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Opening the Door to analysis:

Opening the Door to analysis:. Guiding Students Through a Close Textual Reading. Example of text:.

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Opening the Door to analysis:

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  1. Opening the Door to analysis: Guiding Students Through a Close Textual Reading

  2. Example of text: • “The way Trussoni emphasizes her way of life is a way of self-discovery. As she gets older, she realizes more things not only about her life, but her father as well. Trussoni writes exactly what she saw, whom she encountered with, and how she felt at that exact moment of a particular event. Trussoni is very detailed in her writing of uncovering the truth and coming to light with some of the real problems in her family.” --Ralph

  3. Ralph’s Relationship with the Author Talent/Mystery/Age/Intelligence

  4. T.C. Boyle, “Greasy Lake” • “In one of those nasty little epiphanies for which we are prepared by films and TV and childhood visits to the funeral home to ponder the shrunken painted forms of dead grandparents, I understood what it was that bobbed there so inadmissibly in the dark. Understood, and stumbled back in horror and revulsion, my mind yanked in six different directions (I was nineteen, a mere child, an infant, and here in the space of five minutes I’d struck down one greasy character and blundered into the waterlogged carcass of a second), thinking, The keys, the keys, Why did I have to go and lose the keys?”

  5. Quick Write • Who is telling the story? • Why is the narrator telling it? • Is anything left out of the text?

  6. Types of Narrators • All-knowing narrator (omniscient): editorial or impartial? Limited or selective? • Participant or first-person narrator • Observer • Nonparticipant/Third Person • Innocent/Naïve Narrator • Unreliable Narrator

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