Aspects of Narrative

Today in lesson we:

Firstly looked at four cartoons which all showed the same story, except they told the story from different points of view. The first cartoon showed the story from a the man's point of view and had an element of pace and movement about it, whereas the second was from the woman's, and had more of a static feel about it. However, we recognised that both of them had the key aspect of character. The third focused more on the the dialogue, and lacked focus on detail/setting with focus being more on the actions of the characters. The last cartoon contains the key aspects of detail and setting, with this version of the story making readers look at attention to detail.

We associated the first stanza of the poem "The Lady of Shalott" with the fourth cartoon, as like each picture, the poem goes into great detail.

Story/Narrative:

- Setting

- Characters- Sir Lancelot/Lady of Shalott

- Structural contrast- Shalott vs Camelot

- Title

- Beginning/end

Tells a story:

- Openings

- Key moments

- Endings

- Other structure points= settings/places/type of story/source

Poem:

- Language

- Structure

- Form

We also looked at how Camelot and Shalott differ, for example Camelot is where all of the action and real world activity is happening, whereas Shalott is quiet and inactive.

Real world activity (Camelot):

- "Long fields of barley and rye"

- "road runs"

- "up and down the people go"

- "river winding clearly"

- "Only reapers, reaping early"

- "Song that echoes"

- "Knights come running"

Shalott- inactivity:

- "silent isle imbowers"

- "a space of flowers"

- "who hath seen her wave her hand?"

- "four gray walls and four gray towers"

Lastly, we looked at how the poet tells the story through key aspects, using language, structure and form.

Jess.