...Pride and Prejudice Before Reading 8 TALKING ABOUT THE COVER • Can you tell from these two faces which character will be proud, and which will be prejudiced? • In your opinion, which of the two characteristics – pride or prejudice – would be more damaging to a relationship? • Which of these two characters do you expect to feel more sympathy for in the story? 9 10 11 12 BEFORE READING ACTIVITIES (PAGE 108) ACTIVITY 1 BEFORE READING Encourage discussion about types of pride and prejudice, and speculation about the kind of story students are expecting to read. Do not tell students if their guesses are right. They will find out as they read that the best answers are 1b, 2a, 3a, 3b, 3c, 3e and 3g. walk across the muddy fields to visit Jane’s sick-bed at Netherfield Park. Mr Collins to Mrs Bennet, referring to the fact that he might propose to one of her daughters, to make amends for inheriting their house when Mr Bennet dies. Elizabeth to Mr Wickham, about Mr Darcy. Mr Wickham to Elizabeth, about the post of rector of Pemberley which Mr Darcy had failed to give him. Elizabeth to Mr Darcy, mocking him for his lack of conversation, by suggesting to him the kind of boring comment that he should be making. Mr Darcy to Elizabeth, about Wickham and whether he was able to keep the friends that he found easy to make. BEFORE READING CHAPTER 5 Encourage speculation and discussion, but do not confirm or deny students’ guesses at this stage...
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...My response to the short novel Like Water for Chocolate was that it’s very irritating very excessive at the ending chapters. This is due to the process the story took to display its message. In a way, Laura Esquivel is telling her readers that true love conquers all and that magic does exist in the world. I agree with that message and the way the novel was formatted made me enjoy it. This whole reading felt like a battlefield when it came to love and this was great in showing that magic can happen in a person’s life. Magical things do happen in the world and many people can reinforce this claim with actual experiences that they have gone through. Something magic takes time for it to actually set when it comes to every individual person. The...
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...oliver evans a revaluation summarySummary and Response to “The Snows of Kilimanjaro: A Revaluation” by Oliver Evans Oliver Evans' Evaluation Because Ernest Hemingway is considered to be an influential intellectual as well as a modernist philosopher, all his literary works are closely criticized by numerous literary critics. His work, “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” highlighted Hemmingway’s views on “life-in-death” more than any of his other works; though, almost all his works are concerned with departing material reality in some way. Some literary critics state that “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” was a “magnificent failure” because it lacked “dramatic force” (Evans, 601). Others do not believe that the story’s material action and symbolism are properly matched (Evans, 601). Oliver Evans does not agree. “‘The Snows’ is not, primarily, a story of action at all: its interest lies in the situation, and in the conflict between idealism and materialism that takes place within the protagonist” (Evans, 602). Evans discovered symbolism in almost every aspect of the story. Evans noted the despair in Harry’s life because of the conflicting views he held, and because of the deadness he felt. According to Evans, Harry was partly idealistic, as shown by his despair; however, he was also materialistic and mechanistic. Harry did not fear death; however, he hated the thought of leaving so much unaccomplished. He hated knowing that he had ruined his own life and that he could not re-claim his integrity...
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...pays little mind to her class status and refuses two economically advantageous proposals while Darcy’s arrogance, class superiority, and idea of an accomplished woman poses countless obstacles for the couple to overcome before falling in rational, yet unconventional love. Unlike most women attending the Meryton ball where Elizabeth and Darcy first meet, Elizabeth disregards Darcy’s ten thousand pounds per year emphasizing her disinterest in marrying for money. The narrator includes the details of Darcy’s income to underscore the attractiveness that his wealth draws, as he was one of the richest men in England during this time. Assemblies, like the Meryton ball, were critical for women since they were limited in potential husbands and must marry advantageously for the future. Dr. John Gregory in A Father’s Legacy to his Daughters, stresses the necessity...
