1. “The Small Horse”
Auteur: Steve Walker

Character First impression Final assessment
The Small Horse - Exciting Clever, but still a bit of a letdown
- Amusing
I-Figure - Very little imagination Very strange person who iis absolutely not normal
- He’s a crackpot (zonderling) A crackpot
- Not quit normal

The I-figure is very lonely, shy and scared. He’s not very well-balanced, sucesful and responsible.

Plot
Introduction: The I-figure hears animal noises in his flat
The initial incident: when the I-figure sees the Small Horse for the first time
Rising Action:The I-figure goes to the warehouse
The climax: Sees the small horses and the tiny people
Falling Action: He goes to his home
Conclusion: recovers from his experience in the warehouse

Correct order of the events:
1. I thought it was a mouse at first and so i wasn’t bothered (introduction)
2. i saw it on a Sunday tea-time ( initial incident)
3. i needed advise, but i only know ordinary people (raising action)
4. there was a young man, i went there the next day ( raising action)
5. I tried to let it eat from my hand every time i saw it ( raising action)
6. once again i pulled back the curtains to look at the closed warehouse over the road and so i hurried over (raising action)
7. there were horses quite a few and little people ( climax)
8. I’m home now reading the bibble out loud ( conclusion)

Comparing “Gulliver’s Travel” by Jonathan Swift with “The Small Horse”
Small Horse Gulliver’s Travel
Time of writing 20th century 18th century
Setting of the story Real country Imaginary island
Reason for writing Entertaining Satirize 18th century England (politics, religion)
Number of ordinary-sized people Sever normal people 1 ordinary size men, Gulliver

2. “I Sell Smiles” and “Report On The Shadow Factory”

characteristics:
- differently prices
- package doesn’t indicated what’s inside
- you can be arrested for damaging a package
- the package are manufactured in a factory
- possibly badly for your health
- expensive
- increase suicide rate
- are consumed securtly

compare the texts
Criterai I sell smiles Report on the shadow factory
About selling something you cant touch Yes Yes
Setting At a bus stop, time unspecified Place and time unspecified

Amount of description of what is sold Practically none, only price Quite a lot: package , price and effect
Attitude of the owner towards the products Mike is open about what he sells and hates to see it wasted People hide their weakness for shadows out of shame
Form of the text Dialogue Story with an i-figure telling the story
Purpose of the text To remind people to smile To entertain people and to make them think about the role of consumers goods

3. “Of Mice And Men”
Auteur: John Steinbeck „³ - lived in the US born in California (1902-1968)
- writes about great depression
- he writes about a lot of people that were inemployed during the depression an going to California searching for work
- writes about country sides
Two other famous books of him are: East of Eden and Tortilla Flat

About the book: George and Lenny are 2 oldish people who are searching for work.
Lenny is feeble minded, tall and strong. He is raised by anut Clara but now George is watching after him. Lenny likes little animals, but sometimes he strokes animals or women so hard that he kills them, because he’s not aware of his own strength.
During their search the have a dog (Candy) which is very old and ill.
Lenny is the mice in the title and George the man.

This book is a short novel (novella).

Facts appearance character
Lennie - he pets soft thing he is muscled and strong sensative, slow
- He is dumb he likes rabbits minded and he’s
- He is sensative and mice like a child
- He is muscled he wears working cloth
- He is wanted for he is very tall and has
Killing a girl blue eyes
- mentally retarted
- Depentant on george
- he likes kethup
- threatens to leave george

george - he is smart sensetive and he wears working cloth he is sensible,
honest he walks with a binale smart and honest
- he takes care of lennie he has dark hair and he is responsible dark eyes
- he wants lennie to stay and carring
- he bosses lennie he is patient
- he grumbles about lennie

lenny wants to be liked by george so he says he wants to leave george and gets attention and george is nice to lenny again

george is very patient but can get very angry, he wants lenny ot give he the mice, then lenny starts crying and george promise him an other mice

Setting

4. “When I’m Sixty-four” and “Warning”

The theme of when i’m 64
Main problem „³ the I figure isn’t sure that the ¡¥you’ really loves him
The main character „³ the i-figure (a man who isn’t old)
What kind of person is he „³ he is a very ordinary man, with a lower-middle class income

Looks and behaviour of the i-figure in warning

Adjectives
Looks tasteless
Garish
Extravagant
behaviour Greedy
Non-conformist
Extravagant
Defiant
Irresponsible

focus on the form:
- it doesn’t rhyme
- the lines do not have the same lengte
- it has no mettre

Free verse:
- It’s poetical form with no regular principle of arrangment, wether in line lenght, rhyme or stranza pattern
- It is marked by uneven line lenghts and often by the absence of rhyme as well
- It is poetry that is not bound bij any of the rules of traditinal poetry such as lenght of lines and rhyme
- It is poetry which is not written in lines of regular lenght or metre

When i’m 64 warning
Age of the I-figure Not old Not old
Period of live discussed Old age Old age
Person addressed Beloved Husband
Sort of future activities discussed Conventional domestic ones Unconventional ones
Form Not arranged in stanza’s Arranged in stanza’s
Mood Looking forward to future activities Looking forward to future activities

5. “Wuthering heights”

narrator:
the narrator of a story is the one who is telling the story to the reader. The narrator determines the perspective, which is the prospective from with the story is presented. There are 3 types:
- the all-knowing narrator knows everything about the character, down to what they think and feel. Not only in the present or past but also in the future
- the i-narrator plays part in the story as one of the characters. The perspective is subjective, because everything is described the way the i-narrator sees it
- the third-person narrator is one of the characters in a he/she story. The reader is aware that there is a narrator. The perspective is subjective, everything is described the way one character sees it.

Auteur: Emily bronte:
She lived in Haworth ( Yorkshire) England. She lived from 1818 until 1848. her home situation : she had two sisters charlotte and Anne. She lived a very isolated live at the edge of the moors (moerassen). The Wuthering height was published in 1847. her pen name was Ellis Bell . The people regarded Wuthering height as morbid and violent. She also wrote poems.

Compare song with and novel:

Form Song Novel
Timing After cathy’s death Theme: love-hate relationship Just before and just after her dead
Setting Outside at night Cathy’s bedroom
Narrator i-narrator = cathy i-narrator = nelly dean
Cathy’s attitude towards headcliff She sees him as her master She abuses him