The Star Presented by Hanaa Mansour Mansour Student no 220111759 Short story course Dr Sami Breem The outline Brief notes about the author Summary of the story Plot summary ID: 573938
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“The Star”Slide2
“The Star”
Presented by :
Hanaa Mansour Mansour.
Student no: 220111759
Short story course.
Dr. Sami Breem.Slide3
The outline:
Brief notes about the author.
Summary of the story.
Plot summary.
Characters.
Theme.
Setting.Slide4
The author: Alasdair GraySlide5
The author of ‘the star’:
He is one of the Scotland writers who was famous of his works:
‘
Lanark
’
‘the star’
‘ a life in pictures’
He is also a remarkable brilliant painter . Slide6
Summary
The story is about a boy named Cameron, who sees a star falling down. He goes to the place where the star was fallen and takes the star with him. The star is cold but when ever he touches the star,Slide7
Summary
then he feels relaxed and comfortable. Once, he keep the star in the school out, the teacher notice it and would Cameron take him away, but Cameron swallow the star and he became a star.Slide8
Plot Summary
He was an imaginative boy who seems to be alwayas neglected and alone. Therefore, he is escaping from his real world where he is suffering to the imaginativeSlide9
Plot Summary
world where he is having fun with his marble . So he imagined the star falling in the backyard. The story is told from Cameron’s perspective.Slide10
CharactersSlide11
Characters:
Major character:
Cameron.
minor characters:
The father .
The mother.
His brother.
The teacher.
Other students
.Slide12
Theme
Poverty.
Negligence and loneliness.
Imaginative children.
Teachers-children relationship.Slide13
Expressions that point to Poverty:
The stairs were cold.
Lit by a weak electric bulb.
He slept with his brother.Slide14
Expressions that suggest Negligence and
loneliness
:
His parents are busy
:
his father thoughtfully filled in a football coupon, his mother continued ironing.
The sleepy brother
:
he slept with his brother who was not easily wakened.
No friends
:
he was at the back of the class room in a disk by himself.Slide15
Traditional careless teacher: all heads were bowed over books.Offensive teacher :
i don’t tolerate disobedience
Give me that
.
frightening teacher:
the teacher’s face above him
Expressions that show the
maltreatment
of the
teacher
:Slide16
Cameron imagined one of the stars falling into the backyard.Sometimes
it shone green and yellow , and other times it shone white and blue.
Sometimes seeing a snow flake , a flower , a jewel , moon.
Expressions which show the imagination in the world
of
children
:Slide17
Setting:
Time: 2 or 3 weeks.
Place:home, school.
Social invironment:
Negligence,poverty,
Teachers
maltreatmentSlide18
conclusion
I think that the target of this story to convey a message:
To the parents----care.
To the teachers---kindness.
In order to make them happy and active.Slide19
Happy Children