It is a Critical Response to a Short Story written by Patricia Grace
I wrote it as an example of how to critically respond to a character in a story.
One of my learning goals was to analyse a character from a short story and give evidence from the text to support my judgements and comments about the character.
I achieved this because I learn't to analyse a character and give evidence from the text to support my judgements and comments.
Learning Intention: I am learning to analyse character in a short story, giving evidence from the text to support my judgements.
It Used to be Green Once written by Patricia Grace a story based in the 70’s it is about children telling a story about there embarrassing mother the main focus of this critical response is on the main character Mum.
Mum was a maori because in the text her friends and relations called out maori words and also she gave the kids maori names for eg Peti and Raana and also some slang language like “Hey you fullas who shot your pears” was used in this story in the text the author also used some maori words like Kai.
Mum was also very dominant because Peri refused to go to school and she wouldn’t go swimming and she sat outside the gate and mum would yell “Get up off the road my girl theres nothing wrong with those togs” then she quoted that she had to swim naked when she was a child. Also the kids wished to do the shopping so they wouldn’t be embarrassed by her but she just said “no” she was also dominant because the kids said they could never win an argument.
Another quality Mum had was shamelessness she didn’t really care what people thought about her purple dress that she made from a Japanese bedspread and her floppy blue sunhat and her slippers and galoshes. She also tooted the horn at her relatives and friends and some people might of heard the horn and gone “Gosh the must be shameful” but she won’t care.
But mum was also very generous because when the dad won fifty thousand dollars all the dad brought was a tractor and a new milking shed and mum got a new car and some dresses and the kids got shoes, bags, clothes, togs and better lunches and new bedspreads and a piano.
Personally I think that I wouldn’t want a mum like that because she was so embarrassing but she had a lot of other features like generosity , reuses materials, helpful, kind and caring but she did not change once she got the new car and Patricia Grace gave hints to stuff like that she was maori and thats what makes a great short story.
It Used to Be Green Once
My Writing is called It used to be green once.It is a Critical Response to a Short Story written by Patricia Grace
I wrote it as an example of how to critically respond to a character in a story.
One of my learning goals was to analyse a character from a short story and give evidence from the text to support my judgements and comments about the character.
I achieved this because I learn't to analyse a character and give evidence from the text to support my judgements and comments.
Learning Intention: I am learning to analyse character in a short story, giving evidence from the text to support my judgements.
It Used to be Green Once written by Patricia Grace a story based in the 70’s it is about children telling a story about there embarrassing mother the main focus of this critical response is on the main character Mum.
Mum was a maori because in the text her friends and relations called out maori words and also she gave the kids maori names for eg Peti and Raana and also some slang language like “Hey you fullas who shot your pears” was used in this story in the text the author also used some maori words like Kai.
Mum was also very dominant because Peri refused to go to school and she wouldn’t go swimming and she sat outside the gate and mum would yell “Get up off the road my girl theres nothing wrong with those togs” then she quoted that she had to swim naked when she was a child. Also the kids wished to do the shopping so they wouldn’t be embarrassed by her but she just said “no” she was also dominant because the kids said they could never win an argument.
Another quality Mum had was shamelessness she didn’t really care what people thought about her purple dress that she made from a Japanese bedspread and her floppy blue sunhat and her slippers and galoshes. She also tooted the horn at her relatives and friends and some people might of heard the horn and gone “Gosh the must be shameful” but she won’t care.
But mum was also very generous because when the dad won fifty thousand dollars all the dad brought was a tractor and a new milking shed and mum got a new car and some dresses and the kids got shoes, bags, clothes, togs and better lunches and new bedspreads and a piano.
Personally I think that I wouldn’t want a mum like that because she was so embarrassing but she had a lot of other features like generosity , reuses materials, helpful, kind and caring but she did not change once she got the new car and Patricia Grace gave hints to stuff like that she was maori and thats what makes a great short story.
Carter Horsup
Room 29