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Grades will be on Myecc next week.

Last Few Classes!!!

April 18 Bring paper to 1141 for review from 1130-300

April 20  Final Paper due--1141 in the red Area from 1130-330

Last Few Classes

April 13 Bring paper to 1141 for review from 1130-330

April 18 Bring paper to 1141 for review from 1130-330

April 20  Final Paper due--1141 in the red Area from 1130-330

Hills Like White Elephants---NO CLASS WEDNESDAY APRIL 6

NO CLASS WEDNESDAY APRIL 6

http://www2.hu-berlin.de/sexology/ATLAS_EN/html/the_social_roles_of_men_and_wo.html

http://www.relationship-institute.com/coupleresources.cfm

http://www.cbmw.org/Online-Books/Man-and-Woman-in-Christ/Men-s-and-Women-s-Differences-Social-Structural-Characteristics

http://aff.sagepub.com/content/10/2/194.short


http://www.csus.edu/indiv/m/maddendw/Hem_struc.pdf

https://www.montclair.edu/media/montclairedu/chss/departments/english/enwr106/AR_Renner_Moving_to_the_Girls_Side_of_Hills_like_White_Elephants_106.pdf

http://ftp.collin.edu/andrade/1302/HillsLikeexample.htm

http://www.jeffersonflanders.com/2009/10/ernest-hemingways-hills-like-white-elephants-icebergs-raisin-bread-and-the-short-story/

"Hills Like White Elephants" is often compared to this story "Good People"

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/02/05/good-people

"The Things They Carried"

New York Times Review:

https://www.nytimes.com/books/98/09/20/specials/obrien-carried.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/24/books/review/tim-obriens-things-they-carried-read-by-bryan-cranston.html?_r=0


https://web.archive.org/web/20130507102842/http://www.hks.harvard.edu/ksgpress/bulletin/spring2003/features/things.html

http://www1.umassd.edu/corridors/bestessay25909.html

http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/tag/the-things-they-carried/

http://bookcritics.org/blog/archive/nbcc-reads-david-abram-picks-tim-obrien-who-tells-the-truth-about-war

http://www.thenewcanon.com/the_things_they_carried.html

http://core.ecu.edu/engl/whisnantl/4300/michele.htm

http://biblioklept.org/2013/11/11/review-tim-obriens-novel-the-things-they-carried-read-by-bryan-cranston/

NPR Article:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125128156

A link with many articles:

http://www.literaryhistory.com/20thC/Obrien_Tim.htm

Extra Credit Chance

If you attend the above event and write a one page reaction--I will give you extra credit for the final paper.

Essay 3

APRIL 18 BRING IN DRAFTS FOR REVIEW 1141

APRIL 20 FINAL PAPER DUE

 

1)      Explain the role of God and/or religion in (at least TWO) “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, “A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings” and Life of Pi. Use examples from the texts along with outside sources to support your thesis.

2)      The issue of whether The Misfit had grace or not was discussed in class. Pick a side of the argument and defend your thesis with outside sources and examples from the text.

3)      Explain the role of magical realism in “A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings” and Life of Pi. Pick out three examples from these two and explain how they can be described as magical realism. Use examples from the texts along with outside sources to support your thesis.

 

"Hills Like White Elephants"

4) As we discussed in class, men and women talk to each other in very different ways. Using “Hills Like White Elephants” as proof, describe how this man and woman in the story are a good example of that difference. How do they differ? What is their relationship like?

5) We also discussed what the couple was talking about. Some people believed it was an abortion while others were not convinced. Pick a side of the argument and use an outside source that backs up your stance.

"The Things They Carried"

6))      When Jimmy Cross understands that Ted Lavender is really dead, and that he might have prevented it, his whole outlook changes. Before, he couldn't get Martha out of his head. He was a daydreamer and a lover more than he was a soldier, and he thought often about that. But afterward, he understands that when someone dies, that can't be changed. It makes him realize his duty, and he is suddenly able to distance himself from everything that used to be important in his life. He understands that he is now living in another world and that he is a soldier whether he wants to be or not. In this essay, show how Jimmy Cross changes over the course of the story.

7)      Choose one of the characters and describe how the things he carried (emotional and physical) help tell the reader about the person he is.

