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GENRE OF THE STORY
Realistic Fiction/ SCIENCE FICTION
What is the best age to read The Fault in Our Stars?
Young Adult Fiction – appropriate for children ages 12 –
18.
Although 'The Fault in Our Stars' is a young adult novel, it is
not appropriate for children under the age of 7. For younger
audiences, the story may be too mature. As a result, the
best age to start reading is 14 and up.
THEMES
Love and Friendship
The primary themes of 'The Fault in Our Stars' are love
and friendship. Throughout the story, John Green
demonstrated how Hazel and Augustus navigated their
love for each other. The story focused on the
relationship of its main characters and demonstrated
how it gradually progressed from mutual friendship to
love.
SUMMARY:
The story begins with Hazel, a sixteen-year-old with
thyroid cancer. She attends a cancer support group on
the advice of her mother and doctor. She meets
Augustus, a seventeen-year-old boy, in the support
group. Hazel and Augustus quickly become friends, and
she introduces him to her favorite book. As they grow
closer, Hazel finds herself falling for Augustus.
Augustus decides to use his cancer wish to assist
Hazel with her greatest ambition. He plans a trip for
them to meet Hazel's idol.
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PICTURE BOOK
What is the best age to read The Fault in Our Stars?
appropriate for children ages 0-8
THEMES
Love and Friendship
Chloe's best friend is her dog Sam, so books about
Dogs and Friendship are also age appropriate
(especially if your toddlers like books about pets). Their
friendship in this five-minute bedtime story teaches
children how to make friends, help others, and be
friends with others instead of being selfish.
SUMMARY
This is a short, sweet story about Chloe, a young girl,
and her friendly puppy, Sam. She discovers a toy clown
while walking with Sam on the playground. Chloe
understands how sad the child who lost it must be. Sam
is asked to sniff it. They follow the scent to a nearby
house. The little boy and his mother who live there are
initially skeptical, but when they spot the clown, Chloe
realizes she has done a good deed and made a new
friend.
ELEMENTS of the SHORT STORY in the Lion and the Jewel
by Wole Soyinka
SETTING – The play is set in the Yoruba society in the
village called Ilujinle, located in the south-west of Nigeria.
This is a period when the African society is undergoing
process of social change. Western civilization such as
religious institutions, the educational institutions, the
influences of city life are gradually taking over the traditional
systems like the kingship institutions, marriage practices,
belief patterns, values and other aspects of the traditional
ways of life. The use of local songs, rituals, dances, mimes
portray the cultural setting of the play.
a) place – Yoruba Village of Illujinle
b) Time- On 1595 the village raised with peace but
one day the lion found the village of people.
c) weather condition – Sunny days
d) Social conditions – Historical story, and the story
about preserving culture.
e) mood or atmosphere – Awful
PLOT
a) Introduction - The play begins as Sidi, the village belle
of Ilujinle, enters the square with a pail of water balanced on
her head. Lakunle, the western-educated schoolteacher,
sees her, runs from his classroom, and takes Sidi's pail. He
berates her for carrying loads on her head and not dressing
modestly, and she retaliates by reminding Lakunle that the
village calls him a madman.
b) Rising Action - Lakunle changes the subject. Motioning
at Sidi's breasts and bare shoulders, he tells her that a
"grown-up girl" must cover her shoulders so that the men of
the village don't ogle her. Sidi, annoyed, tells Lakunle that
she can't tie her broadcloth any higher or tighter and still be
able to use her arms. Lakunle says that "modest women"
cover themselves, and asks if it bothers Sidi to hear the
taunts from men. Exasperated by this, Sidi reminds Lakunle
that the village calls him a madman with his "big loud words
and no meaning," while nobody says anything of the sort to
her.
c) Climax - The villagers of Ilujinle must deal with
modernization, which might mean losing their way of life
and living without character. The Bale thinks there is
nothing worse than modernizing and losing identity by
becoming like everyone else. Lakunle thinks there is
nothing worse than being left behind when the rest of the
world is progressing. Sidi wants to decide what is best for
herself, though she is more inclined to traditionalism.
Soyinka’s play does not choose sides, but it does suggest
that, despite there being clear sides, the best solution
might be working together to bring about true progress and
to enrich identity rather than attempting to erase it.
CONFLICT-
The village Ilujinle is ruled by the bale Baroka. He is a little
tyrant, but he is careful to see that he does not invite the
attention of the government at Lagos by any breach of law.
The people pay homage to him in the traditional way and
tolerate even his tendency to marry or have mistress.
Lakunle the representative of modernity stands against
Baroka and woos the bush girl with a hope of modernising
the village beauty. He wishes to introduce some revolutionary
changes in the bush village but lacks the practical skills to
implement his views, which exposes him in comic light.
POINT OF VIEW
A group of young villagers enter the square and tell Sidi
that the stranger returned to the village with a magazine of
images. Sidi excitedly asks if the stranger made Sidi as
beautiful as he said he would, and the girls tell her he did.
They say that Baroka, the village Bale, is still looking at the
images and is jealous of Sidi, though he pretends to be
proud of her. Another girl says that Baroka appears in the
magazine as well, but his image is very small and shows
him next to the latrines. Upon hearing this, Sidi declares that
she's more powerful than Baroka and has no reason to
marry Lakunle.
