lesson 2 the Man from the South/The Way up to Heaven

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 4

Welcome!

Literature with a Creepy Twist - 2

Road Map

•  Literature: Short stories with a Creepy Twist
• Roald Dahl -  The Man from the South

Grades block 4

• Language skills IV (4%) - GRO Passive (3 June 2022)

• Watching – and listening test (15%) 10 June 2022 9&10 h. 

• Reading test (15%) – Old HAVO-exam 

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• Literature test (15%) – test on the texts we have discussed 

= 49 % of your grade in total!

Test week 4 runs from Thursday 16 June to Wednesday 22 June.

Exams

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The aims:

You are going to find out: 

• more about different story-telling techniques;
• how to recognise important details in each of the stories and techniques;
  
• how poems differ from stories.

Literary aspects

Short story:

'a relatively short work of prose fiction, approx. 500 to 10,000 words, that, according to Edgar Allan Poe, can be read in a single sitting of two hours or less'. 

The short story works to create a single effect. 

(The Norton Introduction to Literature, 2013)

Literary aspects

Structure

1. Introduction 

2. Rising action - often there is some kind of conflict

3. Climax 

4. Falling action - attempts are made to work things out

5. Denouement  

Literary aspects

Structure

1. 'We' are all in a hotel, splendid weather, nice conditions

2. 'Shall we not make a little bet on that?'

3. The bet is on: Cadillac vs. little finger....1, 2, 3....6, 7, 8....

4. Enter Rather Old Woman 

5. It turns out that Carlos is a bit of a maniac and Rather Old Woman is both his keeper and his victim.

The Man from the South (1948)

• Set in Jamaica
• Holiday resort
• I - perspective 
• Carlos - the man from the South
• American cadet
• English girl

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Story 2

The Way up to Heaven - 

Roald Dahl

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Story 2

The Way up to Heaven - 

Roald Dahl

Do assignments 2 and 3