One Last Fishbowl Blog: "A Good Man Is Hard to Find"

Fishbowl #5: "William Wilson"

Lead-in Class Notes

Notes on Lead-Outs:

Should answer these two questions:
Why does this connect to my thesis and topic sentences? To my school of theory?
How does the author’s craft contribute to the quotes meaning?

How question (how to answer it):
Diction: What words are interesting? Paradoxical? Ironic? Incongruous?
Syntax: How is the sentence put together? And interesting use of capitalization? Of punctuation?
Symbols: and symbol in there?

Analysis Check:

• Does the analysis make an argument, or is it simply retelling the quote?
• Does the analysis clearly link the quote to the topic sentence and thesis?
• Does the analysis relate that quote to your school of theory?
• Is the analysis specific to the quotation? Does it examine diction (word choice)? Connotations? Symbols? Syntax

Example:
The lottery was conducted---as were the square dances, the teen club, the Halloween program---by Mr. Summers who had time and energy to devote to civic activities.

syntax: the lottery=square dances, the teen club, Halloween
summer=happiness, incongruous
passive voice verbs=takes away the agency that someone would be responsible

Example 2:
“Clean forgot what day it was,”said to Mrs. Delacroix, who stood next to her, and they both laughed softly. “Thought my old man was out back stacking wood...then I looked out the window and the kids was gone, and then I remembered it was the twenty-seventh and came a-running.” She dried her hands on her apron...”

laughing=irony
clean vs. unclean
stacking rocks:oblivion
“kids was gone”: appear to make her not very smart whatsoever (feminist view)

Fishbowl #3: Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery"

Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Minister's Black Veil"

My bad. :)

Fishbowl #1: "The Fall of the House of Usher"

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Theory Theses

In a comment, post a thesis statement that uses either psychoanalytic theory or Marxist theory to create an argument about a work of your choice.  This can be about The Crucible or something else of your choosing.  Be sure to read the posts prior to yours so your ideas aren't redundant.