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    This document provides an overview of key elements of a novel, including plot, setting, theme, characters, language, and authors. It then summarizes the novel "Catch Us If You Can" by Catherine MacPhail. The summary explains that the novel is about a boy named Rory and his frail grandfather who are on the run from police and authorities. As they travel across the country evading capture, they meet people who help them. Ultimately, Rory must end their venture and go to the police in order to get help for his grandfather, whose heart had stopped.

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    This document provides an overview of key elements of a novel, including plot, setting, theme, characters, language, and authors. It then summarizes the novel "Catch Us If You Can" by Catherine MacPhail. The summary explains that the novel is about a boy named Rory and his frail grandfather who are on the run from police and authorities. As they travel across the country evading capture, they meet people who help them. Ultimately, Rory must end their venture and go to the police in order to get help for his grandfather, whose heart had stopped.

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    This document provides an overview of key elements of a novel, including plot, setting, theme, characters, language, and authors. It then summarizes the novel "Catch Us If You Can" by Catherine MacPhail. The summary explains that the novel is about a boy named Rory and his frail grandfather who are on the run from police and authorities. As they travel across the country evading capture, they meet people who help them. Ultimately, Rory must end their venture and go to the police in order to get help for his grandfather, whose heart had stopped.

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    CATCH US IF YOU CAN

    Literature Components for FORM 5 30 APRIL 2013

    What is a novel?
    A novel is a long narrative in literary prose. Novels

    tell stories, which are typically defined as a series of events described in a sequence.
    a novel is written down, rather than told through an

    oral account
    novels are meant to be fictional in form,

    differentiating them from myths, which are said to have their basis in reality or theology

    The elements of a novel


    Plot - the structure of a novel. It shows the

    arrangement of events and actions within a story

    Setting
    the time, place, physical details, and circumstances

    in which a situation occurs.


    Setting enables the reader to better envision how a

    story unfolds by relating necessary physical details of a piece of literature.

    Theme
    the main idea, or message, of an essay, paragraph, or

    a book. The message may be about life, society, or human nature. Themes often explore timeless and universal ideas and may be implied rather than stated explicitly. Along with plot, character, setting, and style, theme is considered one of the fundamental components of fiction. It is the universal statement or feel when you read a piece of writing.

    Character and characterisation


    A character is a person in a narrative who may

    represent a particular class of group of people. Characters in a novel is the vehicle by which author conveys to us his / her view of the world. Characters maybe classify either main character or minor character. The characterisation of a character is revealed by actions, speech, thoughts, physical appearance, and the other characters thoughts or words

    Language
    used by author to reveal the theme and purpose of

    the novel.

    The author

    Catherine MacPhail ( born 25 January 1946, Greenock) is a Scottish-born author, who has an established reputation as a writer of gritty, urban stories that tackle emotional and contemporary issues that eventually work towards a positive solution. Although she has had jobs (assembling computers for IBM and as a housewife), she always wanted to be a writer. Her first published work was a sort of "twist-in-the-tale" story in Titbits, followed by a story in the Sunday Post.

    SYNOPSIS
    This novel was about a boy called Rory. He and His

    Granda are on the run from the police, the council and their friends. His Granda however is very frail and needs a lot of medication. On the way they meet a lot of people who have recognised them from the news. These people have actually helped them in their venture. Rory and his Granda travelled by train, boat, caravan, cars and most of the time with their feet. In the end, sadly, Rory has to end the venture, but not by being caught, he actually had to go to the police to find help for his Granda, whose heart had stopped

    The Title of the Book


    Title words Possible meanings To get hold of and stop someone you have been chasing so that they cannot escape; to indicate that both Rory and Granda must have been running away from something. Used for referring to yourself and other people with you ( the two of us- Rory and Granda) Used for emphasising that something is not as possible as one thinks it to be Used for referring to the person or people that you are talking to Have the ability or means to do something

    Catch

    Us If You Can

    The title seems to indicate a dare to catch Rory and Granda as they escape from being put into two separate homes.

    Setting and the Underlying Theme


    The two main characters embark on a journey to escape the possibilities of being separated - Granda to be in an old peoples home and for Rory to be fostered. Their journey is full of surprises and unexpected friends but with their faces in full national coverage, the escape is difficult. At all times, they must attempt to avoid the authorities but in the end, they manage to track down the very man who had walked out of them.

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