Hello,
As we discussed today in class, you are all (if you've made some good headway in your primary source) are in an excellent position to begin translating some of your thoughts, observations, and reactions into some preliminary questions (or statements, if you're more comfortable). Please add 3-5 questions or statements that could guide the rest of your reading and your research. Due by class on Thursday (2/26).
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Author: Ambrose Bierce
ReplyDeleteSource: A Collection of Short Stories
- How does Bierce use symbolism to help display the theme of his pieces?
- Why does Bierce consistently express a critical view of women in his writings?
- Why does Bierce use death as a theme of nearly all of his short stories?
- Why does Bierce employ abrupt and mysterious endings, and what effect do they have on the work as a whole?
These are great questions Ellie. You're on the right track. Thanks for being the first brave blogger!
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Edgar Allen Poe
ReplyDeleteSource; Tell Tale Heart
various poems
other short stories
-Why do all themes revolves around dark, death, torture, etc?
-Obsession with psychological struggle?
-Why does Poe use so many contradictions throughout his writing?
-Why does Poe use such criticism in his writing?
Author: Amy Tan
ReplyDeleteBook: The Joy Luck Club
• How does Tan use generational differences to strengthen themes?
• Why does Tan narrate her novel using so many different characters? How does this support the novel?
• How does Amy Tan's division of sections affect the novel as a whole?
• How does language affect Amy Tan's characters?
Book: Anthem
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Ayn Rand
Why is Rand so critical of society?
Why does Rand stress the importance of the individual so much?
Why does rand use pronouns to make her point?
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ReplyDelete1. Tennessee Williams works all deal with vulnerable heroines.
ReplyDelete2. Tennessee Williams's characters all live in fantasy worlds, or have a different perception of reality.
3. Tennessee Williams's characters tend to be shattered by brutal reality.
4. How is Tennessee Williams's life portrayed in his stories and plays?
Seems to be written as a stream of conscience?
ReplyDeleteWho is the narrator?
Sadness—he is on his own
Why travel west
How far west will they go
He seems happy to experience all this, but is it worth it since he has no one to share it with—Is all this worth loneliness?
Author: Truman Capote
ReplyDeleteBook: In Cold Blood
-Why does Capote switch back and forth between Perry and Dick and the family? And why does he give much more description about the family?
-Does Capote purposely make the reader favor reading about Perry and Dick over the family?
-Does Capote always write books with very few chapters that are each split up into numerous sections? What effect does this give and why does he do it?
-Does Truman Capote always write about dark subjects or was he just interested by this particular murder?
What in Kesey's life inspired him to write One Flew Over the Cuckoo's nest?
ReplyDeleteWhat message did Kesey intend to get out with his book?
Why did Kesey use a deaf, mute character as the narrator?
Author: Henry David Thoreau
ReplyDeleteSource: Walden
Why does Thoreau use the seasons in a way that mirrors his sentiments and feelings?
What is the significance spiritually of Walden Pond?
Is Thoreau's short stay at Walden Pond slightly contradictory of the emphasis he puts on self-reliance?
What is the significance of Thoreau's preocupation with the "illusion of progress?"
You all are doing a great job. These questions are on the right track. They're very interesting and fun for me to read. Nice work!
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Sylvia Plath
ReplyDeleteSource(s): The Bell Jar, poems selected from Collected Poems
How do we see Plath's personality through Esther's decisions?
How does human appearance and insecurity play a role in The Bell Jar, as well as in the selected poems such as "Stillborn"?
Why is medicine a reoccurring, and kind of negative theme in The Bell Jar?
How can one see an internal battle of Plath's in her poems, such as "Resolve"?
Author: Stephen King
ReplyDeleteBook: Carrie
Why does King constantly switch from third person to first person?
Why does King write horror stories?
Why is the theme strong triumphs over weak so emphasized in this book?
Is Carrie's mother supposed to represent someone from his life?
p.s. sorry this was so late
Author: Arthur Miller
ReplyDeletePrimary source: All My Sons.
- What are Miller's views on the American Dream, and how striving to meet such a goal affects those in persistence?
- How does the theme of family play into the overall message of the story?
-Mark Twain shows that race is not a determining factor in a person's character as a human being.
ReplyDelete-Living a White person's life back in the 1830s is not necessarily better for Black person.
Author- Judy Blume
ReplyDeleteSource- Summer Sisters
Why does Judy Blume start with a prologue from summer of 1977 and end the book with an epilogue in the summer of 1996?
Through out the book she has a page for each person in the story that explains someone thinking about what that character is like, why is that? Does Judy Blume like to write in the form of a letter?
Is the first summer supposed to represent the beginning of Vixs life?
This is not like many of Judy Blumes books, why did she pick the theme of someone who basically comes her own?
Novel-Cold Mountain
ReplyDeleteAuthor-Charles Frazier
-Whose journey is more significant--Inman's or Ada's?
-What is the significance of each character's journey (Inman/Ada)?
-Is this a love story or a story about the growth of characters?
-What do they crows symbolize/what is the significance of the crows?
-How does his war experience effect/change Inman?
How does Walker use letters to develop Celie's innersole?
ReplyDeleteWhat is the significance of Nettie going to Africa?
Why does Celie start sewing pants and not skirts? ( Which woman mainly wore)