English III Final
Emily Dickinson "There is no Frigate like a Book" about the power of reading. also used in rhetoric prject
There is no Frigate like a Book To take us Lands away,
Emily Dickinson " There's a certain slant of light" about light. focuses on nature and its beauty and meaning. Focuses on the detail of the slanted light
There's a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons - That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes -
AIMS. Arguable, Interesting, manageable, specific
Thesis
Myrtle Wilson
Tom's mistress, gets killed. She is poor and not classy and thinks that she will run away w Tom.
Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character. think of tone lists.
Tone
"Pioneers! O pioneers" Walt Whitman. About ppl going off in the army and fighting for America. Celebrates the courage of the youth and how America is a . "pioneer"
We must march my darlings, we must bear the brunt of danger, We the youthful sinewy races, all the rest on us depend, Pioneers! O pioneers!
Emily Dickinson "Wild Nights--Wild nights!" Used in ad project
Wild Nights - Wild Nights! Were I with thee
Mary Rowlandson's captivity narrative. Rhetoric- she had to seem religious to her peers and make sure she didn't give any sense of empathy to the natives. She portrays them terribly and this leads to a common idea of natives. Switches from the "kind indians" who showed them how to eat and stuff to the "savages". this narrative also leads to a popularity of captivity narratives in the U.S.
Yet the Lord still shewed mercy to me, and helped me; and as he wounded me with one hand, so he healed me with the other.
Rebecca Vaark
born in England to unloving, super religious parents, started to train to be a domestic servant but was abused. Her dad sent her away because of the cost to feed and care for her. Lots of pregnancies but Patrician is the only one to make it past infancy. Then Patrician dies and she becomes really depressed, and then survives smallpox and becomes religious. she was nice before but at the end gets mean and wants to sell florens off
Jacob Vaark
farmer and trader from New England, married to Rebekka, Patrician's dad, was the master to Sorrow, Lina, and Florens. Loved D'Ortega's house and was brought there when he was dying of smallpox. Was against slavery yet he was able to invest more in the sugar industry where there was horrible slavery because it wasn't as direct.
Lina
native american woman who is captured and put into slavery. Becomes almost a mother to florens and tries to protect her from the blacksmith. Worries that she is going to be hurt by him. Didn't like Sorrow (drowned her kid?) Really good friends with Rebekka. Very skeptical of most things and representation of someone who doesn't like change.
Sorrow
orphan that works on the Vaark's farm, she is also a orphan. She is very distant with everyone and gets raped often. Often referred as useless. having a kid "completed her" Has an imaginary friend named "Twin" who leaves when her child is born.
John Winthrop. "A model of Christian Charity" the beginning of a phrase that will be used throughout American history and is built upon and changed. He uses phrase city upon a hill here to motivate and argues that people expect them to fail.
when he shall make us a praise and glory that men shall say of succeeding plantations, "the Lord make it like that of New England." For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us. So that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause him to withdraw his present help from us, we shall be made a story and a by-word through the world.
Russel Conwell's "Acres of Diamonds" "It is your duty to get rich" Money funds religion Those who get rich can do the most good with that power and wealth. His american dream--do honest work and get rich so that you can do good with it
"A man is not really a true man until he owns his own home, and they that own their homes are made more honorable and honest and pure, and true and economical and careful, by owning the home."
Emersons, "the poet" The character of "the poet" and how the poet is an interpreter and all should strive to find this genius The poet is "Half himself half expression" It is rare, all things in balance, "the namer" "Truest word ever spoken" A true poet is able to express their thoughts into words, which most cannot do
"But the highest minds of the world have never ceased to explore the double meaning, or, shall I say, the quadruple, or the centuple, or much more manifold meaning, of every sensuous fact" "Those who are esteemed umpires of taste, are often persons who have acquired some knowledge of admired pictures or sculptures, and have an inclination for whatever is elegant; but if you inquire whether they are beautiful souls, and whether their own acts are like fair pictures, you learn that they are selfish and sensual."
Sherman Alexie's captivity poem. Uses epigraph from Mary Rowlandson. Adds to conversation about "Captivity" Is important because it talks about the treatment of natives and their captivity and how her narrative effected it. Uses her name throughout poem.
"How do you open a tin can without a sharpedged dream? How do you sleep in your post office box using junk mail for blankets?....It's too late, Mary Rowlandson, for us to sit together and dig upthe past you buried under a log, salvage whatever else you had left behind. What do you want? I cannot say, "I love you. I miss you."..White man's rules: all of us must follow them, must remember the name of the officer who arrested us for running when the sign said DON'T WALK. It's the language of the enemy. There is no forgiveness for fancydancing on WET CEMENT."
Robert J. Shiller "The Transformation of the 'American Dream'" The American Dream used to be on morality and hope but now it is only materialism Over time how the definition of the 'American Dream' has shifted from moral ideals to more materialistic ones
"Instead, we need to bring back the American Dream of a just society, where everyone has an opportunity to reach 'the fullest stature of which they are innately capable.'"
Jacob Riis' "How the Other Half-Lives" antithesis of Conwell's idea that most wealthy ppl are honest Argued the inequality of socio-economics Comparison between rich and poor greed punishes those who are innocent. The rich half doesn't want to look at the poor half they have created.
"We know now that there is no way out; that the 'system' that was the evil offspring of public neglect and private greed has come to stay, a storm-centre forever of our civilization."
Louise Erdrich "Captivity". Uses same epigraph. Starts to see beauty and humanity in her captor but is scared of it and tries not too. Wants to see them as subhuman yet finds herself want to go back. themes of religion, truth, othering, and society.
