ENGLISH LITERATURE.

GROUP: 551029-12.

UNIT 2: TASK 3-WORD WIZARDRY ADVENTURE.

ELABORED BY:

ANDRES DAVID TORRES HERNANDEZ.

FOR TUTOR:

JESSICA DEL SOCORRO GARCIA CORDONA.

OPEN AND DISTANCE NATIONAL UNIVERSITY-UNAD.

SCHOOL OF EDUCACTION-CCVA.

PERIOD: 16-01.

2023.
Step 1: APA Mastery Expedition, SCREENSHOTS:
Step 2: Web Conference Voyage:

The meeting was Saturday, November 11th.

In the first of the meeting, the tutor asked to the students how the last topic was and if they
have some questions about that, and they told teacher about some points, after that the tutor
Jessica explained all steps that this third work has.

 Step 1: We have to choose 2 books from the bibliographic references. We can see
these books, in the unit 1 and unit 2 where says literary works from different periods
and ages in alphabetical order part 1 y 2.
 Step 2: Read the suggested materials about literary devices, book review and reading
skills. Step
 3: We have to create our literary devices analysis charts and explorations of reading
skills Strategies and techniques.
 Step 4: We have to create online educative resource from one book chosen among
the group. Step
 5: Finally, we have post everything in forum and send for evaluation. After that she
showed us in a screenshot three questions where we have ask ourselves about reading
skills.
 Which questions were:
 How often do you read?
 Do you have favorite gender?
 When you feel more comfortable to read?
Where I saw and hear many kinds of answers about reading by colleagues. Finally she
explained about reading strategies like:

 Skimming: Skimming is one of the tools you can use to read more in less time.
Skimming refers to looking only for the general or main ideas, and works best with
non-fiction (or factual) material. With skimming, your overall understanding is reduced
because you don’t read everything. You read only what is important to your purpose.
Skimming takes place while reading and allows you to look for details in addition to the
main ideas.
 Scanning: Scanning is reading rapidly in order to find specific facts. While skimming
tells you what general information is within a section, scanning helps you locate a
particular fact.
 Inference: If you're making an inference while reading, you're making a guess about
what you don't know based on the information available—basically, you're reading
between the lines. You can use your prior knowledge and textual information to draw
conclusions, make critical judgments, and form interpretations of the text.
 Prediction: Making predictions is a strategy in which readers use information from a
text (including titles, headings, pictures, and diagrams) and their own personal
experiences to anticipate what they are about to read (or what comes next).
  Book Selection:

HEART OF DARKNESS by Conrad’s (1899) and DRACULA by Store r, B (1897).

 Independent Reading and Analysis and Literary Devices Analysis Chart.

 HEART OF DARKNESS BY JOSEPH CONRAD.

CLARIFICATION: each meaning was obtained from the Cambridge dictionary.

NEW VOCABULARY PHRASAL VERBS

1,DELVE: to search, especially as if by digging, 1.RAN OUT: to finish, use, or sell all of
in order to find a thing or information something, so that there is none left
2, A CRUISING YAWL: a two-masted sailing 2. COME OUT: If a book, record, film, etc.
vessel, rigged fore-and-aft, with a large comes out; it becomes available for people to
mainmast and a small mizzenmast stepped buy or see.
aft of the rudderpost. 3, GO UP: to move higher, rise, or increase.
3, A FLUTTER: to make a series of quick 4, BREAK OFF: to separate a piece from the
delicate movements up and down or from main part.
side to side, or to cause something to do this. 5,GO ON: to happen and continue.
4,BOUND DOWN: 6,LIGHT ON: to make clearer
Here 'Bound' means to be within the
boundaries/limits or having a moral or legal
duty to do something and 'Down' is just used
as an interjection. In other words you may
use the term 'Forced'. Example- We are
bound by law or We are bound down by the
law.
5,TIDE: the rise and fall of the sea that
happens twice every day
6, WATERWAY: a narrow area of water, such
as a river or canal, which ships or boats can
sail along.
7,OFFING: likely to happen soon
8,WELD: to join two pieces of metal together
permanently by melting the parts that touch
9,GLEAM: to produce or reflect a small,
bright light
10,FLATNESS: the quality of being level and
without curved, high, or hollow parts
11, MOURNFUL: very sad.
12, MOTIONLESS: without moving.
13, TRUSTWORTHINESS: the quality or fact of
being trustworthy (= able to be trusted).
14, SUNKEN: having fallen to the bottom of
the sea.
15, OUTWARD: relating to how people,
situations, or things seem to be, rather than
how they are inside
16, STARING: looking at something for a long
time with the eyes wide open, especially
when surprised, frightened, or thinking.
17,UNRUFFLED: calm; not nervous or
worried, usually despite a difficult situation

