Life and Death: Death is a Fiction & Crossing the Bar
This blogpost includes the exercise of grade 9 English unit 4, two reading text Death is a Fiction and the poem Crossing the bars
Death is a Fiction T he concept of death is explored as a human construct rather than a firsthand experience. The text suggests that what we call death is merely an unknown dimension, yet it is a guaranteed part of our journey. Summary of the Text: Human beings have twisted and corrupted the understanding of existence. According to the speaker, inhalation is life, and since no one has firsthand information about the end, death remains a fiction created by people talking about what they do not know.
A. Vocabulary Matching Phrase One Word a thing that is imagined fiction a way of looking at something dimension to force somebody to leave dislodge faced somebody so that you could not avoid confronted to make somebody feel better solace B. Fill in the Blanks Death is a fiction created by human being. Ultimately, we are moving straight to the grave . According to the speaker, death is guaranteed . It is sure to happen. Human beings have corrupted everything, and they have twisted it whichever way the…