Detective comedy 3: Getting the job

About Standards
Detailed practice
Story - Narrative
Middle years and up
detective stories
comedy
humour
tropes
hardboiled detective
falcons malteser
anthony horrowitz
first person narration
mystery
observational description
judging
character description
dialogue
control of information
personality
withholding information
depicting emotion
triggers and reactions
project
Purpose
Examining detective genre tropes, such as getting the job.
Description
This lesson continues the examination of blending of detective and comedy genres in 'The Falcon's Malteser', focussing on getting the job and tropes such as observational (and judgemental) descriptions of characters. We rewrite the passage looking at each of these details, and end with a checkpoint piece.
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