English Connections topic questions

For our new English topic, we are looking at different stories told from a child's perspective instead of adults. For example, Jojo Rabbit tells the story of a Nazi child.

1. How does viewing this text through a child’s perspective change the way we experience it? Explain using an example from the text? Seeing it through a child's eye adds a sense of "innocence" to it. Most people don't relate these types of things to children since most don't think about how it can affect a child. When shown through a child's eye it amplifies the effect, you are made to feel much worse when you see a kid get manipulated into being a Nazi rather than an adult. For example, when Jojo is having a conflict in his head about Elsa he talks about how she isn't that bad of a person, but he stutters while he says it and somewhat struggles with it. This shows he is having a big conflict about it making it much more impactful

2. How would this text be different if it were told from the perspective of an adult? How would the audience’s experience be different? When looking through an adults eye the movie can't have the same impact for certain aspects. For example, Jojo rabbit wouldn't work if you saw it through Captain K's point of view. Sure he's funny in the movie but if the setting was around him you can't have the same creative jokes as Jojo had. You cant start the movie off with Captain K running around the city saluting people and shouting heil Hitler unlike with Jojo

3. Why did the filmmaker or author decide to tell this story from a child’s perspective? Because it is much easier to and more effective to convey the message the director aims to achieve from a child perspective. The point of the film is to make fun of Nazis while showing how serious this type of thing is which is hard to achieve from a non-child perspective.