The Purpose of this blog

Your task on this blog is to write a brief summary of what we learned in class today. Include enough detail so that someone who was ill or missed the class can catch up with what they missed. Over the course of the term, these 'class scribe' posts will grow to be a guide for the course, written by students for students.

With each post ask yourself the following questions:
1) Is this good enough for our guide?
2) Will your post enable someone who wasnt here to catch up?
3) Would a graphic/video/link help to illustrate what we have learned?


Friday 15 July 2011

We began the lesson by describing an image of the Erl King that sir put up on the board. The main descriptions that came up were green, weed, and cabbage gone off.

Sir then showed us a video of a German cartoon of the summary of the Erl King. It showed the father riding on a horse,protecting their child from the Erl King. It ends with the child dying in their fathers arms.

We then analysed the first sentence of the story. It said:
"THE LUCIDY, THE clarity of the light that afternoon was efficient to itself; perfect transparency must be impenetrable"

We came to a conclusion that the contradiction in the intro ("transparency....impenetrable")shows purity and enlightenment as an object cannot be "perfectly" transparent and impenetrable at the same time.

Whilst reading, we stopped at any point where there was a change in narrator, or tense. The rhythm went like:


  • 3rd person past tense

  • 3rd person present tense

  • Direct address

  • 3rd person present

  • 3rd person past

We then pulled out a quote that describes the forest, and drew it up. Mine was "This wood has reverted to its original privacy"


Then we spoke about how the Erl King is manly, but has a feminine side to him, such as his talent in cooking and cleaning. Even in the story he is compared to a housewife, as he is always alone in his house to take care of everything.


HOMEWORK- Discuss Carter's narrative style in "The Erl King"...3 paragraphs- Focusing more on AO2


Sorry for the late blog...there were technical difficulties :)


Saways xxx

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6 comments:

  1. Chris. 张15 July 2011 at 16:58

    The erl-king is recognized in many countries in this case we used the German version

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwAsySSnN24&feature=related

    Is a quick description + animation explaining what happens + the one we used in lesson

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  2. Anonymous18 July 2011 at 07:36

    Thanks for the blog. I found the Erl-king good as it was sad unlike most other fairy tales (and this is the original fairy tale not Carter`s version)
    Tamsin

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  3. Sonny.18 July 2011 at 12:17

    Writing about "The Erl-King" has made me appreciate Carter's unique writing style.

    Thanks for a great review of the lesson Saways

    sonny

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  4. London Academy Students18 July 2011 at 13:23

    well good job saways but whats with the xxxs come on

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  5. London Academy Students18 July 2011 at 13:23

    ^^^^^^^aisha

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  6. Chris Will18 July 2011 at 15:38

    I agree with Sonny. Carter'a narrative style truly makes The Erl-King an intriguing read. The style also underlines her aims as a feminist novelist, as the originality of her writing makes it more of a memorable piece of text

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