The Second Night

• Engels
• Further Education (Key Stage 5)

Goals for today 

The Second Night - comprehension 

Analogy and the author's style

Unreliability in the narrator 

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Assessment guide IBO 

" All work submitted to the IB for moderation or assessment must be authenticated by a teacher, and must not include any known instances of suspected or confirmed academic misconduct. Each student must confirm that the work is his or her authentic work. [...] Authenticity may be checked by discussion with the student on the content of the work, and scrutiny of one or more of the following. 

- the student's initial proposal 

- the usual quality of the student's work 

The same material cannot be submitted to meet the requirements of both the internal assessment and the extended essay. The works used in the internal assessment must be different from those used in other assessment components."

p. 54 - 55 Language: literature guide IBO publications 

How is this image relevant to the reading you have done? 

Write your answer in your exercise book.

Seating plan DP2  Lang Lit  HL

board

Window

Door

Huub - Catherina

Merel - Roos

Charlotte - Cecilia

Manuel - Samuel

Louie - Quirine 

Tashiva - Zoe

Francesco - Sikander

The Second Night

1. What do we get to know about the healthcare system in India? 
   
2. Why does Kishan’s marriage not have negative effects on Balram’s family?
   
3. Which strategies does Balram use to get valuable information and how does he educate himself?
   
4. What is Balram’s new job and how did he manage to make this career change?
   
5. What do we get to know about Dhanbad’s red light district? 
   
6. How has the Buffalo made sure that no one will threaten his power and family ever again?
   

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1. List at least three examples of poverty, segregation or dehumanisation that can be found in this chapter.
2. Discuss the scene where Balram goes home to see his family and the decisions he takes after the visit. 
3. Find the reference in this chapter to the poet Iqbal's work. In what way is this poem relevant for Balram? 
4. Which scene underlines Ashok’s naivety when it comes to his understanding of Balram?

The Second Night

1. Read the extract given to you. 
   
2. Discuss the questions with your partner. 
   
3. Write your answers in your exercise book. 
   

The Second Night

1. What is the analogy being drawn in this extract? 
   
2. What are the parallels between the zoo described at the beginning and the human interactions described in the extract?
   
3. Why do you think this analogy is stated so clearly and directly? What is the effect of that stylistic choice? 
4. How persuasive do you find the analogy as an illustration of how social hierarchy and cultural values keep millions of people in "perpetual servitude"? 

Tone (attitude of the narrator) 

"I looked at the ooze, and I looked at my mother’s flexed foot, and I understood.

This mud was holding her back: this big, swelling mound of black ooze. She was trying to fight the black mud; her toes were flexed and resisting; but the mud was sucking her in, sucking her in. It was so thick, and more of it was being created every moment as the river washed into the ghat. Soon she would become part of the black mound and the pale-skinned dog would start licking her.

And then I understood: this was the real god of Benaras – this black mud of the Ganga into which everything died, and decomposed, and was reborn from, and died into again. The same would happen to me when I died and they brought me here. Nothing would get liberated here."

"The First Night" pgs 17 - 18

Benaras - a city also known as “Varanasi” it is a popular pilgrimage site for Hindus. 

Take a tone/mood word that describes the author's tone

Unreliable narrator

A narrator whose account of events appears to be faulty, misleadingly biased, or otherwise distorted, so that it departs from the ‘true’ understanding of events shared between the reader and the implied author.

The reader is offered the pleasure of picking up ‘clues’ in the narrative that betray the true state of affairs.

This kind of first-person narrative is particularly favoured in 20th-century fiction (postmodernism) 

Baldick, Chris. The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms (Oxford Quick Reference) . OUP Oxford. 

Clues 

"I read about your history in a book, Exciting Tales of the Exotic East, that I found on the pavement, back in the days when I was trying to get some enlightenment by going through the Sunday secondhand book market in Old Delhi. This book was mostly about pirates and gold in Hong Kong, but it did have some useful background information too: it said that you Chinese are great lovers of freedom and individual liberty. The British tried to make you their servants, but you never let them do it. I admire that, Mr Premier.”

 The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga Atlantic Books 2009 pg 5 

Explain in 3 - 5 sentences how this extract reveals that the narrator is unreliable. (faulty, misleadingly biased, or otherwise distorted)

Goals for today 

Unreliability in the narrator 

Tone of the narrator 

Global Issue construction for an infographic 

Analysis of Infographic 

Tone (attitude of the narrator) 

"I looked at the ooze, and I looked at my mother’s flexed foot, and I understood.

This mud was holding her back: this big, swelling mound of black ooze. She was trying to fight the black mud; her toes were flexed and resisting; but the mud was sucking her in, sucking her in. It was so thick, and more of it was being created every moment as the river washed into the ghat. Soon she would become part of the black mound and the pale-skinned dog would start licking her.

And then I understood: this was the real god of Benaras – this black mud of the Ganga into which everything died, and decomposed, and was reborn from, and died into again. The same would happen to me when I died and they brought me here. Nothing would get liberated here."

"The First Night" pgs 17 - 18

Benaras - a city also known as “Varanasi” it is a popular pilgrimage site for Hindus. 

Take a tone/mood word that describes the author's tone

Write 2 - 5 sentences describing the tone of this extract. Use our tone word and quotes from the extract to support your ideas. 

Truth Claims

“Out of respect for the love of liberty shown by the Chinese people, and also in the belief that the future of the world lies with the yellow man and the brown man now that our erstwhile master, the white-skinned man, has wasted himself through buggery, mobile phone usage, and drug abuse, I offer to tell you, free of charge, the truth about Bangalore.” (Adiga, p. 5-6).

1. Which statements are plausible and which are implausible?

2. How far does the mixture between them create a distinctively unreliable voice?

Explain in 3 - 5 sentences how this extract reveals that the narrator is unreliable. (faulty, misleadingly biased, or otherwise distorted)

Infographic and extract 

For your Individual Oral you will explore an extract from one of your literary works and one of your non-literary works. 

You will not compare them to each other, but you will explore how they convey and explore a global issue that they share. 

A global issue incorporates the following three properties:

• it has significance on a wide or large scale.

• it is transnational.

• its impact is felt in everyday, local contexts.

Why do people travel? 

Construct, in your pairs, a global issue that you think is shown in this infographic and is also shown in the reading that you have done so far. Find an extract of not more than 30 lines that you can link to this infographic. 

Articulate the global issue in one sentence. It is not just a topic.

Goals for today 

Reading time The White Tiger (15 min) 

Exploration of your extract in the light of you global issue. 

Share you global issue

The Individual Oral prompt 

"Examine the ways in which the global issue (GI) or our choice is presented through the context and form of one of the [literary] works an one of the [non-literary] bodies of work (BOWs) that you have studied" 

IBDP Guide for Language A: Language and Literature, 2019

Extract 

Using the global issue that you have constructed for both extracts, make notes on the stylistic and literary techniques used in the extract to convey your global issue. 

1. How does this extract explore and present the global issue that you constructed? Find at least three quotes that show different techniques that each show a different aspect of your global issue. 

2. Look again at your infographic. Is your global issue truly applicable for both texts?