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...It was a story of a boy who was only 17 when he decides to marry his love one. He was dodong, and he love teang so much that he could not wait for the right age to settle down in a relationship that is hard to escape. It's the "marriage". At the age of 17 dodong and teang got married without thinking of the risk being in an uneasy part of life. They just follow what they feel. They don't think what would happen in their future. They got a child. Teang realized how hard being a young parent. Her regret of she had done and think, what would be my life if i marry my other suitors instead of dodong? Can I have the same life as of now? She regrets so much of!! Until one day, when their son grow. He follows the footsteps of his parents. He wants to marry also at the age of 17. He told his parents what his plans. Dodong have nothing to do but explain how hard and how risky to be in "marriage "at the young age.. But like dodong before, his son also wants to pursue what he wants. The lesson we can learn is that marriage can wait the right time, if we want to be in this stage of life, we must prepare ourselves against the risk of it. I know we can all be in to it if we like too but not at the young age. This would be a lesson for youth like me. Jose Garcia villa is a great write coz aside from having nice story; he also had the point of view where we can have the knowledge of something related to what will happen to us. Analysis Footnote To Youth Footnote to Youth By Jose...
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...work. This automatically requires examples and support from various parts of the text. (Blueprint B v2.0 p. 234) Guidelines | 1. Decide on one of the two books assigned by your teacher. | | 2. Divide your book into three parts. Use one week to read each part. | | 3. Write reading logs as you read your book. There are three of them on the next page, one for each part of your book (beginning, middle, end) | | 4. Create an outline for your essay by using the template below. | | 5. Write your first draft. Follow the instructions closely, Blueprint B, pp. 234-239 | | 6. Do the ”Checkpoints for Revising” on page 239, Blueprint B. | | 7. Receive peer response from a classmate or two. Use the “Peer Response Sheet” and the ”Rubric” below. | | 8. Reflect on your progress so far and ask yourself; “How can I improve this text?” Make notes in your “Self Assessment Sheet” below. | | 9. Improve your text! Turn it into a final draft – 700-1200 words. Remember to use the ”Kulturama Manual of Style". | | 10. Complete the ”Self Assessment Sheet", the ”Source Evaluation Sheet" and fill in your ”Rubric". | | 11. Export this file as ZIP and upload in Schoolsoft. | Reading Logs | Log1Explain how the novel begins in order to get a clear idea what the novel is about. Does your protagonist follow any of Campbell’s first 5 steps? | Campbell’s first steps-Call to adventure: When Elizabeth intends to visit Charlotte and Mr. Collins...
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...Instructor: January Pearson May 27, 2013 COUNTRY LOVERS Nadine Gordimer wrote Country Lovers in 1975. This story is about a prohibited relationship between an African American girl and a Caucasian boy on a South African farm. (Clugston, 2010) Years ago a relationship between two people of the opposite ethnic group was frowned upon. I am going to explain why this story caught my interest, explain the reader response method, and I plan to assess the story I chose using the reader response method. I chose Country Lovers by Nadine Gordimer because I love romance and mystery stories that are full of suspense and drama. Country Lovers is one of those short stories that have romance, suspense, and drama. Thebedi and Paulus are the main characters in this story. Thebedi and Paulus grew up together on Paulus father farm. (Gordimer, 1975) Thebedi and Paulus were childhood friends who flirtation leads to them to have a sexual relationship. (Gordimer, 1975) This story is full of suspense, drama, and romance. Thebedi had gotten pregnant from Paulus but she never told him. (Gordimer, 1975) She married another man he was a member of her tribe in South Africa. (Gordimer, 1975)When Paulus returned, he found out that she had married another man and had a baby. (Gordimer, 1975) The baby that Thebedi gave birth too was Paulus baby. (Gordimer, 1975) Paulus did not know that Thebedi daughter was his. (Gordimer, 1975) Paulus thought that she had gotten pregnant from her husband. Paulus...
