bassistx said:
If your text is too common, there's more chance you'll lose marks because there could be something that you could've missed and somebody else wrote it. Do you get me?
If you do something less popular and especially like a painting or something, you'll get more marks because there isn't like a standard to compare it too.
Not necessarily.
The idea behind your text and the meaning
you get fom it may be completely different to someone else doing the same text. We interpret things differently. What someones see's as their most important argument may only be a minor key point for you. Everyone develops a slightly different thesis, and the texts fit in different ways. Just because someone has something you don't doesnt mean you will be marked down...their extra information might be completely irrelevant to your statement.
Like The Arrival by Shaun Tan for example (1 of 4 of my related texts) Some may just see this text as being about an immigrant's shift in life, the journey that leads to a change in surroundings and lifestyle - something new. Others may argue the more important thing is that the journey of an immigrant causes emotional change..and this journey results in new widom about the surrounding world of the individual. 2 different ideas...
If The Motorcycle diaries works for you, if it links to your prescribed text, and you can right enough about it to prove a physical journey has been undertaken (like, duh, of course it has) then go for it!
