THE LOST THING Shaun Tan Teacher’s Notes By Nancy Mortimer Contents • • • • • Introduction Language and Literacy Visual Literacy Design and Layout Discussion Points The Lost Thing – Shaun Tan Teacher’s Guide 2009 Page 1 of 8 www.hachettechildrens.com.au INTRODUCTION The Lost Thing is the first picture book that Shaun Tan has both written and illustrated‚ and the result is a wonderful‚ warm‚ humorous story that will be read and enjoyed by a wide range of
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“Because I could not stop for Death‚ He kindly stopped for me‚” (lines 1-2) Dickinson. Emily Dickinson writes in a tone that does not represent the usual gloom and doom death‚ but the death that is represented is a kind and companionate one. Throughout the entire poem‚ Dickinson shows that death is not to be feared and people should enjoy it before it ends for them. Emily Dickinson uses death to normalize it so that to make it seem less scary. For instance‚ “We passed the School‚ where Children
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Emily Dickinson was ahead of her time in the way she wrote her poems. The poems she wrote had much more intelligence and background that the common person could comprehend and understand. People of all ages and critics loved her writings and their meanings‚ but disliked her original‚ bold style. Many critics restyled her poetry to their liking and are often so popular are put in books alongside Dickinson’s original poetry (Tate 1). She mainly wrote on nature. She also wrote about domestic
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“A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner introduces the story of Emily Grierson’s enigmatic life against the townspeople. Her southern identity exposes a personal conflict‚ which later reveals a solemn surprise. In “A Rose for Emily”‚ the protagonist’s empathetic emotions and abnormal behaviors reveal her distance between the townspeople‚ moreover‚ describing her mysterious figure. To begin‚ Miss Emily’s physiological state proposes her solitary emotions and exotic behaviors due to the death of Miss
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Rose for Emily William Faulkner once said‚ “Given a choice between grief and nothing‚ I’d choose grief.”(goodreads) He further explains why he’d do this in A Rose for Emily; although the story is not about him‚ he details the loneliness and decay of a poor women‚ Miss Emily. Emily cannot grasp the idea of death and this leads to the decay of everything around her. A Rose for Emily illustrates the theme of decay in the town‚ the house‚ and in herself. The short story A Rose for Emily written by
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Faulkner’s A ROSE FOR EMILY The possible meanings of both the title and the chronology of William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” have been debated for years. What is not under debate‚ however‚ is that the chronology deliberately manipulates and delays the reader’s final judgment of Emily Grierson by altering the evidence. In other words‚ what the chronology does is as important as when the events actually take place. In the same way‚ what the title does reveals as much as the debate over
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In “Paradise Lost” by John Milton‚ Milton describes and creates the character of Satan into a protagonist. Through various descriptions of loyalty and courage‚ Milton shows Satan in an air of heroism. Typically‚ a hero is a person faced with challenges who eventually overcomes those challenges to become prosperous. In “Paradise Lost”‚ Satan is described like the traditional hero‚ even though his path is for evil. Satan is a multifaceted character in that he possesses all the qualities that makes
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Rose For Emily”‚ “Desiree’s Baby‚ and “The Story of an Hour” death is used respectively as a means of expressing and rebelling against love. The stories‚ set in a post-Confederacy southern town‚ pre-condfederacy plantain‚ and timeless smalltown smerica‚ could not be more different upon surface level. However‚ all of these stories‚ through tragedy‚ reveal the author’s opinions of the true and terrible powers of love. In “A Rose For Emily” by William Faulkner‚ death is the only way Emily Grierson
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A ROSE FOR EMILY By: William Faulkner A Rose for Emily is William Faulkner’s short story‚ which tells about the life of Ms. Emily‚ which is eccentric. This story is narrated through a third person’s point of view. It appears that the narrator is on the outside looking in‚ and giving his or her version of the life and events leading to the death of Emily. The combination of the past‚ Emily‚ and the future‚ the town or community is widely seen throughout the work. The story starts with Ms. Emily’s
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Literary Analysis of the poetry of Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson is one of the most famous authors in American History‚ and a good amount of that can be attributed to her uniqueness in writing. In Emily Dickinson’s poem "Because I could not stop for Death‚" she characterizes her overarching theme of Death differently than it is usually described through the poetic devices of irony‚ imagery‚ symbolism‚ and word choice. Emily Dickinson likes to use many different forms of poetic devices and
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