Cate Kennedy English Lab Interview PDF

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Cate Kennedy Interview – Like a House on Fire https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWsCwqaaL1E&t=82s Try having the transcript open or use closed captions (CC) while you listen and take notes. Take notes, as you listen. Include any of your own questions and ideas as you think about what is said. The following questions are mostly in order. A couple of later questions/ideas relate to earlier ones. What does CK try to achieve in her writing? How does she see her relationship with readers and her stories? What experience does CK want readers to have when they read her stories? (Door and imagination analogy.) What sort of world does CK try to create in her writing? What sort of “detail” does she use to achieve this? What does she say about what ends up in a “published” short story as opposed to the early drafts? In what ways is CK’s writing often semiautobiographical? What starts the story writing process for CK?

What is the role of “ordinary” (she later refers to them as “invisible”) people and “moments in time” in CK’s writing? What does CK mean when she refers to moments of “revelation” and “recognition”? What does CK mean when she refers to

“zooming in” for the reader What does CK mean when she says, “The story exists in the head of the person who reads it.”? “We don’t end up in the same position where we started.” How does CK draw reader attention to transformation? (“pivot”, switch, “decisive moments”) What is an ‘epiphany’? Related words have been used in an earlier question. What are they? How does CK use “disruptions” for her characters and why? “The cost of hiding something becomes greater than the cost of risking it in the world.” Significance of Kafka quote – why do you think she included it at the start of the collection? Try to explain these ideas in your own words. “We think we’re going to change the world, but the world changes us.” What does CK mean when she says this? Explain CK’s ideas relating to “fallibility” and frustration. “Trying is heroic.” This is one of the ideas CK offers about her stories. It is a message for readers. Explain this message in your own words. What does CK say about her use of a “central metaphor” and “pivot points” and creating a “sense of closing”. What is the prominent idea or message in LAHOF? In what way is it

“uplifting”? What does CK want students to explore in their own work? According to CK, what is the power of fiction? REFLECTION What have you learned from this interview which might assist you in your own creative response to LAHOF?...