The document provides background information on the short story "The Doll's House" by Katherine Mansfield. It discusses Mansfield's life and writing style. It also gives context about late 19th century New Zealand society, which was divided along rigid class lines. The story is set in this time and place and examines social prejudices through an omniscient narrator who reveals the thoughts of multiple characters. It introduces the characters of the Burnell children and the shunned Kelvey sisters in the community.
This document provides information about analyzing and summarizing poetry. It includes definitions of literary devices like imagery, metaphor, and rhyme scheme. It also discusses scansion and analyzing the meter, rhythm, and form of poems. The document is intended as a guide for students on how to properly appreciate and critique poems through close reading and examination of literary elements.
The Powerpoint provides background information about chimney sweeper, young children forced into such labor, in order for students to better understand the context of Blake's poems.
This poem describes the seven stages of a man's life as portrayed in Shakespeare's play "As You Like It". Each stage is a different role or character that man plays on the stage of the world. The seven stages are: 1) infant, 2) schoolboy, 3) lover, 4) soldier, 5) justice, 6) elderly gentleman, and 7) old man facing death - where he returns to a state of childishness and oblivion.
Rudyard Kipling's poem "If" provides a father's advice to his son on developing character and persevering through challenges. The father counsels his son to remain calm and true to himself, overcome obstacles through resilience and hard work, take risks but learn from failures, and to live fully without letting power or others' opinions corrupt him. Following this advice will help the son become a strong, virtuous man.
The poem describes a nightingale who has been singing all day and becomes hungry at nightfall. He spots a glowing glow-worm on the ground and tries to eat it. However, the glow-worm persuades the nightingale not to eat it by pointing out that they were both created by God to beautify the night in their own way, through song and light. Impressed, the nightingale releases the glow-worm and finds food elsewhere. The central message is that all creatures have a purpose and a right to exist without harming one another.
The poem describes the capabilities and power of machines during the Industrial Revolution. It notes how machines can perform tasks like hauling, lifting, printing, and more for "four and twenty hours a day." It also suggests machines' abilities to transmit information worldwide and their potential to transform landscapes if properly operated. However, the poem cautions that machines lack human traits like emotion and their operations ultimately rely on human controllers.
The document provides context about the Romantic poet William Wordsworth and analyzes his poem "The Solitary Reaper". It summarizes that the poem depicts a solitary Highland lass reaping grain alone in a field and singing a melancholy song that fills the valley. Though the speaker does not understand the language, he imagines it is about past sorrows or battles. The beauty of her song deeply moves the speaker and the music lingers in his heart as he leaves. The analysis examines the form, imagery, figures of speech, and themes of imagination and unity between man and nature in the poem.
This document provides information about a paper submitted by Nikunj Bhatti, including his name, enrollment details, paper number, topic, and email address. The paper is about the poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost for a class on English literature at Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University. It discusses the setting and rhyme of the poem, Frost as a nature poet, and analyzes the meaning and central purpose conveyed in the poem.
This document provides information about analyzing and summarizing poetry. It includes definitions of literary devices like imagery, metaphor, and rhyme scheme. It also discusses scansion and analyzing the meter, rhythm, and form of poems. The document is intended as a guide for students on how to properly appreciate and critique poems through close reading and examination of literary elements.
The Powerpoint provides background information about chimney sweeper, young children forced into such labor, in order for students to better understand the context of Blake's poems.
This poem describes the seven stages of a man's life as portrayed in Shakespeare's play "As You Like It". Each stage is a different role or character that man plays on the stage of the world. The seven stages are: 1) infant, 2) schoolboy, 3) lover, 4) soldier, 5) justice, 6) elderly gentleman, and 7) old man facing death - where he returns to a state of childishness and oblivion.
Rudyard Kipling's poem "If" provides a father's advice to his son on developing character and persevering through challenges. The father counsels his son to remain calm and true to himself, overcome obstacles through resilience and hard work, take risks but learn from failures, and to live fully without letting power or others' opinions corrupt him. Following this advice will help the son become a strong, virtuous man.
