JOURNAL #3

Characterization – Journal #3

 

Choose an important character

 

Theo Faron

 

       Write the following:

               

Write a paragraph about the character and include:

 

                        --appearance.

                        --actions

                        --ideas-- what the character thinks.

                        --manner-- how the character acts.

                        --reactions of others to the characters.

 

          THEO FARON

The book does not describe his appearance but I picture him to be tall. He is old as he is 50 years old. Theo in the first half is bored with life and is depressed with how his life has gone. He writes a diary to explain his life. He then becomes a leader in the flight from Xan. His ideas are that life is screwed and he wants to be comfortable in his last years. He acts condescending and he doesn’t really care about others. His reactions are he doesn’t really like the people and is annoyed by them.

 

 

 

 

 

             

  Why is s/he important in the novel?

     He is the main character and he saves Julian at the end and is instrumental to the birth of the baby and the hope of the world.       

 Would you like to be the main character?  Why or why not?

         No I would not like to be the main character as he is depressed and he does not have  a life I want as the human race cannot create children and his life is not very happy.         

Would you like the main character for a friend?  Give your

 reasons.

 

No because he mean and depressed and nasty he is not a very nice person and he enjoys his solitude. 

Discussion #3 - Vocabulary Enhancer

 

Spluttering:  “shivering with cold, spluttering and retching, he was aware of strong hands under his shoulders, of being lifted out of the water as lightly as a child.”  (75) To make repeated or sporadic spitting sounds.  

Swaddled. “The attic gravestone of the young mother from the 4^th century B.C., the servant holding the swaddled baby, the tombstone of a little girl with doves.” (82) to bind (an infant, esp. a newborn infant) with long, narrow strips of cloth to prevent free movement; wrap tightly with clothes.

Abominations.  There was some dignity and much sasfety in the self selected role of spectator, but, faced with some abominations, a man had no option but to step onto the stage. (83) anything abominable; anything greatly disliked or abhorred. a vile, shameful, or detestable action, condition, habit, etc.: Spitting in public is an abomination.

Morbidly. I rather liked him because he was invariably courteous and displayed none of the covert resentment at my presencde which, morbidly sensitive to atmosphere, I thought I detected from the others. (87) suggesting an unhealthy mental state or attitude; unwholesomely gloomy, sensitive, extreme, etc.: a morbid interest in death.

Abbey. Don’t worry, I’m not proposing to have myself anointed by Margret shivenham in westminister Abbey. (93) a monastery under the supervision of an abbot or a convent under the supervision of an abbess.

 

JOURNAL ENTRY 2

JOURNAL ENTRY 2

1. What point of view is your story told in?

first person up to chapter 6 (journal entry) then chapter 6 was third person.

2. Is the point of view effective?

Yes it is as Theo's journal entry and it is shows what is happening and how theo's feels about what has happened to the world. Third person gives a better retelling of the story afterwards.

3. What is one of the most important/memorable events that have happened so far? Think about that moment and re-tell it from another point of view. For example, if you were reading We All Fall Down as your Literature Circles novel you may re-write from Will’s fathers Point of View(min. 300 words)

RETELLING OF THE DEATH OF NATALIE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF NATALIE.

I am 15 months old. Even though I am very young but I am smart enough for a simple recounting.  My dad was exiting to go to oxford. I wish he was home more often. He was shaving and my mom was looking after me and I was hiding with a cookie. My dad was a professor at oxford and my mom works at home. My favorite breakfast is bananas and that is what I am eating right now. My dad has an important meeting for oxford this morning and he is late. He ran down stairs and colliding with the kitchen table grabbed the toast on the table and stuffed it in his mouth. He grabbed his briefcase and searched for papers, pens, binders, gigantic books bigger than me, and a weird book called Angels and Demons which everyone but him seemed to think was extremely stupid, to read when he got bored during the day. Then his coffee was done and he grabbed it and wolfed it down. I was fed my breakfast and Dad was rushing around looking for his missing pen with red ink and a marked binder. When he found them he realized he had left his keys upstairs. I watched it all with amusement. Soon my mom was telling him he better hurry up which did not help his temper.  His keys happened to be on his pant pocket and he hurried outside. The phone rang as Dad left. Mom went into the living room to get it. I realized that Dad had not said goodbye, so I ran outside, because he had left the door open, to say goodbye. Dad had turned on the car and he didn’t hear me so I ran behind to stop him from moving. I couldn’t stop the car. I fell back and hit the ground. The wheel went over me. I died.

Discussion #2 Summarizer

Discussion  #2         Summarizer

Literary Circle

Chapter 3

Theo’s first trip to woolcombe

Xan directed activities

Introducing Xan’s mannerism and house

Chapter 4

Talking about his mother

She painted old prints

Theo stole the pictures for his mom

Talks about his dad dieing of cancer

He is forever scared of diseases

Chapter 5

He runs over his kid

It explains the falling apart of his marriage

And explains why he feels sp depressed

Chapters

It shows the way he lives now and he goes to church

He meets Julien and is invited to come and see her groups who wants change who wants

 

 

 

Discussion directer - Lieracy debate

Do you think that the death of the last person born on earth had an effect on the general populace?

Yes and no it means that the last person ever to be born in there race had died and yet they did not really care.

Why do you think Theo started the Diary?

For personal want, and in case the aliens came

Do you think that Theos mom was extremely jealous of here sister?

Because her sister was rich and had a big house and nothing seemed wrong for her.

Why do you think that Xan had no friends?

Because he did not want any

Why did Theo’s family prefer Xan?

Because he was firstborn male and he had charm.

First Journal Entry chapters 1-2

1. Describe the setting in the novel - time place and circumstance. Please use quatations to support your answer.

In the first two chapters the main character Theo has written a diary and that is what the chapters are. The diary explaines that the day he started writing the diary the last human born had been killed. He says he had started to write this diary he  was 50 years old. "I had settled down to begin the diary of the last half of my life".   He explains the places for example "the soft stone of Oxford is unlikely to survive the next couple centuries". And the situation of the time he expplains in the diary. All through Theo's teenager years he spent his summers at woolcombe the residence of Xan his cousin. "after a couple days at home I was sent to woolcombe." The second chapter talks about Theo's time at Xan's house in the summer.

2. Which characters have you been introduced to so far? What are they like? Is there any conflict between characters?

2 characters have been introduced so far. One is who is writing the diary and a major part of the first two chapters Theo. Theo is athiest and is a proffesor of history and like most people at his time has given up on the survival of humanity. Xan, Theo's cousin is the other character he is charming and not revealing. He is different as he is both nice and mean. He is the son of a baron and is currently Warden of England (dictator). There is no conflict between these characters. 

3.   Find a quotation that helps describe each of the characters you have been introduced to.

Theo - "What possible interest could there be in the journal of Theodore Faron, Doctor of Philosiphy, Fellow of Merton College in the university of Oxford, historian of the Victorian age, divorced, childless, solitary, whose only claim to notice is that he is the cousin of Xan Lyppiat, dictator and Warden of England." 

Xan - "He (he meaning Xan) never made me feel inferior; that wasn't his way. He welcomed me without particular warmth but as if he were recieving back his twin, a part of himself. He had charm, of course; he still has."

"When Xan is with another person he gives the impression of intimacy, interest, of not wanting any other company. He could hear of that person's death the next day with equanimity, could probably even kill him without a scruple. Now I can watch him on television as he gives his quarterly report to the nation and see the same charm." 

This weeks literacy circle Role

I am the Discussion Directer for this weeks Literacy Circle.