Anil

Short Stories SST

Learning Objectives

• To explore the stylistic choices made by the writer

Success Criteria• I will revise the key events from the story• I will explore how the writer creates tension• I will analyse his use of technique

Sequencing

• Put these events from the story ‘Anil’ in the correct order.

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The Symbolism of the Tree

• The description of the tree and stories surrounding it add to the suspense of the hanging scene. The tree itself could be said to symbolise death – its grim associations foreshadow what is to come.

Draw an outline of a tree – it should take up most of the page!

Find as many quotes as you can about the tree from the story.

Look again at lines

• Explore how the writer creates suspense in this section of the story. In the order that they happen, write a list of the 6 most tense parts of that section.

1. 4.2. 5.3. 6.

Tension Graph

Events from Lines

Tension

Now, add quotes to your graph to

support your view.

Match the correct technique to each quoteOn a hot, sweltering night in the middle of March when the mosquitoes were in their reign of terrorism.

Marimuthu…heard the train leaving the village and looked up to see it darting across the horizon, the heat from the funeral pyre distorting the image of the train, making it look like a squiggly worm.

She wore a faded sari, one of the four that she owned, each as faded as the other…Her skin was encased in sweat and a fly hovered around it.

Simultaneous Roundtable

PEEL PARAGRAPHS!

•The story is set…

•The narrative viewpoint is a…

•Details such as… remind us that…