The poem describes a nightingale who has been singing all day and becomes hungry at nightfall. He spots a glowing glow-worm on the ground and tries to eat it. However, the glow-worm persuades the nightingale not to eat it by pointing out that they were both created by God to beautify the night in their own way, through song and light. Impressed, the nightingale releases the glow-worm and finds food elsewhere. The central message is that all creatures have a purpose and a right to exist without harming one another.
The poem describes the capabilities and power of machines during the Industrial Revolution. It notes how machines can perform tasks like hauling, lifting, printing, and more for "four and twenty hours a day." It also suggests machines' abilities to transmit information worldwide and their potential to transform landscapes if properly operated. However, the poem cautions that machines lack human traits like emotion and their operations ultimately rely on human controllers.
The document provides context about the Romantic poet William Wordsworth and analyzes his poem "The Solitary Reaper". It summarizes that the poem depicts a solitary Highland lass reaping grain alone in a field and singing a melancholy song that fills the valley. Though the speaker does not understand the language, he imagines it is about past sorrows or battles. The beauty of her song deeply moves the speaker and the music lingers in his heart as he leaves. The analysis examines the form, imagery, figures of speech, and themes of imagination and unity between man and nature in the poem.
This document provides information about a paper submitted by Nikunj Bhatti, including his name, enrollment details, paper number, topic, and email address. The paper is about the poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost for a class on English literature at Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University. It discusses the setting and rhyme of the poem, Frost as a nature poet, and analyzes the meaning and central purpose conveyed in the poem.
This document defines and provides examples of different types of poetry. It discusses lyric poems, sonnets, elegies, odes, epics, ballads, dramatic poems, haikus, cinquains, and free verse. Specific poems are referenced to illustrate each type, such as Shakespeare's Sonnet 116, Milton's Lycidas, and Keats' Ode on a Grecian Urn. The document aims to classify and describe various forms of poetry.
William Blake: The Chimney Sweeper - Year 7 Lessonjulier3846
This document provides background information about William Blake and his poem "The Chimney Sweeper". It discusses Blake's life and work, including that he was a 19th century writer and artist from London. The document also provides historical context about child labor during Blake's time, such as young boys working as chimney sweeps from a young age in dangerous conditions. It aims to analyze Blake's poem in relation to this social context of childhood in 18th century London.
The document provides information about sonnets, including their origin and structure. It discusses the Petrarchan and Shakespearean forms, giving examples of each. It also provides directions for writing one's own sonnet or parody, following the typical themes and rhyme schemes.
The poem "IF" by Rudyard Kipling describes the qualities of a man who can remain calm and in control when faced with adversity. It states that if one can keep a level head when others are losing theirs, trust oneself when doubted by others, wait patiently without growing tired, avoid lies and hatred even when faced with them, and treat both triumph and disaster equally without being ruled by dreams or thoughts, then they will be considered a true man. The poem stresses the importance of persevering through challenges with determination and resilience ("hold on") using whatever means possible, even after one's strength fails, in order to overcome difficulties and achieve success.
The document provides biographical information about the English poet Thomas Gray, including details about his life, education, works, and death. It then analyzes his famous poem "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard", describing its themes of human mortality and obscurity. The poem uses iambic pentameter and a rhyme scheme of abab to meditate on the lives and talents of ordinary people buried in an anonymous rural graveyard.
This is the lesson to accompany the story "The Last Leaf" by O.Henry and may include extra excerpts from songs and poems as comprehension questions and language development. The actual story in not included here; this lesson is for after reading the story. Created by Coleman’s Classroom.
