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Kelso High School

Kelso High School. English Department. Chapter Twelve. In today’s lesson we will:. Analyse chapter twelve of the text in relation to: plot characterisation theme: Coming of Age / Isolation style

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Kelso High School

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  1. Kelso High School English Department

  2. Chapter Twelve

  3. In today’s lesson we will: • Analyse chapter twelve of the text in relation to: plot characterisation theme: Coming of Age / Isolation style symbolism

  4. Plot • Discuss briefly with your partner the main events of chapter twelve. • Check that your chapter summary notes include all relevant information. • Chapter represents different ideas of damage. Jack is damaged physically by the bat. Abigail is damaged emotionally by the fact she has not been able to follow her dreams.

  5. Characterisation: Abigail • Chapter shows that Abigail is drawing further and further away from her family. • Her relationship with Len is designed to help her forget Susie. • She is lonely because she has not had the life she wanted. • She wanted a career (English teacher) but her dream was destroyed when she became pregnant with Buckley.

  6. Characterisation: Abigail • When she realised she was pregnant for the third time she “sealed the more mysterious mother off.” • After Buckley was born she had tried to “seal” up her dreams until “Her rage, her loss, her despair. The whole life lost tumbling out in an arc on that roof, clogging up her being. She needed Len to drive the dead daughter out.”

  7. Characterisation: Lindsey • Sees herself as her father’s protector and comfort.

  8. Characterisation:Jack • Does not respond to Lindsey’s song because he is “locked away tight into the hard blessed hours where there was no dead daughter and no gone knee, and also where there was also no sweet daughter whispering rhymes.”

  9. Theme: Coming of Age • Susie realises her mother had not had the life she wanted. • She realises that her father has grown closer to his children but that Abigail has grown further away from them.

  10. Theme: Coming of Age • “When the dead are done with the living, the living can go on to other things.” • Susie is beginning to realise that she can free her family from her grief and that there is another, greater heaven waiting out there somewhere for her.

  11. Irony • Lindsey tries to comfort her father, rather than the other way aound.

  12. Foreshadowing • Abigail’s retreat from her family and her refusal to comfort her own daughter prepares the reader for leaving her children later in the novel.

  13. Symbolism • “The hard blessed hours” - when Jack is asleep after his surgery. It represents a time when he is unable to think about Susie.

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