Today we took notes on the concept of voice in literature. Some key points mentioned in our notes is that this type of voice refers to the persona that an author takes to establish a strong narrator. Voice is especially significant when it is a first person point of view. Voice establishes a unique attitude and character. Voice is created when an author uses a particular style.
The style of The Curious Incident includes the following:
sentences are often curt and objective (with little emotion)
matter-of-fact tone is established in such sentences
use of pictures maps, diagrams
the narrator is frank and lacks discretion
novel focuses on the adventure into Christopher's autistic mind as much as the actual adventure that he has.
Brittany, hope things are going well in Canmore! Go Britt Go!
Curious Incident test next Friday.
Fern Hill by Dylan Thomas
Students were given copy of the poem (the poem we arranged last day) and were asked to identify as many figures of speech as you can in the poem (write these right on the handout of the poem I gave you). Absent students, you can print off a copy of the poem easily by Google-ing the poem (it's a famous poem so it's easy to find on the Internet).
