Photo by MegyarshYesterday we looked at chapters 5 and 6 of “A Patchwork Planet” and noticed in chapter 5 the various signs given by Anne Tyler that Sophia has designs on Barnaby. Please add a comment quoting one of these signs – find something to say that’s different from any previous comment.
We also find out a couple of things about how Barnaby looks – what?
We see that Barnaby seems genuinely to want to pay back his aunt. Consider what theme(s) this illustrates.
In chapter 6, Barnaby accompanies his mother to Opal’s ballet show and shows some signs of regressing to his usual self. Can you spot one? – please comment. We also learn a bit about the end of his marriage to Natalie. The next day, he goes to the station to meet Sophia off the train. Why?
Read this interview with Anne Tyler in which she’s talking about “A Patchwork Planet”.
http://www.bookbrowse.com/author_interviews/full/index.cfm?author_number=313
Interestingly – well, I think it’s interesting – she says she doesn’t think about themes when writing a novel. She just tries to tell a story. But it’s clear that because she makes it all hang together, there are themes, and, usefully for you, this gives you something to write about.
We then read and discussed the old Close Reading about the Butte de Warlencourt. Read the background to this here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butte_de_Warlencourt
We also find out a couple of things about how Barnaby looks – what?
We see that Barnaby seems genuinely to want to pay back his aunt. Consider what theme(s) this illustrates.
In chapter 6, Barnaby accompanies his mother to Opal’s ballet show and shows some signs of regressing to his usual self. Can you spot one? – please comment. We also learn a bit about the end of his marriage to Natalie. The next day, he goes to the station to meet Sophia off the train. Why?
Read this interview with Anne Tyler in which she’s talking about “A Patchwork Planet”.
http://www.bookbrowse.com/author_interviews/full/index.cfm?author_number=313
Interestingly – well, I think it’s interesting – she says she doesn’t think about themes when writing a novel. She just tries to tell a story. But it’s clear that because she makes it all hang together, there are themes, and, usefully for you, this gives you something to write about.
We then read and discussed the old Close Reading about the Butte de Warlencourt. Read the background to this here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butte_de_Warlencourt
In reading this passage, we learned about the use of the transferred epithet (epithet = description) – transferring a description from one thing to another, eg
I lay on my sleepless pillow.
He went up to his lonely room.
In the passage we have “outraged flesh” – suggesting that even the soldiers’ dead and dismembered bodies were horrified (outraged) at the terrible things (outrages) that had happened to them.
What do the words below mean? Pick one and give me the meaning in a comment.
Radical
Rhetoric
Chivalry
Cheval
Conditioned
Propaganda
Homework for Wednesday 29 October.
Answer blog questions and say anything else that occurs to you (I won’t put the comments up on the board).
And do the following questions from the “Butte”:
Section 1
Ai
Section 2
A, b, c, di and dii
Section 4
A, b, c.
I lay on my sleepless pillow.
He went up to his lonely room.
In the passage we have “outraged flesh” – suggesting that even the soldiers’ dead and dismembered bodies were horrified (outraged) at the terrible things (outrages) that had happened to them.
What do the words below mean? Pick one and give me the meaning in a comment.
Radical
Rhetoric
Chivalry
Cheval
Conditioned
Propaganda
Homework for Wednesday 29 October.
Answer blog questions and say anything else that occurs to you (I won’t put the comments up on the board).
And do the following questions from the “Butte”:
Section 1
Ai
Section 2
A, b, c, di and dii
Section 4
A, b, c.
Happy holiday!
5 comments:
Page 102 at the bottem, Barnaby looks at sophia and relises that she does fancy him. It makes sence watching him work, finding exucse to ask him things and talk to him. He noties the way she smiles at him " tipped her head against the doorframe...and flashed me a white-toothed smile."
We find out that barnaby looks more like his mother and nothing like his father.
When he decides to pay back the money it makes a change in barnaby. Hes accsepted his past. Hes going to pay his debt and move on.
At the ballet he starts acting like his childish self rolling the program up ect. But he had started the change to be someone elce, he did want a girlfriend, he wanted to pay the money back he was just acting childish to spite his mother.
When he gets back Sophia has phoned him twice and he decides to meet her off the train. This is him taking the first step to further their relationship.
Chapter 5- pg 98 Sophia tells Barnaby that she was looking for him on the train, "Yes, I looked for you on the train" This suggests that she may like Barnaby as more than just a friend.
Chapter 6- Pg 107 Barnaby acts slightly childish when he is at the ballet show, "...made a telescope out of my program"
Chivalry- The combination of qualities expected of the ideal knight
-Andrew
Matt44884488
EXAMPLE: PAGE-94
1. BARNABY FINDS IT SURPRISING THAT SOPHIA REMEMBERS A SMALL DETAIL THAT HE HAS TOLD HER ("HE CALLS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT JUST BECAUSE HE'S LONELY"). THIS SHOWS THAT SHE MUST HAVE AN INTEREST IN BARNABY IF SHE REMEMBERS SMALL INSIGNIFICANT THINGS LIKE THAT FROM THEIR FEW CONVERSATIONS.
EXAMPLE: PAGE-93
2. WE FIND OUT, FROM MRS GLYNN'S COMMENT, THAT BARNABY HAS "KIND BROWN EYES AND A MOUTH THAT TIPS UP AT BOTH ENDS."
EXAMPLE: PAGE-109
3. A SIGN THAT HE IS REGRESSING TO HIS USUAL SELF IS WHEN HE "FOLDED MY ARMS AND STUDIED THE ACOUSTIC TILES IN THE CEILING.
4. RHETORIC - EITHER USING COMPLEX WORDS AND LANGUAGE TO SOUND IMPRESSIVE, OR EXAGGERATING A POINT.
MATT
1) "Sophia smoothed her skirt across her lap" upon hearing that Barnaby was related to the Gatlins. This subtle attempt to make herself look more presentable suggests she's trying to impress Barnaby, and the fact she acts unsurprised by the revelation that he is from a rich, famous family shows that she's attracted to him for who he is, not who he's related to.
2) Barnaby is described as looking more like his mother than his father. This implies he's attractive, given his mother's previous social status, as she would most likely have had to be attractive to attract his father's attention.
3) Barnaby childishly rolled up his program to make a telescope.
4) Radical - completely different, down to the very root of the object/person/idea in question.
-Chris
i'm having to come round my mums to write this, she's most unhappy at the visit not being to see her.
Cheval- french for horse?
he meets her at the sation to drive her home.
he makes a telescope out of a program - childish ways.
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