Fantasy

Brainstorm

• Unrealistic
• Not real
• Harry Potter
  • Witches
  • Wizards
• Magic
• Wand
• Spells
• Magical creatures
• Werewolves
• Giant spiders
• Dragons
• Vampires

• Twilight

• Narnia

• Hunger Games
• Lord of the Rings
• The Hobbit

 

Worlds of fantasy p. 8-12

 

What is fantasy?

• About what is impossible

• People believed in witches, witchcraft in the middle age

• Used it as a thing to explain things they did not understand

• Call it superstition today

•  Fantasy often seen as children’s literature, but it’s not only for children, because fantasy gives the same kind of feelings, ass adults have got, feelings of hopelessness and helplessness are not restricted to children

 

The elements of fantasy

Magical inventory:

• Flying broomsticks
• Spells
• Curses

• Wand

• Potions

 

Setting

1. Place:

• Secondary place

• A parallel world(goes through a portal, fx the wall in Harry Potter and the closet in Narnia)

1. Time:

• Often inspired by the middle age
• It has its own fictional time

 

Structure and plot

1. Conflict

1. Point of no return, something must be done, they have to solve the problem
2. Quest, the hero/heroine sets out on a mission to solve the problem

1. Happy ending

 

Characters

• The hero/heroine
  • Brave
• Innocent
• A fool
• Naive
• Often a child or child-like
• The chosen one

• Often a wise man, a wizard

• A wizard

• Friends
• An enemy
  • Does not want a solution to the problem
• Evil

 

 

Narnia

• 4 siblings

• Lucy, main charachter

• A big lion(Aslan), good
• Jadis(witch, the ice queen), evil

• A wardrobe

• Animals who can speak + magical creatures

• Mr. Tumnus, a Faun

 

 

The Hobbit

• A village of hobbits

• Main character(Bilbo) – hobbit

• Gandalf – wizard

• Good
  • Bilbo
• Gandalf
• Dwarves

• Evil
  • Orcs
  • Dragon(Smaug)

• They are going on a quest

 

 

Harry Potter

• A boy, a wizard, an orphan, parents have died, killed by Voldemort(the enemy)
• Lives in his uncle and aunt’s house
• Auntie Petunia
• He lives under the stairway
• Cousin Dudley

• Hogwarts – the school for wizards
• Has a wand
• An owl – Hedwig
• Hermione Granger and Ron Wesley

• Dumbledore – the headmaster, Harrys mentor
• Draco Malfoy and his father Lucius Malfoy- also Harry’s enemies

 

 

Hunger Games

• Katniss – main charachter
  • Prim – younger sister
  • A mother – has been distant since the fathers dead
• Father – dead – died in a mine accident
• Takes care of her family
• Hunts to get food on the table
• Buttercup – the cat

• Gale, Katniss hunting partner

• Illegal to hunt

• A world with 12 districts

• Panem – the country where Katniss comes from

• The Seam, the district where Katniss live, one of the worst districts to live in

• Takes place in the future

• The Hunger Games
  • The reaping, where they choose people for the Hunger Games
• An anual game
• One winner, the one who survives
• Kill each other

 

1. 12-20

Katniss

Gale

The hob – the black market

The mayers daughter – Madge – Katniss Classmate

Town square

Haywitch(an old winner)

 

 

Fantasy

• The lion, the witch and the wardrobe
  • WW2
• The country Narnia(a parallel world)
• Aslan(mentor)
• Susan, Peter, Edward and Lucy
• The white witch(enemy)
• The wardrobe(a portal)

• The Hunger Games
  • Katniss
• Prim
• Gale
• The Seam – district 12
• Hunting
• Secondary world
• Effie and Haywitch(mentors)
• The capitol(enemy)
• Science fiction(in the future)

• Harry Potter and the order of the Phoenix
  • Harry
• Privet Drive
• Dudley
• Dementors(evil)
• Ron + Hermione
• Dumbledore
• Voldemort(enemy)

• The Hobbit
  • Secondary world
  • Bilbo Baggins(the hobbit)
  • Gandalf(mentor)
• Dwarves(good creatures, helps Gandalf and Bilbo)
• An adventure
• Evil orcs, trolls, dragons

 

Divergent

Themes

• Being different
• Fight for freedom
• Love
• Friendship
• Oppression

Main character

• Beatrix(tris)
  • Divergent(her secret)
• Were an abnegation
• Joined dauntless

Characters

• Four(Tobias Eaton)
  • A divergent
• Dauntless
• Tris friend/boyfriend

• Beatrix mother and father
  • The father is one of the leaders of abnegation
• Abnegation
• Her mother used to be dauntless
• Probably a divergent too

• Beatrix brother
  • Erudite

• Erik
  • One of the leaders of the dauntless
• Evil

• Jeanine
  • The leader of the society, evil

• Her friends from dauntless

Setting

• Erudite wants to kill all the members of abnegation, and take over the control of the factions
• Erudite also wants to kill all divergents

The system

• The city is divided into five different factions

• They have done this, to prevent war
• When you reach 16, you have to choose a faction

Dauntless

• Protect people
• Hard

• Difficult
• Test
• Have to pass tests

The ending

• An open ending
• Tris lost her mum and dad
• Tris and fout flee
  • People try to kill them