HL essay exemplar 11: The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea This HL essay is a response to Yukio Mishima's dark and disturbing novel, The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea. The student is well focused on a literary aspect (a motif) and presents an an ambitious, rigorous and original exploration. The essay is not always clear and the overall argument does not always convince, so a useful exercise might be to ask students to...