2Z Weddings and Beheadings Questions by Conrad https://padlet.com/ck13/xy484eegvufy en-us 2017-11-14 16:17:45 UTC 2017-11-15 08:01:02 UTC hello@padlet.com Questions: Group 1: Find and list some famous beheadings and when and where they took place. Group 2: Find conflicts and contrasts in the text. Group 3: Discuss the setting, time, and the chronology of the text. Group 4: Discuss the language and narrative technique. Group 5: Discuss themes and the message of the story. ck13 https://padlet.com/ck13/xy484eegvufy/wish/206805698 2017-11-14 16:17:45 UTC https://padlet.com/ck13/xy484eegvufy/wish/206805698 Group 5 (Hannah-Rosa, Caroline & Amanda) https://padlet.com/ck13/xy484eegvufy/wish/207067367 Themes: "innocent" and guilty
Message of the story: violence changes him]]> 2017-11-15 07:17:27 UTC https://padlet.com/ck13/xy484eegvufy/wish/207067367 Group 3 - Emilie, Lasse, Alberte & Kristine https://padlet.com/ck13/xy484eegvufy/wish/207068139 Setting:
The text takes place in a country, in a war-broken city.
It is in the narraters childhood home (p.1 l.10), but it does not tell us exactly where that is. It could be both be Pakistan and London in principle.

Time:
It is a mix of present and past.

Chronology:
The text is build chronologically, with flashbacks of previous beheadings, that the 1. person-narrater has experienced. ]]> 2017-11-15 07:21:50 UTC https://padlet.com/ck13/xy484eegvufy/wish/207068139 Group 4: https://padlet.com/ck13/xy484eegvufy/wish/207068222 4. Discuss the language and narrative techniques
Language: 
  • The author has an informal language, and tells about his dirty work with a calm voice and language, and even though his work is absurd, the author makes is sound like an ordinary low skilled job, with his everyday language. 
It also seems like he is telling the story directly to the reader, in attempt to persuade reader to have sympathy with his work.

The author is reaching out to the reader by phrases and words like: 
  • “You don’t know me personally. My experience has never crossed your mind. But I would bet you’ve seen my work” - curiosity (reader)
  • “I know you don’t want too much detail, but it’s serious work taking off someone’s head if you’re not s butcher”
  • “We feel shabby”

 
Use of humor: 
The author uses dark humor/irony fx. 
  • “Don’t bury your head in the sand”
  • “Don’t go losing your head now. Chin up!”
  • “I know you don’t want to much detail, but it’s serious work taking off someone’s head” 
  • “It wouldn’t be good if you missed something” the beheading film.

Alliteration: 
  • Linje 12, s. 207, “Though there are less of those these days”
  • Linje 20, s. 208, “but a bulb blew…”
  • Linje 25, s.208, “Don’t you guys love prizes and statuettes and stuff..”

Metaphor:
  • “Don’t bury your head in the sand. Don’t go losing your head now. Chin up!”
  • “Every day we are ageing, we feel shabby” - 

Contrast: 

Cutting | Re-cutting
Qualified | Enthusiastic
Innocent | Guilty
Ageing | Beheaded


]]> 2017-11-15 07:22:25 UTC https://padlet.com/ck13/xy484eegvufy/wish/207068222 Group 1: https://padlet.com/ck13/xy484eegvufy/wish/207068586 Famous beheadings:
During The French revolution, in 1793 both Ludvig 16th and month later Marie Antoinette were beheaded by guillotine.  

 Johann Friedrich Struensee (1772) Copenhagen. 

Christoph Probst was part of a German resistance group called White Rose. He was beheaded in 1943 in Munich after a trial by the Nazis. 
 
Hamida Djandoubi 1977 in France, he was an agricultural worker and convicted murderer. He kidnapped, tortured and murdered 22-year-old Elisabeth Bousquet, his former girlfriend. (this was the most recent beheading in Europe)

 
]]> 2017-11-15 07:24:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ck13/xy484eegvufy/wish/207068586 Gruppe 2 https://padlet.com/ck13/xy484eegvufy/wish/207075286 Find conflicts and contrasts in the text.
pages 2 line  23: in the text, there is a small conflicts. because is too dark, but they are in a hurry. 
pages 3 line 5: they cheer and fire off rounds while you're checking the tape and playing it back.
page 2: contrasts:  But I wonder if he’s going mad, Page 3: I wonder if I’m going to go mad
page 1 line 17: conflict: we’re artists. but this stuff, the death work, it has taken over.
Page 1 line 9: contrast: war-broken city - my childhood home

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