Lesson 5 The Black Cat

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Welcome!
Literature with a Creepy Twist - 5

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Road Map

 Literature: Short stories with a Creepy Twist
  • Edwin Brock: Five Ways to Kill a Man
  • Edgar Allan Poe: The Black Cat

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Five ways to kill a man
1. Nail them to a cross
2. Have them fight in a war with knights on horses and such
3. Use gas, mud and trenches
4. Drop a bomb on them
5. Just let them live in the middle of the 20th century. The circumstances in this era are bad enough to kill anyone. 

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Slide 4 - Lien

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His life in short
  • born in 1809, Boston
  • parents died before he was 3 years old
  • raised by the Allan family in Richmond (Virginia)
  • educated in Great Britain between 1815-1820
  • University of Virginia (1825) but had to quit after one year

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His life in short
  • short stint in the military but dishonourably discharged
  • worked as a writer, editior, and literary critic   
  • In 1836, at 27,  he married his 13-year old cousin Virginia
  • In 1845 the poem 'The Raven' was published. This gained him recognition and success as an author
  • 1847 saw the death of his wife of TB
  • In 1849 Poe himself dies under mysterious circumstances

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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)

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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  

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The Black Cat
  1. Highlight words you do not know
  2. Pay attention to the person of the narrator:
  • can you trust him? why? why not?
  • how does your image of him change throughout the story?
  • see if you can trace the story's structure

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Literary aspects - structure
1. Introduction : narrator's initial situation
2. Rising action : narrator's drink problem and its effects
3. Climax : Fire!
4. Falling action: another cat with consequences
5. Denouement: all's well than ends well .... NOT!

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Looking ahead
3 June: Test Passive (2nd hour, 1st hour you can study)

9 June:
In class we will finish the story and you can start on the  questions to The Black Cat
10 June:
Literature, practice WL-skills / 9 + 10: WL-test 


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