NARRATOR

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 426.

SETTING

PLOT

ANALYSIS

GLOSSARY

to trim a beard to a point

darned clothes

baggy clothes

stale bread

garret

crust

draughty

attic

in the foreground

discouraged

a meagre purchase

to affront sb

to take to wearing

a compound of

quince seeds

a nickel

tooting

a fire-engine

to go lumbering

to seize the opportunity.

to make a slash in

to take offence

edibles

forwardness

easel

to be beyond criticism

viciously

rumpled hair

ferociously

row

draughtsman

india-rubber

Identify the structural components of the plot.

- What do we learn from the exposition?

- What is the culmination?

- When does the climax come? Comment on the denoument. What is the implication of the two closing sentences?

Comment on the use of the definite article with bakery in the opening sentence. What is the role of the parenhesis?

What is the role of the setting of the story?

- place

- time

- milieau

1. What kind of narrator tells the story?

a) first person, b) omniscient third person, c) limited third person

2. Identify the point at which the the narrator intrudes in the text. Which of the purposes listed below does the intrusion serve?

* to summarise, philosophise or moralise

* to involve the reader more directly into the story

* to add humour

3. Pick out words and phrases rendering the narrator's attitude to Miss Martha. Is it positive, negative or neutral? Is it expressed openly or implied? What means are used to render it?

4. How wouldyou define the voice of the narrator?

Friendly, intimate, formal, engaging, pedantic, other