 Let's look at how we can tackle the comparative question number five. Now let's examine question number five. The question asks, compare how writers present the ideas and perspectives about their experiences. Support your answer with detailed examples from both texts including brief quotations. Now it's always important to focus in on your answer by highlighting key words. Of course, firstly, you're being asked to compare the unseen text to Emma Levine's text from the anthology, and of course this is ideas and perspectives about their experiences. So for both texts, both the unseen texts in Levine, there's some kind of race against time involved. Whilst Levine is following and is part of a race that's chasing Kibla donkeys who are racing against each other. In the unseen text we have the writer whose father is trying to race to pick their mum up on time at the airport, but it's a fairly treacherous journey. Now, of course, do you remember that you constantly need to quote, now this is a 22 mark question, meaning you should also include an introduction and conclusion at a minimum of three separate points, making some language points here and some structure points there. So let's have a look at how I approach answering it. Whilst Levine appears to present her excitement and thrill of witnessing the race of the Kibla donkeys and being part of the convoy of cars that are chasing the donkeys, Ashley appears to show a sense of fear and trepidation at how fast her father is driving to the airport. Although both articles appear to show what seems to be a race, the destinations and aims are different. In Levine's article, the race follows a traditional race between animals whilst in Ashley's article she describes a chaotic drive to pick up her mother. So as you can see here in my introduction of briefly in a nutshell summarised how the extracts are similar because they're both depict races, but they're different in terms of the destinations and the aims. Now remember for your introduction and conclusion, you should spend no more than two minutes on each, okay? It's not something that you should be taking too much time to develop, it's something just really briefly you summarise in a nutshell the two extracts and then you move on. So let's look at my first point. Firstly, both writers show the contrasting experience through use and first verse narrative. Text one starts with dialogue from the writer's father who tells them to get a move on you donkeys. This exclamatory sentence suggests that he is frustrated and it shows a sense of urgency which captures the reader's attention. On the other hand in text two, the opening of the extract appears far more relaxed and calm and like text one where Ashley is harshly told by father Tahari, Levine in text two describes a passive and calm mood at the viewing spot. The opening of text one immediately captures our attention as readers as we can see that Ashley's father is late, however he senses tension could be as a result of trying to please his wife and he's afraid that arriving late at the airport will make her furious. On the other hand, the opening of text two is far more calm as they are seeking a good area to watch the race and this builds up. Our sense of anticipation is readers because like Levine, we become curious to see the race. So, and this should be arriving late at the airport. Now, as you can see here, I've consistently compared the two. Now, I've began by firstly comparing how they use first person narrator. Okay, so both of them do and actually that's the similarity in terms of the techniques. Then I talk about I make a structural point here when I'm talking about the unseen extract because I talk about an exclamatory sentence. Then I immediately contrast it with text two. So, a lot of people when they're comparing they get things wrong. They assume comparing two texts is in one paragraph they're right about just one text and then the second paragraph they're right about two texts. No, that's not comparing that's talking about just two separate texts and separate paragraphs. To compare, you need to consistently compare even within each paragraph. Okay, so I've began by talking about how both writers use first person narrative already that's comparative. Then I give my first example from text one, then I give the example from text two to follow. So this is the calm mood in the viewing spot. Then I'll go back to text one. How does this capture our attention? How does this link back to the question in terms of the experience? Then I link it to text two. Okay, so I'll go literally from text one to text two, then text one, text two, then text one, text two within the same paragraph. Okay. And as you can see here, in terms of language and structure, this is an exclamatory sentence for instance. Okay, so here for instance, I've talked about the exclamatory sentence and I've made kind of point relating to how text one the dad is very, very impatient whilst as this really, really calm, quiet mood in terms of the viewing spot in text two. Okay, so let's move on to my second point. In both texts, there's a clear similarity in the position of the main characters, as both have the main characters in speeding cars. In text one, we can see Ashleigh's terror at being in such a fast moving vehicle as she chatted away, terrified my father would go too fast and get us killed. The author uses onomatopoeia chatted as well as violent language terrified and killed to show how fearful she is as a passenger in such a rapidly moving car. In text two, Levine is in a similar position being in a fast moving car that is driving dangerously. She describes it as being in formula one without rules or a city centre rush hour gone anarchic. Levine's use of metaphor when she describes the driver's formula one coupled with the hyperbole anarchic shows how rogue and wild the driving is in Karachi. In both texts, we as readers see just how terrifying and intense the experience of being in speeding cars is. In the