the chestnutman

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The Chestnut Man

 

By Søren Sveistrup 

Contents

• Context
  
• Characters
• Author
• Plot
• Literary devices
• Homework assignment 
• Themes

Context

• Brutal murders
• Young mothers
• Chestnuts and matchsticks
• Naia Thulin & Mark Hess
• Intricate plot
• Well-developed characters
• On the edge
• Translated
• Netflix

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Characters

• Well-developed and complex
•  Strengths and weaknesses

Naia Thulin

• A detective
• Responsebilities
• Strong and determined character
• Struggling

Mark Hess

• Detective 
• Police
•  Partner
• Troubled character
• Clashes

Rosa Hartung

• The Minister of Social Affairs 
• Victim 
• Struggling
• Involvement
• Personal dimension

Kristine Hartung

• Rosa's surviving daughter
•  Traumatized

The Chestnut Man

• Serial killer
•  Terrorizing
• Unknown
• Shrouded in mystery

What is the job of Rosa Hartung?

1. Minister of defence
2. Minister of economics
3. Minister of health care
4. Minister of social affairs

Author

• Søren Sveistrup
•  Danish screenwriter and novelist
• 3 october 1968
• Film and television
• The Chestnut Man
• Suspenseful plot and complex characters
• Several awards
• BAFTA
• "The seven deadly sins"

What is the profession of Søren Sveistrup

1. Screenwriter and novelist
2. Professional athlete
3. Scientist
4. Illustrator

Plot

The beginning

• Rosa Hartung returns
• Case Kristine closed
• Naia Thulin and Mark Hess
• Laura Kjaer
• Chestnut man
• Simon Genz
• Fingerprints

Victims

• Mother with complains of child abuse 
• Not directly
• Blind eye
• Why Rosa Hartung?

Who's fingerprints are found on the chestnut doll?

1. Naia Thulin
2. Kristine Hartung
3. Simon Genz
4. Rosa Hartung

The ending?

• Rosa Hartung
• Removing an infant
• Benedikte Skans
• Revenge
• Kidnap son Rosa
• Dead
• Case closed

A cold case

• Thulin and Hess not sure
•  Cold case 1987
• Family murder > two foster children
• Crime scene filled with Chestnut man dolls
• Shocking end

Who do you think the killer is?

Literary devices

Foreshadowing 

• Hints or clues
• Plot point
• Chestnut man in the beginning 

Homework assignment

“The girl timidly where she is, as though she can’t even hear him, and suddenly Marius become aware of the room. Glancing around, he realizes what it’s been used for. He’s disgusted. Then he catches a glimpse of the crooked wooden shelves through the door to the adjoining room. The sight makes him forget the girl, and he walks across to the threshold. Marius can’t see how many there are, but there are more than he can count with the naked eye. Chestnut dolls, male and female. Animals, too. Big and small, some childish, others eerie. Many of them unfinished and malformed. Marius stares at them, their number and variety, and the small dolls on the shelves fill him with disquiet, as the boy steps through the door behind him. In a split second Marius realizes he should remember to ask Forensics whether the basement door was broken down from the inside or the outside. In a split second he realizes something monstrous may have escaped, like the animals from their pens, but when he turns towards the boy his thoughts swim away like tiny, puzzled clouds across the heavens. Then the axe strikes his jaw, and everything goes black.”

- In which way is the author trying to get attention from the public, by writing this in the first chapter and what themes do you think this book is about?

What were your thoughts about the fragment?

Narrative perspective

• Third person limited
• Naia Thulin and Mark Hess 
• External narrator 

Setting

• Copenhagen 
• Autumn
• Great details
• Social and cultural aspects 
• Corruption, social inequality, challenges modern society

What does third person limited mean?

1. It is only written in the 'you' form
2. It is only written in the 'they/them' form
3. It is only written in the 'I' form
4. All of the answers above are wrong

Themes

• Serial killer
• Grief - Naia
• Betrayal
• Justice  
• 'Justice is a complex concept that requiers careful concideration' 

What do you think is the main theme and why?

The end