 

 

"A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings"

Magical Realism:http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Magic_realism.html

http://www.english.iup.edu/pagnucci/courses/121/definitions/litdefinition-magicalrealism.htm

This article discusses "A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings" and magical realism:
http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/NCW/marquez.htm

Here is a list of fairytales that you may want to reference:
http://ivyjoy.com/fables/

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~spok/grimmtmp/

What makes a story a fairy tale?
http://www.voxmagazine.com/blog/2012/10/what-makes-a-fairy-tale/

http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=jkSzkr4UWDgC&oi=fnd&pg=PP1&dq=what+makes+a+story+a+fairy+tale&ots=5INIgjj9fI&sig=-bBpPAXuosHCiUyBu3uFbQmYHOA#v=onepage&q=what%20makes%20a%20story%20a%20fairy%20tale&f=false

http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=-AR9FEgly9wC&oi=fnd&pg=PA64&dq=what+makes+a+story+a+fairy+tale&ots=AcMzBieWQS&sig=UY-nsUqv1cfOsWdlWoEEM7Nr7A8#v=onepage&q=what%20makes%20a%20story%20a%20fairy%20tale&f=false

http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=1esOc6GGtOsC&oi=fnd&pg=PA2&dq=what+makes+a+story+a+fairy+tale&ots=0d0nbXFdyu&sig=XK7cnjf_z8L06Q5aEzwxBNZbBss#v=onepage&q=what%20makes%20a%20story%20a%20fairy%20tale&f=false


"A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings"
http://www.academia.edu/1000317/Marquezs_A_Very_Old_Man_with_Enormous_Wings_and_Bambaras_The_Lesson

http://litmed.med.nyu.edu/Annotation?action=view&annid=12287

Author's Obit:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/18/books/gabriel-garcia-marquez-literary-pioneer-dies-at-87.html?_r=0

A Good Man Is Hard to Find

Links on Southern Culture:

http://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/regionalism.html

http://edsitement.neh.gov/launchpad-flannery-oconnors-journey-through-the-south

Folow this link for a collection of links about the story:

http://www.literaryhistory.com/20thC/O’Connor.htm

More on "A Good Man is Hard to Find":
http://web.a.ebscohost.com/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=9&sid=7a0d2f82-11ba-4046-80b7-8b3557846338%40sessionmgr4002&hid=4214

http://web.a.ebscohost.com/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=7a0d2f82-11ba-4046-80b7-8b3557846338%40sessionmgr4002&vid=11&hid=4214

http://commons.pacificu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1038&context=casfac

http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/607/784

http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/old-WILLA/fall95/Haines.html

O'Connor reading the story and commentary:

http://www.openculture.com/2012/05/rare_1959_audio_flannery_oconnor_reads_a_good_man_is_hard_to_find.html

http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2011/jul/05/fresh-look-flannery-o-connor-cartoons

Four collections of essays provide a good range of criticism on O’Connor (These would be found in the Literary Criticism section of a book store or library):

1. The Added Dimension: The Art and Mind of Flannery O’Connor, edited by Melvin J. Friedman and Lewis A. Lawson (1966; rpt. Fordham University Press, 1977).

2. Critical Essays on Flannery O’Connor, edited by Melvin J. Friedman and Beverly Lyon Clark (Hall, 1985).

3. Flannery O’Connor, edited by Harold Bloom (Chelsea House, 1986).

4. Realist of Distances: Flannery O’Connor Revisited, edited by Karl-Heinz Westarp and Jan Nordby Gretlund (Aarhus, 1987).

The Grandmother:

The Misfit with the grandmother:

Taking the family to the woods:

The author:

NO CLASS WEDNESDAY

 

In Class March 7

1)      What kind of impact does “the temp” have on the office? What ends up happening to the employees?

 

2)      How is the lighter symbolic of her effect on the office? (Think about the function of a lighter)

 

3)      How does the ending of the story change how the temp is viewed? What does it reveal about her?

 

4)      What does this story say about an individual’s appearance and how it can influence others?

 

 

5)      What similar effects did both the drowned man and the temp have on the people in their stories?

 

“The way we’re working isn’t working. Even if you’re lucky enough to have a job, you’re probably not very excited to get to the office in the morning, you don’t feel much appreciated while you’re there, you find it difficult to get your most important work accomplished, amid all the distractions, and you don’t believe that what you’re doing makes much of a difference anyway. By the time you get home, you’re pretty much running on empty, and yet still answering emails until you fall asleep” (Schwartz and Porah).

