Three Skeleton Key

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Three Skeleton Key

• by George
• Toudouze

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Literary Focus

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

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George Toudouze

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

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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

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Basic Situation

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

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Basic Situation

• Conflict
• external?
• internal?

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Complications

• 1.
• 2.
• 3.
• 4.

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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!

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Climax

• Starts when
• Ends when

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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

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Resolution

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

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Summarization

• Somebodywantedbutso

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Themes

• Most Important Word Strategy