30 8 2018

1. EWRT 30 Class 8

2. AGENDA
Review: POV and Plot
Discussion: Fiction
Lecture: Character and
Setting
Guided Writing:

3. The Review
Plot and POV
“The Tell Tale Heart”
“A Very Short Story”
“Dr. Chevalier’s Lie”
Review: In your groups,
discuss plot and POV. Consider
the three stories from your
reading
Review: In your groups,
discuss plot and POV. Consider
the three stories from your
reading

4. Plot Line
Exposition: The start of the
story. The way things are before
the action starts.
Rising Action: the
series of conflicts
and crisis in the
story that lead to
the climax.
Climax: The turning point. The most
intense moment (either mentally or in
action). The conflict is generally
addressed here.
Falling Action: all of the
action that follows the Climax.
Resolution: The conclusion; the
tying together of all of the
threads.
Conflict: Struggle between
opposing forces

5. “The Tell Tale Heart”
Exposition: The narrator offers a
story as proof he is not insane. He
describes the situation with old man
and his eye.
Rising Action:
2. The narrator makes
a noise and wakes the
man up: he opens the
eye.
1. He goes to the room
every night for a week,
but the eye is closed
Climax: The narrator kills the old man,
cuts up the body, and hides it under the
floor
Falling Action:
1.The police show up and he shows
them the house. They settle in
the old man’s bedroom.
2.The noise gets louder and louder
until the narrator tells the cops to
look under the floorboards.
Resolution: The narrator
identifies the source of the
“sound” as “the beating of [the
man’s] hideous heart.”
Conflict: The narrator wants to
kill the old man

6. “A Very Short
Story”
“Dr. Chevalier’s
Lie”
Exposition: The start of the
story. The way things are before
the action starts.
Rising Action: the
series of conflicts
and crisis in the
story that lead to
the climax.
Climax: The turning point. The most
intense moment (either mentally or in
action). The conflict is generally
addressed here.
Falling Action: all of the
action that follows the Climax.
Resolution: The conclusion; the
tying together of all of the
threads.
Conflict: Struggle between
opposing forces

7. Review:
Three Common Points of View
Review:
Three Common Points of View
 Omniscient: The narrator knows everything,
including what each character is thinking,
feeling, and doing throughout the story.
 3rd
Person Limited: The narrator knows only
the thoughts and feelings of a single character,
while other characters are presented only
externally.
 1st
Person: The narrator participates in action
but sometimes has limited knowledge about
both events outside of those in which he or she
is directly involved and motivations that are not
his or her own.
 Omniscient: The narrator knows everything,
including what each character is thinking,
feeling, and doing throughout the story.
 3rd
Person Limited: The narrator knows only
the thoughts and feelings of a single character,
while other characters are presented only
externally.
 1st
Person: The narrator participates in action
but sometimes has limited knowledge about
both events outside of those in which he or she
is directly involved and motivations that are not
his or her own.

8. Point of View
 “The Tell Tale Heart”
by Edgar Allan Poe
What kind of narrator
tells this story?

9. Point of View
 “The Tell Tale Heart”
by Edgar Allan Poe
 1st
person narrator
 Unreliable: he is trying to prove he is
sane, which he obviously is not! The
narrator admits that "he can hear all
things in the heaven and in the earth
[and] many things in hell"
 He occasionally pretends to be an
omniscient narrator. When he says,
"Presently I heard a slight groan,
and I knew it was the groan of
mortal terror. […] I knew the sound
well. Many a night […] it has welled
up from my own bosom,” he is
telling us how the hold man feels
and what he thinks.

10. Point of View
 “A Very Short
Story” by Ernest
Hemingway
 What kind of
narrator tells this
story?

11. Point of View
 “A Very Short Story”
by Ernest
Hemingway
 Omniscient or 3rd
person limited narrator?
 The narrator seems to be external, yet he generally
speaks from the point of view of the man. Note that he
neither names him nor identifies him. Furthermore, the last
sentences are like the description of the scene that this
man sees.
 But, the narrator doesn't obviously enter the man’s mind,
so he appears to be an objective narrator in that he
leaves the interpretation of the actions of the characters to
the reader.
 Yet, there are signs of anger in the text, which suggests
that the narrator is manipulating the reader into seeing the
story from his point of view. This would conflict with the
objective narrator POV.

12. Point of View
 “Dr. Chevalier’s Lie”
by Kate Chopin
 What kind of narrator
tells this story?

13. Point of View
 “Dr. Chevalier’s Lie”
by Kate Chopin
 The (objective) omniscient
narrator
 The story includes details about
both the doctor’s and the
townspeople’s behavior.
 The neutral tone in the conclusion
shows that the narrator does not
editorialize about society’s
thoughts about the girl or
Chevalier’s lie.

14. In Groups, discuss POV. Prepare to read a paragraph or two
demonstrating each of the following perspectives:
1st
person Wolf
1st
person little Pig
1st
person Mother Pig or another minor character
3rd
person Wolf
3rd
person little Pig
3rd
person Mother Pig or another minor character
Omniscient Objective: Just tells facts
Omniscient Subjective: Enters the minds and shares feelings of
multiple characters

15. Lecture Subject
Character and Setting

16. Basic Elements of a Story
1.PLOT - the story line; a unified, progressive pattern of action or events
in a story
2.POINT OF VIEW (POV) - the position from which the story is told
3.CHARACTER - person portraying himself or another
in a narrative or drama
4.SETTING - the time and place of the action in a story
5.TONE - the attitude of the author toward his subject or toward the reader
6.MOOD - the feeling or state of mind that predominates in a story creating a
certain atmosphere

17. Types of Characters:
 Round Character: convincing, true to life; fully
developed and described. Not all good or all bad.
 Dynamic Character: undergoes some type of
change in story, generally after a conflict.
 Flat Character: stereotyped, shallow, often
symbolic.
 Static Character: does not change in the course
of the story.

