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NOVELS

• Lesser or smaller character/s contribute to the

OUTLINE development of the main character/s - determine
I. Definition of Novel E. Myth, the course of action.
II. Definition of Novel Symbolisms, and • emulate the author (ideas, writing style,
A. Plot Significance speaking)
B. Character F. Interpretation of • when you recognize other author writing you
C. Narrative Method Life might apply it to yourself.
or Point of View G. Entertainment for • NOVELS - most marketable type of literature.
D. The Scope or Escape Modern to contemporary - most consumed lit.
Dimension III. Other Styles of INSPIRATION AND ENTERTAINMENT.
Novels • reading comprehension is very essential skill in
IV. References understanding news, reports, signing contracts,
employee contracts, where it has role in
I. THE DEFINITION OF NOVEL everyday life.
• A relatively long work of narrative fiction • cognitive or knowledge
• Encompass any fictitious narrative that • affective are moral compass, behavior, manners,
emphasizes marvelous or uncommon incidents. personality traits of human experiences.
(Cuddon,1999) • psychomotor you improve it by moving your
• Invented prose narrative of considerable lengths body by physical activities.
and a certain complexity that deals Imaginatively
with human experience, usually through a
connected sequence of events involving a group
of persons in a specific setting. (Augustyn, 2020)
• Displays a realistic depiction of a state of society
(Abrams and Scott, n.d)

• Novel
o most marketable type of literature. Most
consumed literature in modern to
contemporary time.
o novel is an example of anecdotes that is
interesting and amusing stories.
o hearsay is when you hear something
that is not true (novels are usually
written as fiction)
o there are novels which are based on
true events.
• Hunter S. Thompson
o Gonzo writings
• Truman Capote
o True Crime Novel writings
o Books: “In Cold Blood”, and “True to
Life” (investigation and intensive
research)
• HB Stowe
o “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” is a novel that
depicts the Apartheid System which is
the slavery in USA with Negroes.
Inspired freedom fighters.
• novel can be an inspiration and entertainment.
• Novels can employ (techniques) like Reportage,
Propaganda or spiritual healing.
II. THE DEFINITION OF NOVEL
• NOVEL - USUALLY FICTIONAL
1. Published as books.
2. Marketable type of literature.
3. Can provide best entertainment for readers.
4. Anecdote (form) - Prose: marvelous and
interesting stories.
• H. Abrams and Walter Scott - depicts the reality/
real life situations of a society.
o Most authors write about contemporary
issues. (events, news, people etc.)
o Tweak (subtle change) - exaggerate
movements in characters, setting, plot,
etc. VIVID (clear, colorful and lively)
picture of things, people, situations etc.)
• SETTING/NATURE/Surroundings
o Anything and everything your character
sees around him.
o Interacts with your characters as well.
o It gives meaning to your plot.

