This was a
meaty read for our younger group, but was one which was largely
appreciated. The humour particularly appealed to them. An excellent
review can be read here.
If
you follow this blog you will gather that the younger group are not a
discussion group, and we try and explore ideas provoked by the book we
have read. For this session I wanted to open up the narrative structure,
which in many respects follows an archetypal 'hero' journey, through
the wannabe hero character 'Henwyn'.
I
presented the group with a crime scene. The outline of a body taped to
the floor, and scattered around it items to be collected and judged as
evidence of the life and fate of the victim. The only certain fact was
that the body was that of a hero; he carried an identity card for
membership to the 'hero's club'.
The
kids gathered and bagged the evidence, scrutinised each item
thoroughly, then selected their own narratives for the character, based
on these objects.
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