This document provides an overview of American literary realism. It begins by defining literary realism as a 19th century movement that focused on depicting everyday life realistically rather than ideally. American realism emerged after the Civil War and lasted until the early 20th century, as authors like Mark Twain wrote about ordinary people and events. Key characteristics of realist literature included using objective points of view, focusing on everyday settings and common people, and including natural speech patterns and dialogue. The document then discusses how Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn exemplifies realism by contrasting the romantic and idealistic Tom Sawyer with the practical Huck Finn. Students are assigned to read "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
1George OrwellWhy I WriteFrom a very early age, perh.docxfelicidaddinwoodie
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George Orwell
Why I Write
From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer. Between the ages of about seventeen and twenty-four I tried to abandon this idea, but I did so with the consciousness that I was outraging my true nature and that sooner or later I should have to settle down and write books.
I was the middle child of three, but there was a gap of five years on either side, and I barely saw my father before I was eight. For this and other reasons I was somewhat lonely, and I soon developed disagreeable mannerisms which made me unpopular throughout my schooldays. I had the lonely child's habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary persons, and I think from the very start my literary ambitions were mixed up with the feeling of being isolated and undervalued. I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life. Nevertheless the volume of serious — i.e. seriously intended — writing which I produced all through my childhood and boyhood would not amount to half a dozen pages. I wrote my first poem at the age of four or five, my mother taking it down to dictation. I cannot remember anything about it except that it was about a tiger and the tiger had ‘chair-like teeth’ — a good enough phrase, but I fancy the poem was a plagiarism of Blake's ‘Tiger, Tiger’. At eleven, when the war or 1914-18 broke out, I wrote a patriotic poem which was printed in the local newspaper, as was another, two years later, on the death of Kitchener. From time to time, when I was a bit older, I wrote bad and usually unfinished ‘nature poems’ in the Georgian style. I also attempted a short story which was a ghastly failure. That was the total of the would-be serious work that I actually set down on paper during all those years.
However, throughout this time I did in a sense engage in literary activities. To begin with there was the made-to-order stuff which I produced quickly, easily and without much pleasure to myself. Apart from school work, I wrote vers d'occasion, semi-comic poems which I could turn out at what now seems to me astonishing speed — at fourteen I wrote a whole rhyming play, in imitation of Aristophanes, in about a week — and helped to edit a school magazines, both printed and in manuscript. These magazines were the most pitiful burlesque stuff that you could imagine, and I took far less trouble with them than I now would with the cheapest journalism. But side by side with all this, for fifteen years or more, I was carrying out a literary exercise of a quite different kind: this was the making up of a continuous ‘story’ about myself, a sort of diary existing only in the mind. I believe this is a common habit of children and adolescents. As a very small child I used to imagine that I was, say, Robin Hood, and picture myself as th ...
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1George OrwellWhy I WriteFrom a very early age, perh.docxfelicidaddinwoodie
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George Orwell
Why I Write
From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer. Between the ages of about seventeen and twenty-four I tried to abandon this idea, but I did so with the consciousness that I was outraging my true nature and that sooner or later I should have to settle down and write books.
I was the middle child of three, but there was a gap of five years on either side, and I barely saw my father before I was eight. For this and other reasons I was somewhat lonely, and I soon developed disagreeable mannerisms which made me unpopular throughout my schooldays. I had the lonely child's habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary persons, and I think from the very start my literary ambitions were mixed up with the feeling of being isolated and undervalued. I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life. Nevertheless the volume of serious — i.e. seriously intended — writing which I produced all through my childhood and boyhood would not amount to half a dozen pages. I wrote my first poem at the age of four or five, my mother taking it down to dictation. I cannot remember anything about it except that it was about a tiger and the tiger had ‘chair-like teeth’ — a good enough phrase, but I fancy the poem was a plagiarism of Blake's ‘Tiger, Tiger’. At eleven, when the war or 1914-18 broke out, I wrote a patriotic poem which was printed in the local newspaper, as was another, two years later, on the death of Kitchener. From time to time, when I was a bit older, I wrote bad and usually unfinished ‘nature poems’ in the Georgian style. I also attempted a short story which was a ghastly failure. That was the total of the would-be serious work that I actually set down on paper during all those years.
However, throughout this time I did in a sense engage in literary activities. To begin with there was the made-to-order stuff which I produced quickly, easily and without much pleasure to myself. Apart from school work, I wrote vers d'occasion, semi-comic poems which I could turn out at what now seems to me astonishing speed — at fourteen I wrote a whole rhyming play, in imitation of Aristophanes, in about a week — and helped to edit a school magazines, both printed and in manuscript. These magazines were the most pitiful burlesque stuff that you could imagine, and I took far less trouble with them than I now would with the cheapest journalism. But side by side with all this, for fifteen years or more, I was carrying out a literary exercise of a quite different kind: this was the making up of a continuous ‘story’ about myself, a sort of diary existing only in the mind. I believe this is a common habit of children and adolescents. As a very small child I used to imagine that I was, say, Robin Hood, and picture myself as th ...
