MON/WED UPDATED SYLLABUS

March
19 Film: Life of Pi

21 Film: Life of Pi

26 “The Allegory of the Cave”

28 The Truman Show

April
2 The Truman Show

4 ASSIGN FINAL PAPER

9  BRING IN DRAFTS FOR REVIEW 1137 10-1

11 BRING IN DRAFTS FOR REVIEW 1137 10-1

16 FINAL PAPER DUE

TUES/THURS UPDATED SYLLABUS

March
20 Film: Life of Pi

22 Film: Life of Pi

27 “The Allegory of the Cave”

29 The Truman Show

April
3 The Truman Show

5 ASSIGN FINAL PAPER

10 BRING IN DRAFTS FOR REVIEW 1137 10-1

12 BRING IN DRAFTS FOR REVIEW 1137 10-1

17 FINAL PAPER DUE

"A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings"

This is an article about the misuse of church funds:

https://news.sky.com/story/bishop-used-church-money-for-cattle-ranch-11299536

This is an article about villagers mistaking a sex doll for an angel:

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/sex-toy-washes-indonesian-beach-locals-angel-article-1.2624725

Magical Realism:

http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Magic_realism.html


http://www.english.iup.edu/pagnucci/courses/121/definitions/litdefinition-magicalrealism.htm


This article discusses "A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings" and magical realism:

http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/NCW/marquez.htm

Here is a list of fairytales that you may want to reference:

http://ivyjoy.com/fables/

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~spok/grimmtmp/


What makes a story a fairy tale?

http://www.voxmagazine.com/blog/2012/10/what-makes-a-fairy-tale/

Freudian Analysis of the story:

https://bradham.wordpress.com/2016/02/19/freudian-principles-explaining-a-very-old-man-with-enormous-wings/

"A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings"

http://www.academia.edu/1000317/Marquezs_A_Very_Old_Man_with_Enormous_Wings_and_Bambaras_The_Lesson

http://litmed.med.nyu.edu/Annotation?action=view&annid=12287

https://seanfoleyportfolio.weebly.com/a-very-old-man-with-enormous-wings.html

Author's Obit:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/18/books/gabriel-garcia-marquez-literary-pioneer-dies-at-87.html?_r=0

"A Good Man Is Hard to Find"

More on "A Good Man is Hard to Find":

http://blog.pshares.org/index.php/a-moment-of-grace-in-flannery-oconnors-a-good-man-is-hard-to-find/

https://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plan/flannery-oconnors-good-man-hard-find-whos-real-misfit

https://www.nypl.org/blog/2014/03/25/readers-den-flannery-oconnor-good-man-hard-find

http://web.a.ebscohost.com/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=9&sid=7a0d2f82-11ba-4046-80b7-8b3557846338%40sessionmgr4002&hid=4214

Links on Southern Culture:

http://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/regionalism.html

http://edsitement.neh.gov/launchpad-flannery-oconnors-journey-through-the-south

Folow this link for a collection of links about the story:

http://www.literaryhistory.com/20thC/O’Connor.htm

http://web.a.ebscohost.com/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=7a0d2f82-11ba-4046-80b7-8b3557846338%40sessionmgr4002&vid=11&hid=4214

http://commons.pacificu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1038&context=casfac

http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/607/784

http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/old-WILLA/fall95/Haines.html

O'Connor reading the story and commentary:

http://www.openculture.com/2012/05/rare_1959_audio_flannery_oconnor_reads_a_good_man_is_hard_to_find.html

http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2011/jul/05/fresh-look-flannery-o-connor-cartoons

Four collections of essays provide a good range of criticism on O’Connor (These would be found in the Literary Criticism section of a book store or library):

1. The Added Dimension: The Art and Mind of Flannery O’Connor, edited by Melvin J. Friedman and Lewis A. Lawson (1966; rpt. Fordham University Press, 1977).

2. Critical Essays on Flannery O’Connor, edited by Melvin J. Friedman and Beverly Lyon Clark (Hall, 1985).

3. Flannery O’Connor, edited by Harold Bloom (Chelsea House, 1986).

4. Realist of Distances: Flannery O’Connor Revisited, edited by Karl-Heinz Westarp and Jan Nordby Gretlund (Aarhus, 1987).

The Misfit with the grandmother:

Taking the family to the woods:

The author:

NO CLASS WEEK OF MARCH 5-8

NO CLASS WEEK OF MARCH 5-8


We will return the following week(March 12)  and look at "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" (250).

The second paper assignment is below:

MON/WED---PAPER IS DUE WED MARCH 14

TUES/THURS---PAPER IS DUE THURS MARCH 15

ENG 102 ESSAY #2*** DUE WED/THURS MARCH 14/15

ANY PLAGIARISM IS AN AUTOMATIC F.