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...Briscoe, Nancy Ramsay, and other characters who move around these central characters and how these characters are to be studied with the feministic point of view and built as a portrait of real woman in the Victorian England as well as its relevance in the present scenario. Our efforts are to bring out the voice of female characters’ echo in the novel considering these various roles in the novel. INTRODUCTION In the Post-Modern period, the feministic perspective has been much travelled especially in the writing of female authors or poets. The word ‘servitude’ (Fanon) in the feministic reading has been much taken in to consideration. To the Lighthouse, much discussed, debated and criticized like its length of writing in the panorama of Feminism. The writers’ efforts to portray the real woman as far as milieu and moment are concerned, is to challenge patriarchal family and treatment of woman. Reading To the lighthouse strikes researcher’s mind of various feministic test like ‘Look Back in Anger’ by John Osborn, ‘Death of A Salesman’ by Arthur Miller, ‘A Doll’s House’ by Henrik Ibsen, ‘Middlemarch’ by George Eliot, ‘Frankenstein’ by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly, ‘An Introduction’ by Kamala Das, poems of Meena Kandasamy, ‘Tara’ by...
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...knows how much we disapprove of such rough activities Servant: Yes your majesty, Princess Alexandra is out on her horse, she has been gone for quite some time now, I’ll go find her. King: She needs to start cooperating with us so we can find her the right prince for her to marry. Queen: Remember your majesty, she will need to fall in love with him first! Alexandra: Sorry father I was out in the garden King: Never mind that lie, we need to discuss wedding arrangements! Queen: Prince Liam from Aarondell is a fine gentleman! Or even Prince Harry Alexandra: They’re both wimps! They couldn’t even beat me in an archery competition if they wanted! Queen: Alexandra! You need to stop fooling around and doing such manly activities! You are 16 now, start acting like the lady that you are! Alexandra: I told you I want to be called Alex from now on, please! Mother those dresses are so ugly and plus I feel more comfortable in my slacks! Queen: You’ve been like this since you were little and we have letting you get away with it but now that you are 16 and a young lady you need to present yourself as one! King: Such a mature and beautiful young lady and she still does not have interest in finding a prince to marry! Alexandra: Father I am sorry I just simply do not see myself with a man in my future! Queen: *gasp * You cannot stay single your whole life! Alexandra: Mother I do not intend to stay single my whole life. I just do not find men attractive… King: WHAT? What do you mean...
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...Miranda; Controlled and Suppressed During the 17th century, a woman’s agency was undermined by the fact that they’re female. Women were inferior to men simply because the bible said so. If the bible said that women were inferior to men then it must be true. They were the brides of kings and the mothers of future kings. Women were to be suppressed, controlled, and obedient. According to Suzanne W. Hull, Male authors gave women directions on how to dress (with decorum befitting their rank), how to talk (as little as possible), how to behave toward their husbands (with subservience and obedience), how to walk (with eyes down), what to read (works by and about good and godly persons, not romances), and how to pray (frequently) (135). In other words, women were to do what the men in their lives told them to do. They were to do those things no matter how outlandish a mans request may have seemed. A woman doing anything different than what was required of her was considered socially unacceptable and inhuman. These qualities can be seen a lot throughout most of Shakespeare’s plays. For example; Isabella in “Measure for Measure” wants to enter a nunnery because she does not trust that she will be able to uphold her virginity if she does not. If she loses that virginity, she will no longer hold any value. This same characteristic can be seen in “The Tempest” because Prospero spends a lot of time teaching Miranda how important her virginity truly is. This control over virginity that...
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...------------------ Engl. 1302.500 August 29, 2015 Response to Bluebeard The story told about the man, Bluebeard, has a number of meaningful and significant things, but one significant thing that ties it all together is the youngest daughter. Bluebeard was attempting to gain the heart of one of the three sisters. The oldest two knew something was not right about that blue beard, the youngest, after being pampered, changes her mind from being frightened by him to thinking “his beard isn’t really all that blue.” The significance here is you should trust your instances, if something seems off, it probably is. The man, Bluebeard marries the youngest sister and she moves into his mansion. After Bluebeard leaves, the sisters find his secret, in a room, which the bride said she would not go into, filled with dead women. Upon Bluebeards arrival he finds his wife has betrayed him and now he must kill her too. She is saved by her brothers and Bluebeard is killed. The significance of all this is the youngest sister did not have the knowledge and experience that the older sisters had. As young, naïve women do, they want to see the best in people, like she did, despite his blue beard. Even today a lot of young girls want to trust everyone, it takes the experience and knowledge of the parents to try to teach their children about the dangers that the world has. It reminds me of when I was a kid my...
