Dark roots: kate kennedy
SHORT STORIES FOR STUDY & EXAMINATION
Kennedy, Cate, Dark Roots (4) (A)
Stories for study:
‘What Thou and I Did, Till We Loved’,
‘A Pitch Too High for the Human Ear’,
‘Habit’, 2
‘Flotsam’,
‘Cold Snap’,
‘Resize’,
‘The Testosterone Club’,
‘Dark Roots’,
‘Angel’,
‘Seizure’,
‘The Light of Coincidence’,
‘Soundtrack’, ‘Direct Action’,
‘The Correct Names of Things’,
‘Wheelbarrow Thief’,
‘Sea Burial’,
‘Kill or Cure’
Kennedy, Cate, Dark Roots (4) (A)
Stories for study:
‘What Thou and I Did, Till We Loved’,
‘A Pitch Too High for the Human Ear’,
‘Habit’, 2
‘Flotsam’,
‘Cold Snap’,
‘Resize’,
‘The Testosterone Club’,
‘Dark Roots’,
‘Angel’,
‘Seizure’,
‘The Light of Coincidence’,
‘Soundtrack’, ‘Direct Action’,
‘The Correct Names of Things’,
‘Wheelbarrow Thief’,
‘Sea Burial’,
‘Kill or Cure’
I’m interested in the way people behave when power has been stripped from them. The way they put themselves back together again.– Cate Kennedy
I often think about this in terms of how do you create someone and show what they want but not actually tell what they want. So all those things people are trying to hide still really interest me. – Cate Kennedy
They (Kennedy’s stories) depict characters in crisis, often so mired in what Walker Percy called the malaise of everydayness that the horror of their condition is invisible to them. – Maud Newton, NYT
Psychological suspense seems to work in the same way to me: the stories I always find most terrifying, for instance, are the ones that are set in completely banal and familiar places, so I thought I would play with that idea a bit.– Cate Kennedy
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Creative writing ideas
- Adopting or resisting the same genre as the original text: e.g. an epistolary genre (written in letters) – do letters make an appearance in your text? Is that something you want to highlight? What about writing a monologue or a script if the text is a film or a play?
- Adopting or resisting the author’s writing/language style: does your writer characteristically write plainly or with great descriptive detail? What about irony or humour? Consider the length and style of sentences. Are there frequent uses of symbols or metaphors?
- Adopting or resisting the text’s point of view: do you want to draw readers’ attention to another thematic idea that was not explored in the original text? Will you align with the author’s views and values or will you oppose them?
- Adopting or resisting the original setting, narrative structure or tone
- Writing through a peripheral character’s perspective: give a voice to a minor character that didn’t have a detailed backstory. Find a gap in the text and create and new perspective.
- Developing a prologue, epilogue or another chapter/scene: what new insight can you add with this addition and extension of the text? It must add something new – otherwise it is a redundant addition.
- Rewriting a key event/scene from another character’s point of view: does this highlight how important narrative perspective is?
- Recontextualising the original text: by putting the same story or characters into a completely different context, for example in the 21st century with technology, how does the meaning change in the narrative?
websites that will help!
- 91 Ways to Respond to Literature
The Creative Response in English is an assignment that gives students an opportunity to develop their creative thinking and expression in response to the study of a particular piece of literature. ... You may think about the text as a whole or narrow your focus to even a single paragraph in a novel or speech in a play.
- How to Write a Creative Essay
by Michelle Williams
- Step-by-Step Guide to Writing a Great Reading Response Paper
Depending on your feelings towards the English language and the study of its literature, the thought of having to write a reading response paper probably fills you with either dread or slightly less dread. But fear not! Writing about what you read isn't as tough as it may sound. Follow the six steps to help get a better handle on producing compelling papers.
- Creative Responses
Creative student responses to literature are a standard part of many English classes. Working with new technologies opens up many new avenues for creation, collaboration and sharing of students’ work. These resources are designed to help you support you students of creative expression, and finding new ways to share their ideas and creations with others.