agenda

• Get books• Literary terms: setting, epiphany• Read first 6 pages Big World– Look for examples of– Journal collection tomorrow and put your

homework for tomorrow in your journal after the last entry.

Big world (10 pts)Put this in your Journal. Collection tomorrow.

Homework: finish the story and bring in two significant quotes: 1. One that relates to setting and why you chose it2. Character’s epiphany, or what he learns at the end

• (As we read mark two places• Where setting that help to create mood or

symbolism).

Journeys: The Turning

“Big World”

It is on journeys that we discover who we really are…

Background/Key Info

• Author: Tim Winton– Published first book and won first literary award at 19– Has since won three other major literary awards– Born in Perth, 1960

• Date: 2004• Setting: Angelus, WA• Characters: Biggie & “I-narrator”• Plot: two adolescent boys “escape” their

town on a road trip to the North.

The Turning

• Collection of inter-related stories by the Australian writer Tim Winton.

Literary Elements

• Setting• Mood• Epiphany

Setting: location of story

• Why is it important?• Setting provides a backdrop for the action.

Think about setting not just as factual information but as an essential part of a story's mood and emotional impact. Careful portrayal of setting can convey meaning through interaction with characters and plot.

• Adds symbolic meaning to story

A word on “Place”

Tim Winton once said, “[t]he place comes first. If the place isn’t interesting to me then I can’t feel it. I can’t

feel what the people are on about or likely to get up to.”•This resonates with the cultural importance that Australians place on land. •It also reiterates the importance of setting (orientation) in order to develop a moving story.•Also, when studying journeys (a movement from one place to another) it is important to have an understanding of the beginning and ending place’s significance.

Western Australia

Epiphany

• A realization, new understanding that rocks the character’s world

• Also known as the turning point in a story.

Mood

the feeling that is aroused in the reader by the description of a particular thing, place, person or event.

Metaphor

• Metaphor: A comparison between two things when one thing is described as another thing.

• The lacy snow

Shared Inquiry

• 1. What do we learn about our narrator in the first 5 pages

What do we know about Biggie?

Example of setting

• What did you bring in from homework?• If you were to film this, what might the setting

look like?

More Place…

“The southern sky presses down and the beaches and bays turn the colour of dirty tin…And suddenly there we are, Biggie and me…with beanies on our heads and the horizon around our ears” (1-2).

• Metaphor: A comparison between two things when one thing is described as another thing.

The narrator is talking about their loss of opportunities, what is the metaphor that the

author is painting?

Character

“Big World”: Characters-Biggie

Look at page 4, paragraph 3.What does Biggie look like? Instead of just saying ‘Biggie looks like….”what does Winton do? What other characterisations of Biggie can you find?

“Big World”: Characters-Narrator

Find 3 quotes that illustrate the narrator’s character?

Character Comparison-Homework…

Find three different instances in which the narrator compares himself with his friend,

Biggie.

Outline the differences, and how they’re communicated.