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The Model Millionaire

Oscar Wilde


Oscar Wilde1854-1900

“Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.”


Some of His Writing• The Picture of Dorian Gray• The Importance of Being Ernest•An Ideal Husband


Idiomatic PhrasesNot home to anyone

Doesn’t want to see anyone

American IdiomLights are on but no one is home

Not very smart person


Literary Terms: Alliteration

Words that begin with the same sound.▫Careful Catherine cares for her cat.


Literary Terms: Repetition

Repeating words or phrases for emphasis.


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Whose woods these are I think I know.His house is in the village though;He will not see me stopping hereTo watch his woods fill up with snow.My little horse must think it queerTo stop without a farmhouse nearBetween the woods and frozen lakeThe darkest evening of the year.He gives his harness bells a shakeTo ask if there is some mistake.The only other sound's the sweepOf easy wind and downy flake.The woods are lovely, dark and deep.But I have promises to keep,And miles to go before I sleep,And miles to go before I sleep.


Alliteration or Repetition?

What you can rags, I call romance. What seems poetry to you is picturesqueness to me.


Some Themes•Money isn’t everything•Giving has unexpected benefits

•Kindness is always appreciated

•Other?


Who?•Hughie Erskie•Alan Trevor•Laura Merton•Colonel Merton•The Beggar (Baron Hausberg)

•Gustave Naudin


When / Where?

• 1900s

• Europe


What•Hughie is poor•He does a good deed• It pays off greatly


Why?Hughie

Feels bad for beggar who is even poorer than himself

Baron HausberbTouched by kind act


Discussion ?sSuppose instead of giving Hughie the money, the Baron gave him a job at one of his banks. Then Hughie worked for years to save the money to marry Laura. • How would this change the

tone and ending of the story?• How would it change the

moral?


Discussion ?s• If you had a friend in Hughie’s

situation, with his job history and his good/bad qualities, what would your advice be to him?

• If you had a friend in Laura’s situation, before Hughie got the money, what would your advice be to her?


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