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2008 — Trial Higher School Certificate Examination, English (Standard & Advanced), Paper 1 Page 4 Text Three Introduction to a book about journeys called Come Away With Me Down a dirt road on the north coast of New South Wales is a place of childhood perfection. I won't tell you where it is, for I still occasionally visit and love it with a possessive ferocity. Lakes of warm water are fringed by grey eucalypts and hairy melaleuca; paths through pockets of temperate rainforest lead to white sand pummelled by wild waves; dirt roads echo with the songs of children. It's a place where it always seems sunny by day and moonlit by night. A place where I will always feel safe and loved. Every time I walk along a beach, I am transported back to this place and to a time when life was simple and uncluttered. It's as if each wave washes away another layer of hardened adulthood. If I walk for long enough, the years fall onto the sand and I can almost look down to see skinny, scabby, 10-year-old knees. We all carry within us every travel experience, right back to our first family holiday. So, most travel tales reveal as much about the writer and the life they have lived as about the place they are set. Come Away With Me is a collection of journeys to ten very different places, captured by the hearts and minds of ten different writers. Vietnam is seen through the eyes of Peter Moore, a bloke who always seems to attract good luck and then rides it with such serene engagement and good humour that he cannot help but go far and have fun. Nick Earls finds London triggers a wider trip around the extraordinary planet that is his mind. It's a tour of a universe of emotion, including pain, regret, embarrassment, fatigue, loss and obsessive thoughts about Kmart sex. Only Nikki Gemmell could possibly find that Dumbo, Tinkerbell and Mickey Mouse trigger the musings of Leo Tolstoy and Denise Levertov, while teaching her that the joy of a place can be in appreciating the passion it instills in others. I find at this time in my life I cannot clearly relive the many places I have been. Utterly absorbed in new motherhood, I find it impossible to transport myself out of the country of love, bewilderment and frustration I've discovered, but realised 1 can never conquer. e’ When anyone travels, they are, to some degree, transported beyond the routines and rituals of everyday existence. As Irris Makler says in her story about Russian steam, sweat and love, the traveller is ‘fresh minted with each e/, exchange'. This means we mutate in order to absorb more of a new place. In Christopher Kremmer's fictional journey through Portugal, the characters dye their hair when they cross a border. This adoption of a new identity liberates one of them enough to embrace the risks of doomed love but it cannot withstand the threats brought about by the proximity and constancy of companionship with friends. Christopher's story will bring back horror moments for many travellers when they recognise those fractious alliances that form on the road. Weeks of waiting in Sri Lanka transform Tim Elliott's desire for adventure into a risky search for knowledge. A stranger in a strange land spends much time and energy trying to come to some sort of understanding about that land. Yet this is always a slippery goal. Preconceptions are often shattered; Tim will neverlook at a monk in the same way again and finds the more he leams the less he knows. Landing in a place you've long dreamed of visiting can destroy fantasies. Annette Shun Wah cannot begin to discover her China until she exorcises the ghost of the country that haunts her heart - a ghost created by her father's story of a place that cannot exist today. She then battles to understand a land that is a part of her in the way that an appendix is part of a body. Tony Davis searches for the “real’ Japan; a Japan as he needs it to be and, of course, can find only fleetingly. He comes to understand that memory can be the only preservation of place. Much of the understanding a traveller gains about another land comes by living the little intimacies of life and adopting the etiquette of a culture. In her story Caroline Overington takes on the pleasure of parading around in her underwear in high-rise New York and then learns to squelch through the flooded, goblin-infested corridors of her underground flat. Intimacy can come in the new tastes, sounds and smells of a place and the fleeting but sometimes acutely enlightening connections we make with others along the road. In reality, travel can make a person feel elated, enraptured and fulfilled. It can also bring up feelings of anxiety, loneliness and isolation. Yet every journey offers a pathway to understanding that is always (even if only in retrospect) worth making. Sharing the stories of others is a less rigorous (but hopefully as rewarding) process. While you will take journeys through emotions, thoughts and feelings in this book, you will also meet the man who is fleecing Donald Trump, discover the danger of the South-Asian dinner party, learn what Marlon Brando really meant when he talked about “the horror' in Vietnam and find a new use for kitchen implements. If Nick Earls is right and ideas travel better than we do, then you've picked the right way to travel! Enjoy as you come away with us. Sarah Macdonald
2008 — Trial Higher School Certificate Examination, English (Standard & Advanced), Paper 1 Page 5 Questions: Marks Text one — Song Lyric (a) How is the emotional effect of the journey highlighted in this song? @:5 Text two - Advertisment (b) Explain, in your own words, the phrase “maiden voyage”. e (c) How do the visual and language features communicate the special nature of this journey? 3 Text three — Introduction to a book about journeys called Come Away with Me (d) Why is Come Away With Me a suitable title for this book? N (e) How does Sarah Macdonald use structure and language to encourage readers to @)‘3\ continue reading this book? Texts one, two and three ® All three texts communicate the idea that journeys have a significant impact on those @\%‘% who undertake them. How is this idea presented in TWO of the texts? Support your ideas by close reference to language forms, features and structures used by the composers of both texts, as well as brief examples to support your argument.
