Robot Groups

When we work with our final theme, Robots, you will be in permanent groups. These groups will be the basis of all the work that is to be done on the Robots-texts and that is the reason for them being on the blog - you can always find them:

1. Vicky, Line P., Morten P., Jakob
2. Line S., Signe, Rune W., Tina
3. Villy, Morten A., Alexander, Tommy
4. Kamilla, Jan, Jeanette, Henrik
5. Lene, Rune L., Christian, Jesper
6. Martin, Luna, Kristoffer, Philip

The Tell Tale Heart, Part Two

Answer questions in groups. We will sum up in class.

1. What is the narrator hearing at the end of the story? Remember that the narrator is unreliable - what do you think he is in fact hearing?
2. What are two controlling symbols in the story? What might they represent?
3. Are there any other symbols in the text? (Yes, this is a leading question J)
4. Give examples of how Poe creates suspense in the story.
5. Which of Todorov's categories does this text belong to in your opinion? (the Marvelous, the Fantastic, the Uncanny)
6. What is the main theme of this text?

Christian, Tina

This picture is a moment from the horror story "the Boogeyman". In this story, a unknown "thing" is terrorizing young children and killing them. The Boogeyman comes at night, through the door or closet. In this picture, the Boogeyman is edging closer to his next victum. 

In this picture, the Boogeyman is reaching his victum. The long claws of the shadow is getting dangerously close to the child, who is helplessly asleep.

Line p, Vicky

Child murder

Child murder is pretty obvious in this case, because the story is about a father who kills his three children.

 

 

 

Mental disease

The father of the three children is suffering from a mental disease, and tells his story to a psychiatrist.

The father tells the psychiatrist that it is a boogeyman that killed his children, but the reality is that he did it himself and that tells us that maybe is suffering from a split personality.

At first it seems like that the story belongs to Todorov's categorie the Fantastic because we accept that the monster is a "real" thing, but as we keep reading we realize that the father is suffering from a mental disease and that the boogeyman is in his imagination, and the story ends under the categori The Uncanny. 

Philip- Jesper

• This picture relates to the boogeyman theme: 
• Here we see a shadow that makes the illusion of some supernatural creature, going up stairs towards the dark closet. 
• The way this shadow reminds us of the boogeyman, is when you focus on it`s claws and it`s abnormal body shape. We also se the monster indirectly, which indicate the genre of horror.
• This picture inspires the readers imagination to work on his own. This also indicate that this genre is horror. 
• Is this a dream? or just bad running out of control? This is how the horror genre works, as we see in the story, where it is hard to the protagonist to see whats dream or reality. 

Lene, Rune, Martin

This picture illustrates the children from the Boogeyman followed by the death(dad)
 

This creates a perfect image of what the children in the story Boogeyman has seen.

Henrik

Face it or him. 

The boogeyman or Mr. billings. I think the pictures hints at the theme "who is the boogeyman". It a "normal" hand but the darkness behind does not show anything. This keeps us guessing. This is relevant in the story of the boggeyman because we never sees the boogeyman. He always creeps in the dark.