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What makes a text 'great'? - Coggle Diagram
What makes a text 'great'?
Readers care deeply about the characters (empathy)
Their joy is your joy
Their pain is your pain
Examples:
Romeo & Juliet, The Kite Runner, The Color Purple
It endures, remains relevant, is universal in its reach
The ideas remain beyond the time the text was created
It speaks to many different generations of reader
Examples:
The Diary of Anne Frank, To Kill a Mockingbird
Its construction is significant
Beautiful use of language or cinematography
*Highly original, creative or innovative
The narrative storyline is surprising or inventive
The themes are fresh and provocative
it is unconventional in techniques
It defies or invents genre
Examples:
The Things They Carried, A Monster Calls, The Book Thief, The Yellow Birds, Mortal Engines, poetry by e e cummings, Orphan Black, Dunkirk, Pan’s Labyrinth, West Side Story, Blade Runner 2049
It functions on many different levels
Ideas are complex revealing themselves slowly to the perceptive reader.
Examples:
Shutter Island, Arrival
The ending is powerful and provocative
It remains with you for a long time.
Examples:
The Great Gatsby, Animal Farm, The Lovely Bones, Atonement, The Shawshank Redemption
You are provoked to reread it, review it, rethink it
*It achieves its purpose
Your view of human experience is altered
Examples:
Pride & Prejudice, I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness, Yellowface
Your view of the world is changed
Examples:
Speak, 1984
Your view of society is transformed
Examples:
Uncle Tom's Cabin, Lord of the Flies
It has powerful emotional impact
It is heartbreaking
It inspires
It makes you angry
Examples:
Brokeback Mountain, Les Misérables, The Martian