Short stories 4 Paper Menagerie

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 3

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The Paper Menagerie

Talk about Character

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The paper menagerie 

1. What can you say about the setting of the story? (time; for example: century-year-season-time span etc. and place; country-house- etc.)

2. Who is the main character?

3. What is the main character’s goal, problem or conflict?

4. Does the main character have to deal with an opponent? Describe who,what,why.

5. When a character makes a choice, what might be his/her motivation?

6. How and why is the main character changed or unchanged by the end of the story?

Character

the vehicle (person, animal, creation) that moves the story forward. A character may be main or minor, depending on his or her role in the work of literature. While some characters are two-dimensional, with one or two dominant traits, a fully developed character has a unique complex of traits.

Character

A) dynamic characters often change as the plot unfolds. We call this change 'character development'. Usually the main characters are dynamic characters.

B) static characters remain the same. Usually, background characters are static characters

The paper menagerie

1. What can you say about the setting of the story? (time; for example: century-year-season-time span etc. and place; country-house- etc.)

2. Who is the main character?

3. What is the main character’s goal, problem or conflict?

4. Does the main character have to deal with an opponent? Describe who,what,why.

5. When a character makes a choice, what might be his/her motivation?

6. How and why is the main character changed or unchanged by the end of the story?

The Paper Menagerie

1. What are the themes for each story? Give arguments and examples.

2. Find examples of (and explain why it is … irony):

• Verbal irony

• Situational irony

• Dramatic irony

3. Which story did you like best? Explain why.

The Paper Menagerie

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Answer the questions about The Paper Menagerie, and then the questions you have to answer about all the stories.

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The Paper Menagerie

1. What can you say about the setting of the story? (time; for example: century-year-season-time span etc. and place; country-house- etc.)

2. Who is the main character?

3. What is the main character’s goal, problem or conflict?

4. Does the main character have to deal with an opponent? Describe who,what,why.

5. When a character makes a choice, what might be his/her motivation?

6. How and why is the main character changed or unchanged by the end of the story?

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