After reading the story do the following activities:
1. Analysis
With "Mrs Bixby and the Colonel's Coat" Dahl tells a story within a story. Analyse the language and stylistic devices used by the author paying attention to:
Setting
Characters
Dialogue
Rising Action
Climax
Falling Action
Narrator
Figurative Language
Atmosphere
2. Comment / Discussion
Mrs Bixby says that she feels "a sort of eternal patient, someone who dwelt in the waiting room". What does this tell us about their married life?
After Mrs Bixby reads the Colonel's note, she experiences a variety of feelings that the author captures in single words and short sentences. Is this style of writing effective? Make a list of her changing emotions.
Write a character sketch of both husband and wife emphasizing their differences.
Does it depend on whether you are male or female when it comes to taking sides with either Mr or Mrs Bixby?
1-Setting: New York, Baltimore
ReplyDeleteCharacters: Mrs Bixby, Mr Bixby, The Colonel, the secretary.
Dialogue: Informal
Rising Action: Getting the coat
Climax: When she gets the neckpiece.
Falling Action: Ehn she find the secretary.
Narrator: 3rd person
Figurative Language:
Atmosphere: Light
2-a That they didn't really love each other, and that Mr Bixby didn't see her as more than that.
b First, she felt happy, because she received the mink coat, then sad, because she wasn't going to see the Colonel ever again, and finally a little desesperate, because she had to find a way to keep the coat.
c The husband, who thinks her wife is stupid, doesn't care about her and cheats on her with the secretary. The wife, who thinks her husband is stupid, thinks that she is a clever woman, with a lover such as the colonel.
d No, because I'm not going to take sides with anyone, I think the two of them are wrong.
1-
ReplyDeletepensilvenia
colonels, mrs and ms bixby pulteney
informal
that she is whaiting for her husband to give her the coat
suspence
doesnt have
thierd person
neve to cheat your husband !!!!!!!!!
2-
a-that is not good
b- yes
c-
Setting pelsilvania
ReplyDeleteCharacters Mrs & Mr Bixby and the Colonel's
Dialogue informal
Rising Action when Mrs Bixby took the coat to the shop
Climax when Mr gives the coat to the serviete of him
Falling Action Mrs Bixby realise that her hasman was with oter girl
Narrator 3 person
Figurative Language
Atmosphere corruption
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