What impression is created? When watching this trailer for the film adaptation of the novel, Wuthering Heights, try to complete the sentence starter below: The weather creates the impression that the characters may be feeling…

Christmas Eve (1) Objectives: To understand pathetic fallacy and foreshadowing. Challenge: To explore how Hill uses foreshadowing in chapter one. Starter activity What is Pathetic Fallacy?

What is Pathetic Fallacy? Pathetic fallacy is when a writer uses the weather / nature and setting to send signals to the reader. Look at the following images – what signals do you think a film maker is trying to send to his audience with these scenes?

For example, a hot day suggests that thing are about to heat up – either into violence or passion!

A dark, misty night suggests that something “scary” is about to happen

A calm sea and sky suggest calm in the film – often the calm before the storm!

Using Pathetic Fallacy – what is being suggested with this setting?

What is foreshadowing? This is when a writer gives clues to the reader that suggest ideas / themes or things that might happen later in the story. We are now going to analyse key quotations from Chapter 1 for Foreshadowing.

Analysis Read the quotations and explain what each quotation suggests to the reader.

Homework Complete the analysis worksheet, for:

Christmas Eve (1) To understand pathetic fallacy and foreshadowing. To explore how Hill uses foreshadowing.