1. Writing an Introduction for IB exam

2. agenda How to write intro with compare/contrast question Examples
30 minutes in-class writing
Time left over: movie

3. Answering the question

4. In Class Writing Prompt : Intro only
Compare two novels or two stories
1 story from The Turning + another novel
2 stories from The Turning
Choose:
#8: Symbols…
#12: Successful characterization takes us to heart of the reader.

5. UNPACK THE QUESTION Deconstruct Need to compare both works
Argue the positive not the negative
(what something is, rather than what it is not.)
Literary elements and features
Whatever you use make sure you explain the effect…why the poet or author uses it.

6. Exam question
Successful characterization involves taking the reader to the heart, to the inner core, of an imagined person.” In two works of your study, discuss by what means and with what degree of success authors have tried to take you to the heart of their characters.

7. Character Development
Techniques authors use to develop character Character+desire+action=plot -character must take action (can’t be passive) (agent of their own change) -Character must occasionally make mistakes -Must have strengths and weaknesses -external and internal conflicts Transformation or epiphany

8. Direct and Indirect Characterization
Direct characterization tells the reader about a character
indirect characterization shows a character in action and leaves the reader to infer the rest.
Dialogue
Interior thoughts

9. Raju? How does Narayan take us to the heart of his character?
Braided pov creates delicate balance between sympathy and judgment:
a Third person(allows more objective view of character)
b. First person (more subjective, creates sympathy)
Creates a Flawed character
a. Emerging from jail
b. covets another man’s wife

10. Which other character could you use?

11. Other characters? Techniques?
Vic ( Abbreviation, Damaged Goods, On Her Knees)
Changing pov- how does that reveal character?
Non-linear story telling
Mrs. Ramsay
Stream of consciousness
Internal conflict
actions
Lily: soc/internal-external conflict-actions
Paul D/ Sethe
fragmented story telling. Circular narrative
Actions

12. Symbols/Motifs (recurring subject, feature, idea, image, shape)
How have either or both of these devices been used and, in your opinion, how successfully, in tow of the works you have studied.

13. Symbols/motifs The Guide The Turning Car Telephone booth
To The Lighthouse
Beloved
Crocodile-jewelry
Landscape
Water-waves
Jail
Water
Alphabet
124
Empty pot
Swamp
Lily’s painting
Tin box
Railroad
Sky
Lighthouse
Milk
Defects
Shawl
Trees
Hook
Boar’s head
fire
Earrings
The past
Black swan

14. Intro Address question right away Preview novel 1 main idea
Thesis that includes both novels.

15. Thesis Statement example on question about setting
Woolf and Narayan use specific settings to reveal the tension between community needs and indiidual desires, and to show that transformation and self-fulfillment of character is specifically linked to a particularized time and place.