Category: Literature

Did you develop a different perspective on the characters based on how they are presented in the film? Explain in 1 page response.

Quote and Theme Analysis Project

Description: For this project, you will illustrate your understanding of When Was Puerto Rican and showcase your analysis skills. You are to choose a topic, find two quotes from the memoir that focus on that topic, and write a theme, which states the author’s message about that topic. You will then write a deep analysis, centered around your chosen theme and at least explain the use of one literary element (tone, mood, characterization, metaphor, imagery, etc.).

Step 1- Choose a topic that most stands out to you in When Was Puerto Rican

Step 2- Choose two quotes that most illustrate that topic

Step 3- Write a sentence that captures the theme of this topic

Step 4- Analysis of 2 quotes

QUOTE SET UP AND ANALYSIS
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hT0myvZTyOofMfua1eOGv7FWh-Tx2V22kuaNMIqTNrk/edit?usp=sharing

CHALLENGE
Option #1: Pick a scene to draw based on Negis description & write up 1 page explaining the tone and mood that is set and expressed through her writing

Option #2: Use the movie a ppt pp PPP as a comparative text. Did you develop a different perspective on the characters based on how they are presented in the film? Explain in 1 page response.
Movie Link – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sdLeacEO7I

Option #3 Spicy Challenge: Use a literary criticism of the novel as supporting evidence to your quote analysis.

Materials
When Was Puerto Rican FULL Book by Esmeralda Santiago – is attached to the file. —

Example of this essay project —https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KwZyhSgwA6AQc1Mu1KwmtaIGjw3UCunT0-11O9HqcVQ/edit?usp=sharing
Also, it is attached to the file.

Full Description of this essay —
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uYb-RtQeTuFvhMg7RwLvRAA-FR5G2YkctIsgv3DXlBQ/edit?usp=sharing
Also, it is attached to the file.

Explain which of the two sources help you understand the novel better and why. Of course you may say both do for different reasons, and explain those reasons.

This paper is both about the novel Frankenstein and about understanding various kinds of secondary sources that are available about the novel.

In a 600-750 word essay, compare and contrast the two secondary sources provided (the Vox video and the scholarly article by Macdonald and Scherf).

You should use the week’s lecture as well as the quiz to help you understand the two sources and identify the correct vocabulary to use when writing about them. Here are some other ideas to help you out:

For your  (main argument) statement, explain which of the two sources help you understand the novel better and why. Of course you may say both do for different reasons, and explain those reasons.

You can focus part of your essay on explaining the differences between popular and scholarly sources. Use quotations or references to the two sources to help you.

Find some quotations from Volume of Frankenstein that support your ideas or help you understand one or both of the secondary sources, and integrate these into your essay

Why are we writing on “variety”?What is the function/purpose of each of our 3 (potentially 4) essay elements?

Varieties of Literary Utopia or Utopianism — What Are They?”

Why are we writing on “variety”?
What is the function/purpose of each of our 3 (potentially 4) essay elements?
For example – “Varieties of Literary Utopia or Utopianism — What Are They?”

For your mini-essays, you may either use this above Title Question (TQ) as it is; or you may paraphrase it; or you may think up a title question that communicates the same essential meaning in your own words.

 

Compare and contrast the role (or figure) of the poet in ‘Point Rash-Judgement’ by William Wordsworth (lines 1–86) and ‘Ode to the West Wind’ by Percy Bysshe Shelley (lines 29–70), referring closely to the extracts during the course of your discussion.

Compare and contrast the role (or figure) of the poet in ‘Point Rash-Judgement’ by William Wordsworth (lines 1–86) and ‘Ode to the West Wind’ by Percy Bysshe Shelley (lines 29–70), referring closely to the extracts during the course of your discussion.

What is the function / purpose of each of our 3 (potentially 4) essay elements?Why are we writing on “variety”?

Varieties of Literary Utopia or Utopianism — What Are They?”

Why are we writing on “variety”?

Because to explore “variety” is to explore “distinctions” — it is to explore what distinctly makes, say, book A uniquely book A and not book B? And to explore “distinctions” is to explore the ways in which one universal form or theme – for example, the theme or urge for “utopia in persons and in the world” as found in literature– may be comprehended and imaginatively expressed in a variety of unique and distinct ways.

