- Year 9
How Simon Armitage writes about climate change in 'Futurama'
I can respond to how Armitage presents ideas of the future and climate change in ‘Futurama’.
- Year 9
How Simon Armitage writes about climate change in 'Futurama'
I can respond to how Armitage presents ideas of the future and climate change in ‘Futurama’.
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Key learning points
- Armitage was inspired to write ‘Futurama’ by the COP 26 climate crisis summit.
- Armitage suggests that ‘Futurama’ describes ideas of uncertainty and anxiety.
- Armitage suggests that writing from an individual perspective is important because we all have different opinions.
- Moreover, Armitage suggests that writing from a mass perspective can sound too much like political speech.
Keywords
Apocalyptic - showing or describing the total destruction and end of the world, or extremely bad future events
Uncertainty - a situation in which something is not known or certain
Anxiety - a feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease about something with an uncertain outcome
Perspective - a way of regarding situations, facts, etc, and judging their relative importance
Metaphor - a word or a phrase used to describe something as if it were something else
Common misconception
You should try to speak for other people in your writing.
We all have slightly different opinions and ideas, so you should try to communicate your ideas and emotions to other people through your writing.
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