Task Sheet 1 on Carlos Ruiz Zafon’s The Shadow of the Wind

Course/Year/|Block: ______ Date Submitted: ____________

Group Member Task Assigned Group Member Task Assigned

Note: The class is encouraged to have a group of maximum 5 members. As agreed upon in class, you may
still keep your midterm group membership.

I. Fill out the table below according to the terms of agreement.

Tasks Notes per item Print and/or online references

A. Author’s Bio-notes

1. Complete name
2. At least 3 significant works
3. Languages into which
SOTW was translated
4. Awards, if any

B. SOTW Plot

1. Exterior Plot

1.1 At least 4 important

characters
1.2 One-sentence story
line

2. Interior Plot

2.1 At least 4 important

characters
2.2 One-sentence story
Line

C. Online pdf copy (URL)

D. Context/Genre of SOTW

1. Gothic element/s
2. Socio-political/milieu of
SOTW (Taine’s Moment &
Milieu)
 2

II. Reproduce a copy of the fictional map setting of SOTW. Identify which of these places are real and which
ones are fictional.

Note: Page 2 of the Task Sheet is the fictional map and annotation about whether the places real or
fictional.