Pre Reading
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Opening Chapter
Exploring the First Chapter:
Read the opening paragraphs of Enduring Love (up to “I linger on our dispositions, the relative distances and the compass point – because as far as these occurrences were concerned, this was the last time I understood anything clearly at all.”)
Make brief notes under the following headings:
· What is the extract about
· What are the characters like
· Narrative viewpoint
· Use of language(tone, particular word groups, metaphors)
· The genre
· Refernces to what happens later
· Techniques to draw the reader in
· What you are left wanting to know
· Your expectations of the novel
Reader Responses
The following quotations from other readesr and reviewers of the novel highlight the power of its opening chapter.
Read the quotations and consider how far they reflect your interpretation of the opening chapter. Do any of them cause you to alter your response?
the first chapter … makes an excellent short story
the sense of the book is in the first chapter
the first chapter is ‘too wordy’
Taut, compelling
In an interview Ian McEwan explained that one of his aims when writing Enduring Love was to make the opening like an ‘addictive drug’:
I think its possible to talk about a novel as a kind of building, and you’re conducting the reader through the portals, through its entrance way. Those first impressions as you step into a building are crucial; openings are crucial. Getting someone to sit with your novel for eight or ten hours of their lives is a commitment, and somehow you've got to entice the reader into making that commitment. And I suppose I took this to something of an extreme in Enduring Love. So the story of the balloon became in a way that entrance hall. This is the first thins you see, and I hoped that I would write something that would have an addictive quality too. In fact, a coupe of years later, I came across a coupe of sentences in my notebook, in which I ordered myself to go and find an opening in chapter to a novel that would be like an addictive drug, that once you started you would be hooked.
Explore
Read the whole of the first chapter and be ready to talk about the ways in which McEwan tries to ‘hook’ the reader and draw him /her into his narrative. Some techniques he uses are suggested here:
· Dropping clues
· Holding back information
· Cliff hangers
· Slowing down the story – making the reader wait
Find examples of these techniques and any others that you notice.
Read the opening paragraphs of Enduring Love (up to “I linger on our dispositions, the relative distances and the compass point – because as far as these occurrences were concerned, this was the last time I understood anything clearly at all.”)
Make brief notes under the following headings:
· What is the extract about
· What are the characters like
· Narrative viewpoint
· Use of language(tone, particular word groups, metaphors)
· The genre
· Refernces to what happens later
· Techniques to draw the reader in
· What you are left wanting to know
· Your expectations of the novel
Reader Responses
The following quotations from other readesr and reviewers of the novel highlight the power of its opening chapter.
Read the quotations and consider how far they reflect your interpretation of the opening chapter. Do any of them cause you to alter your response?
the first chapter … makes an excellent short story
the sense of the book is in the first chapter
the first chapter is ‘too wordy’
Taut, compelling
In an interview Ian McEwan explained that one of his aims when writing Enduring Love was to make the opening like an ‘addictive drug’:
I think its possible to talk about a novel as a kind of building, and you’re conducting the reader through the portals, through its entrance way. Those first impressions as you step into a building are crucial; openings are crucial. Getting someone to sit with your novel for eight or ten hours of their lives is a commitment, and somehow you've got to entice the reader into making that commitment. And I suppose I took this to something of an extreme in Enduring Love. So the story of the balloon became in a way that entrance hall. This is the first thins you see, and I hoped that I would write something that would have an addictive quality too. In fact, a coupe of years later, I came across a coupe of sentences in my notebook, in which I ordered myself to go and find an opening in chapter to a novel that would be like an addictive drug, that once you started you would be hooked.
Explore
Read the whole of the first chapter and be ready to talk about the ways in which McEwan tries to ‘hook’ the reader and draw him /her into his narrative. Some techniques he uses are suggested here:
· Dropping clues
· Holding back information
· Cliff hangers
· Slowing down the story – making the reader wait
Find examples of these techniques and any others that you notice.
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mathematical_grace.docx | |
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Quotes from Joe Rose
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Jed Parry
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The plot
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An appropriate title?
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Questions Questions Questions....
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Sample extracts
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