You have been invited to present at an on-line conference by the organisation, Australian Youth Literary Alliance, Through Literature, Resilience.
Both fiction and non-fiction have tried to explore disaster and literature, exploring the role of disaster in literature, the impact on an individual and/or society, the outcome and changes and adaptation of human beings post disaster through selected literary works.
You are to select an approved substantive text, written or non-written that explores shipwrecks as its theme, for example a novel, a minimum of three short stories, or an approved film. (See suggested texts list on assessment task for inspiration).
You are to prepare an 8-10 minute investigation into the use of literature to explore the theme of shipwrecks, You need to investigate the main issues raised in text you have selected and the relevance of these issues to current and future society dealing with similar disasters or disasters in general.
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These books can be accessed through the catalogue
Life of Pi by 
Robinson Crusoe by 
The Merchant of Venice by 
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Audiobook: The Odyssey by Homer by
Two major epic poems came from ancient Greece and had the power to shape our culture for centuries. They are both attributed to the blind poet Homer, and are called Iliad and Odyssey. The Odyssey is the story of the Greek hero Odysseus, or Ulysses, who began a journey home after the fall of Troy. It will take him ten years of marvelous and terrible encounters before he finally reaches his native city, where everyone assumed he was dead. There will he find his wife Penelope, famously weaving and unweaving a never-ending tapestry while obnoxious suitors are competing for her hand. Once again, Odysseus will have to outsmart his opponents in order to be reunited with his family. The Iliad and the Odyssey are the oldest extant works of Western literature. They are of tremendous cultural importance, and their magic is still strongly alive.
Audiobook: The Tempest by 
Moby Dick by
Tells of one the most famous journeys in literature - the voyage of the whaling ship Pequod, with its scarred Captain Ahab and a universe of compelling crewmen, including the islander Queequeg, the harpooneer Fedallah, the mate Elijah, and Ishmael himself.
The Martian by 
