NOTE: I fixed the Franz Kafka short story “A Hunger Artist”…sorry about that error!

NOTE: We do not have class on Monday, Oct 11!

 

1–Freewrite 1: Which stories have you selected for the Midterm Essay and why?

 

2–Freewrite 2: character pairs+++ discuss similarities AND differences

 

3–Discussion: Terms

 

4–Discussion: “A Hunger Artist”

 

5–Discussion: “Prologue to Invisible Man”

 

6–New Term: SACRIFICE:

Verb

sacrifice (third-person singular simple present sacrifices, present participle sacrificing, simple past and past participle sacrificed)

a. To offer (something) as a gift to a deity.

b. To give away (something valuable) to get at least a possibility of gaining something else of value (such as self-respect, trust, love, freedom, prosperity), or to avoid an even greater loss. 

Venison has many advantages over meat from factory farms, although it still requires a hunter to sacrifice the life of a deer.

c. To trade (a value of higher worth) for something of lesser worth in order to gain something else valued more, such as an ally or business relationship, or to avoid an even greater loss; to sell without profit to gain something other than money. 

d. To intentionally give up (a piece) in order to improve one’s position on the board

e. To advance (a runner on base) by batting the ball so it can be fielded, placing the batter out, but with insufficient time to put the runner out.

f. (dated, tradesmen’s slang) To sell at a price less than the cost or actual value.

g. To destroy; to kill.

 

Noun

sacrifice (countable and uncountable, plural sacrifices)

    1. The offering of anything to a god; a consecratory rite. 
    2. The destruction or surrender of anything for the sake of something else; the devotion of something desirable to something higher, or to a calling deemed more pressing.

the sacrifice of one’s spare time in order to volunteer

    1. (baseball) A play in which the batter is intentionally out so that one or more runners can advance around the bases.
    2. Something sacrificed. 
    3. A loss of profit.
    4. (slang, dated) A sale at a price less than the cost or the actual value.

 **from Wiktionary**

 

 

Homework: Read John Cheever’s “The Enormous Radio” and write Coffeehouse #4,  One paragraph on why this story is gothic (use correct terms) and one paragraph on why it is not gothic (300 words) due by class time on Oct 13 (remember we don’t have class on Monday, Oct 11)

NOTE:

I’ll begin with these three questions on Wednesday:

**What happens to the hunger artist at the end of the story?

**Describe the Invisible Man’s home.

**What happens at the end of The Enormous Radio?