We had class this Tuesday, after having two days off for snow. I had kind of wondered at the fact that we didn't get anything about extra, "make-up" work to do during the week. . .but busyness caught up and I didn't ever get around to e-mailing my teacher and asking her about it.
Needless to say, I was quite surprised when she asked at the beginning of class whether everyone had done the assignments she e-mailed out. :) Thankfully, it all worked out okay and I was able to at least follow the discussion about the two stories we had been assigned.
We also discussed "Plot, " "Short Story," "Point of View," and "Character." I liked hearing the different ways an omniscient narrator can be displayed - Editorial Omniscience (with the ability to comment on people's thoughts), Impartial Omniscience (presents the thoughts of others without judging or commenting), Total Omniscience (being able to see into the minds of all the characters), and Limited or Selective Omniscience (having insight into a single character). I thought of the movie Forest Gump when we talked about an innocent or naive narrator - what makes that movie so interesting and powerful is that Forest really doesn't understand the implications of what he is telling us. A lot of what we discussed was review of things I'd learned in high school. . .but I can always use a brush-up! Ms. Kolb talked about things like flat and round characters, conflict, protaganist, anit-hero, antagonist, climax, foreshadowing, etc.
"If a writer is true to his character, they will give him his plot." - Phyllis Bottome
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