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HTRLLAP Chapters Round 1
Read your assigned chapter and take notes over the pattern on the chart below, identifying what
it is, why it’s significant, and how it may help you interpret literature for yourself. Then meet with
your group to discuss the other chapters you were not assigned to read.
Chapter
Chapter 1: Every Trip Is a Quest
(Except When It's Not)
Chapter 10: It's More Than Just
Rain or Snow
Notes
● The character that goes through specific series of
events because of their self-learning
● No seeming or normal every event is vital to the
quest
● The real reason for the quest is never said but is
inferred; in the quest, the character will learn
● The questor, challenges, natural reason, a place to
go, and the stated reason.
● The idea to go on the quest is not always the
character wanting to go
● This chapter discusses how weather and the time of
year can be far more influential than most readers
realize.
● The weather and season in a poem or book are
never coincidental. Writers are very aware of the
weather in their story and what it means. When a
text starts with "it's was a dark and stormy night,"
you immediately picture a very gloomy and sinister
scene. Authors are very aware of what certain
weather conditions make you picture
● Writers can use weather as a plot device. Rain can
make characters seek shelter, feel downcast, or
have to remain where they are until it ceases.
Weather can often create a particular atmosphere;
rain can often add a sense of mystery or murkiness
to a situation. Fog can cause a sense of isolation or
uncertainty, and snow can create an aura of
bitterness or resentment.
● Rain is often used to cleanse characters of their
former lives. It is associated with new life because
of baptisms being performed in holy water, how a
person is reborn after being baptized, and rain
bringing spring related to new life and childhood.
● Weather and the time of the year contribute
significantly to the overall mood and tone of a text,
whether it be the mood the weather sets or the
ideas a particular season makes us think of the
weather, and the season always contributes more
to a story than it seems at first glance.
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Chapter 11: ...More Than It's
Gonna Hurt You: Concerning
Violence
Chapter 19: Geography
Matters…
Chapter 20: ...So Does Season
Chapter 23&24: It's Never Just
Heart Disease... And Rarely
Just Illness
- It can be used as a metaphor or hurt the character
- Accidents are not accidents, but in the outside, it is
used to revel the characters personality or the plot’s
theme.
- Violence connects back to the universe, and
everything happens for a purpose.
- The geography affects the story and different
elements
- Geography can provide simple themes, symbols.
And the plot
- They are used as a metaphor for the human mind.
As the character goes south, it goes amuck. In the
act of going south, they learn more about
themselves.
- When a reader thinks of geography, they have to
ask the question of the mood of that place.
- It is the setting but can hold the psychological state.
- Convery’s theme though the setting because you
have a preconceived idea of what you already know
about the setting.
- Set up setting and mood.
- It is incorporated into names.
- Seasons represent the cycle of life.
- Can represent interchanging of the moods during
life.
- Authors can use irony to use the preconceived
moods to make you feel another way.
- Any sort of complication to the health of a character
is about their mindset or who they are.
- Health could connect the particular state of mind of
their personality.