How much of the actual prose of Ceremony came naturally to Leslie Marmon Silko?
This novel is so dense with hidden quips and metaphors, references, etc., on a sentence-by-sentence basis. I want to audit other sections of the class to hear what more they're discussing. I know second hour never went over the holocaust reference at the train station, with the little boy who represents Rocky.
There are differences between Rocky and Emo, both poisonous characters, that alter my perception of "antagonist." Emo is more completely evil; he was always a violent, power seeking machine. But Rocky is partially the product of Auntie, of Indian school, of his environment. You can hate Emo for all that he is, but with Rocky, you can't.
Last week, Holmes mentioned that one of the reasons she has us do the close readings is so that we're exposed to more adult vocabulary, but aren't articles typically written for the middle school/fifth grade reading level? I do see that editorials, opinion pieces, and reviews do not have to cater to as broad of an audience as straight news. Their emphasis on persuasiveness may require more complex vocabulary, especially for ethos.
4 December 2011 – Open Prompt
2005. In Kate Chopin's The Awakening (1899), protagonist Edna Pontellier is said to possess "That outward existence which conforms, the inward life that questions."
In a novel or play that you have studied, identify a character who outwardly conforms while questioning inwardly. Then write an essay in which you analyze how this tension between outward conformity and inward questioning contributes to the meaning of the work. Avoid mere plot summary.
During the Cold War era, fear of communist and totalitarian government was widespread in western democracies. George Orwell's novel 1984 is an illustration of what those government systems could one day mean. The novel's protagonist, Winston Smith, follows the codes and conventions expected of him by Big Brother, his world's totalitarian regime, while his consciousness starts to rebel. Winston's struggle and ultimate capitulation to the power of Big Brother were Orwell's warnings of absolute tyranny.
1984's Big Brother had control over its subjects' minds and bodies alike. Winston, for the most part, had no choice between conformity and rebellion.
Winston's outward conformity progressively deteriorates as his inward rebellion grows more prominent.
Big Brother reconditions Winston both physically and mentally. At the novel's end, Winston "love[s] Big Brother" truly and completely.
In a novel or play that you have studied, identify a character who outwardly conforms while questioning inwardly. Then write an essay in which you analyze how this tension between outward conformity and inward questioning contributes to the meaning of the work. Avoid mere plot summary.
During the Cold War era, fear of communist and totalitarian government was widespread in western democracies. George Orwell's novel 1984 is an illustration of what those government systems could one day mean. The novel's protagonist, Winston Smith, follows the codes and conventions expected of him by Big Brother, his world's totalitarian regime, while his consciousness starts to rebel. Winston's struggle and ultimate capitulation to the power of Big Brother were Orwell's warnings of absolute tyranny.
1984's Big Brother had control over its subjects' minds and bodies alike. Winston, for the most part, had no choice between conformity and rebellion.
Winston's outward conformity progressively deteriorates as his inward rebellion grows more prominent.
Big Brother reconditions Winston both physically and mentally. At the novel's end, Winston "love[s] Big Brother" truly and completely.
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