Week of 5/2-5/6

Frankenstein

1. Discuss how the episolary style (letters) of the novel affect your understanding/enjoyment of it.
2. Discuss the following quotes:

a. " None but those who have experienced them can conceive of the enticements of science. In other studies you go as far as others have gone before you, and there is nothing more to know; but in a scientific pursuit there is continual food for discovery and wonder."

b. "I am malicious because I am miserable. Am I not shunned and hated by all mankind?"

April 11-15

Atwood's "February" 1. What are the strong images in the poem? Which of the senses are appealed to by these images? Did you like or dislike this poem? Explain/Discuss. Plath's "Mirror" 2. Discuss the imagery Plath uses in "Mirror." Can you relate to this poem? Explain/Discuss. O'Brien "How to Tell a True War Story" 3. Discuss how (according to O'Brien) a true war story can never by abstract; it is about details. Marquez's "One of These Days" 4. Discuss how the effects of violence and civil repression are handled in the story.

April 4-8

Flannery O'Connor 1. Does "A Good Man is Hard to Find" seem like a genuine story, or is the plot too coincidental? Are the characters and events believable? 2. If this story is an allegory, what do the Misfit and the grandmother (for whom other, more specific names are never specified) represent? 3. At the end of "Good Country People," Hulga appears to be a likely candidate to "cherish the world at the same time that [she struggles] to endure it." Explain how and why this change comes about.