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Title: Three Skeleton Key


1
Three Skeleton Key
  • by George
  • Toudouze

2
Literary Focus
  • Suspense anxious curiosity that hooks the
    readers interest
  • Foreshadowing writers drop clues that hint at
    what may happen later this intensifies suspense

3
George Toudouze
  • 1847- 1904
  • Born in France
  • Playwright, essayist, and illustrator
  • Interest in the sea and worked in the French navy

4
Basic Situation
  • Characters
  • 1) Narrator young man who took a job at a
  • lighthouse to earn money for upcoming
  • marriage
  • 2) Le Gleo a Breton (France)
  • 3) Ichty a Basque, head keeper, oldest

5
Basic Situation
  • Setting
  • 1. Time late 1800s
  • 2. Place key off of French Guiana
  • (South America)
  • lighthouse

6
Basic Situation
  • Conflict
  • external?
  • internal?

7
Complications
  • 1.
  • 2.
  • 3.
  • 4.

8
Complications
  • The smell of the rats is horrible, and the
  • men are sealed in the lighthouse.
  • 2. The men begin to tease the rats.
  • 3. The rats begin to eat away at the window
    frames.
  • 4. Nightmares, madness, and no supply boat for
    29 days!

9
Climax
  • Starts when
  • Ends when

10
Climax
  • Starts when they decide not to light the
  • light. The rats get in. They fight man to rat!
    Patrol boat soaks the rats. Fever and infection
    set in! And, a fireboat filled with meat!
  • Ends when

11
Resolution
  • After the problem is resolved, what happens to
  • Itchoua
  • Le Gleo
  • Narrator

12
Summarization
  • Somebodywantedbutso

13
Themes
  • Most Important Word Strategy
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