ENGL 112L

Miss Brill has a routine of going to the race track everyday and observing people around her. She tends to put herself in their life. *Fur coat

Father and son are at the store while mother is at home shacking up with an old love. When they come home nothing happens/ no consequences.

very deliberate points of events

Kernal events are basic plot points that tie a story together Satellite events are subplots

narrativize= tell stories

study of narrative ex. serialized story versus

background information reader needs

complication that intensifies situation

moment of greatest emotional tension

resolution or DENOUMENT

hero

force that opposes protagonist

the middle of scene * a way to engage audience

signify flashbacks

witnesses- dont do anything- no comment on events

protagonist- epiphany happens to them

contrast of the audience *one reveals the other * 2 contrasting characters that reveal qualities of one another

2 families that are foils of eachother. 1. one mom who wants the attention of her kids and a husband that gives her whatever and is seen as the perfect mom 2. one mom who needs to give her child more attention and is seen as a bad mom ** both look at each other disgustingly or unfavorably ** lower and middle class **metadiscours- they analyze each others parenting

Construction worker father who comes home and wants things his way. So the wife and him fight a lot but in the end they love each other and its just a routine

who tells us the story and how its told - narrator is the teller of the story

effects our understanding of actions

he, she, they - never a character - two types are omniscient and limited omniscience

all knowing, gives the ability to go in and out of different characters

evaluates character for the reader (omniscient)

allows characters actions and thought to speak for themselves (omniscient)

often restricted to single character at most 2

dramatizes tense moments in impersonal manner (reports it)

Participant - restricted to perceptions, thoughts, and feelings of 1 character - 2 types= unrealiable v naive narrator

- types of 1st person narrator - unrealiable- interpretations are different from the authors (due to innocence or lack of self knowledge) - naive- youthful innocence

tells audience what the personality of character is

shows things to reveal personality

Emily died and the people attend her funeral not for the right reasons. Emily was an obligation to the town and everyone knew something was wrong with her. She killed her boyfriend and maybe even her dad.

distinctive manner in which a writer arranges words to achieve particular effects arrangement- word choice, structure, tone, length of sentences

writers choice of words-different words evoke different associations in a readers mind

authors implicit attitude toward people, places, and events in a story

device that reveals a reality different from what appears to be true - verbal (sarcasm) and situational irony

Runner dies at the end... foreshadowed in the crime report in the beginning of the story

drunk man comes in every night. 2 waiters one is in a hurry other has sympathy for the drunk man. Drunk and 1 waiter is an insomniac

long and short, clause to clause

Revenge with impunity... kills amontillado - verbal irony - dark irony

audience knows something but characters do not

parents are fighting over baby, baby dies in the end

person, object, or event that suggest more than its literal meaning

when a character,object, or incident indicated a fixed meaning

central idea/meaning of a story that unifies plot, characters, setting, POV, etc.

- Grandma has expectations for the new generation - Good man is hard to find= the misfits= irony -Irony= hypocrissy of grandma bc she begged for her life and not the others etc. - moment of grace

Symbol is more complex than allegory, has a indefinite meaning Allegory is literal events that are consistent and point to a parallel of symbolic equivalents, definitemeaning

describe traditional boy things

describe traditional girl things - being a lady comes down to performing

classics

Female and Male relate to biological sex= fixed Feminism and Masculinity relate to gender=performing a set of traits definedby society

- unreliable narrator - husband gaslights his wife (making her think she is crazy, ignores her needs) - broken woman

- object= underwriting someones humanity, usually sexually

Grandfather dies but after he says he is a traitor to his kind (black). The grandson tries his entire life to find out what his grandpa means but doesnt find out until he realizes that he tries to conform to whites and disregards that they are racist. Whites= keep this N running - critical race theory

- To what extent does race make identity? - hubris= pride - black AND white because there isnt one without the other

Women marries a middle class man and is unhappy in her class. French society. She feels like she is better than the class she is in so she borrows a necklace and loses it then becomes part of the poor class.

- Class lust - Class consciousness= being aware of your position - Idealist (free will) vs. materialist (entire concept of world revolves around materials) - base (economy) vs superstructure (culture) - upper and lower class -hegemony (dominant discourse- determines by who holds power in binary opposition)

Twyla versus Roberta- who pushed black deaf lady down? - power struggle - institution or race? *Critical Race Theory

Full blood native is christianized and goes back to his tribe as a black sheep. He is a traitor now and in the end struggles... which God will take him? *post colonialism - hybrid

1. How does gender roles empower or disempower characters? - Gaze= male to female or female to male

1. To what extent does race mask identity - Gaze= dominant to subordinate

1. What is the effect of colonization on identity? 2. Do writers resist or conform to colonial practices? * colonizer v colonized

colonized to colonizer=other colonizer to colonized= it both are heavily affected by interaction

1. stereotyping 2. mimicry (diet, diseases) 3. hybridity (negative connotation because they are mixed race) * in this order