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Learning Objective: To explore the relationships between characters in the text
Floodland Character Analysis
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What is the difference between sympathy and empathy?
Think, pair, then share your ideas.
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Sympathy: feeling sorry for someone who is experiencing a bad
situation.
Empathy: understanding another person's feelings and emotions as if they
were your own.
Which character do you empathise with the most? Which character do
you empathise with the least?
Which character do you sympathise with the most? Which character do you sympathise with the least?
Think, pair, then share your opinions.
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Today we are going to explore how the six main characters feel
towards each other, and what kind of relationships, if any, they have
with each other.
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With a partner, choose two of the characters from the diagram and discuss their relationship
with each other - are they friends? How do they behave towards each other? How do
you think they feel about each other?
Use evidence from the text to support your reasoning.
Share your thoughts as a class.
Spat
Munchkin William
Sarah
Dooby
Characters on Eels Island before Zoe's arrival:
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Zoe
Spat
Munchkin William
SarahDooby
Discuss how Zoe feels towards each of the others. Does this opinion stay the same throughout the story? Use evidence from the text to support your reasoning.
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Zoe is very unsure of William at first, but she soon grows to trust and like him,
despite not always understanding what he says, and being frustrated by his
ramblings. She wants to take him with her when she leaves,
and is horrified by what happens to him.
Zoe does not like Sarah, as she is
mocked and insulted by her.
Zoe is afraid of Dooby. She knows he can be violent and manipulative, and that he is using her to help him get off Eels Island. Towards the end of the book, she begins to empathise with him, as like her, he too has lost his parents.
Zoe thinks that Spat is cruel and vicious. She does not like or
trust him at all. At first, Zoe only sees
Munchkin as Dooby's 'left-hand man'. She tries not to laugh when she sees him
because he is so mouse-like. As the story progresses,
Zoe's opinion of Munchkin changes - she begins to like
and trust him, and they become friends.
How does your reasoning compare to these ideas?
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Now it is your turn to further explore the relationships between
the inhabitants of Eels Island!
As you can see, there are lots of different layers and levels of relationships between the characters, and some of their opinions of each other may
change and develop throughout the story, due to different events.
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Plenary Character Conversations!
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Listen to the two characters discussing a third character - can you deduce who is talking, and who they are
talking about?!