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Set a purpose
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Ask QUESTIONS
About the characters About the plot and how the author will unfold the narrative to you About information you dont understand
Writers often give you hints or clues that help you "read between the lines." These clues give you a deeper understanding. When you infer, you go beyond the surface details to see other meanings that the details suggest or imply (not stated). When the meanings of words are not stated clearly in the context of the text, they may be implied - that is, suggested or hinted at. When meanings are implied, you may infer them.
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What is the author s thematic purpose? What ideas does the writer present that you agree with? Disagree with? How relevant are these ideas to you? What previous ideas of yours has this work changed or amplified?
PLOT
to the THEMATIC
PLOT LEVEL
Things that can be answered with the question What? Things that concern events and setting and character descriptions. Things character does Plot-level outcome of characters actions Other characters reactions to events/other characters Setting details
Figurative Level
Things that can be answered with the question Why? or How?
Things that consider characters in the narrative as both dynamic people and also the result of artistic choices: People with goals, passions, ambitions, fears and desires.
When we INFER things about the hidden life of a character and what motivates him/her
When we consider literary devices and techniques that an author uses to connect certain emotions or ideas with a character, place, or event.
THEMATIC Level
when we can make thematic evaluations and statements. when we say that such and such a character/ represents a CONCEPT or an IDEA by his very construction; these take on a greater significance, and become a commentary on a deeper message, or overall point the author is conveying.
When we consider overarching ideas or universal themes that the author has asked us to consider
To trace your reading (setting purpose, asking questions, connecting, summarizing, inferring)
Reader Connections
Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction Text to SELF: Ive met people who seem to be part of a group of people you hate but then turn out to be likable for some reason Gatsbywho represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn. If personality Text to World: celebrities often become representative of the rich, spoiled, American Dream even if they do not characterize the rest of the celebrity world is a series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some The was indicates that he is either dead or this was written long after he was gorgeous heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those
This metaphor, comparing your personality to a series of choreographed, physical movements makes it seem like he is graceful
personality is a series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous Why does he evoke both scorn and gorgeous qualities? about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to How is he more sensitive to the promises of life? Does this mean he is more hopeful or more depressed? one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away Comparing him to a seismograph makes it seem as if he is in tune with FATE or Lady Luck and that things must always go his way, or that is what he must believe (Fitzgerald 3).
Unproductive Annotations
Gatsbywho represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn. If So Gatsby represents what he doesnt like personality is a series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous Hes good looking
about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to I dont get what this means one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away
(Fitzgerald 3).