Week 39 les 1 MA42

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• mavo
• Leerjaar 2

Today

- Weekplanner

- Literature (conflict & themes)

- Read your book

 Sit next to your book buddy!

  September 27th

Central Park

New York

Goals

- I know what a 'conflict' is in a novel

- I can find the conflict & themes in my novel

Weekplanner

Conflict

Challenge or problem that drives the action of the story. 

Internal vs external conflict -->

Internal or external conflict?

The wave 

Conflict: man vs society

 Internal stuggles of power (individual vs group pressure) 

 

External struggles of breaking through conformity

The wave 

Themes:

- The dangers of group conformity

- Power of the individual

- Learning from the past

Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

Internal conflict: Bruno’s family is forced to move from their home in Berlin. Isolated, friendless, and far away from the familiar comforts of home, Bruno rails against the injustice of his situation. 

External conflict: WWII & holocaust

Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

Themes:

- Guilt causes silence

- Power of friendship

- Innocence

- loyalty

Narnia

 External: 

- Narnia, and later Edmund, needs to be saved from the power of the white witch.

Internal: 

- The consequences of treachery 

(Edmund vs Aslan & his siblings)

Narnia themes:

- bravery

-  friendship

- faith (Christian allegory)

- gluttony

- good versus evil.

- betrayal and forgiveness

Helpfull websites

- sparksnotes

- litcharts

- gradesaver

b. Setting - time and place

• where and the when does the story take place
• creates mood

c. Plot

1. Expositions

2. Rising action

3. Climax

4. Falling action

5. Resolution

Plots can vary but often fit a pattern...

• Overcoming the monster ___________________  
• From rags to riches _________________________
• Voyage and return __________________________
• The quest
• Tragedy
• Comedy
• Rebirth

e. Theme

• refers to the underlying insight, the moral or idea that the writer is expressing through the story
• e.g. - The power of true love                        - Fate, which sometimes tears lovers apart and then                       joins them together
              -War

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