USE THE CLASS BLOG FOR 2 OUTSIDE SOURCES:

eng102spring18.blogspot.com

3 PAGES, DOUBLE SPACED, SIZE 12 TIMES NEW ROMAN

Pick ONE of the essay topics below for your paper.

1)      One of the central themes found in “The Lottery,” The Sisterhood of the Night,” and The Village is groupthink. Using at least TWO of these stories or film to explain how it played a role in each story.

2)      Our class blog has a few articles about the Salem Witch Hunt and Trials; use those (or other reliable outside sources on the topic) to compare any similarities you see in “The Sisterhood of the Night.” It is often referred to as an updated version of the Salem Witch Hunt. Use examples from the texts along with outside sources to support your thesis.

3)      Three of the most important symbols in “The Lottery” are the lottery itself, the black box and Old Man Warner. Explain how these three symbols have larger meaning within the story.

4)      Discuss the effects of Magical Stranger in Literature as seen in "The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World", "The Temp" and Edward Scissorhands. Use at least two of these texts to display how a “magical stranger” comes into the lives of these people and changes how they look at themselves.

5)      We also discussed the importance society places on appearance when discussing "The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World", "The Temp" and Edward Scissorhands. Use an example from at least two of these texts to explain how appearance played a role in their stories while discussing how important it is in today’s world.

AVOID USING DIRECT QUOTES IN YOUR INTRODUCTION OR CONCLUSION.

Do not retell the story! Analyze and explain your thesis (which is your main point).

Make sure you get the character’s names right, as well as the author. It comes off as sloppy if you mix up characters or what author wrote what.

Read over your work. Have someone else read over your work. If I wrote on your paper to get help from The Learning Center, do it! Take your paper with you and they can help you out.

“Short Stories” (Quotation Marks)----Novels, Plays and Films (Italics)

Magical Stranger and Culture: "The Temp" and "The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World"

Culture:

These links discuss cultural differences and also provides a number of links if you go to the bottom of the page. Use the information they provide as outside sources if you are writing your essay about this subject:

http://blue.butler.edu/~jfmcgrat/culture.htm

http://www.worldwide.edu/travel_planner/culture_shock.html

http://www.ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/ijps/article/view/4510

Here is one on the effects of culture shock:
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=effects+culture+shock&hl=en&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart&sa=X&ei=tIk6T-mJBaLn0QHXj5GXCw&ved=0CBoQgQMwAA

Links for "The Handsomest Drowned Man In the World":

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=THE+HANDSOMEST+DROWNED+MAN+IN+THE+WORLD&as_sdt=1%2C31&as_sdtp=

This week we will look at “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World”, “The Temp” and Edward Scissorhandsin class. All three of these stories contain individuals that become part of a community in some way and have profound effects of the people. In “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World” it is a corpse that washes ashore that gives the townspeople a new way of looking at their lives, in “The Temp” it is a temp hired in an office that changes the atmosphere of the wor enviroment and in Edward Scissorhands it is a unique young man that forces a rather boring town to see how boring and judgmental they really are. This week pay attention to what these “magical strangers” force the people in the stories to look at it in their lives.

The Importance of appearance:
http://elitedaily.com/news/world/the-importance-of-appearances-man-dresses-as-homeless-man-to-prove-nobody-would-help-him-video/592301/

http://www.ridingthetiger.org/2013/03/19/the-importance-of-appearance/

http://www.byui.edu/Documents/Admin_Offices/Advising/PowerOfPersonalAppearance.pdf

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/22/opinion/sunday/a-facial-theory-of-politics.html?module=Search&mabReward=relbias%3Aw

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/08/appearances-mean-nothing-or-everything/?module=Search&mabReward=relbias%3Aw

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/26/fashion/26looks.html?pagewanted=all&module=Search&mabReward=relbias%3Aw

Office Culture:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/01/opinion/sunday/why-you-hate-work.html?smid=fb-nytimes&WT.z_sma=OP_WYH_20140602&bicmp=AD&bicmlukp=WT.mc_id&bicmst=1388552400000&bicmet=1420088400000&_r=3

http://www.forbes.com/sites/vickvaishnavi/2013/03/28/five-must-follow-rules-for-a-successful-office-culture/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/office-culture/

http://www.immihelp.com/newcomer/work-culture-office-environment-usa.html

https://www.themuse.com/advice/rally-the-team-how-to-create-a-cool-office-culture

Reading for Next Week Feb 20

"The Temp" is in your packet but "The Handsomest drowned Man in the World" is not. Here is the link to the story:

https://www.colorado.edu/studentgroups/shortfiction/The_Most_Handsome_Drowned_Man.pdf

The Mon/Wed class will look at both of these stories on Wednesday Feb 21.

The Tues/Thurs Classes will FOLLOW THIS SCHEDULE:

T 20 “The Temp” (Handout)

R 22 “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World”