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SENSORY DETAILS: Details that describe what was seen, heard, smelled, tasted, or touched
Ex. Hot sun; freshly baked cinnamon bread; walking on gravel with bare feet; bees buzzing; etc.
SETTING: Time, place, and/or culture
1. Explain how the authors use of sensory details describes the setting of the land by the Nile.
Provide at least two examples to support your answer.
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TONE: (Attitude words) Tone, in literature, is an attitude of a writer

toward a subject or an audience. Tone is generally conveyed

through the choice of words or the view point of a writer on a
particular subject. The tone can be formal, informal, serious,
comic, sarcastic, sad, and cheerful or it may be any other existing
attitudes.
1. Describe the overall tone of Salvas first two days in the Akobo desert and the word
choices the author uses to convey it. Cite at least three specific examples from the
text to support your response.
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1. In chapter 8, the setting of the Akobo desert is an important cause of Salvas main
conflict. Write a paragraph supporting this idea. Use at least two details from the
passage to support your response.

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Conflict
The device of conflict is always present in any work that tells a story; without
conflict, in fact, there would be no story. Every single conflict in any story, novel,
TV show, movie, or stage drama will be one of four types.

Person versus Nature: Also called natural conflict. In this conflict, the
characters are pitted against the forces of natureusually in the form of
natural disasters such as hurricanes etc., but sometimes in the form of other
species (bears, lions, even insects, bacteria, etc.) or even in the form of a
characters failing health (due to disease, old age, etc.).

Person vs. Person: This type of conflict is about one character being at
odds with some other character.

Person vs. Society: Also called social conflict. As I just said, if you show
me any two people squabbling, I will show you two people acting as
members of warring social groups. Two hints: First, this is a crucial device,
a key step towards interpreting the theme of any story. Second, it is not
enough to refer vaguely to social conflict. The question becomes this:
What is the main kind of social conflict in the story? You see, there are
many, many subtypes commonly found. Here are just a few:
o Gender conflict (women vs. men)
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Racial/ethnic conflict (blacks vs. whites, Anglos vs. Latinos, etc.)

Generational conflict (young vs. old, often parents vs. sons or

daughters)

Socio-economic conflict (people of different social and/or economic

classes)

Person vs. Self: Also called inner conflict. This one is unique, because it
happens within a person. Anytime you are upset, confused, indecisive,
angry, embarrassed, sad, agitated, or anything else besides perfectly calm
that is, most of the timeyou are experiencing inner conflict. Usually, it
passes. Sometimes, though, it escalates into real trouble. Often, stories
choose to tell about a time when inner conflict escalates.