- Consider the quote below. How does power emerge in “The Island”? How is the connection between language and power revealed in the quote? Support your thinking with evidence from the text.
Power in the text “The Island” emerges from when everyone speaks, everyone in the text speaks with a certain power, like the police they speak they speak with authority and power. Like in the text the boy says he’s fine and that he doesn’t need help but the police do think he needs help and isn’t fine they think this because they have power and authority and this homeless kid must be wrong because they think he’s just some crazy, which would make sense because he getting offered a lot of help and he’s refusing.