I Heard the Owl Call My Name Margaret Craven

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I Heard the Owl Call My NameMargaret Craven

• Essential Questions
• and
• Literary Elements

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Essential questions

• help to point out the big picture,
• are usually unanswerable,
• may apply to multiple works of literature,
• provide a connection with ones own life,
• stimulate deep thought, and
• establish a structure for study.

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I Heard the Owl Call My NameEssential Questions

• Do authors of fiction include anything real, or
  factual, in their literature?
• What is the value of examining the cultural
  context of fiction?
• Are the values or morals of a particular culture
  ever wrong, or unimportant?
• Should civilized people impose their customs on
  indigenous cultures?
• Should minority cultural groups conform to the
  customs of the majority (for example, the United
  States)?
• How can we Catholics remain true to our faith
  when encountering people with different religious
  or moral beliefs?

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I Heard the Owl Call My NameEssential Questions

• Is cultural change undesirable?
• Can change be avoided, or is it inevitable?
• Can we reliably predict the outcome of change?
• What is most important in life?
• Is getting a good education and a good job the
  most important thing in life?
• Is death the worst thing in our lives?
• Can our elders, who may be old-fashioned, teach
  us something important about life and death?

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I Heard the Owl Call My NameEssential Questions

• Are traditional gender roles wrong?
• Should the primary duty of a husband be to
  provide adequate financial support his family?
• Is freedom, including the freedom to select ones
  role as a man or woman, always best?

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I Heard the Owl Call My NameLiterary Elements

• Setting, in literature, includes
• time, including the general historical period and
  the specific year, season, or time of day
• place, including the general region and specific
  locations of the action
• cultural and historical context, including the
  backdrop of social characteristic, customs,
  beliefs and events common to the time, place, and
  characters

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I Heard the Owl Call My NameLiterary Elements

• The narrator
• is a speaker or character who tells a story.
• Narration usually does not include quotation
  marks.
• Point of view
• describes the relationship of the narrator to the
  characters in a story.
• A first person point of view narrator is also a
  character in the story.
• A third person point of view narrator is not a
  character in the story, and stands outside the
  story.

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I Heard the Owl Call My NameLiterary Elements

• Characters include
• people, animals, or other sentient (thinking)
  beings who take part in a literary work.
• The protagonist is the main character.
• Characterization is
• the authors communication of a characters
  traits to a reader.
• Characterization includes many techniques in both
  narration and dialogue.
• One may describe a character traits using
  adjectives and other descriptive language.

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I Heard the Owl Call My NameLiterary Elements

• Conflict, in literature,
• is a struggle, disagreement, or friction between
  opposing characters or forces.
• Themes
• are central messages or insights that are
  suggested or stated by an author.
• Irony, as a literary device,
• is an incongruity, contradiction, or mismatch
  between an expected result and the actual result.