THEME –
Their decision was always unquestionable and irrevocable.
Baroka, the traditional chief of Ilujinle occupies such an
enviable and important position at that time. The story-line
of the play is
therefore built around this theme centre of power. Sidi at
first welcomes the idea of marrying Lakunle only if Lakunle
could afford to settle the bride prize issue. This is the state
of affair before Baroka grabbed a copy of magazine which
Sidi’s sterling beauty is greatly portrayed while Baroka’s
reputation is underscored (brought too low). Bale being
aware of Sidi’s beauty developed lustful interest on her.
Interestingly, the effort of the Bale to turn around things in
the manner he likes shows that the seat of power rests upon
him. All in all, Chief Baroka talkes Sidi as his newest wife
even without any mention of the bride prize.
Legend of King Arthur
SETTING
CONFLICT
Man vs. Man
Protagonist
-King Arthur
Characteristics
King Arthur was a brave man because he had the
fortitude to pursue an objective in the face of
seemingly insurmountable challenges.
Arthur was a static character as well.
What others say about him/her or how others
react to him/her
Everyone was in awe of Arthur as he effortlessly
removed the sword from the magical stone.
Antagonist
Mordred
Characteristics
Mordred has a clearly evil nature, despite frequently being
portrayed as a man destined for evil who makes vain
attempts to change his destiny. In addition to his list of un-
knightly traits, his personality also possesses dishonesty,
disloyalty, and ambition.
POINT OF VIEW
•The third person or Omniscient Limited type of POV
is used by the author to tell the story, and him, them,
his, her, and many other pronouns are used.
THEME
Heroism characterized as "doing the proper thing in
spite of the results." The act of courage delineated
within the "Legend of Lord Arthur" story happened
when Lord Arthur recovered Camelot and
energetically guarded it.
PLOT
Introduction
The High-King of Britain, Uther, fell in adore with Woman
Igraine, but she was as of now hitched to Gorlois, the duke
of Tintagel. Ruler Uther truly needed to wed Igraine so
alongside his armed forces, they combat with Gorlois. Uther
won and was hitched to Igrained and they had a child
named Arthur. At that time, assaults by the Saxons
happened a parcel so Uther asked Merlin,his wizard, to
send Arthur absent and be raised within the farmland.
Arthur at that point developed up with his cultivate brother
and he never knew who his genuine guardians were.
Rising Action
King Uther passed on and no one knew he had a child so
there was a parcels of contending happened on who will be
the High-King of Britain. Abruptly, a strange enchanted
stone showed up and it contains a message saying that
whoever pulled the sword from the stone was the legitimate
High-King of Britain. Parts of nearby lords or dictators
attempted it but fizzled.
Climax
Arthur had developed into a fifteen year ancient and it was
the time when his cultivate brother go to its to begin with
competition in London. Arthur overlooked his brother’s
sword so he went off to seek for one and found a sword
within the stone and pulled it off effortlessly. At to begin
with, no one accepted that Arthur had done it but he
appeared it once more and everybody was astounded. In
any case, the nearby lords did not need Arthur to be their
ruler so they begun a disobedience and the wizard, Merlin,
made a difference him vanquish the lords through a
enchantment sword called “ Excalibur” which was given by
the Woman of the lake. Arthur at that point got to be the
High-King of Britain.
Falling Action
Arthur was hitched to a princess named Guinevere. As a
wedding display, Guinevere’s father gave them a colossal
circular table, and the bravest of the officers were permitted
to sit at the table; they were known as the "Knights of the
Circular Table." One of its best and bravest knights was Sir
Lancelot, a charming warrior that Ruler Guinevere fell for.
The two would run off without Arthur’s information. Medrod,
Lord Arthur's nephew, found Ruler Guinevere and Sir
Lancelot's relationship; as a result, Medrod educated Arthur
almost it and was angry at their disloyalty. Lancelot and
Guinevere gotten away, and Ruler Arthur taken after them
in Brittany since he needed to rebuff them, taking off
Medrod in charge of the royal residence.
Denouement
King Arthur had no children, and Medrod thought that in
case he kicked the bucket, no one would be the following
ruler of Britain, so he spread fake rumors that Arthur was
dead and after that took over the position of royalty. Arthur
listened around Medrod’s untruthfulness, so he chosen to
return to Britain. Parts of individuals preferred Medrod as he
kept on giving them cash, so they shaped an armed force
and begun a disobedience against their true blue lord.
Shockingly, Arthur did not have Excalibur’s casing with him,
so he got harmed when they battled in single combat with
Medrod. Ruler Arthur knew that he was progressing to pass
on, so he inquired Sir Bidevere to return it to the enchanted
lake. At to begin with, Bidevere did not take after what
Arthur told him to do. Arthur knew he did not do it properly
when he inquired him, so he told Bidevere once more to
toss it within the lake, and the hand of the Woman of the
Lake showed up and caught it. Afterward on, three rulers
arrived in a watercraft and took Arthur absent to the Isle of
Avalon, where he kicked the bucket before long a short time
later.