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Short Story Week 2
"The Birds"
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Author: | Daphne du Maurier |
| Daphne is from here. | London |
| Authors dad was a ___ ___. And grandfather was a ___ ___. | Famous actor; famous writer |
| means wealthy or prosperous (author was this) | Well-to-do |
| Author's sister preferred: | Social life- dances, parties, fundraising |
| Daphne liked ___ and ___. | Solitude and reading |
| Daphne du Maurier wrote her first novel when she was: | In her early 20's |
| Author's best seller: | The Loving Spirit |
| Daphne wrote three romantic novels: | Rebecca, Jamaica Inn, Frenchman's Creek |
| ___ is a clue or hint about what's going to happen. | foreshadowing |
| ___ is when a story is told on more than one level. Ex: seems to be a simple scary story, but it's actually much more | Allegory |
| "The Birds" is really about the ___ ___. | Cold War |
| The ___ ___ was a political war about ideologists. Some indirect fighting. USSR vs. USA. Each country provided weapons, soldiers, advice, airplanes, etc. to a "friend country." | Cold War |
| During the Cold War, both the USA and the ___ had ___ weapons. | USSR; atomic |
| During the Cold War, people became ___. | Nervous |
| Setting: | England right after WWII |
| Plot: | Wat Hocken, wife, Jill, Johnny have conflict with birds that act weird |
| Suspense= | Page-turners |
| Daphne du Maurier hints that: | Something is wrong right from the beginning |
| As the story goes on, | Things get worse |
| Conflict type: | Man vs. Nature |
| A ___ ___ threatens to destroy people. Sometimes means whole human race. | Natural catastrophe |
| This book makes: | The reader want to predict what is going to happen |
| A reader's predictions about the book's outcome are based on: | Observations of characters and their situations, clues from the writer, their own experiences, and their understanding of how the story works, |
| This story has an ___ ending. It is open for ___. | Ambiguous; interpretation |
| The ___ ___ symbolizes the USSR. | East Wind |
| *Notes* Symbols: mass German air attacks, gulls to mighty fleet at anchor, England's being unprepared for WWII. |
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rachelebrady
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