At this point, you should have two stories that have interlocking characters, settings, themes, or plot events.
Today, please start fresh with the same instruction as the second story. Change the dominant character, switch perspective to an incidental or minor character, allowing this character to become the protagonist, keep the same setting, but use the setting with a whole new group of characters or events, choose a similar plot event and repeat it with new characters, etc.
LAB: Write a draft of your third story. Use the time in the lab to write. Really. Write. Now. Go.
WHAT IF I'M DONE with my 3 interlocking stories (the Bradbury project)?
HOMEWORK: Please complete the collection "The Snows on Kilimanjaro" please read the stories: "A Way You'll Never Be", "Fifty Grand", and the "Short Life Happy Life of Francis Macomber." Again, as you read these stories, please connect them Hemingway's life, Hemingway's style of writing, and the use of stream of consciousness & flashback as narrative techniques. Try to notice these connections. They will be useful to you when you take your essay test, next class.
By the way, there will be a unit test on Hemingway's "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" next class. You should be familiar with the basic plots of each short story in the collection, as well as the major plot events, the settings, and themes of his work. In addition, you should be able to draw some connections between Hemingway's life and the short stories in the collection. Perhaps for an essay, hint, hint.
Today, please start fresh with the same instruction as the second story. Change the dominant character, switch perspective to an incidental or minor character, allowing this character to become the protagonist, keep the same setting, but use the setting with a whole new group of characters or events, choose a similar plot event and repeat it with new characters, etc.
LAB: Write a draft of your third story. Use the time in the lab to write. Really. Write. Now. Go.
WHAT IF I'M DONE with my 3 interlocking stories (the Bradbury project)?
- Rearrange the three stories in any way you deem necessary to create ONE longer story made up of the three shorter stories.
- You want to consider the structure of your placement. In other words: what story should be read first, which story should be read second, and which story should conclude your interlocking story? Generally we want to end a story with a climax, or thinking about the theme, message, or point. It is often good to end a story with an important image--hey! Just like a poem!
HOMEWORK: Please complete the collection "The Snows on Kilimanjaro" please read the stories: "A Way You'll Never Be", "Fifty Grand", and the "Short Life Happy Life of Francis Macomber." Again, as you read these stories, please connect them Hemingway's life, Hemingway's style of writing, and the use of stream of consciousness & flashback as narrative techniques. Try to notice these connections. They will be useful to you when you take your essay test, next class.
By the way, there will be a unit test on Hemingway's "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" next class. You should be familiar with the basic plots of each short story in the collection, as well as the major plot events, the settings, and themes of his work. In addition, you should be able to draw some connections between Hemingway's life and the short stories in the collection. Perhaps for an essay, hint, hint.
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