English Literature A AQA- Contextual linking (Struggle for identity)

The genres only ever consist the following genres:
- Gender
- Ethnicity
- Sexual orientation
- Religion
- Cultural diversity
- Class
- Discrimination
- Alienation and dislocation

In every unseen extract, you'd normally see around a minimum of two of those genres.

Ok, I understand. So how would someone know which theme best describes the extract. The one on the Nazi's and exploitation in Nigeria, would they be discrimination? I wouldn't understand how exploitation of oil is discrimination- rather to me it seems like something political. I wouldn't know what to compare that with.

You don't necessarily have to in cooperate the genre of the unseen text when linking, as long as you compare/contrast the stylistic features and it's touches upon the genres listed. Although, when you look at the unseen in detail, you find links everywhere.

For the exploitation of oil in Nigeria, autonomy is a key genre (imo) which links in with alienation and dislocation. Class is also a genre which is portrayed through the use of semantic fields in the introductory paragraph referring to the legal, political and economical sectors; all of which control the country.

I would compare one point to The Kite Runner in which the main protagonist, Amir, suffers from a life long sense of guilt and regret. The writer Hosseini portrays his sense of dislocation through the use of kites, symbolising autonomy and childhood. Contrasts with the unseen text because of the entirely different context, but simultaneously compares because of the feeling of dislocation they both feel.

Wow, thank you. What books have you read so far? I'm not exactly sure what to read at this point. I don't want to do too many different books but ones that go with many themes that I would remember well. Any suggestions on novels, any plays or poems that could match most themes?