1. INTERLOPERS BY SAKI

2. AS YOU COME IN…
Identify if you agree or disagree with the statements on the posters around the room.
Use the stickers to make your vote.
Make sure you answer all 6.
We will discuss as a class when everyone has voted.
When you finish going around the room, please put your completed annotations and half sheet reflection from “The Fan Club” in the basket (stapled together)

3. Serious arguments can begin with trivial matters.

4. People who quarrel for a long time often forget why they started fighting in the first place.

5. Arguments always weaken over time.

6. When arguing you should never show weakness.

7. If you apologize first , it shows you are wrong.

8. Revenge is the best way to settle an argument.

9. Literary Conflict

10. Conflict
In a story, conflict is the struggle between opposing forces.

11. Protagonist
The main character

12. The character in conflict with the main character
Antagonist
The character in conflict with the main character

13. External Conflict takes place outside of the body

14. There are three types of external conflict

15. The struggle is between two or more characters in the story.
Man vs. Man
The struggle is between two or more characters in the story.

16. External
Man vs. Nature
This type of conflict pits a story's main character or characters against a natural force such as a flood, predatory animal, or disease epidemic.

17. External Man Against Society
In many stories, the protagonist battles against element of government or culture.

18. Internal Conflict takes place inside of the body/mind.

19. There is one type of internal conflict.

20. Man vs. Self
The struggle or opposition is within one character--making a tough decision, for example. A character struggling to overcome fear, addiction, emotional damage or other crippling personal issue.

21. Internal
Man vs. Self
Some literary conflicts take the form of a character struggling to overcome fear, addiction, emotional damage or other crippling personal issue.

22. Practice
Decide what type of conflict is being illustrated in the following pictures

23. 1. Man vs. ?

24. Answer:
MAN VS NATURE

25. 2. Man vs. ?

26. Answer:
MAN VS SELF

27. 3. Man vs. ?

28. ANSWER:
MAN VS MAN

29. 4. Man vs.

30. ANSWER:
MAN VS SOCIETY

31. 5. Man vs. ?

32. ANSWER:
MAN VS NATURE

33. 6. Man vs. ?

34. ANSWER:
MAN VS SOCIETY

35. 7. Man vs. ?

36. ANSWER:
MAN VS MAN

37. Now that you have mastered pictures, let’s try some text!
Practice
Now that you have mastered pictures, let’s try some text!

38. 8. Man vs. ? “If she had only proceeded more slowly.
If she had only taken the Southerly route, avoiding the icebergs. If only the watch had had a pair of binoculars.”
(news story about the Titanic)

39. ANSWER:
MAN VS NATURE

40. 9. Man vs. ?
Charles decided to break all the rules the day he decided to steal that car. He was immediately arrested and sent to jail to await his trial. He should have known better than to mess with the “rules.”

41. ANSWER:
MAN VS SOCIETY

42. 10. Man vs. ?
“I don’t care who you talk to!” screamed Sarah to Wes. “I just wish I had never met you!”

43. ANSWER:
MAN VS MAN

44. 11. Man vs. ?
After the light in the cave was completely gone Tom began to stumble through the cave blindly cutting his hands on what appeared to be sharp rocks.

45. ANSWER:
MAN VS NATURE

46. 12. Man vs. ?
Tom found a dry spot to sit down in the dark and began to feel guilty over an argument he had had earlier in the day with his mother in which he had said, “I hope I never see you again!”

47. ANSWER:
MAN VS SELF

48. 13. Man vs. ?
Tom’s mother was upset that he wanted to skip going to college in order to go exploring in all of the world’s greatest caves before he turned thirty. Tom didn’t understand what the big deal was and wanted to run his own life.

49. ANSWER:
MAN VS MAN

50. Types of Narrators
1st person – character refers to himself/herself as “I”, “me”, etc.
2nd person – reader is participant in the story, as the narrator refers to “you”
3rd person limited – uses pronoun “he” or “she”, and only focuses in on one character
3rd person omniscient – also uses pronoun “he” or “she”, but has a more complete overview of all (or most) characters