TODAY IN CLASS
I collected the homework (three paragraphs on specific "Chrysanthemums" questions). If you were absent today, make sure you remember to hand it in on Wednesday.
In 1st period, we balanced both the short story and some reasonable time for Atonement; in 3rd and 6th, we need to do some catch-up time on the novel. So hang on to your ideas about the ways in which Briony's character was set up in Chapter 1.
FOR TOMORROW
- We will finish our work with "The Chrysanthemums," looking closely at the "bath scene" (incorporating many ideas from the work you did on it) and trying to fit the story's ending into a cohesive sense of Steinbeck's theme.
- Make sure that you have read the material on point of view in Kennedy-Gioia (see yesterday's post)
- Choose EITHER Cecilia's version (Chapter 2) or Robbie's version (Chapter 8) of the fountain scene. Do the same thing for whichever chapter you select as you did for Chapter 1: what are the overall personality traits we see in these individuals, and what about them might contribute most directly to the tragedy that ensues?
Upcoming--be sure to have read the Fiction/Plot intro material (pp. 5-16), and be thinking about the "atonement" process I broached today. To recap: for Judaism, Christianity, or another faith, use either your own knowledge or some brief research to specify the steps between a wrong-doing (a sin of commission or omission) and the possibility of atonement. Both the possible steps or path as well as the language used to describe them varies among religions, but we are wanting to establish some sense of how this process could work. But Ian McEwan is writing fiction--not theology--so our literary purpose is ultimately to connect the language of his text with real-world counterparts in human thinking. We'll be looking a several different sections in which different characterize utilize a variety of religous terms to describe their secular concerns.
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