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The Model Millionaire
Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde1854-1900
“Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.”
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Some of His Writing• The Picture of Dorian Gray• The Importance of Being Ernest•An Ideal Husband
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Idiomatic PhrasesNot home to anyone
Doesn’t want to see anyone
American IdiomLights are on but no one is home
Not very smart person
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Literary Terms: Alliteration
Words that begin with the same sound.▫Careful Catherine cares for her cat.
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Literary Terms: Repetition
Repeating words or phrases for emphasis.
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Whose woods these are I think I know.His house is in the village though;He will not see me stopping hereTo watch his woods fill up with snow.My little horse must think it queerTo stop without a farmhouse nearBetween the woods and frozen lakeThe darkest evening of the year.He gives his harness bells a shakeTo ask if there is some mistake.The only other sound's the sweepOf easy wind and downy flake.The woods are lovely, dark and deep.But I have promises to keep,And miles to go before I sleep,And miles to go before I sleep.
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Alliteration or Repetition?
What you can rags, I call romance. What seems poetry to you is picturesqueness to me.
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Some Themes•Money isn’t everything•Giving has unexpected benefits
•Kindness is always appreciated
•Other?
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Who?•Hughie Erskie•Alan Trevor•Laura Merton•Colonel Merton•The Beggar (Baron Hausberg)
•Gustave Naudin
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When / Where?
• 1900s
• Europe
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What•Hughie is poor•He does a good deed• It pays off greatly
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Why?Hughie
Feels bad for beggar who is even poorer than himself
Baron HausberbTouched by kind act
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Discussion ?sSuppose instead of giving Hughie the money, the Baron gave him a job at one of his banks. Then Hughie worked for years to save the money to marry Laura. • How would this change the
tone and ending of the story?• How would it change the
moral?
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Discussion ?s• If you had a friend in Hughie’s
situation, with his job history and his good/bad qualities, what would your advice be to him?
• If you had a friend in Laura’s situation, before Hughie got the money, what would your advice be to her?
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