The Gathering by Isobelle Carmody

Suggest how the composer has used the theme to provide insight or help you to understand something that is new to you?Is the theme explicit or implicit (easy to identify or inferred for you to determine yourself)?What does your life, culture, understanding bring to or detract from your understanding of the theme of this story?Identify the theme and provide textual evidence to support your understanding of its purpose.How does the theme relate to the context in which the text was written?How has the composer highlighted this theme?

Identify the issues and provide textual evidence to support your understanding of its purpose.How has the composer highlighted this issue?What does the issue expose about your understanding of the context in which the text was produced?

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Locate and identify the language forms and strucutes in your text. Record the page number.State the composers purpose in using these language forms, features or structures to shape meaning for the responder.

Are the characters in the story believable or not? Why? How are the characters introduced?What descriptors does the composer provide to identify the character?How is the character describes? directly or indirectly? Physically, psychologically, spiritually, in terms of dress, manner, speech etc.Explain in detail characters thoughts, feelings, words, vocabulary, family background.

What techniques has the composer used to provide setting?Does the setting have an effect on the tone of the story

How has the composer used time specifically to create mood and suspense?

What are the steps in the development of the plot?What happens at the climax of the story?How effectively has the composer used flashbacks to provide insight into the characters to reveal the themes, issues or ideas in the text?Suggest the effectiveness of the resolution of the story?

What is the composer's purpose in creating this text?To identify...To challenge...To highlight...to entertain...To espose...To expose...To determine...To illuminate...To create...To convey...To inform...To provoke...To educate...

What symbols are used in the text?What do you think they represent?How and why does the composer use symbols throughout the novel?

What values are related to the text?Use the values checklist in your The Gathering Booklet.