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Ysabel : Prologue - Ch. 2

Ysabel : Prologue - Ch. 2. ENG4U Wednesday, February 27, 2013. Prologue. Point of view (POV)? Third-person omniscient Tense? Present Author's reasons for changing tense throughout novel? Indicate a shift to certain characters' POV. Characters.

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Ysabel : Prologue - Ch. 2

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  1. Ysabel: Prologue - Ch. 2 • ENG4U Wednesday, February 27, 2013

  2. Prologue • Point of view (POV)? • Third-person omniscient • Tense? • Present • Author's reasons for changing tense throughout novel? • Indicate a shift to certain characters' POV

  3. Characters • Ned Marriner: protagonist, 15 years old, traveling with his father • Kate Wenger: girl Ned meets, studying abroad, lives with a roommate named Marie-Chantal • Edward Marriner: Ned's father, a famous photographer, taking pictures for a coffee table book • Melanie: Edward's assistant, 25 years old, friends with Ned • Greg and Steve: Edwards's crew • Oliver Lee: the author of Edward's book • The stranger with a knife: man Ned and Kate meet in the baptistry, seems to be looking for someone

  4. Setting: Aix-en-Provence, France

  5. Setting: Aix-en-Provence

  6. Setting: Aix-en-Provence

  7. Setting: Aix-en-Provence, France

  8. Saint-Sauveur Cathedral • "shadowy and vast" (9) • "this place had been built in a dozen stages over too many centuries by too many people" (10) • "This place drips with history" (14).

  9. The Baptistry • "It's the oldest thing here... By a lot, like 500 A.D." (16) • What happened there? (17-19)

  10. Genre • Historical Fiction • Ned: "What was this place, before?" • Kate: "The forum was here. Centre of town. The Roman city was founded about a hundred and something years B.C... when the Romans first started to take over Provence from the Celts." (23) • Mystery • "Boy detective?" (24) • "He shone the beam along the dark grey stones beside and below him." (25)

  11. The Stranger With a Knife • "He was clean-shaven, lean-faced. Dark, strong eyebrows, a long, straight nose, a thin mouth. The bald head made his cheekbones show prominently. Ned saw a scar on one cheek, curving behind his ear." (19)

  12. "I found something." (27) • "This skull had been placed to be found, not laid to some dark eternal rest." (29) • "The second object made that even clearer... a sculpture of a human head." (28) • "Ned saw that the sculpted head was completely smooth on the top, as if bald. And there was a gash in the stone -- a scarring of it -- along one cheek, and up behind the ear." (29)

  13. "And it was then... that he began to feel really odd." (32) • "This was like something unblocking or unlocking, changing... just about everything really." (32) • "... there was something he could see in his mind -- a presence of light..." (35)

  14. The "Queen of Sheba" Pillar • "... the single rose leaning between the two columns. He looked at the carving. It wasn't the Queen of Sheba." (33) • Description of the pillar (33) • The stranger carved her (36-38)

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