Why be happy when you could be normal

Structure Analysis

Luca SoardoCL. 5B

INTRODUCTIONInformation

• Janette Winterson writes a memoire where she has a positive judjment about Manchester, the city where she was born.

It is dedicated to three important people for her; each one contributed to create the nowadays Janette Winterson: ▫ Constance Winterson -

adoptive mother;▫ Ruth Randell – literary

mother; ▫ Ann S. – biological mother.

Frame of the plot:

• Events not told in chronological order;

• Story based on emotional facts;• True nature of the facts;• Development of a personality;

Order of the facts:• Follow emotional impact

Syntax & Morphology:• Quotations;• Flashbacks;• Flashforwards.

5-W – Question

•Who? Janette Winterson

•Where? - settingManchester Accrington

•What?Development of the writer’s personality

•When? Childhood – Adulthood –Nowadays

•Why?Find the “boat”

The novel is made up by:

• 15 chapters

• An intermission

• A coda

1st Chapter: It introduces the story to the readers.THEMES

•During her childhood she felt as the girl of “The wrong crib”.

•Difficulties of adopted children.

•Relationship with her parents.

2 nd Chapter: It deals with the description of the writer’s birth city: Manchester: Everybody’s place of birth is fundamental for our future life. THEMES:

• Manchester in the 60s and the developed along the years.

•Reflections about life.

STRUCTURE

3rd Chapter: She wites how her mother usually reads the Bible and criticizes her vision of life

Themes:

•Importance of religion

4th Chapter: The reader in this chapter understands how much books are important for Jeanette.THEMES:

• Effect of the books on people

STRUCTURE

5th Chapter: The narrator starts talking about her name and remembers moments spent there.

THEMES

•Janette memories of her house-life

6 th Chapter: Janette reflects on love and her report with the churchTHEMES:

• First painfull love

•Church and society

STRUCTURE

7th Chapter: Informs the reader about AccringtonTHEMES

•Hope of escape

8th Chapter: She compares the contrast beetween mother’s opinion and Janette’s omosexualityTHEMES:

• Omosexsuality

• Forbidden love

STRUCTURE

9th Chapter: It introduces the story to the readers.

THEMES

•During her childhood she felt as the girl of “The wrong crib”.

•Difficulties of adopted children.

•Relationship with her parents.

•10° Chapter:She speaks about university.•After she suffered a lot during her life Janette can frequent university

STRUCTURE

1st Chapter: It introduces the story to the readers.THEMES

•During her childhood she felt as the girl of “The wrong crib”.

•Difficulties of adopted children.

•Relationship with her parents.

2 nd Chapter: It deals with the description of the writer’s birth city: Manchester: Everybody’s place of birth is fundamental for our future life. THEMES:

• Manchester in the 60s and the developed along the years.

•Reflections about life.

STRUCTURE

1st Chapter: It introduces the story to the readers.THEMES

•During her childhood she felt as the girl of “The wrong crib”.

•Difficulties of adopted children.

•Relationship with her parents.

2 nd Chapter: It deals with the description of the writer’s birth city: Manchester: Everybody’s place of birth is fundamental for our future life. THEMES:

• Manchester in the 60s and the developed along the years.

•Reflections about life.

STRUCTURE