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Great War Literature Study Guide on "The Return of the Soldier"

Great War Literature Study Guide on "The Return of the Soldier"
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  • Supports A-Level Syllabus
  • Useful in-depth summary/analysis of the novel.
  • Detailed notes on Character Analysis, Themes and Comparisons provide a valuable resource for examinations, coursework and individual essays.

This study guide on ''The Return of the Soldier'' continues our aim to make available resources for less studied works. This often forgotten novel, by Rebecca West, is perhaps not as well known as others, but an understanding of it is useful either as a further reading exercise, or for use in comparitive essays, especially in conjunction with Birdsong or Regeneration, and certainly provides a refreshingly different alternative to the usual comparisons between the latter two books.

This Literature Study Guide includes:

Introduction: A brief overview of the novel.

Synopsis: An in-depth summary of the seven parts of this novel, outlining the main events which take place. Clear and concise, these notes are especially useful for revision and refreshing a student's knowledge and understanding of the story.

Character Analysis: Essential to the comprehension and analysis of this novel, our Study Guide focuses on the four main characters in The Return of the Soldier. Chris, Kitty, Jenny and Margaret all have very different personalities and this part of the guide focuses on how they react as the story unfolds.

Themes: Of particular value, this section of the Guide explains the main themes of The Return of the Soldier. Topics covered are:

  • Love
  • Class Structure
  • Loss and Grief
  • Truth and Goodness.

Comparisons: Considered by many to be the key asset of our Guides, this section helps students compare and contrast various aspects of The Return of the Soldier with other popular literature of the First World War. This includes the poetry of Siegfried Sassoon, E A Mackintosh and May Wedderburn Cannan, the play Journey's End by R C Sherriff and the novels Strange Meeting by Susan Hill, Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks, Regeneration by Pat Barker and All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque.

Further Reading: Useful suggestions of books, with brief descriptions, that we believe enhance one's understanding of the novel.

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SKU SKU16143  
Weight 217.00 g
Author W Lawrance
ISBN (13-digit) 978-1905378-357
ISBN (10-digit) 1-905378-351
 
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Thursday, September 29, 2011

We are pleased to announce that, today sees the launch of a new Teacher Resource package on our web site covering the poetry of EDWARD THOMAS within the OCR AS F661 Syllabus. The titles featured are as follows:

March; Old Man; Tears; But these things also; Melancholy; The Glory; Words; Aspens; This is no case of petty right or wrong; Rain; No one so much as you; The sun used to shine; As the team's head-brass; Gone, gone again; Lights Out.

INCLUDED in the package is a 12 month subscription to 15 web-based teaching aid presentations together with access to all relevant poetry analysis, biographical content and background information from our GWLSRC digital library, all of which is able to be viewed interactively online, or printed out.

Each of the fifteen presentations contains at least eight "slides" detailing the background, language, themes, verse form, and imagery contained within each poem, plus at least one comparison with other Thomas poetry and several "Discussion Points" for use in class or as Homework Projects.

The aims of these presentations are to assist teachers - either by direct use in the classroom, or as an aid to developing other areas of study. Students should, by the time they have finished using these packages, be able to fully understand the language and verse form used, the tone and imagery being created and the situations which Thomas is describing in his poems. In addition, students should be able to pinpoint which poems make suitable comparisons from within the OCR collection and should be better prepared for their examinations.

This is just the third of our Teacher Resource Packages, adding to our existing, popular Wilfred Owen resources.

For further details of the Edward Thomas OCR AS F661 Poetry Collection Teacher Resource Package, please click here.

For a demonstration of our Teacher Resource Packages, please click here, then click on "S.I.W" under "EVALUATION SAMPLE". This free sample lesson presentation is from our Wilfred Owen OCR AS F661 package and illustrates the content and layout style. Please note the supporting poem analysis and biography information for the evaluation sample is not available without a subscription.

For further details of our forthcoming titles, please click here.

Also availble is our FREE online magazine at www.gwlmagazine.com which provide useful background articles and downloadable content.



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