Crossing Over

Sue did quite the job with interviewing both John Marsden and Alice Pung. It was very interesting in a different way to the session we watched this morning. It allowed us as readers to get the chance to have a glimpse into other classes of society. The whole idea of class and how each individual within a certain class looks at others. Alice mentioned how as a poor child all the things she considered beautiful were actually considered tacky to the kids who belonged to a higher class of society. John even had a lot to say about what it was like writing a historical piece and mentioned the book of Jobe within the piece. It was very interesting and something I would be considering to read. Each of the two authors had quite a lot to say and it was a shame that the session had to come to an end because each of their stories had significant impact on themselves as writers and on the characters within their pieces of text.