Literature: Study guide Presentations Ch 8

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Adv Comp 09 20 07

• Literature Study guide Presentations Ch 8 9
• Lesson on Chapters 8 9
• Quiz on Friday
• Literature Study Guide
• Chapters 10 11 due Thus Sept 27
• Quiz Fri Sept 28.

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Adv Comp 09 19 07

• Literature
• Study Guide for Chapters
• 8 9
• In groups of four prepare a brief presentation in
  order to identify characters, events, motifs,
  inferences, metaphors, themes, similes . One
  person will present the groups statement to the
  class

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The Power of OneChapters 8 9

• Chapter 8
• Peekay arrives at Barberton Station
• Hennie Venter says that Peekay, behaved like a
  proper Boer, a real white man. ironic
• Skinny, boney mother picks him up at the station
  - she has changed physically
• He asks about Nanny and is told she is gone
  more change

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The Power of OneChapters 8 9

• Chapter 8 cont.
• Peekay meets Pastor Mulvery and The Lord has
  become a big part of their lives- more change
• Loneliness bird motif present throughout the
  chapter
• Grandpa is the same,
• Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum remain the same
  allusion to Alice and Wonderland

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The Power of OneChapters 8 9

• Chapter 8 cont
• Furniture in the house is the same with a few
  changes
• Discovers rose garden in the back yard he says,
  the garden looks like the tunnel Alice might
  well have found in Wonderland. another
  allusion to Lewis Carrolls novel. motif of
  magic and mysticism beginning to develop

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The Power of OneChapters 8 9

• Chapter 8 cont.
• Mother tells Peekay that Nanny was dismissed
  because she refused to give up her charms and
  amulets. magic motif
• Peekay insults the Lord and runs through the
  Alice in Wonderland tunnel until he reaches the
  hill
• The eggs of the loneliness birds are crushed into
  powder inside him and he grows up-
• Within Peekay there is a mix of adult rationality
  and a magic and mystery of the world.

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The Power of OneChapters 8 9

• Chapter 9
• Peekay sits on a rock on the hill and meets
  Professor von Vollensteen
• He takes a picture of Peekay and calls it Boy on
  a Rock significant???
• P 154 extended metaphor between a perfect man and
  a cactus

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The Power of OneChapters 8 9

• Chapter 9 cont.
• Doc meets Peekays mother and offers to teach him
  music in return for him helping the professor
  with his cactus garden
• She agrees because having a son trained in
  classical music will be a status symbol for her,
  a social equalizer

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The Power of OneChapters 8 9

• Chapter 9 cont.
• Peekay spends the summer with Doc roaming the
  Barerton cliffs collecting cacti
• Peekay learns how to observe, how to listen to
  himself, and how to use his brain for a reference
  library
• He connects with the library and Mrs. Boxall

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The Power of OneChapters 8 9

• Chapter 9 cont.
• Peekay stuns the audience with a performance of
  Chopin