English 1 Date: _____________ Mango Street—Double Entry Journal (DEJ) Period: ____ Overview: A DEJ is a way to closely read passages from a text, to discover what individual words and sentences reveal about characters, conflicts, themes, etc. In the future, you will be selecting your own “strong lines” and meaningful passages to comment on, but for this first effort three have been chosen for you. Each passage shows something about Esperanza, her relationship to someone else in the neighborhood, and/or her opinion about a particular social issue. Directions: As you read each passage, you have five tasks: First, identify who is speaking or narrating. Second, explain what the context or situation is—that is, who is involved, where s/he is, at what time, and what is going on, etc., Third, explain what the quotation means and how it is significant to the novel.
Esperanza and Alicia views In the book the House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, two characters Alicia and Esperanza both believed that education and writing is a way to a better life. Both Alicia and Esperanza views were shown frequently in this book. Through these and other characters, Cisneros suggests that education offers a kind of freedom. Education plays a big role in both Alicia and Esperanza life. Esperanza likes to make up stories as she wash dishes, walk up stairs, and walk to school ECT.
There are many similarities and differences between the House On Mango Street and Down These Mean Streets. The House On Mango Street is a very interesting book. The book is interesting because I can understand it clearly and it makes you think about your life and helps you make connections. This book takes place in a poor Latino neighborhood. Esperanza had a big family that seemed very nice.
She states: My childhood Southside summers were the ordinary city kind, full of the street games which other rememberers have turned into the fine ballets these days and rhymes that anticipated what some people insist on calling modern poetry… (Hansberry 457) Throughout the story she explains how her summers were spent. She tells different stories of what she did and where she went. Both Anaya and Hansberry relate their childhood to their stories. Thus, making the tone being reminiscent. As well as both stories sharing a common tone, they also share a common style.
In most of her works, O’Connor describes the scenery and lifestyle of the Deep South and her characters speak with a southern dialect, reflecting her background. “She possessed a keen ear for southern dialect and a fine sense of irony and comic timing; with the combination of these skills, she produced some of the finest comedy in American literature”(Gordon). Even though she spent the last years of her life battling Lupus, O’Connor did not let the limitations of her disease stop her writing. Characterization is a process that authors use to help craft their characters and create rich images of them for
You know how I get when I worry,” as if to make her understand his actions through a simple guilt of him worrying (59, Hemingway). He gives no comfort to Jig, no actions are done to help her through what she’s going through. Hemingway writes a great story in dialog, leaving it up to the reader to make inferences based on the facts given so that they can figure out the story and the characters. The reader infers that Jig and the American’s relationship has come to an end and that Jig and the American don’t want the same things in life. The reader also infers that Jig may at first appear helpless but later she reveals that she’s ready to make her own decision.
House of Grierson In the short story “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner, the Grierson's house is a symbol with many different meanings, and several possible interpretations revealing information about the characters and story line that one wouldn't initially think of. The house is not just an emblem to the Grierson family and it's previous greatness, but a token of the past, tradition, and of Emily herself. This powerful symbol helps to enrich the story's themes of isolation, death, and tradition versus change by creating parallels into the life of Emily Grierson, representing the changing times and culture of Southern society, and refining the story's sense of death. The Grierson house is described in the first passage as “a big, squarish frame house that had once been white, decorated... heavily in the lightsome style of the seventies, set on what had once been our most selective street” (Faulkner 91). Just like Emily and the Greirson's, the house had once been prestigious, beautiful, and well respected by the people of this southern town.
As evinced by the author’s admiration of both the city and his peers, Paris was the fountain of inspiration that stimulated the generation of many of his renowned works, such as the novel The Sun Also Rises. Throughout the course of the entire piece, Hemingway intertwines his encounter with notable figures, romantic hours spent with his loving wife, Hadley, and his reflective time by himself. As stated in the opening, the book follows no “strict chronological order” (Hemingway, 5). Instead, the chapters are loosely tied together by the mention of figures who had been introduced in the preceding pages. This is evident in the subtle mentions of Sylvia Beach, whom Hemingway meets in the third chapter and continues to refer
The rebellious protagonist, Leonard Mead, is a unique character, different from other people in his society. He does things different, which includes taking a walk at night and not owning a TV in his house, which was what most people had and enjoyed doing. He is not afraid to be different or question whatever he does not understand. By the use of aural image, “push of his soft shoes through autumn leaves with satisfaction,” it is evident that Leonard Mead still values the natural world and wishes that he could go back to it, in contrast to the lifeless, sterile world taken over by technology. In addition, the use of implied metaphor highlights the dehumanised society, “lone car wandering and wandering.” This shows the power of technology and shows that it has taken over humanity.
“How do writers Achebe and R.K Narayan compare and contrast colonialism in their respective novels?” Colonialism is explored in both novels through a main protagonist; Okonkwo in ‘Things Fall Apart’ and Nataraj in ‘Man Eater of Malgudi’. Both of these characters are a device for the authors in order to represent the cultures of the people during post-colonisation. Achebe explores the life of the Igbo people prior to colonisation, allowing us to see the Igbo tribe in an authentic and pure light; because of this, we as a reader, gain an intimate understanding of this culture. R.K Narayan on the other hand, explores the life of Nataraj, an ordinary man working in a printer in Malgudi, who becomes frenzied over an outsider by the name of Vasu. Though both texts are set in completely different parts of the world, they both uphold core and necessary values on colonialism, a sense of literal hybridity can be captivated from these readings, backing up the idea that post-colonial theory and its ideas are universal.