Essay Planning

As we get closer to writing the actual written text essay, we've began planning an essay without help. The hypothetical essay question for today is Describe a relationship in the book and how it helps us understand one of the characters. Our original plan was to write one paragraph about the relationship between the three characters, the second about how Fi affects Homer and Ellie's relationship, and the final one about how this affects the story overall. However, Miss Johnson advised that we instead do a paragraph dedicated to each relationship. We had to write a few quick paragraphs based off these ideas.

Paragraph 1 Example

Ellie and Homer's relationship is the most clear one in the story. Ellie describes their relationship 'As I didn't have a brother and he didn't have a sister, we'd sort of adopted each other." which tells us that they've grown close to each other and consider themselves practically related. This relationship causes Ellie to be confused as she talks about how she's jealous of Fi and Homer's relationship, which is romantic. This helps us understand Ellie as it tells us about her experience with romantic feelings and how she doesn't fully understand her feelings in general. As she grows and develops throughout the story, she also becomes more mature which allows her to understand what she's feeling and why. 

Because my group have all finished Tomorrow, When the War Began, Miss Johnson has allowed us to write an essay about any book we want. I've decided to do either Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, or The Deathly Hallows.