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Lecture: Introduce Little Brother.

Weekly Memorandum (Write about the first part of Little Brother–introduction through chapter 7 and our lecture today. Think about how themes in the novel connect to our previous readings and other things that you know about–fiction and real life)

Read for next class:

Doctorow, Cory. Little Brother. E-book, https://craphound.com/littlebrother/download/, 2008, chapters 8-15.

Resources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Doctorow

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Brother_(Doctorow_novel)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco%E2%80%93Oakland_Bay_Bridge

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four

https://xroads.virginia.edu/~Hyper2/thoreau/civil.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_attacks

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akihabara

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_Act

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_theater

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_warrantless_surveillance_(2001%E2%80%932007)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_surveillance_whistleblowers

https://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/16/politics/bush-lets-us-spy-on-callers-without-courts.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/16/politics/a-halfcentury-of-surveillance.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRZ54n6g0Yw&t=2387s

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Research Project Check-In

Conclude watching the film adaptation of A Passage to India, paying attention to how the film shows us visually what is taking place in comparison to how the novel shows us textually (description, simile/metaphor, and interiority). Remember that the film is a guide and support for our reading of the novel. The final exam will focus on the novel.

Discuss eyewitness testimony issues.

Discuss connections between A Passage to India and Walt Whitman.

Weekly Memorandum (Write about your reading of the concluding Temple section of the novel A Passage to India. Think about how the trial ended in the middle section titled Caves and the lasting impact of the trial on those involved as described in Temple, in particular, the accused Dr. Aziz and his friend Fielding. Discuss issues that you found with the trial in Caves, too. Connect back to your thinking of legal issues associated with the story, but you can widen your discussion to the effects of the law and its application to the individuals in the story).

Resources

Walt Whitman’s “Passage to India,” British Library

Walt Whitman’s “Passage to India,” PBS

Ted Chiang’s “The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling”

“He Was Convicted of Raping Alice Sebold. Then the Case Unraveled.” (link for not being logged in)

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Brief Review of Literature Covered So Far

Your Responses to the “Before the Law” parable in Kafka’s The Trial, which you all wrote about the week before last.

Continue watching the film adaptation of A Passage to India, paying attention to how the film shows us visually what is taking place in comparison to how the novel shows us textually (description, simile/metaphor, and interiority). Remember that the film is a guide and support for our reading of the novel. The final exam will focus on the novel.

Weekly Memorandum (write about your reaction to the second part (Caves) of A Passage to India. Keep your remarks focused on the novel and use our viewing of the film as a way to help better understand the characters, setting, and narrative. You will have an opportunity to write about the relationship of the film and novel in a future Weekly Memo assignment).

Resources

Glossary of Literary Terms

Interiority