Monday, February 28, 2011
A Practice Synthesis Thesis...
Using your notes and understanding from today's discussion, post a synthesis thesis below. This can be the one with which you're currently working for your ALIS essay or can be about 2 texts we've read this semester. Regardless, combine your 2 texts AND the theory you plan on incorporating into your sample argument.
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Salinger and Kesey both portray the dominant female, when that female is surrounded by males; together, these texts express how females are more developed and mature, when faced with difficult dilemmas, while males, attack their problems with stupidity and foolishness.
ReplyDeleteIn One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest and The Catcher in the Rye, the mind of the main characters of R.P. McMurphy and Holden Caulfield is overwhelmed by the power of their id and shows how people must conform to society in order to achieve true happiness.
ReplyDeleteIn Vonnegut's novels he presents the idea that humans are naturally self destructive; both subconsciously demonstrated in Breakfast of Champions and yet also directly through the text Cat's Cradle.
ReplyDeleteThrough the historical spectrum the characters in A Thousand Splendid Suns and The Kite Runner are placed, relationships and ideals of characters are tested as they progress throughout the time period and the social, economic and political aspects of the time period change.
ReplyDeleteEnders Game and The Road both follow quest archetype Ender and The Boy begin their respective journeys with a simple objective in mind, but both evolve into an unexpected conclusion. Through these events, the authors show the utter powerlessness humanity has to control its destiny.
ReplyDeleteMain characters in The Road, and The Secret Life of Bees, over the course of a journey both learn the necessity of family, but realize that they cannot remain together forever.
ReplyDeleteThe novels, The Bell Jar written by Sylvia Plath, and We Were the Mulvaneys written by Joyce Carol Oates, both analyze how an individual's superego determines what motivates them in their actions, no matter the strength of the relationship they encompass with their family.
ReplyDeleteBoth of Foer’s novels, Everything is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, the author uses times of war and hardship in the past to analyze how the past has affected the relationships between groups of people in the way that they perceive each others actions and therefore act towards them.
ReplyDeleteKurt Vonnegut's satirical exaggerations of how humanity reacts to impacts of the Cold War change consecutively from Cat's Cradle to Welcome to the Monkey House, suggesting that events in the Cold War changed his viewpoints of human nature.
ReplyDeleteIn both All Quiet on the Western Front and Going After Cacciato, the characters relive psychological trauma experienced by the authors in real life events.
ReplyDeleteBoth The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini, and Puddn'head Wilson by Mark Twain use minority characters like Hassan and Tom to suggest that racism is unjust and groundless.
ReplyDeleteIn Truman Capote's novella Breakfast at Tiffany's, the heroine Holly Golightly is a self-declared "traveller" who defies female roles as she is not held down by men in her life, whereas in Shirley Jackson's novel The Haunting of Hill House, the female characters are placed in stereotypical positions while surrounded by male characters; together the texts show how women are given more freedom and independence without the presence of men in their lives.
ReplyDeleteThrough the literary works of Into the Wild by John Krakauer and The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, individuality is tested through literal or emotional abandonment, proving that abandonment in a time of need encourages success in individuals.
ReplyDeleteThe texts "This Side of Paradise" and "Breakfast at Tiffany's" demonstrate how the evolving male obtains characteristics commonly associated with the female where as the progressing woman acquires traits associated with the male which causes a switch in stereotypical roles allowing the female to assume the position of the dominate figure in a male and female relationship.
ReplyDeleteIn The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway and Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain, the authors point out fragmented relationships due to addictions in individuals.
ReplyDeleteThe Great Gatsby recognizes the fragmentation of humans and their inability to achieve complete success in reaching their goals involving others where as The Catcher in the Rye distinguishes the fragmentation of independent unity.
ReplyDeleteIn the Catcher and the Rye by J. D. Salinger and Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote the main characters are followed through a brief time in their lives, a brief time that is crucial to who they become showing how the time period that is illustrated affects a persons character. Together, the texts represent a time where each person is oppressed in some fashion, Holden Caulfield because of his age is thought of as childish and Holly Golightly because she is a woman is thought of as useless and unneeded, showing how even as the times evolve there is always a sense of oppression.
ReplyDeleteIn Khaled Hosseini's novels The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, Hosseini characterizes females in their Afghan society as subservient below the dominant, suppressive male, showing women aspire to break out of gender stereotypes to achieve liberation.
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ReplyDeleteJoe Haldeman's reveals his suppression of women through the character of Martha, a female, whose intelligents and purpose in the novel lessen the view of women while Joseph Heller's use of Yossarian demonstrates the same view but through a male character.
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