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A Writer's Cauldron
These stories are arranged to help students investigate and compare the features of different genres and how authors conform to or deviate from established conventions. The book includes activities which draw out key features at word, sentence and text level.
256 pages, Hardcover
First published September 1, 2009
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January 27, 2011
I am having fun with this book . A writer’s cauldron contains of fourteen well written stories from each genres. Every strory has its specialty , but the one which impressed me is ‘Sweet Shop’. Marc Alexander has delivered a great modern version of a famous fairy tale , Hensel and Gretel which is more realistic and contains moral values. From this story , we can learn that life is not always running smoothly all the time , that’s why we should aware of strangers’ kindness because sometimes they hide a bad purpose . The next story that I choose as my favourite is ‘ Lamb to the Slaughter’ written by Roald Dahl . As far as I know , Roald Dahl was famous for his children stories , so I was surprise that he wote a crime story . ‘Lamb to the Slaughter’ is one of the smartest crime story I’ve ever read . The story is attractive , because the murderer is an ordinary housewife and no one could predict that she has made a perfect murder like that . Beside that , I also liked ‘Interview with the Vampire ‘ . I’ve watched the movie several time , but reading the book version is a new experience for me . Every dialog and even the characters had translated greatly into the movies. After all, I couldn’t find the weakness of this book . For me, this book is perfect .
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