Maurice Gee. The Fat Man Auckland: Viking. 1994. Peter Beatson.
Gee was brought up in Henderson, a suburb of Auckland, a location that frequently features in his writing. He completed BA and MA degrees at the University of Auckland, which subsequently recognised him with a Distinguished Alumni Award in 1998, and an honorary Doctor of Literature in 2004.
Setting The story takes place in a made up town called Loomis. It fictionalizes a small town called Henderson roughly 12 miles northwest of Auckland located near the Waitemata Harbour. It took place in late summer of 1933 to winter in mid 1934 throughout the great depression. The.
Papers Essay. 4228 Words Aug 18, 2013 17 Pages. CK LIT WRITTEN The Fat Man This is a set of lessons by Alan Papprill based on Maurice Gee's novel: The Fat Man The unit is designed for Year 10 Introduction Close reading Viewing Telling a Story Visual Presentation Plot Design a Board Game Setting Photos of Loomis Characters End Piece Introduction.
Herbert Muskie is The Fat Man When he catches skinny, hungry Colin Potter stealing a chocolate bar, he forces Colin to become his partner in crime This begins an ever escalating cycle of dominance fueled by Muskie s hatred of the people of Loomis a grudge Colin doesn t understand The Fat Man s sphere of influence quickly ensnares the rest of Colin s family and threatenHerbert Muskie is The Fat.
Describe a character that interests you in The Fat Man and explain why that character interested you.Colin a 12 year old boy interested me from the book The Fat Man by Maurice Gee.Colin is a hungry boy caught up by the effects of the Depression.
Maurice Gee’s latest children’s novel, The Fat Man, this year won the AIM Children’s Book of the Year award, the AIM Junior Fiction award and the Esther Glen award (which is made annually by the Library Association for the most distinguished contribution to literature for children).It is just now being picked up and exclaimed over by the Australian literati and, like other children’s.
Interpellating Maurice Gee Anna Smith Review of Maurice Gee A Uterary Companion: The Fiction for Younger Readers, edited by Elizabeth Hale (Dunedin: Otago University Press, 2014). A lot of things are going on in the new collection of essays on Maurice Gee's writing for children. This busy-ness gives A.
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The Motherstone, the final book in the O trilogy, won the Esther Glen Medal in 1986 and The Fat Man was AIM Book of the Year in 1995. After several years living in Wellington, Maurice has recently moved to Nelson. Maurice was the 2002 Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal winner. Selected bibliography: Under the Mountain (Oxford University Press 1979).
Gee’s first novel, The Big Season, was published in 1962. Reviewers throughout his career have praised the spare elegance of his prose 16 but struggle with the complicated, sometimes violent price of trying to do the right thing. 17. As well as writing adult fiction, Gee has written for television (including Close to Home and Mortimer’s Patch). His books include award winning novels.
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Get this from a library! The fat man. (Maurice Gee) -- In 1933, Herbert Muskie returns to his rundown hometown of Loomis, New Zealand, and uses a combination of cunning and psychological threats to take control of the lives of twelve-year-old Colin.
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Travel Guide Maurice Gee’s New Zealand. Maurice Gee is one of New Zealand’s most distinguished novelists and was born in Whakatane. He spent much of his childhood in the country town of Henderson which has now been swallowed up by Auckland itself and it was this town which inspired many of the settings of his books including Loomis in this one.
Maurice Gee has long been considered one of New Zealand's finest writers. He has written more than thirty books for adults and young adults and has won numerous literary awards, including the UK's James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction, the Wattie Award, the Deutz Medal for Fiction, the New Zealand Fiction Award and the New Zealand Children's Book of the Year Award.
According to award-winning New Zealand writer, Maurice Gee, one of his main concerns is the bringing of parts together to create whole books, whole characters and groups of characters, and whole worlds. This is particularly the case in three of his children's novels: the fantasies The Halfmen of O, The Priests of Ferris, and Motherstone (widely known as the O trilogy) in which he echoes.