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På langsvarsdelen av eksamen vel du éi oppgåve å svare på. På dei aller fleste oppgåvene vil det vere lurt å svare med ein "five-paragraph essay".

Eksempel 1

Write a text where you explain what the poem 'Minority' by Imtiaz Dharker tells us about what it is like to be an outsider in a society, and discuss how moving to a different country can affect one’s sense of identity.

Minority by Imtiaz Dharker

Eksempel 2

Today, most young people are very attached to their phones, and they spend large portions of their lives on social media. How does all this time spent scrolling influence young people's sense of identity?

Write a text with the title 'Social Media's Influence on Identity', where you explain what influence social media has on young people’s sense of identity, and where you discuss whether this influence is mainly positive or negative.

Eksempel 3

Finding your own identity may be a struggle. Write a text where you present two characters from literature, computer games, or film who struggle to find their own identity. Discuss what we may learn from these characters.

Eksempel 4

Choose two of the quotations found in the box as a starting point to write a text where you explore whether people create their own identity or whether their identity is shaped by the people around them and the society they live in.

It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.
– Patrick Rothfuss

We know what we are, but not what we may be.
– William Shakespeare

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself.
– Harvey Fierstein

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
– Mahatma Gandhi

He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.
– Gabriel García Márquez

I belong to the people I love, and they belong to me – they, and the love and loyalty I give them, form my identity far more than any word or group ever could.
– Veronica Roth

I hate how I don't feel real enough unless people are watching.
– Chuck Palahniuk