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- 2. Index • The Author; •Strategies and Objectives; • Structure and Language; • Plot; • Characters; • Different endings; • Realistic?
- 3. Objectives of ourwork • Explore the short story; • Understand the message; • Discover the message of the story.
- 4. Strategies that wemade • Information about the story; • Talk about the main themes os the story.
- 5. Author • He wasborned in Wales in 1916; • He was a novelist, short story writer, poet, fighter pilot • He died on 23 November 1990(aged 74) • He wrote books like “Charlie and Chocolatre factory”
- 6. Structure and Language •The narrator is absent; • It happens in their house during moreless 2 days; • There is an analepsis.
- 7. Plot • This storyis about the Taylor’s family: Albert, Mabel and their newborn baby. They were having problems with the baby, because she didn’t eat. Albert, the father, who was a beekeeper founds a solution to the problem. In the end Mabel realised that the solution only created more problems, affecting the baby’s apperance
- 8. Characters • Albert • Mabel •Their baby
- 9. Themes • Alternative medicines; •Obcession;
- 10. Different endings • Thestory could end with Albert turning into a bee and also their daughter becoming the queen bee that would lead all the bee society. • Their daughter could get extremely fat and die of diabetes and then Mabel could start blaming Albert for her death and they would get divorced. • Albert would get even more obsessed with bees and Mabel would get tired of him and Albert would keep on with his researches and become a mad scientist.
- 11. Is the storyrealistc? • In the beginning we think that the story may be realistic. • Throughout the extensive reading we come to the conclusion that the writer left his typical mark in this story, as we can see the story finishes with almost the whole family turning into bees so we realize that as usual in a Roald Dahl story it ends becoming unrealistic.