of everyone else. As with the painting, I interpret this as a poem meant to enlighten others about the hardships suffered by factory workers. Charlton wishes to reveal the daily life of these workers, just not in the factory, but also in their daily