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A Plot Summary DiagramFlashbacks Vs Foreshadowing
Mr. Zindman’s Class
by Joan AikenJoan Aiken’s Web Page
I can describe how an author uses flashbacks and foreshadowing in a story to develop a character.
What is a flashback?A flashback is a scene that interrupts a story to describe an earlier event. We learn about a character from a
flashback.“I remember when
Shaggy and I searched the haunted house. A
ghost popped out from the door and
scared me !”
“When I learned that the ghost was a
*sham, I was never scared of them
again!”!
I can describe how an author uses flashbacks and foreshadowing in a story to develop a character.*sham-a fake or counterfeit
What is foreshadowing?Foreshadowing is the authors' use of clues to
hint what might happen later in a story.We learn about future of a story from
foreshadowing.“At the start of the Wizard of Oz, Mrs. Gultch morphs into the wicked witch. We are shown a
foreshadow or hint of Dorothy’s future!”
I can describe how an author uses flashbacks and foreshadowing in a story to develop a character.
Mrs. Gultch The Witch
Toto and Dorothy
Cornwall, England
Exposition
Lob longs to be with the
Pengelly familyRising Action
Foreshadowing is the authors’ use of clues to hint what might happen later in a story.
Who was the German
Shepherd?Falling Action and
Resolution
▪Where? A small fishing village in Cornwall,
England. The story also takes place in the
Pengelly home.
▪When? Summertime
▪The Pengelly family was at the
beach when a dog came up to Sandy
and began licking her face.
▪Who? Sandy, Lob, Jean (mother), Bert
(father), Aunt Becky Sandy's aunt, Granny
Pearce, Don her older brother, and
the twins, Tess and Tim
▪What happens? Sandy plays with Lob on
the beach.
▪Foreshadowing- (Page 75, Lines 23-26) Little
did they guess how soon the state of things
would be changed by a large new member
that was going to erupt in their midst.
▪Internal Conflict:
Sandy and Lob want to be together forever.
▪Lob breaks through the kitchen
window to be with Sandy, but he
is returned home.
▪Lob sees Sandy on the beach the
next day. Sandy hears Lob is
leaving on the train. Lob wails
when he sees Sandy at the station.
▪Lob breaks through the Pengelly’s
window at home. Lob is returned
home.
▪Lob travels a 400 mile journey to
be with the Pengelly family.
▪Lob is given to the Pengelly
family lives with them for 9
years!
Sandy is hit by a truckClimax
• Foreshadowing- (Page 81,Lines 29-31) “LOW
GEAR FOR 1 ½ MILES. DANGEOUS
TO CYLISTS.” As a result, the reader can
infer that someone may get hurt or an
accident may occur on that road.
• Sandy is hit by a truck and falls into a
serious coma.
• External Conflict-Will Sandy survive after
the coma?
• Flashback-(Page 84 Lines 1-4)“They forgot how
they called their older sister bossy and
remembered how - she shared her pocket
money with them.” This reveals that the
twins miss their sister and they took her for
granted.
• Lob waits outside. He is forlorn and
sobbing. Lob is permitted to visit Sandy in
the hospital.
• Sandy awakens from the coma when she
senses Lob. The doctors are amazed!
• Mr. Pengelly tells
everyone that the visitor
could not have been Lob.
Lob was killed in the
truck accident. Sandy’s
brother buried Lob at sea.
• Who could the shepherd
be? No one could explain
the German Shepherd’s
presence at the hospital
and the wet footprints left
by the dog on the stairs.
What do you think? Did
Lob save Sandy’s life?
What can you infer from
the story ending?
▪ Theme Dogs a devoted,
loving, and loyal pets.
Story Plot Diagram Lob’s Girl
Flashback is a scene that interrupts a story to describe an earlier event
Learning Objective
Describe the plot techniques of flashback and foreshadowing in a fictional story or drama determine how the character develops or changes in response to that conflict.I Can Statement
I can describe how an author uses flashbacks and foreshadowing in a story to develop a character.
Pearson, Common Core Literature Textbook, Page 74
I can describe how an author uses flashbacksand foreshadowing in a story to develop a character.
Theme is the lesson you “take away” or learn from a story.”
1. What is the exposition in the story? Hint: who,
where ,when, and conflict?
2. How did the dynamic character solve the conflict?
3. What is the central idea of the story, Lob’s Girl?
4. What is the conflict in the story.
5. Explain the resolution in the story.
6. Explain the theme in the story?
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