18, UTMOST- used to emphasize how

important or serious something is.
19, THE TIDAL: relating to the tide
20, KNIGHTS-ERRANT: a medieval knight who
travelled around doing brave things and
helping people who were in trouble.
21, COMMONWEALTH: a group of countries
with the same political or economic aims.
22, MUDFLAT- a flat area of very wet soil
near the sea that is covered at high tide (=
the time when the sea reaches its highest
level).
23, FAIRWAY: in golf, the area of short grass
between the tee (= place where you first hit
the ball) and the green (= place where the
ball should enter a hole).
24, DISDAINFUL: showing that someone does
not like someone or something and thinks
that they do not deserve interest or respect.
25, MISTRESS: a woman who is having a
sexual relationship with a married man.
26, KERNEL: the part of a nut that is inside
the shell and can be eaten.
27, MARSH: ground near a lake, a river, or
the sea that often floods and is always wet.
28, MIDST: the middle of a group of people
or things.
29, CHAPS: leather clothing worn over
trousers by cowboys to protect their legs
when riding a horse, or by motorcyclists
when riding a motorcycle, to protect their
legs.
30, FELLOW: used to refer to someone who
has the same job or interests as you, or is in
the same situation as you.
31, STEAMBOAT: a boat that moves by steam
power.
32,THUNDERSTRUCK: very surprised
33, PONDEROUSLY: in a way that is boring
because of being too slow, long, or serious.
34, AJAR: If a door is ajar, it is slightly open.
35, GARNISH: to decorate food with a small
amount of different food.
36, STAIRCASE: a set of stairs inside a
building, usually with a bar fixed on the wall
or onto vertical poles at the side for you to
hold on to.
37, ARID: very dry and without enough rain
for plants.
38, PLUMPNESS: very fat.
39, FLOCKCOAT: a coat that reaches the
knees, worn by men, especially in the past.
40,SHABBY: looking old and in bad condition
because of being used for a long time or not
being cared for

THEME AND MOTIFS:

1, THE BOND OF THE SEA.
2,ON THE EDD OF THE RIVER
3,A CASUAL STROLL OR A CASUAL SPREE
4,D’YE
5, BLAZE ON.
6, WE LIVE IN THE FLICKER.
7, BY AND BY.
8, DASH IT ALL.
9, HE WHACKED THE OLD NIGGER.
10, THE HUTS GAPED BLACK.
11, LIGHT WAS DIM.
12, OLD KNITTER OF BLACK WOOL.
13, IN A MATTER-OF-FACT TONE

SUMMARY:

THE HEART OF DARKNESS is a prose where Charles Marlow tells the story of his trip to the
heart of the Congo in Africa, but it is also a journey to the depths of the human soul because
he expressed in this prose a series of feelings, emotions, and attitudes of the human being
when he longs for something.

Marlow was always a very adventurous guy when he was younger he saw the Congo River on a
map in a very strange way so he wanted to go there and explore this land but we should know
that Marlow was in Thames London and he was sitting with 5 men related to navigation, then
had an observation about England being one of the darkest places before the Romans came to
England. Then he asked his aunt if she could help him get a boat because his dream was to
explore the world, his aunt moved her influence and with some money, he was able to get a
boat to Marlow, but this boat was in bad condition, it was a conservation boat. And also by
steam from a Belgian company at the time of European colonialism.

At this time, Marlow had been sailing as a sailor for many years and knew that some white
spaces in Africa had been changed to black; however, he wanted to continue exploring these
places. When Marlow arrives in Africa, he hears many rumors about Mr. Kurtz from the
residents, as if he dominated miles of kilometers upstream, he also hears that Mr. Kurtz is the
biggest businessman in this region because he supplies unimaginable amounts of ivory and
that he is A charming person, however, Marlow traveled upriver to meet this man, knowing
how dangerous this land was since Freslaven was captain of Marlow's previous crew, who was
killed by some natives because Freslaven, who was Danish, He lost his patience, due to a
misunderstanding with two chickens, he had hit the chief of the tribe. Marlow was able to
experience many of the horrors that he will never forget from the colonialists and the Great
War between the whites and the primitive peoples which it is described as scenes of terror.

Finally, Marlow has the opportunity to speak with Kurtz, who is supposedly ill and on his last
day before dying in other words on his deathbed. After they talk, Marlow stands guard outside
Kurtz's house. He falls asleep and when he wakes up around midnight, he can only see that Mr.
Kurtz has escaped. Marlow launches after him and finds him in the thick of the jungle. Kurtz
says that he does not want to leave the position because he has not yet carried out all of his
plans. Marlow manages to take him back to his house. He then talks to the Russian and
suggests that he escape before the director makes the decision to imprison him. The Russian
listens to him and escapes. The next day, the ship leaves for Kurtz. Already on the brink of his
death, Mr. Kurtz entrusts Marlow with all of his old files and papers; among these is a
photograph of his fiancée. Kurtz ends up dying aboard the steamship a few days later.

