September 3, 2015

Alice Monro – simple family tree

By acflory

In ‘The View from Castle Rock’, Alice Monro [born Alice Laidlaw] traces her family history from Scotland to Canada in a series of short stories. Unfortunately, who-is-who becomes rather muddled, at least to the naive reader, so I created this simple family tree for my year 12 English student:

Click on the picture to see an enlarged view of the family tree.

I hope this helps others out there confused by the early stories in the The View from Castle Rock.

cheers

Meeks

About acflory

I am the kind of person who always has to know why things are the way they are so my interests range from genetics and biology to politics and what makes people tick. For fun I play online mmorpgs, read, listen to a music, dance when I get the chance and landscape my rather large block. Work is writing. When a story I am working on is going well I'm on cloud nine. On bad days I go out and dig big holes... View all posts by acflory

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2 responses to “Alice Monro – simple family tree”

Candy Korman
September 4th, 2015 at 5:51 am

Did you ever do a family tree for a novel you were writing?

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- acflory
  September 4th, 2015 at 7:53 am
  
  -blush- yes? I even bought a cheap application that was supposed to make the graphical part of things easier. But that was a decade ago. These days I just use the Table feature in Word. Not as pretty but it gets the job done. 🙂
  
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