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Dracula Jonathan Dracula Narrator We call our wolves ‘the Children of the Night’ and their howling is the night music of Transylvania. Count Dracula, you have been most kind but I am very tired. How thoughtless of me. Of course you must go to your bed. We will talk in the morning. Pleasant dreams! Jonathan’s sleep was filled with nightmares in which he heard wolves howling and terrible shrieks of laughter. from Dracula, adapted by Tom Hayllar How well did you read? 1 Describe the orientation. 2 What is frightening about Dracula’s facial appearance? 3 Why is Jonathan shivering? 4 ‘No! You must eat now.’ Why do Dracula’s words sound sinister? 5 What does Jonathan notice is unusual about Dracula’s lips and teeth? 6 What sound does Jonathan hear outside the castle walls? 7 Why did Jonathan spend an unpleasant night sleeping? 8 What is the dramatist’s purpose in this scene? (The dramatist is the creator of the radio play.) 3: Narrative texts 23
Novels A novel has all the features of a narrative. It has a beginning, a middle and an end as the characters respond to problems they encounter in their lives. In the incident described in the following extract, Lockie Leonard deals with the problem of a surfing bully. •• Truly packin’ death •• About fifty yards out, there were a few kids sitting on their boards at the edge of a sandbar. A little rip was running alongside it, and a decent wave broke left and right from it. Lockie paddled out, shivering. He wished he had enough money for a wetsuit. A big, hairy, country-looking kid with bad teeth swooshed past him on a wave. He was a pretty slack surfer, but confident. And big. When you’re twelve and three quarters and a new kid, everyone seems a bit on the mega side. There were four or five other kids out at the break, all decked out in full trendy surf gear, in every fluorescent colour: Ripcurl, Billabong, Quicksilver, Lightning Bolt. Lockie guessed that even their undies were 100 per cent Mambo. They eyed him off and his nerves shot all over the place. He didn’t hassle for the first few waves. Instead, he let them go. The big, hairy kid paddled back and pulled up beside him. ‘You’re here on holiday.’ It wasn’t even a question. Lockie shook his head. ‘Just moved here.’ ‘From Perth, eh?’ ‘Yeah.’ ‘City boys always think they can surf.’ ‘I can surf.’ No joke. Lockie Leonard could surf. He was lousy at football. He could be counted on to entirely stuff up a cricket match, and he wasn’t even any good at Monopoly, but he sure could ride a board. Genuine surf rat, grommet extraordinaire. ‘You’re all piss an’ wind, youse blokes. City boys’re up ‘emselves.’ Lockie shrugged. A set came. Lockie let them all scramble for the first wave and he put himself right at the peak and picked off the second without any trouble. He took the drop loose-kneed and casual, taking out a wide, leaning, bottom turn before hammering back up at the lip. As he swung round off the top again, he saw the big, hairy kid dropping in from the shoulder. You rotten mongrel, he thought. The wave walled up and the other kid streaked away out in front, hooting and cutting up Lockie’s wave. Lockie dropped into a crouch, held an edge and came powering down the line, getting speed from each hit at the wave’s lip. It was like a rollercoaster and he could feel his hair streaming water as he closed on the other kid who looked over his shoulder, suddenly startled. Lockie just couldn’t stop himself. He pulled a big re-entry and came floating down right across the guy’s leg-rope. TWANG! The guy was off and cursing. Lockie weaved in to the beach and climbed up onto the sand the moment the other kid’s board drifted in alone. ‘Yeee-haaa!’ No more radical moves today. One wave was enough. Two might get his head punched in. He sprinted up the beach and threw his board into the back of the Falcon. ‘Dja see that?’ The Sarge put his bookmark in place and grinned. ‘I think you just made an enemy. You actually were a torpedo there for a minute.’ ‘Well, it was worth it.’ ‘Used to ride like that myself, once.’ ‘Pull the other one, Dad. It plays the anthem.’ from Lockie Leonard: Human Torpedo by Tim Winton 24 National English Skills 7
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