A short story: The Hare

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- Once we have worked through the reading, we can reflect on the fable and the moral, and think of different folk stories that our students might know.  

Angela Carter resisted being identified with any one group. Carter was interested in deconstructing the typical roles and structures that mark our existences, especially those of gender.  
Her innovative narrative procedures and frequent intertextual references link her to Anglo-Saxon postmodernism, as well as to French authors such as Sade and Bataille. She is often associated with magical realism, but this does not really make much sense outside South America.   
She was influenced by cinema, psychoanalysis, surrealism, the second wave of feminism and Japan, among others. In The Bloody Chamber (1979) she revisits fairy tales in a way that might remind us of Gabrielle-Suzanne de Villeneuve (Beauty and the Beast).   
In Spain, other authors have done similar things, such as Carmen Martín Gaite and Ana María Matute.  

Other contemporaries of Carter's are, for example, Doris Lessing, who received the same prize as Carter ten years earlier and whom she admired.

Another important writer who worked with fantasy combined with subversion at the same time was Margaret Atwood. In her feminist thinking, she can be linked to Simone de Beauvoir, as both saw femininity as a social construct.  

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- This is a reading comprehension activity.    
In this activity we use a short story by Angela Carter inspired by a traditional Swahili tale to work on simple pasts, taken from her work Fairy Tale. Afterwards, our students can practise creative writing and write a short story similar to this one including the personification of an animal.   
  
- The objectives of this activity are: to understand a story written in the simple past and to learn the use of the simple past. 

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