Hemingway & Bradbury Story Project

Today you will have 5 minutes to complete the Hemingway quiz. After our quiz, please complete the handout/graphic organizer provided to you. Consider how "Snows of Kilimanjaro" reflects what you have learned about Hemingway from your research. Find examples from the text.

After we have completed this assignment, please consider these key narrative concepts:

Stream of consciousness: a narrative device or technique a writer uses to develop character (characterization). The writer does this by presenting the THOUGHTS of a character as they would occur in the mind. It is similar to an internal monologue that a character has about his/her situation in the narrative of the story. The character is speaking to him/herself in stream of consciousness. This technique is unique to fiction or poetry. It is similar to the voice over (VO) in film or the soliloquy in plays. It is useful to:

• Provide characterization or develop character
• Explains the attitude or POV of the character's mind or thought process

Flashback: a narrative technique useful in plotting. Usually stories are written in chronological time (i.e., a story is told from the beginning to the end). A flashback, however, allows the writer to insert a scene that takes the narrative back in time from the current point (present). Flashbacks are used to:

• Provide important background or story details
• Develop details about a character (characterization)
• It helps to develop setting
• It can be used to create suspense

Take 5-10 minutes today in class to work with a partner. Find an example of FLASHBACK in the story "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" and STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS in "A Clean Well Lighted Place." Record your names on an index card and identify the page # in which you found an example of flashback and stream of consciousness. Turn this in as credit today by the end of class.

Once you have completed the assignments above, please continue writing your Bradbury project. Continue and conclude your 2nd story of the Bradbury project draft (if you don't finish today, please complete the draft of your second story by Thursday).

HOMEWORK: Please read the stories: "The Gambler, The Nun, & the Radio", "In Another Country", and "The Killers" for Thursday. As you read these stories, please connect them to today's lesson, Hemingway's life, Hemingway's style of writing, and the use of stream of consciousness & flashback as narrative techniques.