case of text one, the narrator is in a car that is racing towards a destination into text two, the author is in a car trying to keep up with rapid animals. So here, again in this second paragraph, I've talked about how both cars, both authors in both texts, they share the similarity of being in speeding cars. However, the difference is firstly in text one, the narrator is really terrified so the narrator actually is actually really scared. However, in text two, so Emma Levine is actually really excited in such a scary kind of crazy drive. Then I've mentioned language points, so onomatopoeia in relation to text one, metaphor and hyperbole in relation to text two. Then I've linked it back to the question, linked it back to their ideas and perspectives and how whilst both are similar in the sense that they're both in speeding cars, the ideas and perspectives are actually quite different whilst Ashley seems quite terrified. Levine finds this actually really, really exciting, really different and of course also the other difference is whilst Ashley is racing to see her mum, Levine is racing or rather isn't a car that's racing to keep up with the wild animal, the Kibler donkey. Let's look at my next point. Further, more text one ends with the writer's thoughts about her father's character which was his tension in his marriage with her mother as it seems like her father is highly disorganised and he does not prioritise his wife. However, this stands in contrast to the ending of text two as the author discovers a driver, you cube is underage that she should not have been driving and there's an element of humour in this chaotic race that does not end with a clear winner. In text one, Ashley asks triple rhetorical questions including why did daddy always have to be late when it comes to mummy? This ending suggests the writer's curiosity about her father and mother's strange relationship as it appears her father never prioritised getting ready for her mother's arrival. However, in text two there's a distinctly humorous tone when Levine states that an inexperienced underage driver in the middle of a high stakes donkey race could of course problems. The writer uses euphemism at the end of the passage to create a sense of hilarity in the situation which makes us to read a sense how chaotic but also humorous Karachi could be. Text one's use of colloquial language referring to mummy and daddy connotes a sense of simplicity and innocence yet the writer can still see a strong feeling of tension between her parents thus the reunion does not end joyfully as we would have expected. Yet text two, the complex sentence coupled with the adjectives inexperienced underage driver illustrate the image of a rogue driver who could of course problem however the unexpected twist is that Yakuube instead led Levine to reflect on how hilarious the entire bizarre situation really was. Again here I've actually ended by looking at the ending so structure of both text one and text two and how they end really differently so whilst text one ends with the writer actually realising how much tension there exists between her mum and dad. Emma Levine ends by realising just how chaotic and crazy the whole race was and it's even made more crazy in chaotic because she was being driven and chaperoned by someone who was too young to drive so there's a real humorous end to the Levine extracts this is text two whilst the end of text one is somewhat melancholic it's not a great feeling perhaps as a child to realise that your parents have a lot of tension and they're not necessarily getting on so of course here again I've began by talking about the writer's father's character right and of course this is reflected in how he's driving he doesn't he drove really quickly because he was totally disorganised and this is in contrast to how Yakuube so the driver is different so you've got the dad the older you know driver who is at the correct age to drive and he's driving his children whilst Yakuube is underage okay but actually there's quite humorous for Levine she likes this rogue element then I supported this talking by linking to a structural point for text one and of course the language point I've used for text two so the euphemism could of course problems this idea of him being underage driving and being discovered this could of course problems that's an understatement that's what we call a euphemism okay using polite language to refer to something that's maybe harsher and of course also another language point I've made is colloquial language colloquial language is just a fancy way of saying informal language okay now here the informal language is related to text one where the writer is talking about mommy and daddy which of course also shows that she's a young girl okay then I've linked it of course to Yakuube and how he's a rogue driver but actually there's a sense of humor that's created because of all of this so of course the general point I've made was actually a structure point because I've also focused on the ending of both passages and compared the two so that's a good my conclusion to conclude both writers show the sense of excitement and thrill through describing the chaotic settings in which they're driven through whilst both texts use the first person narrative and both convey the experience of passively having to sit in a dangerous car and witness chaotic scenes text one shows experience from a child's eye whilst text two shows experience from an older foreign writer's viewpoint the tone of text one is a mix of terror as well as tension as we can see there may be some problems between the writer's father and mother however the tone of text two is far me humorous and uplifting as it seems that the author finds a unique experience of being in such a foreign environment entertaining and intriguing so I've closed by comparing and generally summarizing both and talking about the similarities and differences so that's really it when it comes to this question in the paper