Ms. Dominico’s Year 12 VCE English Class

Some questions to consider:

1. What is reality?
2. Is there such a thing as objective reality, or does every individual’s perceptions of reality differ – a subjective reality?
3. How might we become aware that our perception of reality is not the same as another person’s?

4. When might we become concerned that someone else perceives reality in a way that is different from our own?
5. When does it matter whether of not different people share the same perception of reality? In such cases, how might those concerned try to establish ‘the facts’?
6. Whose version of ‘the facts’ is more likely to prevail when there is a dispute?
7. What does it take for someone to keep believing that their version of reality is accurate, even though other people question it or deny it?
8. What qualities or characteristics does writing need to have for us to ‘suspend disbelief’ and enter into an imaginary world created buy the author?
9. What qualities or characteristics of a text might make it harder for us to ‘suspend disbelief’?