Marine Corps Issue

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Marine Corps Issue

• David McLean

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Characterization

• Types of characters
• Round vs. Flat
• Static vs. Dynamic
• Round a well-developed character with many
  personality traits
• Flat characters with simple description, often
  only one or two unique traits.
• Static a character who remains the same through
  a story
• Dynamic a character who changes or learns a
  lesson throughout a story

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Flashback

• A conversation, episode, or event that occurred
  before the beginning of the story.
• Helps to give reader information to understand a
  characters current situation
• Johnny looks back at his first memory of his
  father

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Paradox

• A statement that seems to contradict itself, but
  is really true.
• Johnnys mom laughed an unhumorous laugh
  (McLean 624)
• How can a laugh be unhumourous? What does that
  show us about the situation?

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Dialogue

• Written conversation between two or more
  characters.
• Realistic dialogue reveals information about
  characters. Consider what we learn about Johnny
  and Joe when they talk in Joes car.

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Point of View (Review)

• Points of view
• First-person character in the story I
• Third-person narrator not in the story
• Third-person omniscient all-knowing narrator
  sees into the minds of all characters
• Third-person limited narrator tells what only
  one character thinks, feels, and observes.

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Making Inferences

• Often a writer does not directly state all the
  information about a story or topic. Careful
  readers come to their own conclusions about the
  plot,character, or setting.
• By inferring, or figuring out, ideas that are not
  stated and combining these inferences with stated
  facts, you can draw conclusions
• about any aspect of a story.

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Making Inferences- Jot sheet

• Stated facts p. Inferred facts
  p.

Conclusions
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Cause and Effect

• Marine Corps Issue (page 618)
• Sometimes two events are related as cause and
  effectthat is, one event actually brings about
  the other. The first event in time is the cause
  the second event is the effect. In Marine Corps
  Issue, for example, the father has disabled
  hands (a cause).
• This condition forces him to retire from the
  Marines (an effect). As you read, use the chart
  to write down the effects that the war has on the
  narrators father. Also note the effects that the
  war has on the family.

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Cause and Effect

• In both fiction and nonfiction, writers use
  cause-and-effect relationships
• to show how one event or action directly results
  in another event or action.
• to understand what motivates characters, how a
  conflict begins, and how a plot advances.

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Cause and Effect

• Effects of the Vietnam War
• On the father p on the family p

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Cause and Effect
3 Details and p.
2 Details and p.
1 Details and p.

• Conclusion or statement of significance

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Assignment

• In assigned groups, read through the story again,
  and list significant factual and inferred events
  in the story. As you do so, parenthetically
  document the information on a jot sheet like the
  one shown in this PowerPoint.
• After completing the Inference Jot sheet,
  complete a story time line.
• Based on the time line, indicate the main cause
  and effect relationships in the story.