THE BLUE HOTEL

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 5

I have read and understood the story The Blue Hotel

If you haven't read the story, this is the moment to tell me. 
Go outside the classroom and start reading it.
You can come back once you have finished reading the story. Summarise the story to prove you have read it.

Summarise the story "The Blue Hotel" in 10 words (doesn't have to be a sentence)

The first two pages show at least two clear examples of foreshadowing.
Identify them.

From the start the Swede is different; isolated.
Please prove this statement by quoting from the text.

On the first page two examples of personification can be found.
Quote them.
Why would the writer use personification here?

Scully tries to persuade The Swede to stay. In which two ways does he do so?

When Scully and The Swede rejoin the others, The Swede has changed.
- Quote at least two phrases that show him changed.
- What might have been the cause of this change?

At the very end the Easterner and the cowboy talk about guilt.
Who’s to blame for the Swede’s death according to the Easterner?
According to the cowboy?
What do their views represent?

Literary Analysis

Storyline, when, how much time, where, setting

Narrator

Theme

Plot

Main characters

Motifs, symbols, allusions

Mood

Storyline

Narrator

the story is told from a limited omniscient third-person narrator point of view.

Theme

The Weakness of Public Morality
Good vs Evil
Loss of Innocence
Fear of nature

Plot

Main characters

Young Goodman Brown - round

The Devil - flat

Faith - flat

Motifs, symbols, allusions

Motifs - female purity, faith, light versus dark.
Symbols - Pink ribbon, staff, my catechism etc. see booklet p. 14-16

Allusion - snake - Fall of Man

Motif: is a distinctive repeating feature or idea; often, it helps develop other narrative (or literary) aspects such as theme or mood.
Motifs support the general theme.

Mood

Dark and gloomy, foreboding "and may you find all well, when you come back."
"Dreary road, darkened by all the gloomiest tress of the forest"