Creating a Chapbook: Initial Ideas

 Introduction to the project:

Include some research on chapbooks:


Form and Themes: Narrative - Life of a war plane

My initial idea was to describe a story of a post-World War Two bomber jet, the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress. I will be using first person perspective to describe the story. The story will go through the story of its production, it's position during the Vietnam War as well as the Cold War, and the current standing in the United States Air Force fleet and it's influence. Unlike most of the story that tend to be American Imperialism, my thought of the story is to bring up the idea of anti-war through the perspective of the bomber plane itself. 

I have read a book when I first arrived the UK last September. The book was called "Big Week: The Biggest Air Battle of World War Two", written by James Holland in 2018. The book was about different air battles from 1943 to 1944 in Europe during the World War II. It was a narrative novel of WWII air battle history, mainly focusing on the period of February 1944, also known as the Big Week, when some important battles were outbroken in the skies of the European territories. The book contained a lot of historical facts with a lot of detailed description. 

The book has used some literacy devices, including symbolism, simile and metaphor. Holland has used metaphor to describe the poor mental health of a pilot that "he already had a tough protective shell around himself", representing the pilot was enough to witness his fellow pilots dying in battles. He also used symbolism, as he wrote the names of the aircraft, such as "Mustang" to replace "P-51". Furthermore, he has used simile to describe the contrast between the devastating Italy and the UK, as he wrote "England was like the Garden of Eden", meaning that even though the UK being bombed, the environment was still better than that in Italy. There are a lot of examples that could not be fully listed, but the book gave me some ideas on how I can write my short story about the life of a bomber, such as adding some literacy language to describe the scenes or action more accurately. 


Reference List

Holland, J. (2019), Big Week : the biggest air battle of World War II, Corgi Books, Available at: https://books.google.co.uk/booksid=2YkkDwAAQBAJ&lpg=PP8&ots=rOvdpwJDcN&lr&pg=PP8#v=onepage&q&f=false, Accessed 13 Apr. 2024.

Comments

  1. Zoe Van-de-Velde11 February 2024 at 12:00

    Good that you have an idea but now you need to research and add to this post - look at other who write on similar themes and the style of writing that you may use.

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  2. Zoe Van-de-Velde24 April 2024 at 06:52

    Well done for adding to this and considering the writing you are looking at a little more

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