Literary Elements

Characters:

• Governess; She is a british young without experience in the job assigned, but she care the children to the end.
• Mrs. Grose; She is a excellent housekeeper a long time ago. She loves the children like a mother.
• Milles; Is a child very rare, He always is isolated from the people
• Dr. Quint; He is evil and wants to take the soul of Miles
• Miss. Jessel; She wants to take the soul of Flora. The most of the time she is weared a black suit.
• Flora; She is a child and like her brother

Settings:

- The story takes place in the century XIX

- The story develops in the Bly mansion, outside of London
- In 1898 U.S.A declares war on Spain after the sinking of the battleship Maine in Cuba.

Conflicts:

The most important conflict for our group is Milles's death that makes the novel in a police novel, as it seeks to solve this crime. Addition to the appearance of ghosts that makes the novel in a fantastic novel.

One aspect of the novel is very comun in a normal life like fall in love. In the novel the governess fall in love with her boss, the children's uncle.

Cause and Effect:

- The governess wants generate confidence in children...and get to spend much time with them.
- The first governess died...the uncle hired a new governess.
-  Mrs. Grose left the bly because she wanted to help to flora.

Vocabulary:

• Governess: Is a gril or woman employed to teach and train children in a private household.
• Uttered: It's when somebody want to give audible expression to something.
• Charming: It's a person who have a beauty personality.
• Triumph: It's a person who win in a specific discipline or in any sport.
• Grimace: It's a person who makes funny or distorted facial expression.

Conclusions

1. This book represent the frustration of James, because his parents and one brother died.

2. In other books James show us differents aspects, like a way to show his feelings and this books obviously shows a different reality using the ghosts.

3. The innocence is evident because James use two children involved in a reality imposed by James.

Henry James Biography

Henry James, OM (15 April 1843 – 28 February 1916) was an American-born writer, regarded as one of the key figures of 19th-century literary realism. He was the son of Henry James, Sr. and the brother of philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James.

James alternated between America and Europe for the first 20 years of his life, after which he settled in England, becoming a British subject in 1915, one year before his death. He is primarily known for the series of novels in which he portrays the encounter of Americans with Europe and Europeans. His method of writing from the point of view of a character within a tale allows him to explore issues related to consciousness and perception, and his style in later works has been compared to impressionist painting.

James contributed significantly to literary criticism, particularly in his insistence that writers be allowed the greatest possible freedom in presenting their view of the world. James claimed that a text must first and foremost be realistic and contain a representation of life that is recognisable to its readers. Good novels, to James, show life in action and are, most importantly, interesting. The concept of a good or bad novel is judged solely upon whether the author is good or bad. His imaginative use of point of view, interior monologue and possibly unreliable narrators in his own novels and tales brought a new depth and interest to narrative fiction. An extraordinarily productive writer, in addition to his voluminous works of fiction he published articles and books of travel, biography, autobiography, and criticism, and wrote plays, some of which were performed during his lifetime with moderate success. His theatrical work is thought to have profoundly influenced his later novels and tales.