1. Whistle and I’ll Come to You
Look back at your prediction activity – what did you predict for this chapter?
Whistle and I’ll Come to You
Lesson Objective: To be able to explore Hill’s dramatic techniques P

2. What do you notice about these sentences?
During the night the wind rose.
At first I was alarmed.
I listened hard.
Nothing.
There was no child.
No light came on.

3. Key Term: The Uncanny
Definition – something familiar in an unfamiliar surrounding – something particularly unsettling
Kipps, when listening to the noise in the nursery, says ‘The sound that I had been hearing was the sound that I remembered from far back, from a time before I could clearly remember anything else...’

4. But what was ‘real’? AS we read the next section find:
Examples of where Kipps questions ‘reality’
The uncanny (things which seem familiar to Kipps but which he can’t explain)

5. Answer these questions:
What is similar between the wind and Kipps’ own feelings:
There was the sound of moaning down all the chimneys of the house and whistling through every nook and cranny. (at Eel Marsh)
The wind raged round like a lion, howling at the doors and beating upon the windows...(his nursery in Sussex)
Out of that howling darkness...
The wind continued to howl

6. How has Susan Hill used sentence structure to engage the reader and build tension?
Never yet.
Nothing else happened at all.
I saw the face of my watch.
I knew that.
No.

7. You are Kipps:
If you could ask the Woman in Black ONE question, what would it be?