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1
THE DEVILANDTOM WALKER
  • BY
  • WASHINGTON IRVING

2
CHARACTERIZATION
  • REFERS TO THE METHODS A
  • WRITER USES TO REVEAL THE
  • PERSONALITY OF A
  • CHARACTER.

3
DIRECT CHARACTERIZATION
  • THE WRITER MAKES EXPLICIT
  • STATEMENTS ABOUT A
  • CHARACTER.

4
INDIRECT CHARACTERIZATION
  • THE WRITER REVEALS A
  • CHARACTER THROUGH THE
  • CHARACTERS WORDS AND
  • ACTIONS AND THROUGH WHAT
  • OTHER CHARACTERS THINK, AND
  • SAY ABOUT THAT CHARACTER.

5
PREDICTING
  • IS MAKING AN EDUCATED
  • GUESS ABOUT WHAT WILL
  • HAPPEN IN A STORY.
  • PREDCITNG HELPS TO
  • ANTICIPATE EVENTS, AND
  • APPRECIATE LESS OBVIOUS
  • PARTS OF A STORY.

6
SUMMARY
  • ONE DAY, THE DEVIL OFFERS
  • TOM WALKER A PIRATES
  • TREASURE. WHEN TOMS
  • GREEDY WIFE URGES HIM TO
  • ACCEPT THE DEAL, HE
  • REFUSES OUT OF SPITE.

7
  • THE WIFE TRIES TO MAKE HER
  • OWN BARGAIN WITH THE
  • DEVIL, BUT SHE DISAPPEARS.
  • TOM THEN ACCEPTS THE
  • DEVILS OFFER AND BECOMES
  • A RICH MONEY-LENDER WHO
  • PREYS ON THOSE IN NEED.

8
  • WHEN A BORROWER ASKS
  • TOM FOR AN EXTENSION ON A
  • LOAN, HE REPLIES, THE DEVIL
  • TAKE ME IF I HAVE MADE A
  • FARTHING. THE DEVIL WHISKS
  • TOM AWAY, AND HIS RICHES
  • TURN TO CINDERS.

9
LITERARY ELEMENT
  • IN 1695, THE KING OF ENGLAND
  • COMMISSIONED CAPTAIN
  • WILLIAM KIDD TO ARREST ALL
  • PIRATES IN THE EASTERN SEAS.
  • WHEN KIDD ARRIVED AT THE
  • COMORO ISLANDS, HOWEVER, HE
  • JOINED THE PIRATES INSTEAD OF
  • HUNTING THEM.

10
POWER OF DARKNESS
  • IRVINGS DESCRIPTIONS
  • REFLECT ROMANTICISMS
  • INTEREST IN EXOTIC SETTINGS

11
  • IRVINGS DESCRIPTION SHOWS
  • NATURE IN ITS WILDEST, MOST
  • EXOTIC STATE. HIS CHOICE OF
  • AN INDIAN FORT AS A PART OF
  • THE SETTING ALSO REVEALS
  • HIS INTEREST IN THE EXOTIC.
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