Characterization
What is characterization?
How readers use details and traits in the text to describe and analyze a character
What is plot?
The series of events that occur that make up a story
What is theme?
The universal message the author conveys or shows through their story
What is magical realism?
A literary style that uses magical or fantastical details in a way that appear normal or natural, blurring lines between fantasy and reality
What point of view is the novel written in?
First person (I, me, my, we)
What are 5 traits we can look for in a character? (Hint: The acronym is STEAL)
Say, Think, Exchange (interaction with others), Actions, and Looks
What are the five parts of plot?
Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action and Resolution (dénouement)
Love, Friendship, Family, Death, War -- these are all examples of what?
Topic
What is a flashback?
When a scene in a book is out of order -- the scene in the middle is actually something that happened previously
What were the narrator's two majors in college (what he studied)?
Religious Studies and Zoology
What does this passage tell us about the narrator?
Richard Parker has stayed with me. I’ve never forgotten him. Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love. Such is the strangeness of the human heart. I still cannot understand how he could abandon me so unceremoniously, without any sort of goodbye, without looking back even once. That pain is like an axe that chops at my heart.
He has been hurt by Richard Parker very deeply, but still remembers him fondly despite the pain. (Exchange)
What is the climax in the story?
The turning point in the story; the protagonist directly faces the conflict in a way that changes everything
Provide a potential example theme for the topic of "family"
Example: Family will be there for us when no one else will
What are the two parts of setting?
Where the story takes place and when
What country did Pi grow up in, and where does he go to college?
He grew up in India, and he goes to college in Canada