There are 5 people who ask you to give them 10 shekels Whom do you give your money Explain your answer 1 A beggar in the street 2 A woman in a drugstore asks you for ten shekels to buy medicine ID: 806615
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Slide1
Dusk
by Saki
Slide2Pre-Reading
There are 5 people who ask you to give them 10 shekels. Whom do you give your money? Explain your answer.
1. A beggar in the street.2. A woman in a drugstore asks you for ten shekels to buy medicine.3. A woman who feeds homeless cats and asks you for 10 shekels to buy them food.4. Your schoolmate (who is not your classmate) who needs 10 shekels to buy a sandwich as he has lost his purse.5. A foundation that asks you to send an SMS to help children who have nothing to eat.
Slide3English
Hebrew
Location in the text
dusk
בן הערביים, לקראת הערב
4/35
a bar of soap
חפיסת סבון
44/36
to betray
לבגוד, למעול באימון
16/35
defeated
מובסים
8/35
disappointed
מאוכזב
19/35
to fail
להכשלה
15/35
foreign
זר
59/36
to judge
לשפוט
108/37
to lend
להלוות
97/37
in a mood
במצב רוח
13/35
to notice
לשים לב
24/35
noticeable
ניכר, קל להבחין בו
12/35
shadows
צללים
6/35
to trust
לתת אימון ב
16/35
Slide4Slide5Slide6Slide7Slide8Slide9Slide10Slide11Slide12Basic Understanding
A. Choose the TWO correct answers to show you understand the meaning of the word in bold.
1. How do people feel when they are betrayed?(i) hurt (ii) disloyal (iii) disappointed2. How do people usually feel in a foreign country?(i) angry (ii) confused (iii) less confident
3. If people want to be
unnoticeable
, what don’t they want?
(
i
) to be seen (ii) to draw the attention to others (iii) to notice other people
4. How should we
judge
people?
(
i
) by their behavior (ii) by their looks (iii) by their character
5. If you
lend
money to a friend, what do you expect?
(i) to get it back (ii) to pay it back (iii) to be paid back
Slide13B. Circle the correct answer. Number the sentences according to the events in the story.
___ (a) When the
young/ old man left, a young/ old man took his place.___ (b) Norman sat on a chair/ bench in the park next to an old man.___ (c) When he wanted to return to his hotel/ shop, he realized he didn’t
remember its
soap
/ name
and he didn’t have any money with
him
.
___
(d) The young man asked Norman to give him some
money/soap
,
otherwise he
would
have to spend the day/night in the park.___ (e) Norman didn’t believe/ believed
the stranger’s story because he didn’t
have a bar of chocolate/ soap
with him.___ (f) He explained that he had found/checked
into a hotel and then went
out to eat/buy some
soap.
4
6
3
5
1
2
Slide14C. Match sentences in column A with the sentences with in column B
A
B
1. Norman didn’t give the man any money.
2. But then, Norman saw a small package next to the bench.
3. At that point, Norman believed that the man’s story was true.
4. Then he saw the old man who had been sitting next to him.
5. Norman understood that the young man had lied to him.
a. It was a bar of soap.
b. The man was looking for a bar of soap.
c. Norman felt he couldn’t trust people again.
d. So the man walked away.
e. He
hurried after the man and gave him some money.
1-d; 2-a; 3-e; 4-b; 5-c
Slide15Analysis and Interpretation
1.
What is the setting in the story?When: at dusk ( late in the evening 6:30) in MarchWhere: in the busy park , probably in England2. Why did Norman tend (לנטות) to believe the young man’s story at first?Because he had as similar experience in a foreign country.
3. What else made the man’s story
believable?
H
e gave details which were true:
The Berkshire hotel had indeed been torn down and replaced by a movie theater.
Taxi drivers often advise their passengers about hotels.
He hated little bars of hotel soap.
Slide16Both
Age
Appearance
Family
Hobbies
A film maker is looing for actors who will play roles of siblings in the new series. He comes to your class and tries to compare you with your friends.
Slide174. In what kind of mood was Norman when he met the young man? How did his mood affect his decision not to believe the man’s story?
Norman was in the mood to put himself among the defeated.
Norman was inclined not to believe that the man was telling the truth because he felt defeated. He was disappointed by life because he had been betrayed by someone he had trusted. As a result, he tended to doubt people’s honesty. 5. How did the bar of soap change Norman’s outlook on life?a. How did it make him trust people again?b. How did it cause him not to trust people again?
c. How did it affect his belief in himself
when he found the soap?
when he met the old man the second time?
Slide18When Norman found the soap, he thought that the young man had been telling the truth. He was glad that he had met an honest man.
T
he soap restored his belief in people. His perspective changed: he was hopeful/optimistic. He looked at life from a different angle, the values of truth and honesty do exist! He was happy to help a man in need.After giving the money to the young man, he met the old man who had been looking for his bar of soap. At that moment, Norman’s perspective changed. He realized he had been conned. Now he knew the truth. That knowledge caused him to retreat to his former perspective-that of the defeated and disappointed by life.When he found the soap, he thought he had misjudged the young man. He felt he was not good at assessing people’s character. He felt guilty. When he spoke to the old man again, he realized he had assessed the young man correctly at first. As a result , he was angry at himself for falling into the trap set by the con man.
Slide19Irony-the contrast between what seems to be and what really
is.
.
Slide206. Give an example of an ironic
situation from the story.
When Norman asked the young man to show him the soap he had bought, the young man said he must have lost it. Norman rightly concluded that the man was lying, so he didn’t give him any money. When he found a bar of soap under the bench, he ran after the man and apologized for not believing him. “Excuse me for not believing you. Without the soap, I didn’t think you were telling the truth. But now I am convinced.” (lines 94-97)This was an ironic situation because the soap didn’t belong to the young man. Norman “was convinced” by what seemed to be true but was, in fact, untrue.
Slide21Metaphor-a figure of speech which describes one thing by saying it is something else.
Slide227. What is dusk a metaphor
of? Circle the suitable words
failure darkness shadows hopelessness defeat loss half-light trust
soap
a dark, pessimistic perspective
Slide23Bridging Text and Context
“Trusting is hard. Knowing who to trust, even harder.”
Maria V. Snyder, Poison StudyHow is this quote connected to the short story Dusk by Saki?This quote by Maria V. Snyder can be connected to the plot of
Dusk
in the following way. Snyder asserts that trusting is hard. For Norman, the main character of Saki’s short story , it is true as after being betrayed by someone he trusted he could hardly trust anybody even if there were facts that supported the person’s honesty. On the other hand, it is hard for Norman to know who to trust as because of a bar of soap he found under the bench he changed his opinion about the young man he met in the park and lent him some money. Later, he discovered that this man was a liar which means that actually he wasn’t so good at distinguish between people he can trust and ones he cannot.
Slide24Post Reading
Saki doesn’t tell us much about Norman. We only know that “… he had been hurt and betrayed by someone he had trusted…”
Fill in this ‘gap’ in the story. Make up your own version who/how/when/why/where betrayed Norman. Write at least 5 sentences.