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Skeleton Key's Suspenseful Nightmare: A Tale of Madness and Survival

Enter the gripping world of George Toudouze's "Three Skeleton Key" where a young lighthouse keeper faces a harrowing battle against rats and his own sanity. With intense foreshadowing and suspenseful storytelling, this classic tale will keep you on the edge of your seat as you navigate through the eerie happenings on a desolate key off French Guiana in the late 1800s. Join the narrator, Le Gleo, and Itchoua in a relentless fight for survival against the relentless invasion of rats and the looming threat of madness. Discover the power of sheer will and courage in the face of unimaginable horrors in this riveting literary masterpiece full of twists and turns.

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Skeleton Key's Suspenseful Nightmare: A Tale of Madness and Survival

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  1. Three Skeleton Key by George Toudouze

  2. Literary Focus: • Suspense: anxious curiosity that hooks the readers’ interest • Foreshadowing: writers drop clues that hint at what may happen later; this intensifies suspense

  3. George Toudouze • 1847- 1904 • Born in France • Playwright, essayist, and illustrator • Interest in the sea and worked in the French navy

  4. Basic Situation: • Characters: • 1) Narrator: young man who took a job at a lighthouse to earn money for upcoming marriage 2) Le Gleo: a Breton (France) 3) Ichty: a Basque, head keeper, oldest

  5. Basic Situation: • Setting: 1. Time: late 1800s 2. Place: key off of French Guiana (South America); lighthouse

  6. Basic Situation: • Conflict: external? internal?

  7. Complications: 1. 2. 3. 4.

  8. Complications: • The smell of the rats is horrible, and the men are sealed in the lighthouse. 2. The men begin to tease the rats. 3. The rats begin to eat away at the window frames. 4. Nightmares, madness, and no supply boat for 29 days!

  9. Climax: • Starts when… • Ends when…

  10. Climax: • Starts when… they decide not to light the light. The rats get in. They fight man to rat! Patrol boat soaks the rats. Fever and infection set in! And, a fireboat filled with meat! • Ends when…

  11. Resolution: • After the problem is resolved, what happens to… Itchoua: Le Gleo: Narrator:

  12. Summarization: • Somebody…wanted…but…so

  13. Themes: • Most Important Word Strategy

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