Look back at your prediction activity what did

Look back at your prediction activity – what did you predict for this chapter? Whistle and I’ll Come to You Lesson Objective: To be able to explore Hill’s dramatic techniques P 123 - 129

What do you notice about these sentences? • • • During the night the wind rose. At first I was alarmed. I listened hard. Nothing. There was no child. No light came on.

Key Term: The Uncanny • Definition – something familiar in an unfamiliar surrounding – something particularly unsettling • Kipps, when listening to the noise in the nursery, says ‘The sound that I had been hearing was the sound that I remembered from far back, from a time before I could clearly remember anything else. . . ’

But what was ‘real’? • AS we read the next section find: – Examples of where Kipps questions ‘reality’ – The uncanny (things which seem familiar to Kipps but which he can’t explain)

Answer these questions: • What is similar between the wind and Kipps’ own feelings: – There was the sound of moaning down all the chimneys of the house and whistling through every nook and cranny. (at Eel Marsh) – The wind raged round like a lion, howling at the doors and beating upon the windows. . . (his nursery in Sussex) – Out of that howling darkness. . . – The wind continued to howl

• How has Susan Hill used sentence structure to engage the reader and build tension? – Never yet. – Nothing else happened at all. – I saw the face of my watch. – I knew that. – No.

You are Kipps: • If you could ask the Woman in Black ONE question, what would it be?