Wed. June 10th - Prose Session with D Durán

Dear Students,
It is a pleasure to post these few lines in order to share with you the responsibility of developing next Wednesday's class session. Prof. González has informed me that you have been doing presentations on short stories, so my class will aim at supporting everything you may have been doing these previous weeks. Yet, we have to mention that your work may have been more detailed and comprehensive since you were all dealing with longer stories than the ones I will present to you. Before you proceed in preparing for the class, bring back to your memory the classical story of the Little Red Riding Hood and answer a few questions:

Which genre does this story belong to?
What specific literary form does it exemplify?
Is there a narrator? How is it featured?
From what point of view is the story told?
Who are the main characters?
What is the setting of the story?
What was it about?
What as the tone?
How did the plot go?
How would you decribe the language in the story? How was language used?
Which literary resources are clearly present in the text?
What was the climax?
How was it achieved?
What was the denouement of the story?
Which approach would you consider the most appropriate for its analysis? Why?
Is there any apparent central message in it? If so, which?
Which audience is the story intended for?

In order for us to save some precious time, which we will devote to analysis, you should download, print and carefully read the texts whose hiperlinks you will find just below. (Just CLICK on each link to open files).

Little Red Riding Hood - Versions 1 & 2
Little Red Riding Hood - Version 3
Short Stories 55

I do hope the class will be as enjoyable as its preparation and the readings involved. Thanks for your atention and help. Looking forward to seeing you all there on Wednesday,

D Durán