Literatures in English Unit 1

Monday 25 April 2022

Aunt Jen- Paulette Ramsey

(Snowball effect)

Characters- Form-

 Sunshine  Novel: Epistolary:

 Grandma (ma) a) Story told in form of letters
 Grandpa(pa) b) A growing up novel
 Uncle Johnny (bildungsroman)
 Mrs. Delagdo ( page 80-81 explains her
trauma)
 Uncle Roy Narrative Techniques-
 Aunt Sue (Susan)
 Child narrator, childlike voice
 The epistolary form gives readers the
chance to explore the psychology the
Setting-
character
 Rural
 1970’s. Times of Michael Manley
(“Joshua”) Major Events-

 Uncle Johnny dying

 Pa dying
Themes/Issues-
 Ma dying
 Migration  (Effect on Sunshine pg 83)
 Exile  Aunt Jen not answering
 Diaspora  Aunt Jen finally writing (pg 86) a letter
 “The story explores the effect of
migration on families and emigrants

NB-

-Note the dates of the letters

Literatures in English Unit One

Thursday 5th May 2022

Aunt Jen

Monologist epistolary

Linguistic analysis and stylistic analysis

Idioms

Foreshadowing, irony, use of proverbs, use of

idioms, imagery.

“The Cooing Bird”- when was it used and why

was it used .