Text analysis programs:
"Visual Text"
"T Lab"
"Automap"
free, free, free
windows-based
Then, on to discussion about final critique assignment
Most students focusing on "Nine" short story
I'm going with "Waiting" by Amos Oz
Speculating the review of the story..
Well, Amos Oz writes this short story about a an older man who receives a note via another person that just says "Don't worry about me."....and it's from his wife!
This man kind of floats from point to point of some usual places she may be...even takes a nice long hot shower, has a meal, and a beer at some point during his casual search for her. Maybe he's assuming she'll pop up from a quick errand...just seems less bothered by the scenario than most people might be. Then, again, they have been married at least 25 years and have twin daughters together..so maybe it's just a given that couples go their own way each day...and come together at home later, no set time other than the choir rehearsal they had Friday night together.
He finally decides to go look around for her and has a mongrel dog follow him around the town, which mostly lay in siesta...a February "gray and moist" day...with fog almost touching the rooftops of homes.
Elements of Fiction to consider:
1. Characters
2. Plot (causality)
3.Setting
4. Point of View (1st person, 3rd person most common)
5. Style (narration...discusses an unfolding of events, description...just a description of a specific action, place, person, Dialogue...interactions verbally between characters.)
6. Theme
Review due Friday, Dec. 12th at midnight....yeeha!
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