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GONE:C Chapters 11-14 EQ: How does a plot develop in conflict & action?

DIDACTIC LITERATURE = literature that teachesor conveys a moral . . . This is a fable.

What is this author’s purpose?

LUKE 12:13-21 . . . What is this parable teaching? What is the speaker’s purpose?

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Different Types of Didactic Literature

Fables Parables Morality plays Fairy tales Religious works (the Bible, the Koran, the

Rig Veda, etc.)

Fables

Fables are stories that teach a lesson, usually with animal characters.

What are the two fables we’ve read so far?

What is the lesson the fable on the pigs is teaching about the natural world?

What is the lesson the fable on pp. 73-75 is teaching about the natural world?

Four Corners

Gasemu is to blame for their parents being killed.

Gasemu is to blame for the kids’ not seeing their parents alive.

The boys are heartless b/c they’re laughing after Saidu’s death, talking about girls, and wrestling.

Ch. 11 Questions

1. Why can they grieve only for a little while (89)? 2. Why are they laughing, talking about girls, &

wrestling after Saidu’s death (89-90)? Are they heartless?

3. A pathetic fallacy is when in literature nature imitates the mood of the story. Where on P. 90 does that happen?

4. Why does Ishmael lose control in anger (95)? 5. Is it Gasemu’s fault they didn’t meet their

parents (95-96)? Explain.

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Ch. 12 Questions 1. Find the run-on on P. 100. 2. What does “garrison” (101) mean? a. house b. fortified place c. tent 3. Why is Ishmael having nightmares &

migraines? 4. “My head beat like the clapper of a bell”

(103) is an example of a _____________. 5. How do we know Ishmael is very smart? 6. Are these soldiers RUF or the military army? 7. What fuels Ishmael to be willing to kill? 8. What is ironic about Ishmael’s memory on

the bottom of P. 111 compared to the day’s weapons training?

Ch. 13 Ques.

Irony is the difference between what is and what we think is, the difference between appearance & reality.

Examples: We train all year to play in the championship, only to

get appendicitis the night before the game. We watch a TV show where a guy goes into debt to

buy an engagement ring for a girl who is cheating on him.

We watch “Disaster Date,” where the horrible date is a set-up.

A teacher says to us when we’re late once more, “You’re on time as usual.”

Types of Irony

Situational = the situation turns out differently than anticipated (surprise ending)

Dramatic = the audience/reader knows something the character doesn’t

Verbal = saying one thing but meaning the opposite

Ch. 13 What is ironic about the lieutenant’s

reading Shakespeare? What is ironic about Sheku’s & Josiah’s

having to have a stool to hold up their guns?

What is ironic about Josiah’s falling backward b/c of so much ammunition?

What is ironic about Ishmael and the boys killing the other boys with the RUF?

Ch. 14-15

How do we see Ishmael’s utter degradation (becoming an animal) in ch. 14?

What has caused him to become this? (cause & effect)?

What surprising event happens in ch. 15? Why is UNICEF’s goal not as easy as it

sounds? What is ironic about the situation?

Review of Definitions A-Definition in Context: What is a pact (116)? Definition Entry:Pad1 = v. 1. to walk 2. to move with a muffled

stepPad2 = n. 1. thin flat mat 2. padding used to

shape an article of clothing 3. a guard worn to shield the body against impact 4. gauze or bandage on wound 5. part of a brake system 6. section of an airstrip for take-off of plane

Which entry & which definition is pad in these sentences?

B-“I came down the stairs of the plane and stepped onto the pad?”

C-“Because he was elderly, he could only pad through the house.”