Alfieri’s Interludes
1. Look at these extracts taken from Alfieri’s interludes and put them into the correct order?
2. Identify the most significant purpose of each:
a)
b)
c)
d)
To direct our response towards Eddie
To comment on the nature of human life
To present a moral comment or warning
To foreshadow Eddie’s downfall
Chronological
order
Quotation
Significant purpose(s)
A man works, raises his family, goes bowling, eats, gets old, and
then he dies.
"I'm not only telling you now, I'm warning you – the law is nature.
The law is only a word for what has a right to happen.”
“He was as good a man as he had to be in a life that was hard and
even”
“I knew where he was heading for, I knew where he was going to
end.
“His eyes were like tunnels; my first thought was that he had
committed a crime… but soon I saw it was only a passion that had
moved into his body, like a stranger”
Alfieri’s Interludes
3. Look at these extracts taken from Alfieri’s interludes and put them into the correct order?
4. Identify the most significant purpose of each:
e)
f)
g)
h)
To direct our response towards Eddie
To comment on the nature of human life
To present a moral comment or warning
To foreshadow Eddie’s downfall
Chronological
order
Quotation
A man works, raises his family, goes bowling, eats, gets old, and
then he dies.
"I'm not only telling you now, I'm warning you – the law is nature.
The law is only a word for what has a right to happen.”
“He was as good a man as he had to be in a life that was hard and
even”
“I knew where he was heading for, I knew where he was going to
end.
“His eyes were like tunnels; my first thought was that he had
committed a crime… but soon I saw it was only a passion that had
moved into his body, like a stranger”
Significant purpose(s)