Author’s purpose

1. Author’s purpose Identifying and practicing with finding author’s purpose

2. Review: What is author’s purpose? • Write this on your “white board”; write it on the yellow side if you are unsure and one the green side if you are sure. • Author’s purpose: why the author writes the piece.

3. Different purposes • Authors write to… • Inform • Teach • Entertain • Persuade

4. Identify purpose • It was a glorious morning in Alabama. The sun was shining through the trees. Alan couldn't wait to find his fishing pole and call his friend Sam to go fishing. They had a great time on these early morning fishing trips. They took their dogs with them and the dogs would swim in the lake while they fished. It was so funny to watch those dogs paddle around the lake. ENTERTAIN

5. Identify Purpose • The Slim-O-Matic will cause you to loose pounds and inches from your body in one month. This amazing machine helps you to exercise correctly and provides an easy video to show you the proper way to exercise. Send $75.99 and begin exercising today. PERSUADE

6. Identify Purpose • The Underground Railroad was a secret organization which helped slaves escape to freedom. Many slaves were able to escape because of the conductors and station masters. The northern states were free states and slaves were free once they arrived in the north. Secret codes and signals were used to identify the conductors and station masters. INFORM

7. Coleridge’s Purpose? • To teach a lesson and maybe persuade the audience to change their ways

8. Gideon Defoe • Author of Pirates! In an Adventure with… • Scientists • Ahab • Communists • According to the article—what was his purpose? • To impress a girl • Is this noble? Is it human? • Nobel…eh…probably not • Human…for sure…basic need…like brightly feathered birds • Which literary purpose would you place it under? • To entertain with a splash of persuasion in the parody

9. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

10. What’s the purpose of a good cover? • To persuade… • Marketing—all about selling your ideas • Who has control? • Pretty much everyone but the author—why is this significant

11. Review: What is Parody? • A type of satire that imitates or mocks an original work, its genre, its author, or its subject.

12. Yo Ho A Pirate’s Life for Me • Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's life for me. We pillage plunder, we rifle and loot. Drink up me 'earties, yo ho. We kidnap and ravage and don't give a hoot. Drink up me 'earties, yo ho. Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's life for me. We extort and pilfer, we filch and sack. Drink up me 'earties, yo ho. Maraud and embezzle and even highjack. Drink up me 'earties, yo ho. • Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's life for me. We kindle and char and in flame and ignite. Drink up me 'earties, yo ho. We burn up the city, we're really a fright. Drink up me 'earties, yo ho. We're rascals and scoundrels, we're villians and knaves. Drink up me 'earties, yo ho. We're devils and black sheep, we're really bad eggs. Drink up me 'earties, yo ho. We're beggars and blighters and ne'er do-well cads, Drink up me 'earties, yo ho. Aye, but we're loved by our mommies and dads, Drink up me 'earties, yo ho. Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's life for me.

13. To PARODY this one must… • Make fun of “pirates” • Hero-ize pirates • Make the pirate life ridiculous

14. To make it SATIRE one must… • Have a point • Want to inspire change

15. THUS! The author’s purpose in a parody/satire is… • To ENTERTAIN • To PERSUADE

16. To Entertain: Pirates! • It is a fair bet that if you are amused by the exclamation mark in the middle of the book's title, you will appreciate its brand of humour, and that if you're not, you won't. Kirkus Reviews, the American journal that reviews 5,000 books each year, called it a "silly and very droll debut by a London paleontologist who likes pirates and has obviously grown up on old Monty Python reruns" - all of which was true, except for the paleontologist part - and summarised the plot as a "story of the high seas, daring, romance [and] ham". The former Python Eric Idle repaid Defoe's obvious homage with a quote for the back cover: "Destined to become a classic of pirate comic fiction."

17. To Persuade • Ridicules the hero worship of negative role models • Ridicules nautical superstions • Comments on the officious and dangerous use of credit as a means of financing— • The pirates in our own economy?

18. How do you know the MAIN purpose?

19. How do you identify a secondary purpose? • Dangers of buying on credit— • Do people in our society buy on credit? • Why is credit so appealing? • How is this a warning/message to people?

20. The dangers of buying on credit IS a lesson BUT… • Satire is a persuasive technique to show/convince society that their practices are ridiculous and thus needing change… • Does Pirates! Do this? Explain w/examples

21. American stats • Average credit card debt per household with credit card debt: $16,007*  • Total credit cards in circulation in U.S: 576.4 million, as of yearend 2009 (Source: Nilson Report, February 2010) • Average number of credit cards held by cardholders: 3.5, as of yearend 2008 (Source: "The Survey of Consumer Payment Choice," Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, January 2010) • Total U.S. revolving debt (98 percent of which is made up of credit card debt): $864.4 billion, as of January 2010 (Source: Federal Reserve's G.19 report on consumer credit, March 2010) • Total U.S. consumer debt: $2.46 trillion, as of January 2010 (Source: Federal Reserve's G.19 report on consumer credit, March 2010) • The average age at which a U.S. consumer under the age of 35 first adopted a credit card is 20.8 years. The average age of credit card adoption for a consumer over the age of 65 is 40.6 years. (Source: "The 2008 Survey of Consumer Payment Choice," Federal Reserve Bank of Boston)

22. Social Commentary • Expressing one’s thoughts and views for the betterment of society… • Purpose? PERSUADE