An analysis of three story books

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An analysis of three story books

• 1. The Paperboy
• 2. Bens trumpet
• 3. The Snowy day

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Final Presentation

• 9431302 Joanna Lin
• 9431318 Shu-Hsien Tu
• 9431334 Jean Cheng

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The Paperboy

• Characters
• The paperboy and his dog.
• Setting
• On one cold, dark, and early morning.
  (Backdrop Setting)
• Narrative Point of View
• External Omniscient Narrator

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The Study of Literature

• Theme
• Learn to be independent.
• Style
• Words easy and frequently used in
  childrens daily life.
• Sentences Narrative sentences. Most
  sentences are short.
• No Dialogues in this story.

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Illustrations

• Line
• Curves and circles are frequently used on
  surroundings.
• Space
• No space is left.
• Shape
• Rounded shapes are often applied on objects like
  trees, mountains, stars and so on.

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Illustrations

• Colors
• Great amount of dark colors such as dark blue,
  dark green and black are used.
• Composition and Perspective
• Loosely grouped like houses, trees and stars.
• Middle shots combination of close-ups and
  panoramic views.

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Features of the paperboy

• Independence
• The only support the paperboy receives is
  himself. No body offers help.

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Bens Trumpet

• Ben is very fond of music. He pretends he
• can play trumpet. However, he has no trumpet, and
  some children even laugh at him. One day, his
  chance has come

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Illustrations

• Black and white
• 2. The use of space
• 3. Curve lines and straight lines
• 4. Sqaurish and rectangle shapes
• 5. Pencil and paint

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Elements of literature

• 1. backdrop setting
• 2. dramatic plot
• 3. narrators point of view
• 4. short sentences

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The features of Ben

• 1. loneliness
• 2. independence
• 3. family interaction
• 4. economic problem

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The Snowy Day

• Peter, a 3 to 4 year-old boy, woke up one morning
  and found the snow had fallen during the night.
  Then he got out and started his journey in a
  snowy day...

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Illustration

• Line -curving
• Shape- smooth triangle
• Color- low saturated red and blue
• artistic media-collage
• page layout-
• mountain area a full open-page
• perspective - closed view to a far view.

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Literary part

• told by the third person
• the perspective of an adult
• lighthearted tone

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The features the boy

• Personality
• Family
• Appearance

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Personal reflection

• public security
• he mothers educating attitude
• the same life experience of mine
• And he thought and thought and thought about
  them. Who are they?

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Similarities

• Economic condition
• Independence
• No close-ups for protagonists faces

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Differences

• Family interaction
• Illustration
• hues and artistic media

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