Agenda for Wednesday, Sept 29

 

1—Freewrite

#1 What happened yesterday and what plans do you have for the weekend? 

My example: Yesterday I was washing dishes after dinner when I was transported back to a beach vacation from forty years ago in which I was sitting in the shallow water with my bucket and shovel pretending to be a king with a shield and sword. Just then my sister came up to me and said “well look at you washing dishes in the ocean.”

#2: write your own flashback!!! Invented or factual is okay.

 

2—Lloyd-Smith–Highlights

**Extremes and Taboo

**Gothic highlights the oppression of women, children, the “other”, and native americans and blacks (slavery). 

**Unique American pressures: pg 4

**Liminality: between states or thoughts. Undecided and anxious.

**Hallmarks, pg 5

**CGI pg 5

**Gothic landscape and setting:

**Terror: what might happen…scratching sound behind closed door or descending a dark staircase.

**Horror: The monster reveals itself…the blood/violence arrives.

 

3—Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” and terms

Questions:

–Smell? Real or allegorical? Who smelled?

–Why did she not leave the house? Who was Emily Grierson? What does she look like? Does she work? Describe her father.

–Whats are five major events in the story?

 

Homework: Due in class on Monday, October 4

Read Kafka’s “A Hunger Artist” and Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man” and answer these two questions in your notebooks (nothing to submit): 1–discuss how each of these stories is an allegory that is meant to teach us something; what is the lesson we should learn? 2–Apply Todorov’s terms to each story.