Englisch Abitur: Crooked Letter Crooked Letter - Basics
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0:00 hello and welcome to this new video from english ltp my name is bernard and today we're going to be talking about crooked letter crooked
0:08 letter a novel by tom franklin which is compulsory reading in some german-speaking countries and also
0:16 has a big discussion revolving around it in well the international community and if you want to tap into the discussion
0:26 please just go down to the comment section enter your comments ask questions about this video about
0:33 things about crooked letter that maybe you're not sure of or that you don't quite understand or you want to know more about or you want to discuss
0:41 and yeah this video is going to be a basics video um this time this doesn't mean um as in the essential videos and maybe
0:51 you've seen the essentials on a globalization video that there will be everything covering the whole topic
0:58 in the video that one worked well with globalization because it was about a 20 minute video and we could really cover all of the basics
1:07 on globalization that you need to know to talk about it especially in like a school setting
1:15 and this is not possible with crooked letter just because um we need to focus on so many different aspects of the novel so if we did a bear
1:25 essentials video that was it would probably be well above an hour and um that doesn't really make sense so um
1:33 this is going to be a series of videos on crooked letter and in this video we'll be tackling the basics
1:40 so let's jump right into those this is what the presentation in the end about crooked letter will look like so
1:50 we're going to be talking about basics today we'll be talking about the macro plot we'll be talking about characters we'll be talking about topics
1:58 and symbols the novel uses and there will also be some further points for discussion at the end so um
2:06 you will be able to access this prezi or download it if you send us an email especially when it's finished
2:13 um and um i will maybe make a walk through presentation of um well a walk-through video
2:22 presentation of the whole thing okay today basics time so for the basics we have four different
2:31 categories when we talk about a novel we usually talk about the genre so we talk about the plot line we talk about the setting
2:42 or the settings and about the narrative mode so for crooked letter crooked letter the genre is a crime novel
2:51 if you're not sure how the crime novel is a crime novel basically is a novel which is a piece of fiction um which centers on a crime and that
3:00 doesn't mean someone steals something from a grocery store on page two and the rest is all about romance
3:06 that's not a crime novel so the crime really has to play a very important part in this novel and this is of course
3:14 the case for crooked letter crooked letter maybe you'd say well but you know much of the novel actually centers on
3:25 silas and larry and their personal relationship and also their development so is it
3:33 maybe a bildungsromance and yeah you could say that you could say it's a bildungsroman i
3:39 guess we have two main characters um who go through a development in the novel and at the end of the novel they have changed
3:50 usually for the better and the bildung salman right coming of age novel would be a specific type of buildings command
3:56 this is not the case here but you could say it's a building command but generally i would say stick with crime novel
4:03 and that should be that should be fine and the next thing i'm going to talk about is the basic plot drive so usually we have we talk about
4:15 a basic plot of a novel um for example we could talk about the basic plot of a fairy tale um princess is in need of help prince helps
4:25 princess and they marry so that would be the basic plot of the basic fairy tale in this case i would say the basic plot is the relationship of larry and silas
4:37 and how it develops and we have two things two actions that really drive the plot and those are the two disappearances
4:47 because we have a very slow development of the relationship of larry and silas so they get to know each other they they do things together and then this
4:58 first disappearance happens and this is when the relationship radically changes right so we have
5:04 cyrus getting into contact with cindy and everything takes off from there and this changes the relationship completely
5:16 until the second disappearance happens nearly 30 years later and this relationship between larry and silas which is
5:25 non-existent at that point of time again changes completely with the second disappearance
5:33 so i would say those two disappearances are catalysts so if you're not sure what a catalyst is maybe you should have listened
5:41 a bit closer and in chemistry so a catalyst is something that helps a relationship to completely develop maybe into something else something
5:54 that sort of brings a lot of action into this relationship so we have two disappearances two catalysts and the relationship is
6:03 changed completely twice okay and again next point setting again we have two things
6:11 we have one setting which is charbot mississippi in 1979 and one sitting which is chabot mississippi in 2008.
6:21 so you could say how is that two settings well usually we distinguish when we talk about setting we
6:28 distinguish between place and time of the story so if setting doesn't only mean the place
6:35 the story is set but also the time when the story is set i mean you could say well there are three settings we're also talking about
6:42 we have chicago to some extent but that's on the periphery i don't think we need to discuss that that's not really
6:49 that's not really as important i think you can use chicago as a setting as a counter setting to chap it because in many ways
6:58 it is everything that chabot isn't but we are really focusing on chabot here but the interesting part again in this novel
7:07 which i think it's a great novel you can really take a lot out of it is that we we do have the same place very rural place chapit we have it
7:16 in 1979 and in 2008 and we have so much has happened in between just like so much has happened in between in the lives of larry
7:27 and silas so this just makes for very interesting reading you can really there's a lot of substance that the book can work with with those two settings
7:36 with those two disappearances and and all of it is really intricately woven into the lives of and into the relationship of
7:46 their insiders the last thing i quickly want to talk about is the narrative mode narrative mode is third person narration and so we have
7:56 some sort of omniscient narrator talking or telling us the story but um it is not so much an omniscient
8:06 narrator here and he or she does seem to know what is going on throughout the whole story but each time
8:13 the story is told through either silas's eyes or through larry's eyes and it doesn't mean that they're you know
8:21 they're reporting it in the first person but we have this third person narration with those two as focalizers which is also very interesting it's
8:33 something that you know makes this novel so readable and so interesting that we have quite often we have
8:40 one event and we have two sides of it we have larry telling us about how he saw it and we have
8:47 silas telling us about how he saw it and of course this is this is just a great idea if you want to discuss the relationship of two
8:55 people who obviously go through a couple of things together um to see how
9:03 larry reacts and how silas reacts how larry felt in the situation how silas fell in the situation and you know quite often in
9:11 relationships we don't have the chance to to look into the head of um you know our friend or
9:19 maybe the other family member we have our own perspective and in this book in this novel we have the chance of seeing through both of their
9:27 eyes so it helps us to understand how they develop how they feel towards each other how
9:34 they feel towards different events so um yeah that's the basics remember basics of a novel genre plot setting and narrative mode
9:47 okay so if you have any questions please write them down into the comments we'll be happy to read them and to answer them you can also drop us a line
9:55 on our um youtube email and looking forward to discussing with you and the next video will also be on
10:03 crooked letter will be out soon we'll be adding them you know week after week and depending on when we get through with them
10:10 and yeah that's going to be it for today