Narrative structure
This book is a story about a family going on a bear hunt. Gamble and Yates (2013, p. 69) explain that narrative structure of a story contains two elements such as the story plot and how the story has been conveyed. The book started with a fiction theme of going on a journey of hunting a bear (where the events are plausible), as soon as they venture the bear, the story turns in to fantasy (Gamble & Yates, 2013, p. 80). By switching between the two genres, the author has allowed the readers to look the story in real life context and also enable the audiences to use their imagination (Emmitt et al., 2010, p. 77). Moreover, the author has used the first person, and it helps the reader to connect themselves with the character …show more content…
For instance, the illustration has blended nicely with written text and visually appealing painted colourful and black/white pictures. Additionally, black/white images contain the repetitive lines, and the coloured illustrations include the sensory description. The use of multimodality will help the readers with clues to visualise the story (Gamble & Yates, 2013, p. 80). Moreover, the colour choice, facial expression and gestures used in the visual illustration has added more impression in the story and led the readers to imagine the journey (Tunnell, 2008, pp. 19-20). Hence, the artistic elements and the use of multimodality have made the book exciting and …show more content…
Tunnell (2008, p. 26) explains that character live the story and well-defined involved characters allow audiences relate to the characters. The author has used indirect characterisation to demonstrate the characters’ action and expressions as per Author’s craft (http://udleditions.cast.org/craft_elm_characterization.html). The visual illustration of the book portrayed the characters’ gestures, expression and emotions. For instance, when the family travel through the big dark forest the illustration portrayed the brave and carefree image of the children, whereas, when they enter the cave to see the bear the illustration described their petrified
This book is a story about a family going on a bear hunt. Gamble and Yates (2013, p. 69) explain that narrative structure of a story contains two elements such as the story plot and how the story has been conveyed. The book started with a fiction theme of going on a journey of hunting a bear (where the events are plausible), as soon as they venture the bear, the story turns in to fantasy (Gamble & Yates, 2013, p. 80). By switching between the two genres, the author has allowed the readers to look the story in real life context and also enable the audiences to use their imagination (Emmitt et al., 2010, p. 77). Moreover, the author has used the first person, and it helps the reader to connect themselves with the character …show more content…
For instance, the illustration has blended nicely with written text and visually appealing painted colourful and black/white pictures. Additionally, black/white images contain the repetitive lines, and the coloured illustrations include the sensory description. The use of multimodality will help the readers with clues to visualise the story (Gamble & Yates, 2013, p. 80). Moreover, the colour choice, facial expression and gestures used in the visual illustration has added more impression in the story and led the readers to imagine the journey (Tunnell, 2008, pp. 19-20). Hence, the artistic elements and the use of multimodality have made the book exciting and …show more content…
Tunnell (2008, p. 26) explains that character live the story and well-defined involved characters allow audiences relate to the characters. The author has used indirect characterisation to demonstrate the characters’ action and expressions as per Author’s craft (http://udleditions.cast.org/craft_elm_characterization.html). The visual illustration of the book portrayed the characters’ gestures, expression and emotions. For instance, when the family travel through the big dark forest the illustration portrayed the brave and carefree image of the children, whereas, when they enter the cave to see the bear the illustration described their petrified