In short, scholars are essentially in the business of making, highlighting, foregrounding, explicating distinctions, varieties.

What is the function / purpose of each of our 3 (potentially 4) essay elements?

(a) Title Question – TQ

With regard to all essay writing in general, you should understand your essay as:

.. an extended response — modeled on a short-version response (a TR) — to an interesting or thought-provoking or enigmatic question (a TQ) and supported by evidence (ESSs).

Therefore, it’s very wise essay-writing practice to get in the habit of always titling your essay with a Title Question (TQ) …in boldface font.

For example – “Varieties of Literary Utopia or Utopianism — What Are They?”

For your mini-essays, you may either use this above Title Question (TQ) as it is; or you may paraphrase it; or you may think up a title question that communicates the same essential meaning in your own words.

(b) Title Response – TR

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What’s the setting of the story? Could these events have taken place after the 1960s? According to Hemingway’s philosophy of life, what does the character of Robert Wilson represent? From what animal did Francis run away?

72 making her pretty and . . . by playing the situation for laughs”
(126, 137).
Questions on “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber”

At the beginning of the story, in spite of the jubilation for the slaying of the lion, there are
indications that tell us that not all is well. Which are these indications?

How does Mrs Macomber (Margot) behave “bitchily”?

What character has a red face? Towards the end of the story Wilson defines his concept of courage by quoting
Shakespeare. What is the quotation and how do you interpret it?

What illegal action in hunting does Wilson commit when they are hunting for buffalo?
What is Wilson nationality?

How does Wilson define the type of women that Mrs Macomber represents?

Which is the incident that has shaken Francis Macomber’s confidence and made his wife
despise him?

Why did Hemingway title his story “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber”?
What are the conflict and climax of the story?

After Francis Macomber behaves cowardly, what does his wife do to show her contempt
for him?

In spite of their clashes, the Macombers stay together. What are Francis’s reasons to do
so? What are Mrs Macomber’s reasons?

What’s the setting of the story? Could these events have taken place after the 1960s?
According to Hemingway’s philosophy of life, what does the character of Robert Wilson
represent? From what animal did Francis run away?

What do you think of Mrs. Macomber’s phrase when she praises Wilson’s shooting
skills: “That is, if blowing thing’s heads of is lovely.”
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Hemingway describes accurately what went on or could go on in a hunt, but the hunt
goes beyond the events narrated and acquires a more significant meaning. What can you
comment on this?

How do you interpret this phrase: “Also he [Francis Macomber] had always had a great
tolerance which seemed the nicest things about him if it were not the most sinister.”
After hunting the buffalos, Wilson comments about Francis Macomber: “Fear gone like
an apparition. Something else grew in its place. Main thing a man had. Made him into a
man. Women knew it too. No bloody fear.” How do you interpret this comment?

Is the final event of the story an accident or murder? What is Wilson’s opinion? Explain
your answe

How does the idea of empire change across historical periods and affect the production of literature? Refer to TWO literary texts studied on the module in your answer. (The two literary texts are Albert Camus, ‘The Adulterous Woman’ and Edward Said ‘Orientalism’)

LITERATURE OF EMPIRE

How does the idea of empire change across historical periods and affect the production of literature? Refer to TWO literary texts studied on the module in your answer. (The two literary texts are Albert Camus, ‘The Adulterous Woman’ and Edward Said ‘Orientalism’)

Identify, read, and analyze five different scholarly sources that all correlate to a specific theme within the realm of the class’s topic, “Caribbean Diaspora in Britain.”

Investigation of a specific phenomenon related to the intertwined histories of the Anglophone Caribbean and Great Britain. This assignment is based on a topic of your choosing.

The final assignment requires you to identify, read, and analyze five different scholarly sources that all correlate to a specific theme within the realm of the class’s topic, “Caribbean Diaspora in Britain.”

You would need to conduct research and develop a bibliography with texts all associated with a single theme that you also must identify.

Must be in own words and correlate within the realm of Caribbean Diaspora in ?Britain.

Write an essay about the transformation of Gulliver from patriotism to misanthropy. You are responsible for the entire book. Your article will be between 1000-1250 words.

The Transformation of Gulliver from Patriotism to Misantrophy

Write an essay about the transformation of Gulliver from patriotism to misanthropy. You are responsible for the entire book. Your article will be between 1000-1250 words.