A Game of Polo with a Headless Goat: Emma Levine

Themes/Main Ideas Explored
1. Excitement
  1. superlatives
    1. "best"
      1. exaggerating suggest her immense passion + excitement
  2. Hyperbole
    1. "We waited for eternity"
      1. Infers her adreneaine is kicking in, reflected through impatience, enthusiam and anxiety
  3. Metaphor
    1. "fired up"
      1. Reiterates their adrenaline. Slang for in an energised and excited state
2. Chaos
  1. Onomatopeia
    1. "horns tooting, bells ringing and the special rattles"
      1. Various sounds create an atmopsphere of disorder and comotion
  2. personification
    1. swallowed up by the crowd
      1. swallowed; violent verb. crowd is reflected as a monster (neg. connotations) mirrors atmosphere i.e havoc
  3. Power of 3
    1. "Men standing on top of their cars and vans, hanging out of taxies and perched on lorries"
      1. Various body positions suggest area is very crowded and races are alluring. Crowds usually suggest chaos and commotion
3. Tension/Suspense
  1. Use of punctuation
    1. semi colons
    2. hyphens
    3. Commas
      1. Slows down the pace, creating suspense allowing the reader to digest the text in fragments --> emphasis
        Suspense gives the impression that the atmopsphere she is in is enticing, thrilling and exciting
  2. Connectives
    1. "Suddenly"
4. Carefreeness/Childishness
  1. Informal language
    1. "lad"
      1. casual language, depicts a personal relationship. Could suggest experience has personal meaning towards her
  2. dialogue
    1. "I asked the lads if we could join the wacky races"
      1. Shows spontaneity and unpredictability much so a child would do
5. Obscurity/ Ridiculousness
  1. Humor
    1. "Donkey"
      1. Unusual animal to use;could reflect silliness/ Levine;s unique personalty how it attracts her attention
    2. "But i don't even have my licence yet because i'm underage"
      1. Links to carefreeness. humour,, self reflection, mellow concluding sentence
  2. Vivid imagery
    1. "villager on a wobbly bicycle"
      1. Again, unusual sight to see --> humorous and further emphasises silliness depicted throughout
6. Danger
  1. Common phrases
    1. "t was survival of the fittest"
      1. Common phrase depicting the most superior and powerful usually killing the weak. Used amongst natural world in death, must connote danger
  2. Use of certain verbs
    1. "Swerve"
      1. Harsh and agile verb, used to show desperation and distress
  3. personification
    1. "roaring in their wake"
      1. Roaring used for lions and animals of superiority. Suggest violence which links closely to danger
Audiences Response
1. Entertaining to see her ridiculous and humorous experience
2. Insight to her personality, gain an understand of what she pays attention, acknowledgises, remembers and sees.
Content
1. Emma Levine describes her experiences throughout the Karachi Races in ASia
Purpose
1. Account of her experience.: solidify her experiance
Emotions she experiences
1. Roller-coaster-like experiences
  1. Initially:
    1. Carefree
    2. Excitement
  2. Near Ending
    1. Suspence
  3. Ending
    1. Humour and relief
  4. Middle
    1. Danger
    2. Chaos
  5. Ultimately --> Unpredictability makes the text humorous, exciting, entertaining and suspencfull
    1. BUILD UP OF TENSION THROUGHOUT TEXT

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