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Why do you think that Rowling called the item a Pensieve?

Pensive (adj) -

1. dreamily or wistfully thoughtful: a pensive mood

2. expressing or revealing thoughtfulness, usually marked by some sadness

Flashback

The Pensieve is an object used to review memories. It has the appearance of a shallow stone basin, into which are carved runes and strange symbols. It is filled with a silvery substance that appears to be a cloud-like liquid/gas; the collected memories of people who have siphoned their recollections into it. Memories can then be viewed from a third-person point of view.

A flashback is an interjected scene that takes the narrative back in time from the current point the story has reached.

As a table complete the following tasks:

  • In your notebook, create a list of 10 pieces of literature that are flashbacks.
  • As a table, create a short 1-2 paragraph flashback story. You will share this with the class.

Danny remembered more about his mother's death than he'd ever told anyone. The day she died, she had called each of her sons to her bedside individually.

"Pour me a cup of fresh water, please," she said, her voice thick with the Polish accent that decorated her words when she was tired or sick.

Danny filled the cup, careful not to splash it on the bedside table. "Now hand me my lipstick."

But he didn't leave. He stood in the doorway and had watched as she had swallowed the pills, three at a time, until they were gone.

Even now, Danny felt responsible for her death. He looked at his father and swallowed hard.

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