39 Now work on these tasks with a partner and share your thoughts with the class. 1 Summarise the plot of this scene. What happens? 2 Now focus on the setting: Does the description make you feel curious and excited or perhaps strange and unsettled? Which words or phrases make you feel this way? Does the opening make you want to read on? 3 Now read the text again and underline any words or phrases that refer to the five senses – what is seen, heard, smelled, tasted or touched. These descriptions are examples of imagery. Imagery is descriptive writing that appeals to our senses. It makes the reader’s experience more vivid and engaging by helping them visualise or feel what the characters are experiencing. 4 Read the social media post on the right. What do you think made the person write this about the book? 5 Go through the text again and, using a different colour, underline every instance of the words ‘you’, ‘your’ or ‘yourself’. Does this unusual use of direct address make you feel included or involved as a reader, or would you prefer to remain outside? How might the passage feel different if it were written in the third person instead – more personal and engaging, or more distant and objective? Read the information and complete it with the words from the box. author person perspective poem writing When you start to read a novel, short story, (1) or any other form of literary (2) , you first need to consider who is telling the story and how they are involved in it. The technical term for this is point of view, and the (3) who tells the story is called the narrator or narrative voice. This is not the same as the (4) . When the narrator knows and sees everything and when what they tell us is true, they are omniscient. When the story is told by a narrator who is part of the story, they may be unreliable because they can give readers only one (5) of what is happening. Now read the following extract from 1984 by George Orwell (published in 1949) and do the tasks below. 2 3 Morgenstern’s writing is light on plot and big on imagery. by random redditor It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors of Victory Mansions, though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of gritty dust from entering along with him. The hallway smelt of boiled cabbage and old rag mats. At one end of it a coloured poster, too large for indoor display, had been tacked to the wall. It depicted simply an enormous face, more than a metre wide: the face of a man of about forty-five, with a heavy black moustache and ruggedly handsome features. Winston made for the stairs. It was no use trying the lift. Even at the best of times it was seldom working, and at present the electric current was cut off during daylight hours. It was part of the economy drive in preparation for Hate Week. 1 Who do you think is telling the story? Is this a reliable narrator? Who do you expect to be the main character (protagonist) in the book? 2 Underline the imagery in this text. What is the overall feeling or atmosphere (mood) created through these images? How does this differ from the previous extract? Remember to look for descriptions that appeal to your senses. Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv
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