Short film
Strangers
What is the name of a short film about a Jewish man and Muslim man meeting on a train?
Mainly chronological with some flashbacks.
Describe the narrative structure of Borders.
Sergei
What is the name of the protagonist in 'What of This Goldfish Would You Wish?
Onomatopoeia
What literary device describes the words 'hissing', 'shattered', 'belches.'?
She was a 'catalogue bride'?
How did Ken's father meet his mother?
Islamic wording on a newspaper.
How does the Jewish man recognize that the man sitting opposite him is Muslim?
Border
What is a conceptual line devised by the movement of people, politics and/or war.
For the lungs of his sister to be cleared of cancer.
What was Sergei's first wish from the fish?
Where railway yards are now.
Where did dark children once play?
The paper menagerie represents these ideas.
What short story represents Jack's dual cultural heritage and his mother's love?
Discomfort evolves into fear and panic.
What happens when the Jewish man's cell phone calls with a ring tone of the Israeli anthem?
This story element helps us understand the narrator's innocence at the time.
What does the first person narration help us to understand?
In Russia soldiers would frequently knock on random doors of Jewish people and would beat them up.
Why did Sergei hate anyone knocking on his door?
no more
What repletion emphasizes images of the aborliginal woman's past that she has lost?
When he hears the local ladies who come to visit them in their new home talking about him.
When does Jack first become aware that his mother, and himself, are different?
Close ups show these features.
What camera action shows such features as the Arabic script, the Star of David, the book the 'skinhead' places in front of The Muslim man's crotch.
This literary device highlights the mother's stubbornness.
What is the effect of the repletion of the mother's conversation with the guards at each border?
Trauma suffered by Jewish people in Europe.
What event does Sergeis' fears and loneliness draw attention to?
These are a symbol of her success in the White world.
What do her dress and shoes symbolise?
These stages of Jack's growth are revealed through a linear, first-person narrative with occasional flashbacks to earlier childhood.
How does the narrative style help shows us Jack's path from a child, to a rebellious teen, to an indifferent adult and finally to growth and resolution?
This is symbolized by the train tracks between them.
What image symbolizes that despite their discovered connection, they will continue to exist in two different cultural worlds.
A symbol of historical conflict.
What does the boy's focus on the guns, and his observation of the guards 'swaggering like cowboys' symbolize?
The fact that the fish was his captive, never his friend.
What is the saddest bit of this story?
'Isn't she lucky to have a good job!'
What line uses sarcasm to highlight the racist attitude toward as an aboriginal woman with a good job?
This theme is revealed through Jack's internal conflict regarding his Chinese mother.
How are the themes of migrant cultures and assimilation conveyed?