Chapter 7

Work Organization  Denotative analysis Denotative analysis Denotative analysis  Characters Characters  Setting Setting  Narrative technique Narrative technique Narrative technique  Message Message  Language and info Language and info Language and info

Denotative analysis Monday 3rd March   The teacher is correcting some of her students’homework Tuesday 4th March   The teacher shows a faternal anxiety. This makes the reader think about the presence of Helen’s children: Lucy and Emily. Wednesday 5th March   The teacher tells his collegue and fried Ralph Messenger to be worried about his hypothetical daughter Lucy, because he still has not news about her. He remembers some of her important moments(for example her postgraduate).

 Thursday 6th March The teacher will receive some guests at home (Professor Otto Weismuller and his wife) She gives them directions on how to get to her house on the phone.  Friday 7th March The teacher reads of the death of a French writer who was under a particular coma and she thinks about how cruel life may be.  Saturday 8th March In order to remain fit the teacher decides to go to the university swimming pool, but before she goes to buy a new swimming costume.

Characters   The teacher of CW also the first person narrator   Lucy and Emily, they are probably her daughters   Carrie, Mr Messenger’s wife   Professor Otto Weismuller and his wife   Ralph Messenger,a fried of the university teacher   Russel Marsden a collegue of the university teacher   Rachel McNulty   Simon Bellamy   Robert Drayton   Freida Sinclair   Gilbert Baverstock   Thomas Vaughan   Chuck Romero   Farat Khan   Saul Goldman   Aurora da Silva They are all students of the teacher

Setting Monday 3rd March   Unknown setting, maybe the teacher’s house (she is correcting his students’works) inside the university campus. Tuesday 4th March   Unknown setting, the teacher is taking a look to her mails in her house. Wednesday 5th March   Ralph Messenger’s bookshop. Thursday 6th March   Unknown setting, even if maybe the teacher is checking what guests are coming to her house. Friday 7th March   Unknown setting, even if maybe the teacher is reading the newspaper in her house. Saturday 8th March   The teacher is buying a swimming costume in Gloucester.

Narrative technique   PREDOMINAT NARRATIVE TECHNIQUE The narrator has organized the chapter in the form of a journal recording all that she does every day.   SPEAKING VOICE The speaking voice is the first person, and so the writer and the character are the same person.   WHAT DOES THE JOURNAL ALLOW? It allows the daily record of facts about school, and private ones.   A DIFFERENT NARRATIVE TECHNIQUE.. The reader can also notice an argumentative text consisting of a thesis and a conclusion:   THESIS ”Narrative is one of the fundamental tools for making sense of experience”(on Monday)   ARGUMENTATION/CONCLUSION ”All I Know about Edward II is from Marlowe’s play”(on Saturday). The writer argues the thesis with an argumentation from her personal life.

Message   The narrator reflects on the vision of the XX century, according to which “the book teaches”. Thanks to the book we can know things that could be useful in our life.   Just reading Italo Calvino’s book “Se una notte d’inverno un viaggiatore” the reader can notice that David Lodge has the same point of view about reading, that is perceived of as a personal experience.

Language and info Reading the seventh chapter we learnt some new words: 1. 1.To flush = arrossire/lavare con un forte getto d’acqua 2. 2.To dismay = sgomentare 3. 3.To sprout = germogliare 4. 4.To buri = seppellire 5. 5.Season = stagione 6. 6.Entail = comportare 7. 7.Postgraduate = laureato che segue un corso di perfezionamento 8. 8.Wired = sostenuto 9. 9.Tenants = inquilini Heating = riscaldamento Eyelid = palpebra Plight =situazione Garment = indumento Tendril = filo Huge = enorme Shabby = trasandato Faded = sbiadito