Wolf Alice + Summer Homework

Contents

1. Homework


2. Quotations Explanations


3. Wolf Alice Development Timeline

1 -Homework

- Mr Sadgrove:

If you are unavailable on Tuesday go see him for the holiday homework

Bring memory stick with at least 500mb free space on Tuesdays Lesson.

- Mr Chatterly:

Comment on blog answering this question:

Could Carter's use of the present tense, then, be related to the distinction between the human and the animal?

Over the Holidays:

Short presentation, explaining your chosen book to the rest of the group. Covering

• the basic storyline, but don’t give too much away;


• the author’s background and career;


• any other opinions about the book that you can find;


• what you enjoyed about it;


• what you didn’t enjoy about it;


• if it is adapted into a film, something about the adaptation;


• Anything else you feel is relevant.


• Your stories are the following

Note: those with names have already been taken

(Apologies for the incorrect spelling of names)

• Daniel Crane – New York Trilogy


• Esmeralda Ndregjoni – Norwegian wood


• Aisha Moallim – Secret History


• Akanksha Wagh – The Corrections


• Aleksandra Terzova – Vernon God Little


• Sonny Rehman – The Life of Pi


• Chris Cheung – Regeneration


• Rodie Yagien – Possession


• Tamsin Gough – Oscar and Lucinda


• Saways Zalmai – Remains of the Day


• Chris Williams – Blind Assassin


• Roman Aleksandravicus – Cloud Atlas & history of the world in 10.5 chapters.

Which leaves the following novels to be picked by those who were not here:

Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels:

The stories of two men form different generations whose lives have been transformed by war. A young boy, Jakob Beer, is rescued from the mud of a buried Polish city durinc World War II and taken to a island in Greece by an unlikely saviour, the scientist/humanist Atho Roussos. Written in an extraordinary lyrical style, this book will haunt you for years. Don’t dismiss it

Preference:

• WWII,


• Holocaust,


• survivor’s guilt/ repressed memories,


• beautiful writing,


• generation gap,


• philosophy

One hundred years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez:

Marquez was one of the founders of the magical realist style, by now a hall mark of Latin American Literature. One Hundred years of solitude is a journey through the story of the Buendias family, living in Macondo in the heart of the South American Jungle. The family is filled with inimitable characters who live through love, civil war, tragedy-so far, so good. But what sets this book apart is Marquez’s distinctive style wherein metaphor becomes reality- at one point a character is nervous and so a host of yellow butterflies fly out of her mouth. This is dazzling and engrossing.

Preference:

• History,


• Fairy tales,


• family epics,


• tragedy

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides:

No, it’s not about outer London. Calliope is a hermaphrodite, born to Greek- American parents in the 1960’s. Her story is epic: Entertaining, broad, philosophical and gripping. It’s a book about love, family, genetics, immigration, history, secrets and more. – Sunday Times Books of the year:

“This year’s most sumptuously enjoyable book… superb.”

Preference:

• Family sagas,


• epics,


• international fiction,


• twists and turns in plots.

Fingersmith by Sarah Waters:

A Dickenson romp in Victorian London with enough plot twists to keep even the most cynical readers gripped. Crime, sex, lesbianism, madness and more… definitely one for the sensationalists among you

Preferences:

• Detective stories,


• Victorian fiction,


• ‘romps’

Spies by Michael Frayn:

In Michael Frayn’s novel Spies an old man returns to the scene of his seemingly ordinary suburban childhood. Stephen Wheatley is unsure of what he is seeking but, as he walks once-familiar streets he hasn’t seen in 50 years, he unfolds a story of childish games colliding cruelly with adult realities. It is wartime and the Stephen’s friend Keith makes the momentous announcement that his mother is a German spy. The two boys begin to spy on the supposed spy, following her on her trips to the shops and to the post, and reading her diary. Keith’s mother des have secrets to conceal but they are not the ones the boys suspect. Frayn skilfully manipulates his plot so that the reader’s growing awareness of the truth remains just a few steps beyond Stephen.

Preferences:

• WWII,


• Childhood,


• psychology,


• unreliable narrators.

White Teeth by Zadie Smith:

Another much- discussed book, “white teeth” is a comic epic of multicultural Britain which tells the story of immigrants in England over a period of 40 years. Set in Contemporary London, the dialogue and stories are comic and richly entertaining.

Preferences:

• comic novels,


• modern Britain,


• multiculturalism

Midnight’s children by Salman Rushdie:

Winner of the bookers- judged the best book ever to have won the booker prize. A swirling and evocative magical realist epic covering the emergence of Modern India. Saleem is born at the midnight of India’s independence and joins 1000 children born at that time, each with an amazing talent. Amazon says “quite simply, Midnight’s children is amazing- fun, beautiful, erudite, both fairy tale and political narrative told through a supernatural narrator who is caught between different worlds’.

Preferences:

• international politics,


• stories,


• India

The god of small things by Arundhati Roy:

Another booker prize winner, this is a gloriously evocative tragedy set in Kerala. It’s about the events surrounding a Christian family in an obviously Indian setting, and while the story itself is gripping, the inventive and original style of Roy’s writing stands out. You might be interested to know that Roy has not written a novel since and is now an international campaigner against the Indian government’s Narmada Dam project – her work on this subject is intensely political and well worth reading.

Preferences:

• Indian politics and society,


• beautiful writing,


• family sages and tragedies

Cold mountain by Charles Frazier:

Yet another film adaptation and once again the book is far superior! Don’t be put off by the Nicole Kidman snooze-fest, this book is subtle and detailed. The story begins near the end of the Civil War as Inman, a Confederate soldier, recuperates from his wounds and reflects on four years of ferocious fighting. Soon, he realizes that he will be sent back to fight some more. Overcome by that thought, he dreams of home instead. He sneaks out of the hospital through a window and begins a long, difficult trek home. At the same time, Ada, his love from before the war, has just lost her father in the hill country in the Smokies. Brought up as an educated lady to her minister father in Charleston, she is unprepared to fend for herself. Soon befriended by Ruby, she begins the unremitting toil to get her farm working again without the proper help, resources and training.

Preferences:

• American Civil War,


• Historical fiction,


• film adaptations

2 – Quote Explanation

There is no wrong answer to this as you being an English literature student should have your own ideas to share.

Note: Think Society + Wolf Alice

‘There is nothing substantial behind the mirror’ – Aiden Day

3 – Wolf Alice Development Timeline

Summarise how Wolf-Alice sense of self change within the novel create a timeline of events.

End of Blog

Hope this helped

Chris.张

Answers for Wolf Alice Timeline:

Did you get similar answers to the following?

• Wild Alice


• Mechanical learning with nuns


• Period / hygiene


• Preparation for period / awareness of time


• Mirror / friend


• Diadem of hair / pride in body to littermate.


• Separation of self to world (Can’t put her finger on it).


• Clothes / no longer animal


• Man Friday’s footprints terrifying to self and to society.