Mock SAC topics for next Thursday

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Island SAC Topics – Thursday 9 March KWC 8:25 (60 minutes – no notes, dictionary allowed). 

Three of the following topics will be on next Thursday’s SAC…you are strongly advised to prepare four of these topics:

 

  1. How do MacLeod’s stories reveal the beauty and heartache of existence?

 

  1. ‘The landscape of Cape Breton exerts a powerful influence on the characters of Island.’ Discuss.

 

  1. ‘The stories in Island show that once you have left you cannot go home.’ Do you agree?

 

  1. MacLeod asserts that life is complicated, and that even history is a matter of perception. Do you agree?

 

  1. Tension between the traditional culture of the past and life in the present runs like a repeated refrain through all the stories in ‘Island¹. Discuss.

 

  1. “…We just can’t live in a clan system anymore. We have to see beyond ourselves and our own families.” In ‘Island’, family is the most dominating force over the lives of the characters. Discuss.