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Literacy connections - Coggle Diagram
Literacy connections
Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
Inner darkness / moral corruption
Alienation & isolation
Imperialism & colonial hypocrisy
Civilization vs savagery
literary techniques
Stream of consciousness
Symbolic river journey
Framed narrative (Marlow within an unnamed narrator)
literary devices
Irony (civilizing mission vs exploitation)
Foreshadowing (Kurtz’s fate)
Imagery (darkness/light)
contextual elements
Critique of late 19th-century colonialism
Author was a Polish-British writer navigating dual identity
British imperialism in Africa
The things they carried - Tim O'Brien
truth vs fiction
the burden of war
memory and trauma
guilt and storytelling
literary techniques
non-linear
unreliable narrator
metafiction
literary devices
Imagery (corpse, jungle, weight)
Juxtaposition (peaceful memories vs violent moments)
Symbolism (items carried = emotional burden)
contextual elements
American disillusionment
Trauma literature & therapeutic storytelling
Vietnam War
Chronicle of a Death Foretold – Gabriel García Márquez
gender roles
fate vs free will
honor and social expectations
collective responsibility
literary techniques
magical realism
repetition and circular storytelling
non-linear narrative
literary devices
Symbolism (knife, blood, weather)
Foreshadowing
Irony (everyone knew but no one acted)
contextual elements
Critique of machismo culture
Catholic influence on honor and guilt
Postcolonial Latin America
Death and the King’s Horseman – Wole Soyinka
Colonialism and Cultural Imperialism
Duty and Sacrifice
tradition vs modernity
collective responsibility
literary techniques
Ritual structure
tragedy mixed with satire
Use of Yoruba tradition
literary devices
Irony (Pilkings "saves" Elesin but destroys spiritual order)
Dialogue as tension
Symbolism (egungun costume, ritual drum)
contextual elements
Yoruba cosmology and death rites
Soyinka’s belief in cultural autonomy, not just anti-colonialism
post colonial Nigeria