ELA-Author-Flash-F

Author's Craft - Flashback - Print - Fiction Resources

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 * //Where the Red Fern Grows : the Story of Two Dogs and a Boy//**//,//** Wilson Rawls, 2001. The narrator, as an adult, tells of several years of his boyhood. Thus, the novel can be used to introduce/reinforce the concept of flashback. The provided link goes to a 22 page study guide for the novel. The study guide contains graphic organizers, questions, and writing activites, as well as information regarding character and setting.[]


 * E1-E4

//"[|A Rose for Emily]// **" by William Faulkner.** The short story begins with the death of Miss Emily, and then looks back on generations of how she obatained her myth in the town. The narrator refers to the incidents which gave her strength and showed her vulnerability as a southern woman of some stature. "A Rose for Emily" can be an analysis of "what men do to women" by making them 'ladies." It also refects on what such acts do to men who create the myth of a "lady."

//"////Bartleby, the Scrivner"// by Herman Melville. in // Herman Melville: The Complete Shorter Fiction // ISBN: 0375400680. An self described elderly man telsl us that he could write about many "law-copyists or scrivneners," but he chooses to go back to a time when he makes personal choices ("the easiest way of life is the best). The narrator describes other scriveners before he comes to Bartleby, the man of "pallid hopelesness."

//Light in August//** by William Faulkner. ISBN: 067964248X. Long flashback sequences about the earlier life of Joe Christmas adds to the novel's stream-of-consciousness style. In short, there is more to Joe Christmas than meets the eye, and one learns this as one might learn it in actual time.