A successful essay.
- A clear intro that lets the reader know what text you are writing about and how you are going to address the topic/ question in your essay.
- Focuses on the one aspect that the question/ topic is asking you o write about.
- Make three points about this aspect.
- Contains specific details, quotes or references from the text to support each point.
- Makes clear statements explaining how each point/ example links back to the topic and address the question.
Author: George Orwell
Prep
Animal Farm, by George Orwell
In the beginning, when Mr. Jones left, Napoleon in a flash took the place of being in charge of the farm. he changes from being a normal animal, like all others. To becoming the farm leader. His characteristics changed dramatically throughout the story.
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The novel that I am going to be writing an essay on is “Animal Farm” by George Orwell. Napoleon is a normal animal, he eats the same food and sleeps on the same hay, but he changes dramatically throughout the story, he becomes more human-like, he becomes stubborn, selfish and ruthless as such if they were in a war, constantly.
S: Statement – A sentence that writes what the paragraph will be about.
E: Explain – Further explain what the statement means.
X: eXample – provide an example that backs up your statement.
Y: Your opinion – The most important part of the paragraph.
Your opinion needs:
3 elements of developing your opinion in your essay.
- Director’s / writer’s purpose
- Intertextuality
- Link back to your statement.
Directors purpose:
This is what you believe the director or writer is trying to say.
What did the director or writer do to lead you to make the
The statement you made?
How is this shown?
Was it successful?
Intertextuality:
Also called intertextuality this refers to making references outside of the novel or film you are writing about.
This could include:
Other novels or films that relate to your statement.
Examples are taken from the real world that relates.
How the reader/ viewer would respond.
Linking back:
This is used to restate the topic of the paragraph presented in the S.
This is used to tidy up.
Conclusion: the purpose of a conclusion is to summarise the information from the essay.
It must cover:
- Title of text/ film.
- Relate back to and utilize wording form question
- Restate what was in your 3 body paragraphs
Describe one key idea and explain why it is significant.
Friendship
The key part of friendship is that if you go down they go with you, as such in ‘animal farm’ when Napoleon took charge, the animals soon found out that Napoleon is bad and he is doing everything for himself. The animals try to make Napoleon stop his selfishness and his brutality. Whilst the animals are trying to stop Napoleon, he is getting more brutally drunk and making things worse.
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The key part of friendship is that if you go down you go down together such as in the novel and film, “Animal Farm” by George Orwell. When Napoleon goes corrupt, the farm animals try and fix the farm, together.
When Napoleon decides to make the animals do more work for him, they realized that he was selfish and he did everything for himself. When boxer got injured and went to the so-called ‘doctors’ he was actually going to be slaughtered and used for other items, but the others tried to convince him not to go.
When a friend advises you to not do something you should take that into consideration, because, when boxer left he couldn’t see the sign because it was facing the floor, but when he got in and they closed the door the others could see what it said, it said “slaughterhouse” and the others tried to make boxer come out as quickly as he could but he couldn’t, he wouldn’t.
Friendship is one of the most important things in life, it shows this in animal farm, whilst Napoleon was changing the farm, the farm animals had the idea of making their farm theirs and make it a better place, again, together.
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