Literary Elements
The weather is still rather fine in Vancouver, but the temperatures are dropping slightly. My favorite kind of weather. Sunny and crisp. Yesterday, Minime and I grabbed a football and played some catch. Guess our ear wig?
Today ... it will be baseball, as soon as I can get my slugger out of bed and moving forward.
We are a very active family but generally not very sports-orientated. We enjoy scooting, the playground, and long walks. Skating, snowshoeing and sledding in the winter.
(Ahh it is the season)
I am however getting more of a taste for throwing a ball around. It is amazing how better the day feels when you make the time for some exercise and sunshine. It might be a great way to start our days.
We should also finished up our prep work on literary elements for the analysis of Lord of Flies. Today on the docket ... characters, point of view, and setting.
Characters
From our studies ...
When trying to understand characters in a narrative, you must examine what they say, think, and do. The analysis of literature almost always involves an analysis of psychology. Talented writers will create characters that reflect reality and teach the reader about herself.
Point of View
Every story has a point of view. This is the voice the story is written in. Does the writer use me, you, or them. Another name for the writer here is the narrator. There are 3 main types of point of view.
First Person - the narrator is a person in the story. They use words like I, me, and my. If something happens. the narrator does not know about, the reader will also not know about it.
Second Person - the reader is a character in the story. An example of second person narrative is the chose your own adventure stories. The writer uses words like you and your. Second person is a very rare point of view.
Third Person - the narrator is not a character in the story. She uses words like he, she, and they. The third person narrator may still allow the reader to get inside the characters head and know what they are thinking, sometime just one character and sometimes more than one.
Setting
The setting of a narrative includes the time, place, and duration of a story. Effective settings will add to the meaning and mode of the narrative with well-chosen imagery and description. For example, a gothic horror is unlikely to take place on a bright, sunny day, during the roaring 20's.
There are three main components to Setting.
Time usually refers not to the time of day but future, present, or past, when the story takes place. Sometimes the time of a narrative can be defined as an era, or a season, or time of day.
Place is the physical setting the story takes place in.
Duration is how long the story takes to tell. Some stories can take place in a moment and others over millennia.
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