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o Location, inanimate objects: lamps,
furniture etc, colors etc.
• Reading novels can improve cognitive functions:
remembering/ memorizing, forming logical
organization of ideas, forming relationships
(character, setting, etc.)
• Writer’s block - inability to find insight and
inspiration for your work, when you cannot
organize your thoughts to start the writing
process.
• Didactic - teaches, trains or it guides readers.
• Epistolary - include letters in your novels.
FICTIONAL LETTERS.
A. PLOT
• This is the detailed working out of a nuclear
IDEA that requires ingenuity.
• Example
o The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark
Twain - Tom is a fun-loving boy who
lives with his Aunt Polly in Saint
Petersburg. He is a very well known in
the town as a mischievous boy hanging
out constantly with Huckleberry. The go
on all sorts of adventures. One day,
Tom and Huck while out on the
graveyard in the middle of the night,
they witnessed a crime. Tom decided to
testify in court to put the real killer
behind bars, unfortunately the latter
escaped. Now Tom’s life is in peril
knowing that the killer is bent on
revenge should they cross paths.
• PLOT - To have a novel (unique) plot - A novel
should have a novel plot. STAND OUT.
o Source of inspiration for readers, in
depicting the real life problems that they
have.
o For beginners, using stock (common)
plot to evoke stock emotions.
o For Pros. more complex plot:
Psychological situations - self
awareness and self knowledge.
o YOU MUST ALSO BE A GOOD
RESEARCHER.
o Writers use many techniques AS LONG
AS you present the characters having
NATURAL human characteristics
credibly in the PLOT.
o Melodramatic - coincidence and
improbability. (Nicholas Sparks)
B. CHARACTER
• The people you “employ” to TELL your story.
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• Example
o BOOK ONE Chapter 1 A long -
expected party. The Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien - When Mr. Bilbo Baggins
of Bag End announced that he would
shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first
birthday with a party of special
magnificence, there was much talk and
excitement in Hobbiton. Bilbo was very
rich and very peculiar and had been the
wonder of the Shire for sixty years, ever
since his remarkable disappearance and
unexpected return. The riches he had
brought back from his travels had now
become a local legend, and it was
popularly believed, whatever the old folk
might say, that the Hill at Bag End was
full of tunnels stuffed with treasure. And
if that was not enough for fame, there
was also his prolonged vigour to marvel
at. Time wore on, but it seemed to have
little effect on Mr. Baggins. At ninety he
was much the same as at fifty.
• CHARACTERS - convolution of human
personality. - we know the complexity of a
human person and the MANY EMOTIONS we
have.
o Novel uses many MAIN and
SUBORDINATE (lesser-known
characters).
o Talk about group of people and their
interactions.
C. NARRATIVE METHOD OR POINT OF VIEW
• The VANTAGE POINT of the reader.
• Example
o Excerpt – The Green Mile by Stephen
King - The inmates made jokes about
the chair the way people always make
jokes about things that frighten them but
can't be gotten away from. They called it
Old Sparky, or the Big Juicy. They made
cracks about the Power bill, and how
Warden Moores would cook his
Thanksgiving dinner that fall, with his
wife, Melinda, too sick to cook. But for
the ones who actually had to sit down in
that chair, the humor went out of the
situation in a hurry I presided over
seventy-eight executions during my time
at Cold Mountain (that's one figure I've
never been confused about; I'll
remember it on my deathbed), and I
think that, for most of those men, the
truth of what was happening to them
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finally hit all the way home when their
ankles were being damped to the stout
oak of "Old Sparky's" legs. The
realization came then (you would see it
rising in their eyes, a kind of cold
dismay) that their, own legs had finished
their careers. The blood still ran in them,
the muscles were still strong, but they
were finished, all the same; they were
never going to walk another country mile
or dance with a girl at a barn-raising. Old
Sparky's clients came to a knowledge of
their deaths from the ankles up. There
was a black silk bag that went over their
heads after they had finished their
rambling and mostly disjointed last
remarks. It was supposed to be for
them, but I always thought it was really
for us, to keep us from seeing the awful
tide of dismay in their eyes as they
realized they were going to die with their
knees bent.
• Narrative/ Narrate - way of telling your story.
o WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN, HOW.
o POV (Vantage point) - VIEW
o If 1st person: author uses his attitude, a
person making sense of what he is and
what he is doing.
o If 3rd person: you are observing or
(judging) the character. USE method of
OBSERVATION.
o 3rd person intensifies “alternative world”
o Think about the language to use (ie.
simple language for acquaintances, for
persons in authority use formal
language.
o Think about the delivery of speech also.
D. THE SCOPE OR DIMENSION
• The FEATURE and the SUBJECT MATTER of
the story.
• Example
o CHAPTER 1 – Angels and Demons by
Den Brown - The image on the page
was that of a human corpse. The body
had been stripped naked, and its head
had been twisted, facing completely
backwards. On the victim's chest was a
terrible burn. The man had been
branded…imprinted with a single word.
It was a word Langdon knew well. Very
well. He stared at the ornate lettering in
disbelief. "Illuminati," he stammered, his
heart pounding. It can't be… In slow
motion, afraid of what he was about to
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witness, Langdon rotated the fax 180
degrees. He looked at the word upside
down.
• Scope and Dimension
o Form relationship with character, setting
and plot.
o Illustrate or draw details to form direct
cause and effect.
o Main plot should LEAD to resolution.
o SATISFYING AND COMPLETE.
E. MYTH, SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE
• REPRESENTATION of ideas as intended by the
author.
F. INTERPRETATION OF LIFE
• The MEANING OF LIFE as depicted by the
character/s and/or the setting.
• Example
o Chapter VII- Mother’s Struggle – Uncle
Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe -
It is impossible to conceive of a human
creature more wholly desolate and
forlorn than Eliza, when she turned her
footsteps from Uncle Tom’s cabin. Her
husband’s suffering and dangers, and
the danger of her child, all blended in
her mind, with a confused and stunning
sense of the risk she was running, in
leaving the only home she had ever
known, and cutting loose from the
protection of a friend whom she loved
and revered. Then there was the parting
from every familiar object,—the place
where she had grown up, the trees
under which she had played, the groves
where she had walked many an evening
in happier days, by the side of her young
husband,—everything, as it lay in the
clear, frosty starlight, seemed to speak
reproachfully to her, and ask her whither
could she go from a home like that? But
stronger than all was maternal love,
wrought into a paroxysm of frenzy by the
near approach of a fearful danger. Her
boy was old enough to have walked by
her side, and, in an indifferent case, she
would only have led him by the hand;
but now the bare thought of putting him
out of her arms made her shudder, and
she strained him to her bosom with a
convulsive grasp, as she went rapidly
forward.
G. ENTERTAINMENT FOR ESCAPE
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• The FEELING OF SATISFACTION you get from
reading.

III. OTHER STYLES OF THE NOVEL

• Romanticism
1) Subjective, anti-rational and emotional
currents.
2) The Romantic approach to life was
“SENTIMENTAL”.
a. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
b. Wuthering Heights by Emily
Bronte
• Realism
1) UNRELENTING PESSIMISM
2) A reaction against Romanticism
a. Madame Bovary by Gustave
Flaubert
b. The Red Badge of Courage by
Stephen Crane
• Naturalism
1) Involves the PHYSICAL and
BIOLOGICAL aspects of human life.
2) PESSIMISTIC DETERMINATION
a. Ulysses by James Joyce
b. Sister Carrie by Theodore
Dreiser
• Avant Garde
1) Also known as EXPERIMENTAL
FICTION
2) Shows the true nature of a dream.
a. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
b. The other House by Henry
James
• Epistolary
1) FREE OUTPOURING OF THE HEART
2) Usually written with LETTERS
(Correspondence)
a. Dracula by Bram Stoker
b. The Color Purple by Alice
Walker
• Romana Clef
1) Started by Madeleine de Scudery.
2) Real life events overlaid with a facade of
fiction.
a. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
b. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
by Hunter S. Thompson

IV. REFERENCES
Miss. Samson PPT and Discussion

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