IB YR 2 ENGLISH
WORKS IN TRANSLATION
SUPERVISED WRITING PROMPTS – IF THIS IS A MAN
Below is a list of prompts to help you in the process of writing your coursework essay. They are prompts only. You may find your thoughts developing and evolving from these starting points. This task is neither a plan nor a draft of the essay but rather an opportunity to reflect and write on the text and generate original observations, ideas and responses to the text. I think what the IB want to be able to record is a relationship – no matter how tenuous - between your first written thoughts and a final essay.
· The autobiography includes many minor characters. What do the minor characters contribute to the autobiography?
· To what extent do you find Primo Levi’s narrative voice a successful way of communicating the horrors of Auschwitz?
· How effective do you consider the settings in If This is a Man?
· How does Levi present himself and the other Haftlinge’s in If This is a Man?
