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Characteristics of Historical Fiction

General Characteristics of Historical Fiction

  • Allusions
  • Happened in the past

All Quiet on the

Western Front

  • Accurate time line

March - Geraldine Brooks

Setting

Plot

  • Often an element of death

1. Makes up the plot (civil war)

2. "A woman's place"

The absent father from Little Women's experiences during the American Civil War, as well as his struggle to come to terms with everything he has seen and done.

3. Slavery leads to internal conflict

Theme

Summary

4. The brutality of the war leads to more internal conflict

Betrayal

Nationalism

Inhumanity

The message behind All Quiet on the Western Front is how the horrors and futility of World War I has destroyed a generation, thus the lost generation .

Savagery

The Lost Generation

Belgium

Germany

Luxemburg

France

"Human Animals"

Patriotism

This novel tells the story of a young man named Paul Bäumer who voluntarily joined the German Army to fight in WWI on the Western front. He soon realizes the war is not as glorious nor honorable as he once thought. Instead it is a terrifying journey that seems to never end.

Revenge

Sacrifice

Innocence

I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. I see how people are set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay one another.

― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

March & historical fiction

Topics

1. Happened in the past

Fear

2. Allusions

Who is the brave man—he who feels no fear? If so, then bravery is but a polite term for a mind devoid of rationality and imagination.

3. Death

  • Real events from history (accurate facts)

  • Little Women
  • Civil War
  • Emerson

Guilt

Naivety

4. Real events

  • Battle of Ball's Bluff

One day, I hope to go back. To my wife, to my girls, but also to the man of moral certainty that I was that day; that innocent man, who knew with such clear confidence exactly what it was that he meant to do.

5. 19th century dialogue

“Better show Annie you Yankee notions then, and be quick about it, for I ain’t got no time for dawdlin’.”

6. Actual places

Setting:

- Diseases

Responsibility

Front Line

- Rats and lice

Albert Kropp

A sacrifice such as his is called noble by the world.

  • Virginia
  • Massachusetts

- Blood, mud, noise

Fredrich Müller

- Poor nutrition

- Constant bombings

- Fear of being attacked

Time: Late in World War I (1917–1918)

Place: The German/French/Western front

7. Relatable characters

-18 years old

- Values learning and

education

- Paul's classmate

- Terrible living conditions

- Constant killings and deaths

Guilt is an inherent part of human nature that we feel after we do horrible things.

War in the early 20th century was a brutal

and miserable experience.

  • Mr. March
  • Mrs. March
  • Grace

-Paul's close friend

- Serves with Second Company

-Intelligent and rational

- Analyzes the causes of the war

  • Time appropriate dialogue

Tjaden

Paul's Home

Paul's home is comforting,

but not the same.

Paul Bäumer

- Books

- Food

- Bed

- Quiet

- Feels out of place

-Paul's friend

- Serves with Second Company

- 19 years old

- Formerly a locksmith

Characters

How the Setting Affects the Characters

Hospitals

- He is the narrator and protagonist

- Sensitive and sweet at heart

- Passionate, creative, avid poem writer

- Looses innocence

Stanislaus "Kat" Katczinsky

Camps

- Paul's best friend

- Serves with Second Company

- Fatherly figure

- Resourceful and experienced soldier

Better experience at camps

Hospitals were not safe, welcoming, or warm operations.

Abandoned Town

Only place where they could find peace.

-Make-shift hospitals, spotless train-hospitals, fancy Catholic hospitals.

- Incompetent nurses

- Surgeons with odd fetishes

- Process of recovery is dangerous

- Everyone man for himself.

  • Actual geographical settings

- All they could eat - "Paradise" - Good time

- More comfort - "Rituals" - Play card games

Historical Novel Characteristics

Allusions

Happened in the Past

  • Relate-able characters

- Occasional allusion of past events

- 1917-1918

-Historical, Literary and Philosophical References

Real Event From

History

-Plato, William Tell, Battle of Zama, Charles the Bald, poison gas.