Marlow returns to England, but the memory of Mr. Kurtz haunts him. He manages to find the
woman in the photo (fiancée) and visits her. She talks at length about Kurtz's wonderful
personal qualities, and about how guilty she feels for not having been with him in his final
days. Marlow lies and says that the last word Kurtz spoke was her name.

CHARACTERS:

 Marlow: The protagonist of Heart of Darkness.

 Kurtz: The head of the Interior Station and the object of Marlow's search in the Congo.
Kurtz is a man of many talents (we learn, among other things, that he is a talented
musician and an excellent painter), the main of which are his charisma and his ability
to do business.
 General Manager: The Company's main agent in African territory, who runs the Central
Station.

 The Brickmaker: The Brickmaker is a guy Marlow also meets at Central Station; he is
the manager's favorite and seems to be some kind of corporate spy.

 The chief accountant: He is an efficient worker with the incredible habit of dressing in
impeccable white and keeping himself absolutely tidy despite the squalor and heat of
the Outer Station, where he lives and works.

 Pilgrims: The clumsy and greedy Central Station agents who carry long wooden canes
with them everywhere they go, reminding Marlow of traditional religious travelers.

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  Cannibals: The natives hired as the steamer's crew, a surprisingly reasonable and
good-natured group of human beings. Marlow respects his moderation and calm
acceptance of adversity.

 The Russian Trader.

 Aunt.
 Fresleven.

 DRACULA BY STORE R, B .

CLARIFICATION: each meaning was obtained from the Cambridge dictionary.

Vocabulary:

GLIMPSE: to see something or someone for a very short time or only partly.

Smattering: a very small amount or number.

Disposal: the act of getting rid of something, especially by throwing it away

Foreknowledge: knowledge of an event before it happens

Horseshoe: a U-shaped piece of metal that is attached to the bottom of a horse's hoof to
protect it.

Carafe: a tall glass container with a wide, round bottom for serving wine or water, or the
amount contained in this.

Eve: the period or day before an important event.

Encompass: to include different types of things.

Clumsy: Clumsy person often has accidents because they do not behave in a careful, controlled
way.

Morrow: the next day, or tomorrow.

Petticoat: a slip

Jagged: rough and with sharp points

SUMMARY:

Dracula encompasses the writings of diaries, letters and telegrams written by the main
characters (Jonathan Hacker, Lucy Western, Mina Murray, DR. Seward). It begins with
Jonathan Hacker, a young English lawyer, who while traveling to Transylvania. Jhonathan plans
to meet with Count Dracula, a client for his firm, to finalize a real estate transaction. When he
arrived in Transylvania, the locals reacted with terror after he reveals his destination: Castle
Dracula. Although this makes him a little uneasy, he continues forward.

An old woman, upon hearing that the young man was going to the castle on the day before the
eve of Saint George, she was terrified, since for the residents this festival is the day when all
evil begins to come out, and she begged him not to go. this place, but when she realized that
the young man was determined, the old woman dried her eyes and offered him a crucifix, so
that he could put it around his neck and protect himself from all evil, we have to remember
that JONATHAN was a young man and Protestant English, so for him, those questions seemed
silly but out of respect for the older woman he put it in, when Jonathan was approaching
where Dracula the sinister howls of the wolves echoed in the air when he arrived at the castle.

While in England, Mina, Jonathans’ fiancée, was visiting a friend named Lucy Western, who
recently got engaged after rejecting several suitors, in One Night Mina must look for Lucy,
since she was suffering from sleepwalking and had recently begun to present a more frequent
picture. When Mina finds her outside, near a cemetery, there appears to be a creepy shape
hovering above her for a split second. Mina could see two small red marks on Lucy's neck and
she assumes that she must have inadvertently pricked Lucy with a pin. In the days that
followed, Lucy became ill and was sometimes seen through a window next to a bat. Mina is
worried, but they call her when she receives correspondence from Jonathan. Lucy is left in the
care of Dr. Seward and Dr. Van Helsing, who, after several failed blood transfusions, decide
that further action needs to be taken. They then cover Lucy and her room in garlic, a strategy
used to ward off vampires. Lucy, however, soon dies.

After her death, many appearances of a creature that is attacking children in the area are
reported. When Jonathan, who by that time was able to escape from Count Dracula's castle,
and Mina return to England, now as a married couple, Jonathan's stories about Dracula lead
Dr. Van Helsing to believe that Lucy contracted vampirism from the count and is the one who
torments the children of the area. To prevent her from continuing to kill innocents, they dig up
her corpse, pierce her heart, cut off her head and stuff her mouth with garlic, a tradition
against vampires.

