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Introduction to Literature
Week 2: Week 2: Roald Dahl; Grace Nichols
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In Today's Lesson you will:
Read Roald Dahl's short story "The Landlady" and
Grace Nichols’ poem “The Fat Black Woman Goes Shopping”
Analyze the use of characterization, focalization and narrative point of view
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Roald Dahl
1916 - 1990
Was a pilot in the Royal Air Force
Wrote 9 short story collections
Wrote 19 children's books
Including:
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The Landlady
"The Landlady" is a short horror story by Roald Dahl.
initially appeared in The New Yorker in 1959.
Was adapted into a short film in the British show called Tales of the Unexpected
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Read "the Landlady"
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What was your first impression of the story?
Slide 6 - Open question
Can you find a quote where the Landlady is described physically?
Slide 7 - Open question
Find a quote that describes Billy Weaver physically
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Suggested Answers
"She (the Landlady) had a round pink face and very gentle
blue eyes"
"Billy was seventeen years old. He was wearing a new navy-blue overcoat, a new brown trilby hat, and a new brown suit"
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Describe how Billy's actions contribute to his characterization
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What does the comparison of the landlady to a jack-in-thebox suggest about her (lines 90–91)?
Slide 12 - Open question
Describe how The Landlady's actions contribute to her characterization
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Characterization
Representation of characters in a story.
Distinction can be made between flat or two-dimensional characters (which remain static), or round or three-dimensional characters (which are complex and demonstrate development).
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Explain whether the landlady is a flat or round character and why
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Explain whether the landlady is a flat or round character and why
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The landlady and Billy Weaver are both flat/static characters; Neither one of them have a personality change
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Grace Nichols
Born in Guyana, moved to Britain in 1977
Poetry concerned with the experience of immigrants from former colonies to UK after World War II
Uses a lot of Caribbean rhythms, language and folklore
Watch the video on the next slide.
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Read the poem "A fat black lady goes shopping"
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What is your first impression of the poem?
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Why would the poem use ‘de’ rather than ‘the’?
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What is this poem about?
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Where do you think the speaker is from?
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What is the effect of the lack of punctuation?
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Read the section about the narrator in the document literary terms
Narration is the telling of a story
The narrator tells the story
Focalization refers to the viewpoint from which a story is told
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From what perspective is the poem written? How did you infer this?
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The end
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