Readon III B

THE ELEPHANT MAN by Tim Vicary

POINT OF VIEW: Federick Treves;

NARRATOR: first person;

CHARACTERS: Joseph Merrick, Federick Traves, the Queen Alexandra,

Carr Gomm ,the shopkeeper:Simon Silcock;

SUBGENRE:novel;

SETTING:London, in 1884;

PLOT: One day doctor Federick Treves saw a picture of a horrible man in a shop: it was the elephant man. The doctor knew the ugly man and he wanted to study him. Joseph had a very big head with several deformities.He went to the hospital with the doctor. He wrote a letter to the Time’s editor, where he explained the need of some money because Joseph couldn’t work . From now on a lot of people went to the hospital to meet him including Queen Alexandra. She gave him a Chistmas card. A day he went to the theatre to see a children’s Christmas play. Joseph liked it and he thought the characters lived in the country.He wonted to go to the country, where he found happiness. At the end of the summer he came back to London and in April doctor Treves found him dead in his bed. The doctor understood that he wonted to sleep on his back but he couldn’t because of his heavy head.

PERSONAL COMMEN: I like this book very much because the author underlines that the inner beauty is more important than phisical one and only feu people can understand the value.

                                                                           Maria Emanuella Lorusso