Foreshadowing: “The Landlady”

1. Foreshadowing:“The Landlady” Lit Text pages 71-80

2. Journal Complete the Quickwrite on the introduction page to the short story. For instance, for “The Landlady” the Quickwrite is on page 71. “The Landlady” Pages 71-80 Student Notes Answer the four “Predict” questions scattered in the text. Class Notes In a different color ink, take notes in class. Correct or add any notes in class which do not appear in your own notes on the left.

3. Journal Complete the Quickwrite on the introduction page to the short story. For instance, for “The Landlady” the Quickwrite is on page 71. “The Landlady” Pages 71-80 Class Notes Billy Weaver is trying to find a place to stay in a new town on a cold night. FORESHADOWING: “…the air…deathly cold” “…wind…flat blade of ice on his cheeks.” p. 72 Exposition: Protagonist: Billy Weaver, 17 years old, new job, new city. Student Notes Answer the four “Predict” questions scattered in the text.

4. “The Landlady” Pages 71-80 “The Landlady” Pages 71-80 Class Notes FORESHADOWING: paint /peeling , facades/ cracked , blotchy from neglect. p. 73 EXTERNAL CONFLICT: Why does Billy go to that boarding house? Yellow flower in window, “Bed and Breakfast” means food and maybe he’s hungry, scene inside was cozy – dog, fire, curtains, parrot. P. 73 WAS he being lured? Venus flytrap? Class Notes Antagonist: Landlady, owns boarding house, extremely perky and nice but she doesn’t seem right RISING ACTION: Why does he stay? He starts to leave and “a queer thing happened to him…” What is that? FORESHADOWING: Flashing sign “BED AND BREAKFAST…each word/large black eye/ staring/holding/com-pelling /forcing p. 74 Student Notes Answer the four “Predict” questions scattered in the text. Student Notes Answer the four “Predict” questions scattered in the text.

5. “The Landlady” Pages 71-80 “The Landlady” Pages 71-80 Class Notes RISING ACTION Billy discovers the names in the guest book. all boys who disappeared, but he doesn’t realize it yet. RISING ACTION: Landlady calls him “acceptable” and tries to distract him from the names in the guest book with TEA. The TEA smells like almonds…that means poison. Class Notes RISING ACTION: Landlady says the people in the guest book are still there (never left). Billy realizes the animals are stuffed. Billy drinks the tea. CLIMAX: Billy is very woozy, and the Landlady says, “No, my dear. Only you.” Student Notes Answer the four “Predict” questions scattered in the text. Student Notes Answer the four “Predict” questions scattered in the text.

6. Foreshadowing Examples “…the air was deathly cold and the wind was like a flat blade of ice on his cheeks.” p. 72 Flashing sign: “BED AND BREAKFAST…each word was like a large black eye staring at him through the glass, holding him, compelling him, forcing him to stay where he was and not walk away from the house…” p. 73 “……he could see that the paint was peeling from the woodwork on their doors and windows and that the handsome white facades were cracked and blotchy from neglect...” p. 74 “’Everything is always ready day and night in this house just on the off chance that an acceptable young gentleman will come along…now and again I open the door and I see someone standing there who is just I exactly right.” p. 75, column 2

7. Foreshadowing Examples: YOUR TURN! HINT: Guest Book p. 76 HINT: Handsome p. 77 HINT: Hands p. 78 HINT: Smell p. 79

8. What is Billy Weaver’s Ultimate Fate?? EVIDENCE: EVIDENCE: EVIDENCE:

9. Venus Fly Traps….do you think it could be…?