I have to do an assignment that involves taking notes on the chapters of The Yearling.
One of them is to take notes on the main events in the chapters.
How would you identify the main events in the chapters?
I don’t know what it would be for chapter one, but for Chapter 2 I said that it was about Youth, kinda.
Please help, I don’t really get this assignement at all, and I have no clue how to identify the main events in each chapter.
I agree with Diane M…What I do when I need to do something like that is I read the chapter. I wait like two minutes. Then I write down a few words about what I remember. I don’t mean like everything I remember. Just what I feel is important. If you have trouble with that (like my friend) then I suggest you write everything down that you feel matters–even if you end up with a long list. Then ask yourself if I had to cut down five things from here what would I cut? And keep asking yourself that (or a similar question) until you end up with only a few of them. A good amount (if I remember the yearling correctly) for each chapter would be around 2-5 events per chapter. Five is pushing it a bit in my opinion but I cant remember too many specifics on that.
What you’ll notice is that if you’ve done your job right the events will seem to go together, they won’t be totally unrelated.
good luck..hope this helps!
I’m tempted to say "read the novel", but I doubt that would help.
Look: "main events" are to a certain extent a matter of opinion. Read the novel and record the things that YOU think are important. The main character goes to breakfast: probably not important. The main character eats the yearling’s mother for breakfast: probably important.
Use your own judgment. It’ll turn out ok.
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I agree with Diane M…What I do when I need to do something like that is I read the chapter. I wait like two minutes. Then I write down a few words about what I remember. I don’t mean like everything I remember. Just what I feel is important. If you have trouble with that (like my friend) then I suggest you write everything down that you feel matters–even if you end up with a long list. Then ask yourself if I had to cut down five things from here what would I cut? And keep asking yourself that (or a similar question) until you end up with only a few of them. A good amount (if I remember the yearling correctly) for each chapter would be around 2-5 events per chapter. Five is pushing it a bit in my opinion but I cant remember too many specifics on that.
What you’ll notice is that if you’ve done your job right the events will seem to go together, they won’t be totally unrelated.
good luck..hope this helps!
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