Transcript TKAM Ch 1-3
TKAM Ch 1-3 Exploring Characterization & Diction Chapter 1 Dill & Boo: The Summer of 1933 • Summer of 1933, Scout is six and Jem is ten. They start hanging out with Charles Baker Harris, known from this point on as ‘Dill’. They spend the summer playing games and telling stories, until they get bored and decide to try and lure their mysterious neighbor Arthur ‘Boo’ Radley out of his house. Dill dares Jem to touch the side of the Radley house, he does so, and there is no sign of movement, although Scout thinks she saw a shutter move slightly. • “Maycomb County had recently been told that it had nothing to fear but fear itself” Chapter 2: Scout Learns Her Lesson • Fall comes, Dill goes home and Scout starts school for the first time. She gets off to a rough start with her teacher, Miss Caroline, and we begin to learn more about the town of Maycomb and the people that inhabit it, such as Walter Cunningham. • “I mumbled that I was sorry and retired meditating upon my crime” Chapter 3: Understanding Atticus • Jem invites Walter over for lunch after he comes across Scout picking on him for getting her in trouble. During their lunch at home we begin to see more of the family dynamics evolve between the Finches (Atticus, Jem, Scout, and their maid Calpurnia). Scout returns to school to finish out the day, but it doesn’t get much better for her. At home that evening she expresses her concern to Atticus and he calms her down by promising to keep reading to her. • “You never really understand a person until you…climb into his skin and walk around in it” Using TKAM to explore Literary Devices Literary Devices: the typical structures used by writers in their works to convey their message to their readers. Different literary devices help readers to appreciate, interpret and analyze literary work. • Literary Elements • Have an inherent existence in literary pieces and are extensively employed to develop a pieces of writing • i.e. plot, setting, characters, mood, theme, moral, etc. • Literary Techniques • Writers employ these structures to achieve not merely and artistic end, but also help readers gain a greater understanding of their work • i.e. metaphor, simile, alliteration, hyperbole, etc. Literary Devices: Characterization • Characterization is used step by step in literature to highlight and explain the details about a character in a story • Initially: writer introduces the character and talks about his behavior • Next: the character expresses their opinions and ideas and gets into conversations with other characters • Finally: others respond to the character’s personality Characterization • Types: • Direct • Indirect • Function: • Modern fiction uses characterization to make sense of the behavior of any character in a story by helping us understand their thought process Character Mapping • Your task is to create a character chart for Scout, Jem, Dill, Calpurnia, Atticus, and Walter. The character chart should include: • Character’s name • A quote describing the character’s appearance • A quote spoken by or about the character that shows personality • A one sentence description showing the reader’s thoughts/ideas/reflections/speculations about the character Literary Devices: Diction • The style of speaking of writing determined by the choice of words by a speaker or a writer • Depending on the topics at hand, writers tend to vary their diction • In literature, writers choose to create and convey a typical mood, tone and atmosphere to their readers. A writer’s choice of words and his selection of graphic words not only affect the reader’s attitude but also conveys the writer’s feelings toward the literary work. Say-Mean-Matter: Diction & Setting • Say • The actual quotation • Mean • Paraphrase the text. What is the meaning of the quotation? • Matter • What effect do the words have on you, the reader? What do they tell you about the setting, mood, or tone of the novel? Ch 1-3 Review • What does Scout mean when she says that Walter is "a Cunningham"? • How does Atticus describe the Cunninghams? How does Mr. Cunningham pay Atticus? How does Lee use characterization and diction in this scene, and in these chapters, in order to set up our understanding of Maycomb without just directly stating it? Homework Vocab list due 2/25 (tomorrow!) Ch 4-8 due 2/26 (Thursday)