Victory Lap

Escola Secundária da Ramada 20/21

Victory Lap

Work made by:Márcia Pires N15 Rodrigo David N23 11G

by George Saunders

Teacher Lúcia MassanoMarch, 2021

Index

01. Introduction

07. Characters

13. Figurative Language

14. Personal Meaning

08. Point of View

02. Author

15. Conclusion

03. Synopsis

09. Imagery

16. SWOT Analysis

10. Symbolism

04. Text Structure

11. Irony

05. Plot

17. Credits and Resources

18. The end

12. Theme

06. Settings

.01

Introduction

Victory Lap

• October 5, 2009;
• The New Yorker Magazine.

.02

Author

December 2, 1958, Amarillo, Texas, USA;

Writer and college teacher

Married to Paula Redick and 2 daughters

Formation at Colorado Mine School, Oak Forest High School, Syracuse University

George Saunders, 62 years

.02

Author

Arts and Letters Award (2009); PEN/Malamud Award (2013); Man Booker Prize (2017).

.02

Author

1996

2006

2013

2000

2017

"Tenth of December"

“Pastoralia”

"In Persuasion Nation"

“Lincoln in the Bardo”

“CivilWarLand in Bad Decline”

.03

Synopsis

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.04

Text Structure

Falling Action

Rising Action

Alison calls 911 and Kyle threatens the kidnapper

Alison is threatened and Kyle realizes it

Climax

Exposition

Resolution

Alison's kidnapping and Kyle's intervention

Alison has nightmares

Settings and characters

.05

Plot

Main events

Is the ending happy, sad or indeterminate?

Alison's kidnap

Kyle's decision

Final scene

Settings

.06

Place

Time

Settings

.06

Characters

.07

Dreamer

Traumatized

Happy

Shaken

In love with the world

Frequent Nightmares

Naive

Alison

.07

Characters

Confidente

Insecure

Faces his own problems

Commanded by his parents

Brave

Can't make his decisions

Secure

Kyle

.07

Characters

Planned to kidnap Alison for a long time

Violent

Self-critical

Malicious

Kidnapper

.08

Point of View

• 3rd person;
• Doesn't participate in the action;
• Helps to hunderstand.

Imagery

.09

Imagery

.09

Symbolism

.10

Alison

Kyle

Geode

Kidnapper

.11

Irony

Ironic thoughts

Unexpected

Kyle holds the rock over the kidnapper's head.

The man who rings the bell is a meter reader.

Kyle is a "poor goof".

Kyle becomes the hero.

.12

Theme

Theme

.12

.13

Figurative Language

• “Kissing him last night at the pep rally had been like kissing an underpass.” – simile.

• “I don’t know, the deer said in the voice of Heather’s little sister Becca.” – personification.

• “Alison’s eyes were scared-horse eyes.” – metaphor.

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Figurative Language

• “Eyes on the geode, he heard the little oof.” – Onomatopoeia.

• “He sat thinking about his fists. They were huge granite boulders. They were a pit bull each.” – metaphor and hyperbole.

.14

Personal Meaning

Addictive plot

Confusing at the beginning

.15

Conclusion

• We must not judge by appearances;
• We must have control of our lives;
• We must not let power go to our heads.

.16

SWOT Analysis

Opportunities

Weaknesses

Strengths

Threats

• Know how to analyze a story;
• Improves creativity;
• Improves critical thinking.

• Make the creative video took a lot of time.

• Creative Video;
• Organized work.

• Simple decoration.

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Credits and Resources

Special thanks to all the platforms that made and released these awesome resources for free:

• Presentation template by Genial.ly;
• Video made on https://www.animaker.co/;
• Information about the author by https://en.wikipedia.org;
• Short story available in https://www.newyorker.com/magazine.

Thanks for your attention!

Any questions?

Rodrigo David 16688@esramada.pt

Márcia Pires 15540@esramada.pt