"he killed a deer with a young one in her and gave me to eat of the fawn. It was so tender, the bones like the stems of flowers, that I followed where he took me. The night was thick. He cut the cord that bound me to the tree." "Rescued, I see no truth in things. My husband drives a thick wedge through the earth, still it shuts to him year after year." "I stripped a branch and struck the earth, in time, begging it to open to admit me as he was and feed me honey from the rock."
Emily Dickinson "A Man may make a Remark" for rhetoric project. About how one idea or remark can start a movement
A Man may make a Remark - In itself - a quiet thing
aka cocktail party. Look into the "They say I say" building off what others have said to add something interesting.
Academic Discourse as a conversation
Jay Gatsby
American dream. Lives in past. Worked his way up through shady means. obsessed with Daisy. lives on West Egg in fake mansion. materialistic
John F Kennedy. "Address Before the Massachusetts term-1General Court" shows how he used City upon a Hill in a different way compared to the original.
But I have been guided by the standard John Winthrop set before his shipmates on the flagship Arbella three hundred and thirty-one years ago, as they, too, faced the task of building a new government on a perilous frontier. "We must always consider," he said, "that we shall be as a city upon a hill--the eyes of all people are upon us." Today the eyes of all people are truly upon us--and our governments, in every branch, at every level, national, state and local, must be as a city upon a hill--constructed and inhabited by men aware of their great trust and their great responsibilities.
Florens
Desperate for affection and eager to please, hardworking, naïve teen. Struggles with identity as black when she travels. Daughter to her mother because of rape by a farmhand, and her mother wants her to be taken instead of her to Jacob's farm so she might have a better life.
Her poems celebrate details, often about nature. Was not very well known at her time and spent a quiet removed life writing tons of poems.
Emily Dickinson
credibility and ethical appeal. Tries to gain trust from the audience through things like "established company for 50 yrs" or "99/100 ppl approve"
Ethos,
Blacksmith
Floren's lover, purpose as a character is to embody Floren's need for love. Even though she wants to be with him super bad, he ends up ending it cuz she is a slave by choice. "Own yourself, woman, and leave us be. You could have killed this child...You are nothing but wilderness. No constraint. No mind.You shout the word—mind, mind, mind—over and over and then you laugh, saying as I live and breathe, a slave by choice."
the epigraph from Mary Rowlandson that the poems use.
He (my captor) gave me a bisquit, which I put in my pocket, and not daring to eat it, buried it under a log, fearing he had put something in it to make me love him. —From the narrative of the captivity of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, who was taken prisoner by the Wampanoag when Lancaster, Massachusetts, was destroyed, in the year 1676
Emily Dickinson "Hope is the thing with feathers" for rhetoric project
Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul,
Walt Whitman "I hear America Singing" Celebrates America and all the different things happening in it.
I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear, Those of mechanics, each one singing his as it should be blithe and strong
Emily Dickinson "I tie my hat--I crease my Shawl" about mundane daily work and how it allows us to keep in touch with reality. Celebrating the details
I tie my Hat—I crease my Shawl— Life's little duties do—precisely— As the very least Were infinite—to me—
Toni Morrison "A Mercy"
Main Ideas: Orphans/ america and how all the characters are orphans in a way feeling abandonment- why did florens mother give her up so easily? The notion of home and property- Vaark wanting big house so bad then dying before he could see it Naming/Identity Embodiment of slavery feeling of freedom Childbirth (Sorrow and Rebecca)
F. Scott Fitzgerald "The Great Gatsby"
Main Ideas: image v reality symbolism American dream home owenership eyes technology wealth roaring 20's new money v old money time- past and future
Julie Otsuka "When the Emperor was divine"
Main Ideas; Names- they are not called by names. However, other characters are. Identity- their identity changes as the book progresses. They are confused at the beginning why they are treated differently, by the end, they look at themselves as separate. words- The slang used to call them, the words on the wall. How does this impact them? Tone- tone is changed with each chapter with the different perspectives Housing- their security and safe spot is gone and when they come back their house feels different.
Daisy Buchanan
Married to Tom but has a past w Gatsby. Says the best thing a woman can be is a fool. Kills Myrtle in a car by accident.
Emily Dickinson. "Much Madness is divinest Sense" Used in ppl's rhetoric video for ad.
Much Madness is divinest Sense -- To a discerning Eye --
Nick Carroway
Narrator. Says he is super honest. In bond business.
Tom Buchanan
Old money and peaked in college. Cheats on Daisy w Myrtle. Is scared of minorities rising.
Appeal to emotion. gets appeal through empathy and sympathy. promises happiness or health/ safety.
Pathos
Jordan Baker
Really amazing golf player. Represents the new woman of the 20's had a thing w Nick.
Ronald Reagan. "Farewell Address"Talks about how America is a magnet for pilgrims searching for freedom. "Shining" new take on city upon a hill. America as a leader and model
The past few days when I've been at that window upstairs, I've thought a bit of the shining "city upon a hill." The phrase comes from John Winthrop, who wrote it to describe the America he imagined. What he imagined was important, because he was an early Pilgrim - an early "Freedom Man." He journeyed here on what today we'd call a little wooden boat, and, like the other pilgrims, he was looking for a home that would be free.
Benjamin Franklin "the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin" The closest thing to a 'self-made man', arguably An inventor and followed a strict schedule Self-betterment was his philosophy to life tries to show ppl how to get successful like him
"Reading was the only amusement I allowed myself"
Fredrick Douglass "The Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, a Slave" main ideas: names, religion, truth, education, and family. Also think about his rhetoric---who is his audience? what he is trying to convince them of? Summary: He was born and didn't know his birthday or father and barely his mom, learned how to read, and devised a plan to escape, finally does but has to leave behind a lot of his friends. There is a lot about the treatment of slaves and how even the good slaveholders are still not good and how slavery corrupts.
"Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears."
Appeal to logic. using data, statistics, facts, and graphs to persuade.
logos
