Assignment Responders engage with texts that have distinctive qualities. Write an essay discussing how the ideas, form and language are used by the composer to engage the audience. An audience will respond and continue to respond to a text if it is engaging, having distinctive qualities to set it apart from other texts. The text, "Briar Rose" written by Jane Yolen creates an engaging text through many techniques. These include form/structure, topical/subject matter, themes and characterization. Response Yolen uses text structure and form effectively to engage the audience. The composer has split the novel into three parts, telling the story from different personas. Home and home again is spoken through the character of Becca, castle is spoken through the character Josef (in third person) and peppered throughout the text are italicised chapters which tells of the story of briar rose from the character of Gemma The placement of segments of the never-completed fairy story at intervals through the narrative adds suspense and mystery to the novel. The composer also chose to add an introduction and author’s note to provide an initial backstory to the original story of briar rose/sleeping beauty, which this novel shares intertextuality with, and to remind the audience of the tragedy that was the holocaust. Yolen has used text structure and form effectively to engage the audience through different sections being spoken by different personas. Yolen has used a very well-known historical event and fairy-tale to merge together to form the basis of the novel briar rose. These topical matters which Yolen has used are the holocaust, and the fairy-tale sleeping beauty or less commonly known as briar rose. Both these subject matters are well known in society and have had huge impacts on history. Being such well known subject matters instantly engages the audience as they are able to apply their knowledge and to make cross-links between the two subje