This letter is meant to convince you to introduce Kate McCaffrey’s novel ‘Destroying Avalon’, a book about cyber-bullying and prejudice, into the Australian English Curriculum for year 10 students. I believe that this novel is beneficial to year 10 students as the characters are mostly year 10s, the graphic, colloquial language and the realistic struggles of high school students would connect the readers to the morals and messages of this novel. I believe that some of the most important themes explored by McCaffrey in this novel are ambition and jealousy. A year 10 reader would connect and relate to these themes by the fact that every character’s, in every social group, actions is based off of these attributes. A year 10 student could connect to the themes in this book by looking at the times in their own life where they have been ambitious to upgrade their position in their social group (e.g. to the leader) or where they have been jealous of someone in a higher position then they are and then could be able to see what the consequences of their actions if they were to go to the extremes of their ambition and jealousy. I believe the themes in this book would help someone understand the mental struggles and pain of someone who is bullied and …show more content…
They might also see negative qualities that they may have such as they prejudice and spite that Jeremy and Alice have. Year 10 students would connect to these characters as they could see how someone who shares qualities acts in a situation so they could then think about how they’d respond in the same situation which might mean they are more comfortable with themselves or create empathy with people they would have otherwise