- World War 1

Element of Death

Geographical Setting

- War

- The German/French front a.k.a the Western front

- Death is evident throughout the novel

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

About the Novel

Characteristics that fit the novel....

Characteristics Continued ...

2. Real Geographical setting

1. Berlin

2. Poland

1. Real events from History

World War Two, Holocaust

2. Holocaust was from 1933

to 1945

1. About a little kid named Bruno

2. During World War Two

3. Bruno moves from Berlin to the middle of nowhere and encounters a fence.

What is a historical

fiction novel?

What does the novel imply about human nature ?

Characters Affected By the setting....

Bruno and Shmeul

1. Mankind is made up of both good and evil

2. Fear plays a huge role in how people act and react.

It is a genre of novels that represents an actual event, person, or time period in history.

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The Book Thief

The crooks (who are African American) insults Lennie of his life long dream. Lennie gets upset whenever some one makes fun of his dream

Of mice and men tells us that humans have a tendency to prey on the weak

What does the novel imply about human nature?

Curley's wife threatens the Crooks as she is racially superior in that time frame

Of Mice and Men

Markus Zusak

Curley bullies and fights with Lennie as Lennie is mentally weaker and soft at heart

The Book Thief follows many conventions of a historical fiction genre.

1. Dialogue

  • "Heil Hitler"
  • "Fuhrer"

3. Important Dates & Historical events

2. Allusions

  • 1939-1942
  • World War 2 (Holocaust)
  • Hitler's Birthday
  • creates a framework for the plot
  • Adolf Hitler
  • Mein Kampf

Back then, people did not like to work with people who have mental disorders like Lennie. So they did not accept people like Lennie as he was different

As the story takes place racism is a common theme topic, many of the characters are racist to African Americans

During the great depression, people looked for jobs on farms as it provides them with food to survive

In the 1930s people did not have enough money for transportation so they walked to their destination usually with 1 or more people.

The social setting of the novel creates a dark mood and deep impact on the characters.

As it takes place in the depression, everyone is desperate for money and employment.

Hans

  • Takes place between 1939 to 1942
  • Set in Germany
  • During the Holocaust
  • Nazism (propaganda and corruption)
  • Death is the narrator of this novel

The setting's effect on the characters

Liesel

Hans Hubermann struggles with an inner conflict between his conscious and the injustice occurring around him.

  • Under the stairs in her home, a Jewish refugee is being sheltered by her adoptive parents.

Max

  • Liesel is exposed to the reality and injustice in the world as she develops a strong friendship with Max
  • A young german girl and the protagonist of the novel
  • She is the book thief

Max is a Jew who suffers many hardships during the Holocaust in this novel.

Liesel's foster father, Hans Hubermann teaches her to read, and embrace the beauty of words.

  • Liesel's solution for her curiosity and desire for books is thievery

The coexistence of good and evil in mankind

The Book Thief ultimately shows how humans have the capacity for great goodness but also the capacity for great evil.

Characters speak in southern accents by using words such as "ain't" "would of" and "brang"

They also use old farm terms such as skimmers, swampers,etc.

- The novel refers to the Great Depression and the racism that took place in the 1930s

-The Title "of mice and men" is an allusion to the poem "To a Mouse" by Robert Burns

The setting of the novel is in Soledad, California, which is an actual place on the map

Brief info of the novel

The story has a huge element of death which is the main event that takes place

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The consequence of this is that I'm always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing can be both

How does it fit the characteristics of a historical fiction novel?

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George (Left) Lennie (Right)

-takes place during the Great Depression

-Lennie and George are on the run from the law and looking for work

-lands a job on a ranch and meets the story's antagonist, Curley

-Everything goes into chaos after Curley's wife lets Lennie pet her hair

Curley's wife allows Lennie to pet her hair

Soledad, California

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