Connect the text with another text

Write a text-to-text response in which you connect a key element from the exposition (setting OR
character[s] OR conflict) to the same in element in another text. A text here is loosely defined as not only
another book, but also a short story, a TV show, a film, a poem, a song. Your first paragraph should be
about the key element in the book you are currently reading. Your second paragraph should be a much
longer paragraph, in which you elaborate on the same key element in the other text.

The book Victor written by Mordicai Gerstein takes place in France during the French
Revolution. This book starts off when a naked dirty boy from the wild was caught by
woodcutters and was tied to a pole at the stone ledge of the ancient Roman fountain in the
center of the square. He was taken to the vast courtyard of the Institute of Deaf-Mutes.
The boy was locked in a small room where he tried to bite a woman and caused the
crowd to have a big commotion. The people of the Institute of Deaf-Mutes had a meeting
and agreed that the boy was useless, so they trashed him. A doctor named Jean-MarcGaspard Itard, disagreed and named the boy Victor. Itard tried to educate and teach
Victor how to speak and behave like a normal French boy.
The exposition of the book Victor connects the text with a film called Tarzan. The
book Victor is quite similar to the film Tarzan. The book Victor written by Mordicai
Gerstein is about a naked, dirty child who was captured in the forests of the
Aveyron. He cannot speak, and shows no interest in anything except for food and
escape. One doctor, Jean-Marc Itard believed that Victor was a normal child and
tried to educate him and teach him to speak and behave like a normal French child.
The book Victor relates to the book Tarzan of the apes because it is about a boy who
was raised by the apes and lived in the forest. One day a group of humans arrived a
Professor and his daughter Jane, who have traveled to Africa in search of gorillas,
along with their hunter guide Clayton. Jane tries to educate Tarzan how to read,
write, speak English and learn about the social world.

Shelfari Post
This book is really interesting and enjoyable to read. The author did a great job putting
the reader into the mind of an animal. The author describes the setting of the book very
vividly, so the reader can imagine what it feels like in the character's shoes.

Multimedia
Put a character on the cover
Create a magazine cover that has your character on the front and has articles that
are themed around key ideas from your book. What magazine would your character
be on the cover of? What would the headlines and subheadlines say? Remember
that you must show understanding of characterizationthat is, the authors
description of the characters physical appearance, personality (speech and action),
and what other characters think about that character. For inspiration, see:
http://goo.gl/Ccg4O and http://goo.gl/Z77yR.

Why you chose this form.

How it links to the text.

Which literary concepts (plot, characters, theme, symbols) your

multimedia piece explores.

What choices you made as you designed and constructed your

multimedia piece and the reason/s why.

I chose to put a character on the cover of a magazine because it describes the

setting, plot, conflict and character of the book. This links to the text that I wrote
above about exposition because making a magazine cover with headlines and words
to express what the book is mainly about and more descriptive words about the
main character and how other people think of him. The literary concepts that my
multimedia piece explores are the plot and characters of the book, because the plot
is that a doctor is trying to teach the boy how to speak, write, read and behave like a
normal French boy. The main characters in the book are the wild boy whose name
is Victor and the Doctor which are expressed in the magazine cover. The choices
that I made as I designed and constructed my multimedia piece was that I had to
show understanding of characterization and the exposition in the book. I had to
chose correct subhead lines that would fit the main plot in the book. I also included

the boys personality such as brave, innocent, wild, fierce, and that he loves freedom
and food. I also had to chose a headline that categorizes and relates to the book.

World
Knowledge
A naked, dirty
child was
captured in the
forests of
Averyon district
in southern
France.
It was said that
he had survived
the harsh
winters that he
seemed to feel
neither the
cold of snow
nor the heat of
glowing coals.
Aggressive
Brave
Innocent
Wild
Fierce
Loves freedom and food

The life of the

Savage of
Averyon
Doctor Itards
ways of teaching

Human nature at
its finest.

How to awaken
your senses
touch, hearing,
vision, taste,
speech,
thinking, and
new thoughts
and ideas.

Growing up in
the wild
Doctor Jean
Marc Itard will
educate this boy
who he named
Victor on how
to read, write,
and behave like
a normal French
boy.