Final Papers Due This Week

Tues/Thurs Classes:

YOUR PAPERS ARE DUE ON TUESDAY!
I will be at on a conference starting on Thursday so I will not be here to collect papers on Thursday.
Get me your papers on Tuesday!

Mon/Wed Classes:

YOUR PAPERS ARE DUE ON WEDNESDAY!
I will be at on a conference starting on Thursday so I will not be here to collect papers on Thursday.
Get me your papers on Wednesday!


All Grades will be on MYECC next week

"The Story of An Hour" Kate Chopin

http://www.qsm.ac.il/asdarat/jamiea/7/daliaFadili-final.pdf

http://www.iasj.net/iasj?func=fulltext&aId=31191

http://www.iasj.net/iasj?func=fulltext&aId=31191

http://ojs.ub.gu.se/ojs/index.php/njes/article/viewFile/216/214

http://literaryhistory.com/19thC/Chopin.htm

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 in "A Good Man is Hard to Find":

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:

MONDAY APRIL 7 NO CLASS

We will not have class today Monday April 7. We'll go over "A Good Man is Hard to Find" and "Good Country People" on Wednesday.

This is only for the Monday class.


This does not effect the Tuesday/Thursday section.

Our Tuesday April 8 class will meet tomorrow in the cafeteria for the poetry event at 1. I will post that info on the board tomorrow.

FINAL ESSAY

Use 2 OUTSIDE SOURCES (NO OUTSIDE SOURCES=FAIL)

3 PAGES, DOUBLE SPACED, SIZE 12 TIMES NEW ROMAN

 

Pick ONE of the essay topics below for your paper.

 

Flannery O’Connor stories:

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

2.       How did appearances play a part in “Good Country People”? Why did the characters trust the Bible salesman? Defend your thesis with outside sources and examples from the text.

A Raisin in the Sun

3.       Each of the characters in the Younger family has a particular individual dream. One wants to move to a bigger home, one wants to attend medical school, one wants to rise above his conditions though does not necessarily have a plan to do so. Write an essay in which you compare and contrast the functions of dreams in A Raisin in the Sun. Consider whether there was a way to make each individual dream compatible with others’ dreams. If so, explain why the characters did not identify this alternative.

4.       Oftentimes, seemingly minor characters can actually have great significance to either the meaning or the actions of the play. In A Raisin in the Sun there is a handful of minor characters, including Mr. Linder, Bobo, Willy, George and Joseph, who are significant to the play. Choose one or more of the minor characters in A Raisin in the Sun and write an essay in which you analyze the roles that they play in the development of the thematic content of A Raisin in the Sun. Assess whether the inclusion of these minor characters is necessary to develop the play’s message. Defend your thesis with outside sources and examples from the text.

5.       Compare the three women from play and explain where they differed and what separated them throughout the play.

Choice

6.       In The Hours Virginia and Laura are both, in a sense, prisoners of their eras and societies, and both long for freedom from this imprisonment. They, like the narrator from “The Yellow Wallpaper”, are limited in their choice for what to do with their lives. Using example FROM BOTH, explain how their choice is limited.

7.       Explain what the author of “The Story of My Life” was attempting to convey to readers in her short story. What did she hope to say about not only the character’s life but all women at the time?

How To Quote a Play

Do not use floating quotations--do not just stick quotes into a paragraph with no setup or lead-in.

How to quote a play in MLA:

Quote a monologue (one character's speech) or one side of a piece of dialogue by simply including a lead-in, enclosing the exact wording in quotation marks and adding a citation. Add a comma before the quotation. Example: To impress the successful Bernard, Willy exaggerates his son Biff's success, "Well, he's been doing very big things in the West. But he decided to establish himself here" (Miller 23).

Quote a long monologue (four or more lines) delivered by a character by setting it off in block format. This means that, instead of enclosing it in quotation marks, you put the quotation on a separate line from the lead-in and indent it 10 spaces. For block quotes, end the lead-in with a colon. Don't forget to cite it. Example: Willy continues his delusional discussion with the nonexistent

BEN. Without a penny to his name, three great universities are begging for him, and from there the sky's the limit, because it's not what you do, Ben. It's who you know and the smile on your face! It's contacts, Ben, contacts! The whole wealth of Alaska passes over the lunch table at the Commodore Hotel, and that's the wonder, the wonder of this country, that a man can end with diamonds here on the basis of being liked! (Miller 22)

Quote sets of dialogue between two or more characters by also using block format and putting the characters' names in all capital letters. Don't forget a lead-in and a citation that includes all speeches being quoted. Example:
Willy's delusions consistently show how much Happy and Bernard idolized Biff, especially when they argue over who will carry his football gear:
BERNARD. Biff, I'm carrying your helmet, ain't I?
HAPPY. No, I'm carrying the helmet.
BERNARD. Oh, Biff, you promised me.
HAPPY. I'm carrying the helmet. (Miller 34)

The Hours, 1950s Housewife and Virginia Woolf

 

We will discuss the role the 1950s housewife in relation to the film. Here are the links to some more resources on that topic:

http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/families/article3510810.ece

http://www.feminist.org/research/chronicles/part1a.html

http://aubreylondonpinup.com/the-glorious-1950s-housewife

http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/everythingsanargument4e/content/cat_020/Brady_I_Want_a_Wife.pdf







Here is some more info on Woolf:
http://modernism.research.yale.edu/wiki/index.php/Virginia_Woolf
http://www.utoronto.ca/IVWS/