CHARACTERS

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 492.

NARRATOR

1. This story is an example of third-person limited omniscient narration. Whose point of view dominates the narration? Find examples in which the narrator enters the mind of the ch-r and interprets events from her point of view.

2. What technique is used by the author to express this point of view?

· direct speech

· indirect speech

· represented speech

Prove by the text.

I. Focus on the character of Matilda.

1. There is no information in the text about the girl's physical appearance? Why is it left vague, in your opinion?

2. What words and expressions reveal Matilda's attitude to

· her mother

· her music teacher

· her brother

3. The story works more by suggestion and evocation than by action. What feelings of the characters does the episode of the music lesson suggest? Pick out the phrases loaded with implications

4. When does the narrator describe the girl's feelings directly and in what parts does she use more subtlmeans to communicate the complexity and intensity of emotions. Which of the following techniques can you identify?

- creation of atmosphere

- metaphor

- epithet

- direct speech

- symbolic objects

- description of the setting

- other____________________?

5.Which events of the plot are real and which are imagined? Do you agree that Matilda is full of dreams?

6. Is Matilda's fantasizing a response to:

· loneliness

· family pressure

· dull and unromantic surroundings

· other______________?

7. How would you define Matilda's state of mind?

- calm - hysterical - rational -confused - unbalanced - detached - other

On the basis of what you have read how would you evaluate the girl's personality?

8. What type of character is Matilda:

- one-dimensional (flat)

- multi-dimensional (round)

- simplistic?