Comparative: Introduction example

Question 1

G

Answer 1

History has been scarred with the everlasting trauma and pain left on marginalised communities as a result of oppression.

Question 2

S

Answer 2

Fred D’Aguiar’s multiperspective novel, ‘The Longest Memory,’ and Wesley Enoch and Deborah Mailman’s one-woman play, ‘The 7 stages of Grieving,’ explore how the depth or both sorrow and pain can result in the physical and emotional fragmentation of the human condition.

Question 3

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Answer 3

Although both author and playwrights lament the eradication of culture as a result of sorrow and pain, they also expose how grappling with sadness can result in the inevitable trauma through generations.