Critacal+Response+(Kaha)


 * Literacy - Writing Sample**

My Writing is called Kaha

It is a Critical Response to a Short Story written by Linda Chatterton

I wrote it as an example of how to critically respond to a character in a story.

One of my learning goals was to analyse a character from a short story and give evidence from the text to support my judgements and comments about the character.

I achieved this because: I used evidance from the text to supportr my jugements and I used comments about the character.

Kaha Critical Response
 * Teacher Comment**

In the story ”Kaha” by Linda Chatterton the whole story was based on her dog Kaha living with the narrator. Kaha was a mean but had was calm when he wanted to be.

Kaha was a seafood loving dog because in the story it says “But man he liked seafood he loved Oysters, Pipis and eels”. Most days he went through the mangroves and go eeling and puke on the kitchen floor. And the next day Kaha would go back through the mangroves eeling the next day.

Kaha was mean but when he wanted to be he could be calm beecause he got in fights and got draged home battered and brosed because in the story it says that “many a time I had to brake up a scrap and drag him home batered and brosed”. WIth calm in the winter because he sits by the fire listning to her storys when she was little. because it says in the story “ Winter nights by the fire he’d listen to my stories about growing up on the kaipara”.

He also didnt care about what other people thought about him because people treatend to shot him and another said “there was no room for his short around here”. And in the story it said that the locals were wary of him, but did he care,NO.

He was a stirrer because he pick fights and got draged home batted and brosed. In the story it says “He was a bit of a stirrer”.

Overall Linda Chatterton describe Kaha well like the owner saying he was a stirrer and the whole town was wary of him. If I close my eyes I can get a picture in my mind of Kaha. The story was really awosme aswell.