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Slide 1
Conflict between neighbours
starts the story
Simile: chicken suggests stupidity; buzzard suggests
harshness
The village is an isolated world of
its own
The villagers are narrow- minded and insular (do not want to learn about
the world outside
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Slide 2
Metaphor – the superstitious villagers
see the war as medieval people saw diseases
SImile - the telegram itself is what the
villagers come to fear, as though this is the weapon. Explicitly
named as a weapon in the next simile
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Slide 3
Conflict over rank of sons in
navyConflict over sons’
education
Conflict over cow!
Conflict over how long each
had lived in village
Conflict over ‘ambition’ – trying to change position in society
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Slide 4
Colour is symbolic. Yellow = danger black = death
Metaphor – bad news seen as
‘plague’. Superstition.
Fat woman = foolish
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Slide 5
Thin woman – cleverer, but spiteful
(unpleasant).Progress of elder through village builds tension
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Slide 6
Disapproving narrator tells us fat woman is selfish and
unintelligent
Reinforces idea of thin woman as a bird
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Slide 7
Thin woman is narrow-minded and manipulative – wants to control her son’s
choice of girlfriendFat woman also narrow minded –
narrator gives us her point of view (she disapproves of the
thin woman’s ambitions for her
son)
Builds tension
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Slide 8 Fat woman’s feelings – omniscient narrator
Fat woman is a malicious (unkind) gossip
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Slide 9
Fat woman’s feelings – dislikes thin woman’s
pretentious habits
Builds tension
Fat woman’s gossips about
minister. Ironic, when we find out the telegram is for his own son
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Slide 10
Malicious gossip
Fat woman fears for her son – we start to sympathise with her
Omniscient narrator dramatises her terror:
moment of climax for reader
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Slide 11
Omniscient narrator tells us about fat woman’s emotions
Small-mindedness – ‘foreigner’ – is ironic. We
know the thin woman is not a foreigner
Tender simile – likens gesture of friendship to
romantic love
The two enemies are brought together by the tragedy that is about to
happen
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Slide 12
Short sentence: sets us up
for the anticlimax
Thin woman is much stronger than the fat woman
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Slide 13
Empathy
Simile: understanding between two
women
Thin woman = strong and
resilient
Anticlimax
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Slide 14
Series of rhetorical
questions: the reader shares the
protagonists’ confusion
Now the danger has passed, the
two women will go back to hating
each other
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Slide 15
As though sleepwalking – numbed by the
shock of the news
Short sentences convey the impact of the news on the
Kirk Elder
Damage to the telegram suggests the Elder’s emotional state