2008 — Trial Higher School Certificate Examination, English (Standard & Advanced), Paper 1 Page 6 Section I Total marks (15) Attempt Question 2 Allow about 40 minutes for this section Answer the question in a separate writing booklet. Extra writing booklets are available. In your answer you will be assessed on how well you: « express understanding of the journey in the context of your studies « use language appropriate to audience, purpose and context Question 2 (15 marks) Use ONE of the following quotations as a central idea for a piece of writing that explores the impact a journey may have. a) “A place of childhood perfection.” OR b) “This voyage is more extraordinary than most.” OR c) “Landing in a place vou've long dreamed of visiting can destrov fantasies.”
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2008 — Trial Higher School Certificate Examination, English (Standard & Advanced), Paper 1 Page 7 Section ITI Total marks (15) Attempt ONE question from Questions 3-5 Allow about 40 minutes for this section Answer the question in a separate writing booklet. Extra writing booklets are available. In your answer you will be assessed on how well you: « demonstrate understanding of the concept of the journey in the context of your study - analyse, explain and assess the ways the journey is represented in a variety of texts « organise, develop and express ideas using language appropriate to audience, purpose and context Question 3 (15 marks) Focus — Physical Journeys “Bvery journey offers a pathway to understanding that is always worth making.” Evaluate this statement in relation to the texts you have studied. In your answer, refer closely to your prescribed text and at least TWO other related texts of your own choosing. The prescribed texts are: « Prose Fiction Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn * Drama Michael Gow, Away « Film Phillip Noyce, Rabbit-Proof Fence + Nonfiction Jesse Martin, Lionheart e Poetry Peter Skrzynecki, Immigrant Chronicle ‘Immigrants at Central Station, 1951°, Feliks Skrzynecki,” ‘Crossing the Red Sea’, ‘Immigrants at Central Station’, ‘Leaving home,” ‘Migrant hostel,” ‘A drive in the country’, ‘Post card’. OR
2008 — Trial Higher School Certificate Examination, English (Standard & Advanced), Paper 1 Page 8 Question 4 (15 marks) Focus: Imaginative Journeys “The world would be a less interesting place without the range of experiences imaginative journeys provide.” Evaluate this statement in relation to your response to the imaginative journeys of individuals in the texts you have studied. In your answer, refer closely to your prescribed text, ONE text from the prescribed stimulus booklet, Journeys, and at least ONE other related text of your own choosing The prescribed texts are: * Prose Fiction Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game s Drama William Shakespeare, The Tempest « Film Robert Zemeckis, Contact » Nonfiction Melvyn Bragg, On Giants’ Shoulders * Poetry Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1834)’, “This Lime- Tree Bower My Prison’, ‘Frost at Midnight’, ‘Kubla Khan’ OR Question 5 (15 marks) Focus: Inner Journeys “The world would be a less interesting place without the inspiration inner journeys provide.” Evaluate this statement in relation to your response to the inner journeys of individuals in the texts you have studied. In your answer, refer closely to your prescribed text, ONE text from the prescribed stimulus booklet, Journeys, and at least ONE other related text of your own choosing The prescribed texts are: * Prose Fiction JG Ballard, Empire of the Sun ¢ Drama Louis Nowra, Cosi e Film Roberto Benigni, Life is Beautiful » Prose Fiction Sally Morgan, My Place e Poetry Ken Watson (ed) Imagined Corners End of paper