It is a short PPT presentation about one period of American Literature. It also features a set of questions after each sub-topic to foster in-class discussion.
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3. American Realism
Literary Realism
■ Realism originated as a nineteenth-century artistic movement
that rebelled against the romantics.
■ While the romantics felt that art should show the ideal, realist
artists and writers focused on truth, rather than beauty.
■ They depicted the everyday world as it existed around them.
4. American Realism
■ The American realism movement began around the end of the Civil War in
1865 and lasted to the beginning of the twentieth century.
■ Authors such as Robert Frost, Mark Twain, Charles W. Chesnutt, and
Henry James focused their writing on real-life situations with true-to-life
characters.
■ They wrote as though they were documenting true events and included
realistic speech patterns, gritty characters, and even unhappy endings.
■ Realist literature focused on the everyday lives of ordinary citizens.
5. American Realism
Characteristics of American Realism
■ Objective
■ Free Will
■ Sometimes Optimistic
■ Everyday Settings
■ Ordinary Events
■ Common Man Characters
■ There is frequent use of colloquial speech. Diction is natural
vernacular, not heightened or poetic; tone may be comic,
satiric, or matter-of-fact.
■ Characters are of the middle and low classes.
6. American Realism
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
■ Another text that illustrates the way realism rebels against romanticism is
Mark Twain's novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
■ The main character, Huck, is a faithful depiction of many young, poor boys
at the time: he was an uneducated child who spat and questioned the
existence of God.
■ The book has romantic characters as well, including Tom Sawyer, who
serves as a foil to Huck and views life as a series of grand adventures.
■ Twain uses the two boys to provide a contrast between romantic idealism
and realist practicality.
7. American Realism
Assignments:
1) Complete the “Literary Era” exercise on slide 9 of the
American Realism Tutorial to help you
distinguish between the characteristics of
Romanticism and the characteristics of Realism in
literature.
2) Read “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.”
8. American Realism
Analysis of “The Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”
■ In this story, Bierce primarily uses the third-person limited point of view.
– In sections 1 and 3, the reader gains access to all of Peyton Farquhar's internal
thoughts.
– In section 2, the point of view shifts to show the thoughts and intentions of the
soldier who comes to Farquhar's farm. Here, the reader finds out that the soldier is
actually a federal scout who has set up Farquhar for capture. This insight is the only
information the reader has that Farquhar does not.
■ The harsh ending to the story—Farquhar's sudden death by hanging—is an example of
realism, which commonly depicts the brutal realities of life and death.
9. Complex Characters in Realism
Objective
■ In this lesson, you will analyze how authors use
complex characters and other literary elements for
effect in realist literature.
10. Complex Characters in Realism
Complex Characters
■ Complex characters in literature add depth to a text.
■ The personalities of complex characters are often multifaceted
and are not easily defined in straightforward or simplistic
terms.
■ Authors often use complex characters to portray the variations
in human nature.
■ Complex characters often have internal conflicts that cause
them to question their own ideas, beliefs, attitudes, and morals
■ Complex characters may also be described as round
characters.
11. Complex Characters in Realism
■ Assignment:
■ Read “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin.
■ Write a lengthy paragraph describing Mrs. Mallard.
– Do not summarize the story. Your paragraph is a
character description.
12. Complex Characters in Realism
■ Complex characters in realist literature, like real people, react
to events in unpredictable ways.
■ Their behavior reveals multiple motives and conflicting traits,
and it evolves with time.
■ Realist characters are more believable because of these
qualities.
■ Mrs. Mallard -
13. Unreliable Narrators in Realism
Objective
■ In this lesson, you will evaluate how authors use
unreliable narrators and other literary techniques for
effect in realist literature.
14. Unreliable Narrators in Realism
Relying on a Narrator
■ When reading a story, audiences expect to be able to trust the
narrator and the events that the narrator describes. .
■ Sometimes, though, narrators have an unreliable or
untrustworthy perspective on the events in a story.
■ This limitation creates an unreliable narrator, or a narrator
whose story cannot be believed.
■ In that case, readers must judge for themselves which parts of
the narrative are true and which should be called into doubt.
■ The two main reasons that readers might doubt a narrator's
credibility are a lack of sophistication and a lack of sanity.
15. Unreliable Narrators in Realism
Types of Unreliable Narrators
■ In a story with an unsophisticated narrator, the first-person
account often comes from a child's point of view.
■ An example of an unsophisticated narrator comes from the
novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Told from the point
of view of a young girl, Scout, living in a small town in the
1930s, the story focuses on racial tensions in the community.
■ The narrator does not understand why race is such a
contentious, or controversial, issue.
16. Unreliable Narrators in Realism
■ Types of Unreliable Narrators
■ Narrators who display a lack of sanity are also considered
unreliable because readers cannot be sure which events
actually take place and which occur only in the narrator's
imagination.
