Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Inheritor
- Conflict
- Physical Conflict
- man vs. man - Man vs.
Dingo
- man vs. man - Ewe vs. Dingo
- Mental Conflict
- Man vs. Himself
- Man contemplates whether or not
to save the sheep
- Man vs. Nature
- Man vs. Flood
- Dilemna
- The inner problem is a choice
between saving the Ewe or
letting it die
- Symbol
- allegory
- man could equal
government, Dingo could
equal a Dictator and the
Ewe would equal innocent
people
- allusion
- "and hanging on to that
trussed sheep with both
hands as though it had a
golden fleece"
- literature story 'Jason
and His Band of
Argonauts'
- symbolic characters
- man = government, Dingo =
Dictator, Ewe = innocent people
- universality
- representing a bigger
picture about the fight
between the
government, dictators
and the innocent
- Theme
- what it takes to be a hero
- protect the weak from the cruel
and vicious
- a hero is created only if
they protect the innocent
- Plot
- complicating incident
- conflict introduced
when the man spots
the ewe in a crisis
and the Dingo turns
and snarls at the man
- rising action
- the think processes in
which the man debates
whether to save the ewe
or not
- crisis
- the decision whether to save the
ewe or not
- foreshadowing
- "the tree had made a monument for war"
- could explain the war that
was about to occur
- climax
- when the man jumps on
the Dingo, strangling it to
death
- denouement
- matters
resolved
when Dingo
is killed
- impact
of
setting
on plot
- the flood
forces the
survivors into
panic
- causes drastic measures,
such as killing the dog for
safety
- point of view
- the view shift
occurs when the
helicopter crew
shows up for the
rescue
- Character
- hero
- the man is the hero of the
story because he rids of the
dangerous Dingo to save the innocent Ewe
- motivation
- the motivation was the flood
forcing them to make a quick
choice
- dynamic character
- the man changes from ignoring
the helpless Ewe to being
compassionate and saving it
- situational irony
- suspected outcome- man fleds to tree for safety
- what occurs- saves life of Ewe
- dramatic irony
- audience knows
the sheep is just
a sheep
- man believes the sheep is really more
- Form
- action-adventure tale
- story is well described but also moves
fairly quickly
- Vocabulary
- lacerated
- to tear or
make deep
cuts (in
flesh/skin)
- propinquity
- the state of being close to someone or
something: proximity