After meeting Lucy, the group decides to locate Count Dracula and the 50 boxes of earth he
brought with him from Transylvania. According to stories, Dracula needs the soil of his home
country to stay healthy and regenerate. The group attempts to destroy the boxes so that
Dracula does not have sufficient means of regeneration. One night, amid feelings of unease
over Mina's abnormal behavior, Van Helsin and Seward enter her room unannounced and find
Jonathan unconscious and Mina drinking blood from a cut on Dracula's chest. The vampire
then disappears and returns to Transylvania only to be followed by the group determined to
kill him. They find him buried in the last box of dirt and quickly cut off his head and stab him in
the heart. Dracula after this turns into dust. The vampire hunters also lose one member of
their team, Quincey Morris, during the expedition.

When Hacker first meets Dracula, he recognizes that the man is pale, emaciated, and a little
strange. Hacker becomes even more concerned when, after Jonathan cuts himself while
shaving, Dracula lunges for his throat. A little further on, Jonathan is tempted by three
vampires, from whom he barely escapes with his life. He then discovers Count Dracula's secret:
that he is a vampire and survives by drinking human blood. Jonathan correctly assumes that he
will be DRACULA's next victim. He attacks the count, but his efforts prove futile, Dracula leaves
Jonathan trapped in the castle and then, along with 50 boxes of soil, sets off for England.

CHARACTERS:

 Count Dracula: Count Dracula, a centuries-old vampire and nobleman from

Transylvania, lives in a ruined castle in the Carpathian Mountains. Beneath a veneer of
aristocratic charm, the count possesses a dark and evil soul.

 Van Helsing: A Dutch professor, described by his former pupil Dr. Seward as “a
philosopher and metaphysician, and one of the most advanced scientists of his day.

 Jonathan Harker: A solicitor, or lawyer, whose firm sends him to Transylvania to

conclude a real estate transaction with Dracula. Young and naïve, Harker quickly finds
himself a prisoner in the castle and barely escapes with his life.
 Mina Murray: Jonathan Hacker’s fiancée. Mina is a practical young woman who works
as a schoolmistress.

 Lucy Westenra: Mina’s best friend and an attractive, vivacious young woman. The first
character in the novel to fall under Dracula’s spell, Lucy becomes a vampire, which
compromises her much-praised chastity and virtue, and banishes her soul from the
promise of eternal rest.

 Dr. John Seward: A talented young doctor, formerly Van Helsing’s pupil. Seward is the
administrator of an insane asylum not far from Dracula’s English home.

 Quincey Morris: A plainspoken American from Texas, and another of Lucy’s suitors.
Quincey proves himself a brave and good-hearted man, never begrudging Holm wood
his success in winning Lucy’s hand.

CHART COMPARATIVE:
HEART OF DARKNESS.
MORDERNIST PERIOD
 I could see in this book that the
feeling of nationalism was fading.
Marlow showed us many scary
things that his country did in
African countries.
 strong and international break
with tradition against the
DRACULA.
VICTORIAN PERIOD.
 According to the book and the era
I could see there was a great
sense of nationalism, many of
British was proud of their nation
above others.
 use of the third person omniscient
narrator, as we can see in
 established religious political and Dracula, when I read the book it
social vision, which we can see in was like someone was telling it.
the book when Marlow showed us  The narrator is intrusive; we can
how African tribes live their lives see how in Dracula's story there
and the way their beliefs are personal comments, and
influence them, and Marlow opinions of the characters and
showed us many things about about some events.
how colonialism can be cruel.  I can see how the novels were
 No connection with history or divided into chapters; Dracula was
institution, which we can see divided into 23 chapters.
Marlow doesn't follow many
things about British marines.
 No things as absolute truth all are
relative; in many parts of the
books we can see how the context
and the reality can be different
for everyone.
 Many characters make their own
meaning in the world according
to their perspective.
 Rise of mass communication, we
can see how Kurtz influenced a lot
of the Congo when Marlow
arrives in Congo many locals don't
stop talking about him because
he was a good communicator.
 it was an international and
interdisciplinary period, which we
can see in Heart of Darkness in
this period all stories were based
on travels and exploring other
cultures.

 Online Educative Resource Creation:

https://www.canva.com/design/DAF0K5-
lFc0/JCwxL_ealixsjXLOX2hbVQ/edit?utm_content=DAF0K5-
lFc0&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=sharebutton

REFERECES:

 Conrad, J. (1899). Heart of Darkness. [Modernist

Period] https://www.globalgreyebooks.com/heart-of-darkness-ebook.html
 Stoker, B. (1897). Dracula. [Victorian
Era] https://onemorelibrary.com/index.php/en/books/literature/book/irish-
literature-402/dracula-208
 Strategies for Reading Comprehension: Read Naturally, Inc. (n.d.).
https://www.readnaturally.com/research/5-components-of-
reading/comprehension
EVIDENCES: Until November 14, 2023, the colleagues never responded, and they had
not posted anything on the forum.