Understanding characters in literary ficton
7 Outubro 2021, 09:30 • Cecília Maria Beecher Martins
Students had to read 2 extracts from Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr. Ripley and build character profiles for the 2 main protagonists: Tom Ripley and Dickie Greenleaf. Their findings were discussed in class and a resume was built so that students can compare these characters to the characters that will appear in Anthony Mingella's film adaptation of this book.
The opening segment and the long paragraph on p 87-88 were analysed using close reading techniques so that students could understand the literary devices at place in the creation of the moods in each of these passages.