YsabelYsabel: Prologue - Ch. : Prologue - Ch. 22

YsabelYsabel: Prologue - Ch. : Prologue - Ch. 22

ENG4U Wednesday, February 27, 2013ENG4U Wednesday, February 27, 2013ENG4U Wednesday, February 27, 2013ENG4U Wednesday, February 27, 2013

PrologueProloguePrologueProloguePoint of view (POV)?

Third-person omniscient

Tense?

Present

Author's reasons for changing tense throughout novel?

Indicate a shift to certain characters' POV

CharactersCharactersCharactersCharactersNed Marriner: protagonist, 15 years old, traveling with his father

Kate Wenger: girl Ned meets, studying abroad, lives with a roommate named Marie-Chantal

Edward Marriner: Ned's father, a famous photographer, taking pictures for a coffee table book

Melanie: Edward's assistant, 25 years old, friends with Ned

Greg and Steve: Edwards's crew

Oliver Lee: the author of Edward's book

The stranger with a knife: man Ned and Kate meet in the baptistry, seems to be looking for someone

Setting: Aix-en-Setting: Aix-en-Provence, FranceProvence, FranceSetting: Aix-en-Setting: Aix-en-

Provence, FranceProvence, France

Setting: Aix-en-Setting: Aix-en-ProvenceProvence

Setting: Aix-en-Setting: Aix-en-ProvenceProvence

Setting: Aix-en-Setting: Aix-en-ProvenceProvence

Setting: Aix-en-Setting: Aix-en-ProvenceProvence

Setting: Aix-en-Setting: Aix-en-Provence, FranceProvence, FranceSetting: Aix-en-Setting: Aix-en-

Provence, FranceProvence, France

Saint-Sauveur Saint-Sauveur CathedralCathedral

Saint-Sauveur Saint-Sauveur CathedralCathedral

"shadowy and vast" (9)

"this place had been built in a dozen stages over too many centuries by too many people" (10)

"This place drips with history" (14).

The BaptistryThe BaptistryThe BaptistryThe Baptistry"It's the oldest thing here... By a lot, like 500 A.D." (16)

What happened there? (17-19)

GenreGenreGenreGenreHistorical Fiction

Ned: "What was this place, before?"

Kate: "The forum was here. Centre of town. The Roman city was founded about a hundred and something years B.C... when the Romans first started to take over Provence from the Celts." (23)

Mystery

"Boy detective?" (24)

"He shone the beam along the dark grey stones beside and below him." (25)

The Stranger With a The Stranger With a KnifeKnife

The Stranger With a The Stranger With a KnifeKnife

"He was clean-shaven, lean-faced. Dark, strong eyebrows, a long, straight nose, a thin mouth. The bald head made his cheekbones show prominently. Ned saw a scar on one cheek, curving behind his ear." (19)

"I found something." "I found something." (27)(27)

"I found something." "I found something." (27)(27)

"This skull had been placed to be found, not laid to some dark eternal rest." (29)

"The second object made that even clearer... a sculpture of a human head." (28)

"Ned saw that the sculpted head was completely smooth on the top, as if bald. And there was a gash in the stone -- a scarring of it -- along one cheek, and up behind the ear." (29)

"And it was then... that "And it was then... that he began to feel really he began to feel really

odd." (32)odd." (32)

"And it was then... that "And it was then... that he began to feel really he began to feel really

odd." (32)odd." (32)"This was like something unblocking or unlocking, changing... just about everything really." (32)

"... there was something he could see in his mind -- a presence of light..." (35)

The "Queen of Sheba" The "Queen of Sheba" PillarPillar

The "Queen of Sheba" The "Queen of Sheba" PillarPillar

"... the single rose leaning between the two columns. He looked at the carving. It wasn't the Queen of Sheba." (33)

Description of the pillar (33)

The stranger carved her (36-38)