 

“But many social scientists and others who study the science of stereotyping say there are reasons we quickly size people up based on how they look. Snap judgments about people are crucial to the way we function, they say — even when those judgments are very wrong” (Belluck).

 

All three of the stories we will look at this week have “Magical Strangers” changed these new environments.

 

Their appearance played a major role in their acceptance and elevation in these stories:

 

The drowned man     ---------------à The Village             

 

The Temp                   ---------------àThe Office                                       

 

Edward Scissorhands --------------àThe Suburban Town

 

 

_______________                  _________________________

           _________________________                       _________________________

          _________________________                        _________________________

1)      Does the drowned man create conflict in the village, or bring the village together? (Your answer might change depending on which part of the story you're examining.)

2)      Flowers are mentioned in the beginning of the story and at the very end; what do the flowers represent to the people of the village? How has that changed since the arrival of the drowned man?

3)      How does the drowned man give the villagers a stronger sense of identity? Why is this important to people?

 

This week we will look at “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World”, “The Temp” and Edward Scissorhands in class. All three of these stories contain individuals that become part of a community in some way and have profound effects of the people. In “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World” it is a corpse that washes ashore that gives the townspeople a new way of looking at their lives, in “The Temp” it is a temp hired in an office that changes the atmosphere of the work environment and in Edward Scissorhands it is a unique young man that forces a rather boring town to see how boring and judgmental they really are. This week pay attention to what these “magical strangers” force the people in the stories to look at it in their lives.

 

The Importance of Appearance

“In traditional societies, clothing reflected ones rank and place in society, and identified one. Its function was not merely to clothe a naked person but also to  beautify him or her. While it always reflected ones outward place it also reveals something on ones internal character. Thus clothing was both protection from the elements and an expression of spiritual and cultural identity”

“Just like one can determine the ripeness or rottenness of a fruit based on its appearance, one can usually draw conclusions on one’s inner character from how they present themselves” Agree?

(http://www.ridingthetiger.org/2013/03/19/the-importance-of-appearance/).

“But recent research suggests that we may need to adopt a more cynical attitude. It turns out that a candidate’s appearance — not beauty, but a look of competence — can generate a far greater vote swing than we previously thought. Furthermore, this effect is not only powerful but also subliminal. Few of us believe that appearance determines our vote, yet for a significant number of us, it may” (Mlondinow).

"The Temp", "The Handsomest Drowned Man In the World" and Edward Scissorhands

The Importance of appearance:
http://elitedaily.com/news/world/the-importance-of-appearances-man-dresses-as-homeless-man-to-prove-nobody-would-help-him-video/592301/

http://www.ridingthetiger.org/2013/03/19/the-importance-of-appearance/

http://www.byui.edu/Documents/Admin_Offices/Advising/PowerOfPersonalAppearance.pdf

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/22/opinion/sunday/a-facial-theory-of-politics.html?module=Search&mabReward=relbias%3Aw

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/08/appearances-mean-nothing-or-everything/?module=Search&mabReward=relbias%3Aw

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/26/fashion/26looks.html?pagewanted=all&module=Search&mabReward=relbias%3Aw

Office Culture:http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/01/opinion/sunday/why-you-hate-work.html?smid=fb-nytimes&WT.z_sma=OP_WYH_20140602&bicmp=AD&bicmlukp=WT.mc_id&bicmst=1388552400000&bicmet=1420088400000&_r=3

http://www.forbes.com/sites/vickvaishnavi/2013/03/28/five-must-follow-rules-for-a-successful-office-culture/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/office-culture/

http://www.immihelp.com/newcomer/work-culture-office-environment-usa.html

https://www.themuse.com/advice/rally-the-team-how-to-create-a-cool-office-culture

Culture:

These links discuss cultural differences and also provides a number of links if you go to the bottom of the page. Use the information they provide as outside sources if you are writing your essay about this subject:
http://blue.butler.edu/~jfmcgrat/culture.htm

http://www.worldwide.edu/travel_planner/culture_shock.html

http://www.ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/ijps/article/view/4510

