Part of speech: Noun
Definition: a letter or other written message: a written communication.
I encountered this word while reading ” Ready Lucy” by Jennifer Egan on page 26 of the handout.
By looking up this word, I am able to understand the sentence better and expand my vocabulary. Egan said that Lucy would write daily missives, so now, the langue is not as difficult to understand as it was before.
Source:http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/missives?show=0&t=1383606011
Part of speech: Noun
Definition: the interior curve of an arch
I encountered this work while doing my project two paper for my English Class. I could not think of the right word to describe the inside of the arch , so I searched the description on Google, and I was able to find it on Wikipedia.
By discovering this word, I was able to give a clearer description of what I was talking about it.
In “Reading Lucy,” Jennifer Egan describes her experience at the Brooklyn Historical Society in which she researched the women working at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in World War II. Through her archival research on one of these women, Lucille Kolkin, Egan became consumed in her research and felt a strong connection to her subject. Is there a passage in “Reading Lucy” that exemplifies Egan’s interest and investment? Describe a situation in which you became engrossed in something you were studying, learning, or experiencing.
In this article “Reading Lucy” by Jennifer Egan, Egan talks about her bonding with Lucille Kolkin. They met at the Brooklyn Historical Society on Wedmesdays and Fridays but later on lost contact with eachother. In 1943 Lucy met a Alfred Kolkin sooner amd later they both got married. Egan got the letters when Lucy and Alfred used to write to eachother while Alfred was away for World War II. Egan was eager to learn more about the Brooklyn Navy Yard and about Lucy’s life during her own free time. She wanted to know what was Lucy’s personalities were like. Egan noticed how Lucy sent many many emails to Alfred while he was away, While Egan was researching about Lucy she has noticed that she is getting to know about Lucy’s life. By Egan reading Lucy’s letter it seemed like Egan was so close to Lucy and connected as well. By looking at this novel it shows how Lucy loved Alfred and their love letters from eachother through Egan’s narration and Lucy’s notes.
According to Jennifer Egan in “Reading Lucy”, Egan met a friend named Luccile Kolkin, by the old letters from her in Brooklyn Historical Society. By reading Lucy’s letters for her Husband, Egan knew about Lucy’s life and felt there were lots of similarities between Lucy and her, and she really like Lucy’s passion. Both of them liked to write “to-do list”, they live in Brooklyn and they “both work hard and struggled to find time for practical necessities like cleaning and shopping”. In addition, while reading the letters, Egan also tried to guess Lucy’s personalities, what did her like and what did she interest with. Though Lucy’s life, we saw there were a lot of facts which reveal the society in that time. “I (Lucy) went to college. So what. I look for a job and people say, ‘Yes, yes but what can you do?’ ‘Nuttin’ say I.” This showed the college education did not really matter; people were more willing to employ the men, because “men” are not equal at that time. Just like Minnie, a Negro who wanted to become a fitter in Navy Yard got rejected because she is a woman and a Negro. At the end, by reading Lucy’s life, it helped Egan to approach her Novel researching, a woman worked at Brooklyn Navy yard during WWII.
In the article, “Reading Lucy” by Jennifer Egan, Egan bonds with a woman from Brooklyn named Lucille Kolkin. They became friends and bonded at the Brooklyn Historical Society on Wednesdays and Fridays but lost touch later on in life. Lucy met a man in 1943 named Alfred Kolkin and married him soon after. Egan got the letters that Alfred and Lucy exchanged while Alfred was away for World War II. Lucy was constantly writing to Alfred. Egan hoped to learn more about life and the Brooklyn Navy Yard during World War II and Lucy’s letters gave her a first hand account to that. However, the more Egan reads these letters, the more it became for learning about Lucy’s life than getting information for her research. Reading these letters allowed Egan to actually feel like she was closer with Lucy and she felt connected to Lucy. Egan coneys to the reader how Lucy was feeling at the time of the written note and Egan even gives her opinion into certain letters. Egan is constantly quoting Lucy’s letters when speaking about her letters. This article shows that love between Alfred and Lucy through Egan’s narration and Lucy’s notes. The novel is filled with notes from Lucy to Alfred but the article ends with a note from Alfred.
On Wednesday’s English class, we discuss Jennifer Egan’s “Reading Lucy” and go over how Egan incorporate the source material in her article. At the beginning of the class we talk about how did our experiences in BHS are different with Egan. Most of us agree our goal, the purpose in the BHS are different. Then we discuss about incorporating source material.
The block quotation rules:
1.Started a new line.
2.Indent it on inch on the left, not at all on the right.
3.Keep the spacing the same. If it is prose paragraph, use regular formatting.
4.If it is poetry or something that takes a particular form, maintain that form.
Look at the example on page 22; we see there is a list, which quoted without quotation marks. It gives us a sense of what the source material look like on the page. Moreover, we use colon (:) to set off a large quotation.
(Colon: signals an example)
If you only want to use part of a passage, use an ellipsis to indicate that something is missing; be careful not to miss leading the audience, and moreover at the end of the sentence, there are 4 dots, because one is the period.(for example: “xxoo##….”)
When a quotation inside a quotation, we use single quotation mark inside the quote and the double quotation mark for the outside.
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