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...always going to be a story, poem or book that you come across that will reveal a time or a moment that is brought back to life. That is the beautiful art of literature, reading something that makes you experience all your emotions. That is what the story Country Lover’s by Nadine Gordimer does for me. It is a short story about the unfairness of one’s color and a forbidden love because the color of one’s skin. What I know for sure is that love comes in every color and sizes, while we are not able to control the power of love, why should it be forbidden? It was for Thebedi in the story Country Lover’s she was a black woman who fell in love with the Master’s son Paul us. He knew he loved her the moment they were together as it was not the same as with other girls.” This time it was so lovely, so lovely, he was surprised….and she was surprised by it, too-he could see in her dark face that was part of the shade, with her big dark eyes, shiny as soft water, watching him attentively: as she had when they used to huddle over their teams of mud oxen, as she had when he told her about detention weekends at school.” (As cited in clugston, 2010) Not only was the moment they had together lovely but it she was the one he had loved all this time only not knowing it until that moment and the look in her eyes that was so familiar to him. As it was for me although we lived in different times the racial differences still exist, especially for people obsessed with the color of their skin, as my family...
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...brings up his previous wife and insists on Janie doing the same things she did like chop wood. One day he goes off to buy a mule and Janie sees a “cityfield, stylished dressed man” come into town. Janie begins to pump water to attract his attention and he wanders over. They strike up a conversation, Janie learns that his name is Jody Starks and he is from Georgia. He has learned that the town is ruled entirely by black people and fed up of working for white people his whole life, intends to invest and make a lot of money here. Janie can tell Jody is interested in her but she is not sure that she wants to leave Logan, first because her Nanny wanted them to marry and second because she does not see a pear-tree love with Jody. Before Jody leaves town he tells Janie to meet him up the road the next morning if she wants to be with him. That night Janie bring up the idea of her running away but Logan tells her no man would even want her in the first place. The next morning Logan essentially tells her that she has to obey his every order and refers to her as a spoiled girl; he finishes the discussion by threatening to kill her with an axe. This makes up her decision to leave Logan and meets Jody where they travel to Green Cove Springs to get married. Quote...
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...“In “A New England Nun” as well as many other of her stories according to Victoria Aarons, Freeman views marriage as a social institution that restricts women's mobility and freedom to find a comfortable position within male-dominated traditions”(Maik). Without a doubt, Freeman does not agree with the concept that it is a woman’s duty by birth to marry a husband. By writing her short story “A New England Nun” she aims to rectify the ideals of society which obligate women to wed because she sees marriage as simply a means of empowering the societal notion that women are dependent on a man. Incontestably, Freeman’s mentality that women should not be expected by society to have a husband is mirrored in her novel “A New England Nun” by the short story’s main character Louisa and this acts as a moral purifier. "If Louisa Ellis had sold her birthright she did not know it, the taste of the pottage was so delicious, and had been her sole satisfaction for so long. Serenity and placid narrowness had become to her as the birthright itself" (Freeman 17). Truly, Freeman utilizes Louis to...
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...Wei Lin Writing 39B Professor Greg McClure February 7, 2017 Rhetorical Analysis Inner Fear In Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend, as the only survivor of the calamity that has wiped out the entire civilization, Robert Neville is the only hope of human civilization and human species. For some reason, the virus that has mutated every human being doesn’t have any effect on Neville which is a bit ironic. Before the plague, he is just a normal person who lives a normal life. All of sudden, he becomes the chosen one. I Am Legend demonstrate his mental condition breaking down along with his human sanity fading away. After finish reading the book, my direct feeling is fear. The fear is not...
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