■ Recall the excerpt from Poe's "The Black Cat.” Is the mark on
the cat's chest actually growing, or is the change happening
only in the narrator’s mind?
■ Readers, recognizing that the narrator has shown signs of
insanity, must decide for themselves if the action is truly taking
place.
17. Unreliable Narrators in Realism
Effects of an Unreliable Narrator
■ Authors often use unreliable narrators to reveal truths about
human nature and society.
■ For instance, in To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee's portrayal of
racism through the eyes of the young girl, Scout, serves to
show that the moral corruption of racism is evident even to a
child.
18. Humor in American Realism
Objective
■ In this lesson, you will identify and analyze
characteristics of satire and humor in realist
literature.
19. Humor in American Realism
Satire
■ Works of satire are written in a humorous way to point out
a flaw in society or a particular person.
■ American humor blossomed during the realist period, as
evidenced by writers such as Mark Twain and Charles
Farrar Browne.
■ Many characteristics of their writing, including using
ordinary characters and writing in the vernacular, or
common language, were also characteristics of realist
writing as a whole.
■ Twain wrote stories and novels satirizing racial relations,
various British customs, and class differences in the 1800s.
20. Humor in American Realism
Hyperbole
■ One technique many humorists employ is hyperbole, a
rhetorical device that exaggerates facts and details. Writers
use hyperbole to emphasize a point or to add humor based on
the absurdity or irrationality of the idea being exaggerated.
■ Consider the previous example from Browne's “Interview with
President Lincoln.” Where does it contain hyperbole?
■ I should move heving and arth—so to speak—until I got
orfice [office] . . .
■ "Move heving and arth," or moving heaven and earth, is a
hyperbole meaning that the speaker will try anything to
accomplish his task.
21. Humor in American Realism
■ Which sentences in this excerpt from Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn use
hyperbole?
■ He listened some more; then he come tiptoeing down and stood right between us; we
could a touched him, nearly.
■ Well, likely it was minutes and minutes that there warn't a sound, and we all there so
close together.
■ There was a place on my ankle that got to itching, but I dasn't scratch it; and then my ear
begun to itch; and next my back, right between my shoulders.
■ Seemed like I'd die if I couldn't scratch.
■ Well, I've noticed that thing plenty times since. If you are with the quality, or at a funeral,
or trying to go to sleep when you ain't sleepy—if you are anywheres where it won't do for
you to scratch, why you will itch all over in upwards of a thousand places.
■ Pretty soon Jim says: "Say, who is you? Whar is you? Dog my cats ef I didn' hear
sumf'n. Well, I know what I's gwyne to do: I's gwyne to set down here and listen tell I
hears it agin."
22. Humor in American Realism
■ Which sentences in this excerpt from Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn use
hyperbole?
■ He listened some more; then he come tiptoeing down and stood right between us; we
could a touched him, nearly.
■ Well, likely it was minutes and minutes that there warn't a sound, and we all there so
close together.
■ There was a place on my ankle that got to itching, but I dasn't scratch it; and then my ear
begun to itch; and next my back, right between my shoulders.
■ Seemed like I'd die if I couldn't scratch.
■ Well, I've noticed that thing plenty times since. If you are with the quality, or at a
funeral, or trying to go to sleep when you ain't sleepy—if you are anywheres
where it won't do for you to scratch, why you will itch all over in upwards of a
thousand places.
■ Pretty soon Jim says: "Say, who is you? Whar is you? Dog my cats ef I didn' hear
sumf'n. Well, I know what I's gwyne to do: I's gwyne to set down here and listen tell I
hears it agin."
23. Humor in American Realism
Assignment
■ Read Mark Twain’s “The £1,000,000 Bank-Note.”
■ Complete slides 17 and 18 on Unit 3 Humor in American
Realism and submit answers.
24. Humor in American Realism
■ Analysis of "The £1,000,000 Bank-Note“
■ “The first thing I noticed, then, was the landlord. His eye was on the note, and he was
petrified.He was worshiping, with all his body and soul, but he looked as if he couldn't stir
hand or foot. ”
■ Henry uses this discovery to his advantage and lives like a king for the month he has the
money.Twain is making a statement about the worship of money throughout all classes of
British society.Everyone—from the landlord of the hotel to the aristocrats that Henry dines
with—is in awe of his million-pound bank note and, as a result, treats him as an honored
member of society.
■ Twain uses hyperbole throughout the story. For example, instead of simply writing that Henry
wanted to eat a pear that a child dropped in the gutter, Twain writes that his "whole being
begged for it."
■ He gently satirizes the emotions of youth through Henry's character. Although Henry has
only just met Portia Langham at a dinner party, he falls in love immediately. To the reader, he
introduces her as "an English girl of twenty-two, named Portia Langham, whom I fell in love
with in two minutes." Everything that Henry feels is a hyperbole—his hunger, his love, his
excitement—which reflects the inexperience and immaturity of many young adults.