Night: Alice munro For edexcel igcse Jonathan Peel 2017.

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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 quite stories’ Jonathan Peel 2017

Themes to explore Match these themes in the grid below: Family relationships, impact of prolonged illness, fear for mental health, reflection on the past. theme example comment ‘I must not even think of it but I did think of it’ ‘I knew now that he had not heard me getting up and walking around on just this one night’ ‘I don’t remember at any rate having to tackle any of the jobs that piled up for me in later summers, when I fought quite willingly to maintain the decency of our house’ ‘so that I could spend part of that time wandering about like a visitor’ She is given freedoms because of her illness. Suggests that idleness contributes to a sense of unease Jonathan Peel 2017

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

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

A techniques table: technique examples comment contrast ‘How wide awake I was with the rest of the household asleep’ Establishes a clear difference between her and her family. Repetition Conversational tone ‘now’, ‘so’ links Use of parentheses Descriptive detail Develops the narrative aspect, enables the reader to visualise the setting Short sentences ‘absurd,’ ‘The Freedom’ Jonathan Peel 2017

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

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

Structure Below you see the normal structure of a short story. How does this story fit that structure? 4: Falling actions 5: Resolution - a new status quo 1:Exposition: status quo 2: Rising actions 3: Climax Jonathan Peel 2017