If you have taken the time to watch films based on the life of athletes from rags to riches, you might find that although the World’s fastest Indian is based on a similar storyline the director Roger Donaldson has managed to capture the story of a simple old New Zealander rather than usual story of […]

In the Bonneville attempt scene In the film, the Worlds fastest Indian directed by Rodger Donaldson, The director uses the sound in order to show Intensity and the character importance of the event. there are many different ways sound is used to prove the meaning for Burt to race his much loved “Indian” in a […]

Worlds fastest Indian Burt Munro an old bloke from Invercargill with a dream of riding his life long project his 47-year-old Indian, in the Bonneville Salt flats. Burt is well known in his small community for being a loud and childish Adult who brings a positive and likeable presence and is also a master at […]

In the Text wild pork and Watercress by Barry Crump, the author uses idioms to create a “typical new Zealand” voice in his stories. one type of language feature he uses is an idiom. He chooses to use phrases like “Like hell I do” and “Goodnight Lamb” these idioms alongside the use of colloquial language, […]

Describe how one individual changed throughout the text and explain why the change was important to the text as a whole. The golden girl, Daisy was caught up in a dream world and this was her way of living. She lived off the wealth of other men and did so for her pure pleasure and […]

The curious case of Benjamin Button was a fascinating and creative short story turned into a deep knowledgable movie with very close similarities to the Great Gatsby another story by Fitzgerald. The movie wasn’t very appealing to my eyes at first but once I got to understand the story line and the struggles the main […]

On warm December days, the bitter hot sand sinks between my toes burning the ruff tissue off the soles of my feet until they are replaced with new layers of smooth skin. The sand found on the west coast wasn’t like any other white delicate sand, but instead, cruel, black and furious. Skipping across the […]

Describe three key characters and explain how they change throughout the novel. Nick: Just like Gatsby in a way Nick is out to seek his American Dream also from a small town Nick moves to east egg after the war to learn the bond business. We see that Nick gets stuck in a conflict much […]

Because Daisy was a rich young beautiful girl that many boys wanted which attracted Gatsby towards her. n the way George stares “into the twilight” by himself, there is an echo of what we’ve often seen Gatsby doing – staring at Daisy’s Dock. Both men want something unreachable. In distraught and anger after his wife’s […]

I think this is because often on a hot summers day, humans don’t function properly and this is most likely how Nick the “narrator” saw how Gatsby and Daisy weren’t acting like they usually would if Tom was around. The way Daisy talks towards Gatsby is noticeable in the way she says “you are always […]