Night: Alice munro For edexcel igcse Jonathan Peel 2017 Before we start The short story is semi autobiographical Munro is a Canadian writer Nobel prize for literature 2013 Born 1934 Described the collection whence this story comes as not
"Night: Alice munro For edexcel igcse Jonathan Peel" is the property of its rightful owner. Permission is granted to
download and print the materials on this website for personal, non-commercial use only, and to display it
on your personal computer provided you do not modify the materials and that you retain all copyright
notices contained in the materials. By downloading content from our website, you accept the terms of this
agreement.
Presentation Transcript
01
Night: Alice munro For edexcel igcse Jonathan Peel 2017<br>
02
Before we start The short story is semi autobiographical
Munro is a Canadian writer
Nobel prize for literature 2013
Born 1934
Described the collection whence this story comes as ‘not quite stories’ Jonathan Peel 2017<br>
03
Themes to explore Match these themes in the grid below: Family relationships, impact of prolonged illness, fear for mental health, reflection on the past. Jonathan Peel 2017<br>
04
Autobiography or story… ‘One night – I can’t say whether it could be the twentieth or the twelfth or only the eighth or the ninth that I had got up and walked – I got a sense, too late for me to change my pace, that there was somebody around the corner. There was somebody waiting there and I could do nothing but walk right on. I would be caught if I turned back, and it would be worse that way than to be confronted.’
Fiction element is strong here: needed for plot development; full of literary devices such as parenthesis and a range of sentence length. Jonathan Peel 2017<br>
05
Autobiography or story… I have thought that he was maybe in his better work clothes because he had a morning appointment to go to the bank, to learn, not to his surprise, that there was no extension to his loan. He had worked as hard as he could but the market was not going to turn around and he had to find a new way of supporting us and paying off what we owed at the same time. Or he may have found out that there was a name for my mother’s shakiness and that it was not going to stop. Or that he was in love with an impossible woman.
The sense of family history suggests a more autobiographical approach to the storytelling at this point. Jonathan Peel 2017<br>
06
A techniques table: Jonathan Peel 2017<br>
07
SPEECH: look for examples of these speech types. Direct Speech: “” is used to show the Actual words Spoken: vivid and dynamic writing
Indirect speech: speech as reported by the narrator: Less direct, a sense of distance.
Direct speeches with no marking (free indirect speech) : can suggest the content of a speech but may not actually be quoting. Can engage the reader with the question or response being told. Jonathan Peel 2017<br>
08
Setting The passage is full of references to Canada and specific forms of nature.
Make a list of the references you can find.
Do the repetitive images give any sense of the nature of the life they lead in rural Canada? Jonathan Peel 2017<br>
09
Structure Below you see the normal structure of a short story. How does this story fit that structure? Jonathan Peel 2017<br>
