Inquiry Question Guild

1.What is the author's cultural and personal background?
2.What about his author's background qualifies him/her to write this novel?
3. How does the author's personal and cultural background tie into the storyline?
4. How can the author's background tie into poetry and performance?

CREATE 10 QUESTIONS THAT SHOULD BE INCLUDED AS AN INQUIRY GUIDE FOR THIS NOVEL.

1.How does he connect his life to the novel?

2.What is his purpose of writing this novel?
3. How did the time periods influence him?
4. How did the time periods impact his novel?
5. What is the meaning of the title?
6. How does the author’s background relate to the novel?
7. What is the message author what to tell us?
8. What is the massage author what to tell that in the reality?
9. How does the author use his thought in the novel?
10. How does the author use his feelings to apply to the book?


1. What is the author's cultural and personal background?

    
     William Robertson Davies was born on August 28, 1913 in the village of Thamesville, Ontario, Canada. He came from a very old and prominent family.He was a Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor. He was one of Canada's best-known and most popular authors. Davies was the founding Master of Massey College,a college that was closely associated with the University of Toronto. Davies was surrounded by books as a young boy and both his parents supported reading. Thus Davies caught his parent's love for reading and read everything he could. He also had a particular interest in drama since he participated in theatrical productions as a young child.


2.What about his author's background qualifies him/her to write this novel?


      The novel Fifth Business (1970) came from Davies' own interest in Jungian psychology which included his own in experiences, his love for myth and magic and his knowledge of small-town mores. In the book, the narrator, can somehow relate to Davies himself, as he is an immigrant of Canadian background, with a father who ran the town paper. The book's characters act in roles that roughly correspond to Jungian archetypes according to Davies' belief in the predominance of the spirit over the things of the world.


3. How does the author's personal and cultural background tie into the storyline?

      Davies allows the readers to peer in to his childhood by tying in his own life incidences through the character of Ramsey. In Fifth Business, he mentions accounts of his memories and more of his deeper life experiences. The character of Percy Boyd Staunton is an important reference to Davies’ real life. Some elements of Boy’s life story is drawn from one of his friends Vincent Massey. Both men became rich because of their father’s agricultural businesses. When Vincent Massey becomes the first Canadian- born Governor General, likewise Boy was appointed to be the Lieutenant- Governor of Ontario. The most convincing evidence is that that Boy becomes the Chair of the Board of Governor that runs the school Ramsay teaches at while Davies spent his career at the University of Toronto as the head Professor of Massey College. They were both involved in education purposes.



4. How can the author's background tie into poetry and performance?

      He also participated in theatrical productions as a child, where he developed a lifelong interest in drama.Davies' early life provided him with themes and material to which he would often return in his later work, including the theme of Canadians returning to England to finish their education, and the theatre.in 1916 he became editor of the Peterborough Examiner in the small city of Peterborough, Ontario, northeast of Toronto.Again he was able to mine his experiences here for many of the characters and situations which later appeared in his novels and plays.