Here is one on the effects of culture shock:http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=effects+culture+shock&hl=en&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart&sa=X&ei=tIk6T-mJBaLn0QHXj5GXCw&ved=0CBoQgQMwAA

Links for "The Handsomest Drowned Man In the World":

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=THE+HANDSOMEST+DROWNED+MAN+IN+THE+WORLD&as_sdt=1%2C31&as_sdtp=

This week we will look at “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World”, “The Temp” and Edward Scissorhands in class. All three of these stories contain individuals that become part of a community in some way and have profound effects of the people. In “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World” it is a corpse that washes ashore that gives the townspeople a new way of looking at their lives, in “The Temp” it is a temp hired in an office that changes the atmosphere of the wor enviroment and in Edward Scissorhands it is a unique young man that forces a rather boring town to see how boring and judgmental they really are. This week pay attention to what these “magical strangers” force the people in the stories to look at it in their lives.

ESSAY 1 Questions

ENG 102

ESSAY #1*** DUE WED FEB 24***

LATE PAPERS DO NOT GET REVISION AND LOSE POINTS

3 PAGES, DOUBLE SPACED, SIZE 12 TIMES NEW ROMAN

USE TWO OUTSIDE SOURCES (NOT INCLUDING THE TEXT!) AND QUOTE THE PRIMARY TEXTS AS WELL.

Refer to the class blog for outside source info: eng102spring2016.blogspot.com

ONLY RELIABLE SOURCES!

Pick ONE of the essay topics below for your paper.

1.      Sonny described the streets of Harlem as having “…all that hatred and misery and love. It's a wonder it doesn't blow the avenue apart…” Using examples from the text and two outside sources, explain what he meant by that statement.

2.      What statement does “Sonny’s Blues” make about the relationship of art to life or about the relationship of art to suffering? Citing specific examples from the text, write an essay about how Sonny uses art to aid in his suffering.

3.      Explain the effect the environment has on Sonny and his brother (Harlem in the 1940s and 1950s). This would require that find out a bit more about each of the settings through some research (Use the link on the blog about Harlem). Use examples from the texts along with outside sources to support your thesis.

4.      Bernie and Emma put on black shoe polish so they will not be seen when they sneak out at night to paint the lawn jockeys white. Why could this been seen as symbolic? What is your understanding of blackface? Later on, Bernie says they are invisible—could there be more to that?

5.      When they see their father in the kitchen as they are attempting to paint the jockeys, Bernie says to himself that his father is “thinking about who he used to be, who he is, who people think he is, and who he wants to become” (79). What does this mean?

6.      Pick NO MORE THAN THREE characters from the three stories we have read so far and explain how their identity is shaped or explained in their story. Use examples from the texts along with outside sources (links about identity on blog) to support your thesis.

7.      Use examples from The Namesake, “Two Kinds”, The Namesake and from your own experience if it applies (and limit it to one paragraph) to explain the “new American” experience and the challenges of assimilation. Use examples from the texts along with outside sources to support your thesis. You must use at least one of the short stories as an example for this question.

Your Last Name 4

 

                                                    Works Cited

Naqvi, Tahira. “Brave We Are.” Exploring Literature. Ed. Frank Madden. 5^th ed. New York:

Longman, 2012. 928-932. Print.

Raboteau, Emily. “Mrs. Turner’s Lawn Jockeys.” Mixed: An Anthology of Short Fiction on the

Mulitracial Experience. Ed. Rebecca Walker. 1st ed. New York: Norton, 2006. 69-81..

Print.

Soloman, S.A. “Live For Today.” New Jersey Noir. New York: Akashic, 2011. 27-39. Print.

Tan, Amy. “Two Kinds.” Literature: A Portable Handbook. Ed. Gardner, Janet E.3RD ed.

Boston: Bedford, 2013. 382-391. Print.

The Namesake. Dir. Mira Nair. Fox Searchlight Pictures, 2007. DVD.

*YOU ALSO MUST INCLUDE YOUR TWO OUTSIDE SOURCES

 

 

Does my paper have:

• An introduction that states my thesis, the author or authors of the text I am writing about and the title of those texts AND DOES NOT INCLUDE ANY QUOTES
• Body paragraphs that use outside sources and examples from the text to support my thesis
• A conclusion that restates my thesis and does NOT include quotes from the text or any new information
• A works cited page that follows MLA guidelines as shown in the handout