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Lesson 1 (from Prologue: "The Cellist" and Chapter One)
Objective
Students will investigate Galloway’s purpose in using an epigraph to begin the narrative of The Cellist of Sarajevo and will make predictions about its possible connection to the thematic messages within the text.
The epigraph Steven Galloway includes within the novel The Cellist of Sarajevo is a quote by Leon Trotsky that states,”You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you,” (iix) thereby introducing many of the text’s major themes, such as responsibility, interconnectedness, and collectivism. Students will study the author's use of an epigraph to open the text and will see how doing so can illuminate the text's meaning, even if they have only just begun to read the work in question.
Lesson
Class Discussion: Why might an author begin a book or a chapter with a quote from a different literary work? What other books or movies...
Aligned to the following Common Core Standards:
- ELA-Reading: Literature RL.9-10.1, 9-10.10, 11-12.1, 11-12.10
- ELA-Writing W.9-10.3, 9-10.7, 11-12.3, 11-12.7
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