Narrative structures and how they change things

An interesting exercise to foreground your understanding of narrative is to think about how narratives would be different if they had some aspect of the narrative style changed. For instance, imagine The Great Gatsby told through an objective, omniscient third-person narrator. How different would this be from Nick's story? Would Nick feature very much at all?

By the way, speaking of The Great Gatsby, 12C, your revision guides should, I hope, have got to you by now--if not, then come and pick one up from the staffroom. As some of you were worryingly pro-active, I have a few named copies which probably need to go to other homes... Let me know.

Why would an ancient mariner be frightening?

I'm just wondering why it is, do you think, that the wedding-guest is 'spellbound' after only a short taste of the 'glittering eye' and the 'skinny hand'. Is it just his persistence? His force of personality? Or is there something so otherworldly about the mariner that he reduces the guest to the state of 'a three-year's child' without real effort?

I had a student once who wrote a fabulous recreative piece about the wedding-guest--why he was chosen by the mariner. Interesting to imagine a backstory, don't you think?

This is really purple prose

Before it was sort of pale pink...and I prefer this layout, I think, though not sure how the background will work with the pictures. That could change.

Anyway, well done year 12, for forcing me to create this, and well done Fergus for being my first follower--you get extra points for being nicely alliterative.

DON'T FORGET to sign up for the revision session on Thursday 15th if you are unable to manage a whole two weeks without contact with school--and in any case, keep up to date with the blog. I shall add more links later today, I promise.