Cat in the Rain

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Analysis of the short story by

Ernest Hemingway

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  Method Guide   to   SEMINAR 3 in LITERARY ANALYSIS

  For the 2-nd year students of the English Department

  Compiled by
  Candidate of Philology Shkuropat M.Y.

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SEMINAR3

TOPIC:   Characters. Ways of Characterization. Relating setting to the characters.
            Subject of the story, theme/ idea, problem.
            Analysis of the short story by   Ernest Hemingway Cat in the Rain
Activity 1
    ✓ Revise the principles of literary analysis and the guiding questions for making analysis in the method guide ”THE LITERARY ANALYSIS: STEP BY STEP GUIDE”
    ✓ Read your notes to the LECTURES 2 and 3. Revise elements of the plot structure, the structural devices, types of narration and point of view, types of conflict, ways of characterization, forms of psychological description, types of setting, time and space.
    ✓ Read your notes to the LECTURE 4. Revise the subject of the story, theme/ idea, problem.
Activity 2
    ✓ Read the short story by Ernest Hemingway Cat in the Rain
    ✓ Study the analytical essays.
    ✓ Answer the questions.
Questions
    1. Describe the plot of the story and also a structure.   Can all the elements of the plot ( exposition, complication, crisis, climax and resolution) be observed in the story? Where is the crisis of the story? The climax?
    2.   What type of narration and point of view is used in the story? Whose point of view dominates in   the story ? How do we know it? Can we hear the authorial voice in the story?
    3. What does the description of the setting serve to?
    4. What is the subject of the story? Is it the story about love for animals? What seems to be the idea and the message of the story? What type of conflict is observed?
    5. What literary devices (repetition, conversation, action) does the...