Lantana - Insight text guide

Insight Text Guides – Lantana is designed to help secondary English students understand and analyse the text. This comprehensive study guide to the Australian film directed by Ray Lawrence contains detailed character and chapter analysis and explores genre, structure, themes and language. Essay questions and sample answers help to prepare students for creating written responses to the text.

EACH TITLE FEATURES:

An overview of the text for quick reference, including notes on the author’s life and work, a plot synopsis, a character map and brief character summaries
Discussion of the historical, cultural and social contexts relevant to the text
Close analysis of each chapter/scene/story, with chapter questions
Detailed analysis of characters, themes and ideas
Discussion of different responses to and interpretations of the text
Guidelines on successful essay writing
Essay topics, a sample analysis of a topic and a sample essay on the text.

ISBN 9781920693565
About the writer:
Virginia Lee, BA (Hons), Dip. Ed., has been teaching Senior English since 1974 and has co-authored a number of secondary English and VCE textbooks. Her long association with Insight Publications includes writing the Insight Text Guides on The Great Gatsby, Year of Wonders and Lantana. She currently teaches at the VCE campus of Emmaus College, Burwood, Victoria.