Lesson 10 11 The Black Cat Literary Analysis

Lesson 10 -11: The Black Cat – Literary Analysis 10/2/2017

Learning Objective l To analyze a short story using the command terms l To explain how the author uses foreshadowing, setting, and mood to create suspense in their stories.

Plot is what happens and how it happens in a narrative. A narrative is any work that tells a story, such as a short story, a novel, a drama, or a narrative poem.

Parts of a Plot Ø Ø Ø Exposition – Introduction to the setting, mood, characters, conflict. Inciting incident – event that gives rise to conflict (opening situation) Rising Action- events that occur as result of central conflict (rising action) Climax- highest point of interest or suspense of story Falling Action- when conflict ends Resolution- when characters go back to their life before the conflict

Diagram of Plot Inciting incident/ Big Event ling Fal on i Act Introduction De Ris velo ing pme Ac nt/ tio n Climax Resolution

Little Red Riding Hood l Exposition – Young girl wearing a red coat is sent to bring food to her sick grandmother l Rising Action – Meets wolf, wolf tells her to pick flowers on the way to her grandma’s house Wolf gets to her GM’s house and eats the grandmother

Little Red Riding Hood l Climax – Girl gets to GM’s house, comments on how her grandmother looks, wolf jumps out of bed and eats the girl l Falling Action – lumberjack hears the girls scream, rushes to rescue the girl, kills the wolf and rips its chest open l Resolution – the girl and GM climb out of the wolf’s stomach and are reunited.

Foreshadowing l when an author mentions or hints at something that will happen later in the story

Little Red Riding Hood l Once upon a time, there was a little girl who lived with her mother. Her mother asked her to take her old and lonely grandmother some food one day. "Don't stop along the way. Go straight to your Grandma's house and back. Don't talk to any strangers and watch out for the wolf in the woods! Now get along!" Foreshadowing

l Outline l Identify the plot of the story two examples of foreshadowing in the text and then Explain what they tell the reader about what will happen

l Use a contextual clue to Justify that this short story has an element of the Gothic/Horror genre l Justify this statement: The person telling the story is an unreliable narrator. Use contextual clues to support your point.

Response Paragraph Point Create a topic sentence with the main idea of the paragraph Evidence use visual or written textual references or supporting ideas Explain Provide relevant details so ideas are clear and well-explained Link connect to the next paragraph, or link back to something that has already been said by restating in a different way or extending the idea

Point of View Refers to narrator who is telling the story. l First Person l Third Person Limited l Third Person Omniscient

First Person l When a story is told in first-person point of view, the narrator is a participant in the story. l Uses first-person pronouns – I, me, my

Third Person Limited l The narrator is outside of the story. l Uses third-person pronouns – he, she, his her, them, their. l Knowledge is limited to what is experienced, thought, or felt by one character in the story.

Unreliable Narrator l Sometimes the author chooses to tell the story through a narrator that does not see the story as it truly is—this is an unreliable narrator l Sometimes, the first person narrator is even mentally insane, a liar, an exaggerator, depressed, mentally challenged, very young

Third-Person Omniscient l The narrator is outside of the story. l Uses third-person pronouns – he, she, his her, them, their. l The narrator knows everything that needs to be known about the characters and events in the story. Can read character’s thoughts, feelings, and motives.

Assignment Now, in pairs, rewrite The Tell-Tale Heart from a third person perspective, as if it were a news article. l First, summarize the events of the story by making a list of what happened in time order. l Then, make sure you take out any internal thoughts or feelings of the narrator that a newspaper reporter would not know about. l ¡ l For example, would a newspaper reporter know that the narrator wanted to kill the old man because of his eye? If so, how would he know that? Then, add information that a newspaper reporter might find out that the narrator did not tell us. ¡ For example, would a newspaper reporter get any information by asking the narrator’s neighbors about him?