18. Methods of Characterization
By directly describing:
 Luz sat on the bed. She was cool and fresh in the
hot night.
Through the reaction of other characters.
 Luz stayed on night duty for three months. They
were glad to let her.

19. Through the character’s own words and actions:
 “The following day he wrote a letter. One, doubtless, to carry
sorrow, but no shame to the cabin down there in the forest.
It told that the girl had sickened and died. A lock of hair was
sent and other trifles with it. Tender last words were even
invented”

20. By detailing physical appearance, particularly features that
symbolize character.
 It was open --wide, wide open --and I grew furious as I gazed
upon it. I saw it with perfect distinctness --all a dull blue, with a
hideous veil over it that chilled the very marrow in my bones;
but I could see nothing else of the old man's face or person:
for I had directed the ray as if by instinct, precisely upon the
damned spot.

21. By sharing the characters own thoughts.
 Was it possible they heard not? Almighty God!
--no, no! They heard! --they suspected! --they
knew! --they were making a mockery of my
horror!-this I thought, and this I think.

22. Setting: the time, place, and period in which the action
occurs.
The Bean Trees:
Arizona/Oklahoma
1980s.
The Catcher in the
Rye: New York,
1940s
Lord of the Flies:
deserted island, the
future.

23. Setting can help in the portrayal of character.
“it was so quiet and lonesome out, even though it
was Saturday night. I didn’t see hardly anybody on
the street. Now and then you just saw a man and a
girl crossing the street with their arms around
each other’s waists and all, or a bunch of
hoodlumy-looking guys and their dates, all of them
laughing like hyenas at something you could bet
wasn’t funny. New York’s terrible when somebody
laughs on the street very late at night. You can
hear it for miles. It makes you feel so lonesome
and depressed” (Salinger 81).
The Catcher in the Rye

24. In some works of fiction, the action is so closely related to
setting that the plot is directed by it.
“The new man stands, looking a minute, to get the
set-up of the day room. One side of the room
younger patients, known as Acutes because the
doctors figure them still sick enough to be fixed,
practice arm wrestling and card tricks…Across the
room from the Acutes are the culls of the Combine’s
product, the Chronics. Not in the hospital, these to
get fixed, but just to keep them from walking
around the street giving the product a bad name”
(Kesey 19).
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

25. Setting can establish the atmosphere
“During the whole of a dull, dark,
and soundless day in the autumn of
the year, when the clouds hung
oppressively low in the heavens, I
had been passing alone, on
horseback, through a singularly
dreary tract of country” (Poe)
“The Fall of the House of Usher”

26. Guided Writing

27. Creative Writing Prompt
Write the following four words on your
paper:
 Character
 Place
 Time
 Situation
 Now chose four numbers between 1
and10. Write one number next to
each of the four words.
 You may chose any numbers that
you want. They can be the same
or different for each category.

28. Character
1. a new mother
2. a photographer
3. a recent high school graduate
4. a restaurant owner or manager
5. an alien from outer space
6. a homeless child
7. a 93-year-old woman
8. an environmentalist
9. a college student
10.a jazz musician

29. Setting: Place
1. near a National Forest
2. a wedding reception
3. a celebration party
4. an expensive restaurant
5. a shopping mall
6. a city park
7. the porch of an old farmhouse
8. a polluted stream
9. a college library
10.a concert hall

30. Setting: Time
1. during a forest fire
2. after a fight
3. the night of high school graduation
4. after a big meal
5. sometime in December
6. late at night
7. after a big thunderstorm has passed
8. in early spring
9. first week of the school year
10.during a concert

31. Situation/Challenge
1. an important decision needs to be made
2. a secret needs to be confessed to someone else
3. someone's pride has been injured
4. a death has occurred
5. someone has found or lost something
6. someone has accused someone else of doing something wrong
7. reminiscing on how things have changed
8. someone feels like giving up
9. something embarrassing has just happened
10.someone has just reached an important goal

32. Establish the basicsEstablish the basics
Choose a POV
 Omniscient: The narrator knows
everything, including what each
character is thinking, feeling, and
doing throughout the story.
 3rd
Person Limited: The narrator
knows only the thoughts and feelings
of a single character, while other
characters are presented only
externally.
 1st
Person: The narrator participates
in action but sometimes has limited
knowledge about both events
outside of those in which he or she is
directly involved and motivations that
are not his or her own.
 Omniscient: The narrator knows
everything, including what each
character is thinking, feeling, and
doing throughout the story.
 3rd
Person Limited: The narrator
knows only the thoughts and feelings
of a single character, while other
characters are presented only
externally.
 1st
Person: The narrator participates
in action but sometimes has limited
knowledge about both events
outside of those in which he or she is
directly involved and motivations that
are not his or her own.
Outline a basic Plot
 Exposition: This will include
your setting: time and place
 Conflict: This will depend on
your situation or challenge
 Rising action: Events that
happen on the way to the
climax
 Climax: the most intense
moment in your story
 Falling action: What
happened after the climax
 Resolution: The information
with which you leave your
reader
 Exposition: This will include
your setting: time and place
 Conflict: This will depend on
your situation or challenge
 Rising action: Events that
happen on the way to the
climax
 Climax: the most intense
moment in your story
 Falling action: What
happened after the climax
 Resolution: The information
with which you leave your
reader

33. Homework
Project 1 is due
Tuesday Week 5
before noon.
Make sure you
complete the work
from the online hour!
Project 1 is due
Tuesday Week 5
before noon.
Make sure you
complete the work
from the online hour!