Transcript Literary Elements and Jurassic Park

 During the next week and a half we will be learning
about these literary elements and relate them to the
book Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
 At the end of our unit we will have a response paper
and a small quiz related to the book.
 We will also watch the movie as a little treat if
everyone does well on their quizzes.
Character
Imagery
Mood
Plot
Exposition
Rising Action
Climax
Falling Action
Resolution
Conflict
Point of View
Setting
 A character is a person or an animal that
takes part in the action of a literary work.
 Dinosaurs are important
characters in Jurassic Park.
 Imagery is words or phrases that appeal
to one or more of the five senses.
Writers use imagery to describe how
their subjects look, sound, feel, taste,
and smell.
 What kind of Imagery do you think
Jurassic Park will have?
 Mood, or atmosphere, is the feeling created
in the reader by a literary work or passage.
Writer’s use many devices to create mood,
including images, dialogue, setting, and
plot. Often, a writer creates a mood at the
beginning of a work and then sustains the
mood throughout. Sometimes, however,
the mood of the work changes dramatically.
 Plot is the sequence of events. The first
event causes the second, the second
causes the third, and so forth.
 In most novels, dramas, short stories,
and narrative poems, the plot involves
both characters and a central conflict.
 The plot usually begins with an exposition
that introduces the setting, the characters,
and the basic situation. This is introduced
and developed. The conflict then increases
until it reaches a high point of interest or
suspense, the climax. The climax is
followed by the falling action, or end, of the
central conflict. Any events that occur
during the falling action make up the
resolution.
Climax
Resolution
Exposition
Conflict Introduced
 The Exposition is the introduction.
It is the part of the work that
introduces the characters, setting,
and basic situation.
 Rising Action is the part of the plot
that begins to occur as soon as the
conflict is introduced. The rising
action adds complications to the
conflict and increases reader
interest.
 The Climax is the point of greatest
emotional intensity, interest, or
suspense in the plot of a narrative.
The climax typically comes at the
turning point in a story or drama.
Falling Action is the action that
typically follows the climax and
reveals its results.
 The Resolution is the part of the
plot that concludes the falling
action by revealing or suggesting
the outcome of the conflict.
Conflict is the struggle between
opposing forces in a story or
play. There are two types of
conflict that exist in literature.
 External conflict exists when a
character struggles against some
outside force, such as another
character, nature, society, or fate.
 Man vs. Man
 Man vs. Nature
 Internal conflict exists within the
mind of a character who is torn
between different courses of action.
 Man vs. Himself
 Point of View is the perspective, or vantage
point, from which a story is told. It is the
relationship of the narrator to the story.
 First-person is told by a character who uses
the first-person pronoun “I”.
 Third-person limited point of view is the
point of view where the narrator uses thirdperson pronouns such as “he” and “she” to
refer to the characters.
 The setting of a literary work is the time and place
of the action.
 The setting includes all the details of a place and
time – the year, the time of day, even the weather.
The place may be a specific country, state, region,
community, neighborhood, building, institution,
or home.
 Details such as dialect, clothing, customs, and
modes of transportation are often used to establish
setting.
 In most stories, the setting serves as a backdrop – a
context in which the characters interact. The
setting of a story often helps to create a particular
mood, or feeling.
 Written in 1990 by Michael
Crichton
 Made into a movie in 1993
 Sequel is called The Lost World,
which was also made into a movie.
 There are 3 Jurassic Park movies
and 2 books.