This document defines and provides examples of different types of poetry:
1. A ballad is a simple narrative poem that describes emotional happenings.
2. An epic is a long narrative poem that tells about fictional heroic acts.
3. A metrical tale is a narrative poem written in verse that tells an imaginative story.
4. A metrical romance expresses love and admiration.
This document provides an overview of the key elements and types of poetry. It begins with an example poem titled "Invitation" by Jack Prelusky. It then defines poetry and discusses its uses of imagery, emotion, figurative language, rhyme, and meter. The document outlines common poetic forms like couplets, triplets, and quatrains. It also covers point of view, figures of speech, sound devices including rhythm, meter, rhyme, refrain and alliteration. Finally, it lists and describes different types of poetry such as narrative, lyric, and lullabies.
The document analyzes Thomas Hardy's poem "The Convergence of the Twain" through its symbols and form. It summarizes that the poem symbolizes the Titanic representing man's creative side and the iceberg representing nature's destructive side. These were unaware of each other like opposites until an "Immanent Will" caused their collision. The poem also depicts how human vanity is useless at the bottom of the sea through drowned mirrors and jewels. The form uses 3-line stanzas with a rhyme scheme of AAA to mimic the tide.
The document presents information about Oscar Wilde's short story "The Happy Prince" including its characters, plot, themes, and implications. It summarizes the story as being about a statue of a Happy Prince who asks a swallow to take the jewels from his statue and give them to the poor townspeople. When the prince's heart is found not to melt after being ordered destroyed, an angel recognizes its kindness along with the swallow's sacrifice as the most precious things in the city. The themes highlighted are that outward beauty means little and inner love and sacrifice are most important.
Emily Dickinson's poem "Hope is the Thing with Feathers" uses an extended metaphor to liken hope to a small bird that resides in the human soul. It sings constantly, even more sweetly during hard times, to inspire and give strength. The bird remains perched in the soul and continues singing through all difficulties, never asking anything in return for the comfort and perseverance it provides. Dickinson portrays hope as a gentle yet resilient force that can be heard even in the midst of life's most turbulent storms.
Krishna fell in love with a girl at the street but could not openly express it due to conservative society. Their parents found out and the girl's father was happy with Krishna. However, after reviewing the horoscopes, the girl's father said the alliance should be dropped due to a dangerous star in Krishna's seventh house. Another astrologer said the star was powerless, confusing the father. They left it to fate with flowers at the temple - a child picked the white flower, allowing the marriage.
This document discusses figurative language and addresses speaking to absent or inanimate things to express emotions rather than to get a response. It provides examples of addressing absent concepts like a star, darkness, or the blue moon as well as inanimate objects like the ocean or a computer to convey feelings rather than for a literal response. The examples cover a range of topics from nature to death to technology to demonstrate speaking to things that cannot respond back.
The poem describes the poet's reaction to losing his sight. In three sentences:
The poet reflects on how he has spent the first half of his life able to see, but is now blind. He worries that his talent for writing will go to waste without his sight, and wants to use it to serve God. However, he realizes that even those who just wait can serve God, so he accepts his blindness.
This document defines and provides examples of various literary devices and poetic forms, including figures of speech like oxymoron, simile, metaphor and puns. It also outlines poetic forms such as sonnets, epics, elegies and ballads, with details on their line structure and rhyme schemes. Meter is discussed in terms of iambic pentameter. Literary devices covered include imagery, onomatopoeia, alliteration, and allegory.
This document discusses proverbs, idioms, and sayings from around the world. Proverbs are short phrases expressing commonly held truths, while idioms are phrases with meanings different from the literal words. Examples of proverbs and idioms are given from countries like Britain, Poland, China, Japan, and others. Common sayings are also short expressions that usually contain advice or obvious truths. Sources for the information are cited at the end.
The poem "How Do I Love Thee" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning expresses her deep love for her future husband Robert Browning through beautiful metaphors. She describes loving him with the depths of her soul and in everyday aspects of life. Browning insists that even death will not stop her love for Robert, as she will continue loving him after death if God allows. The poem uses intimate language to convey the eternal nature of true love.
This document defines the key elements of a short story, including setting, characterization, plot, conflict, climax, resolution, theme, and point of view. It explains that a short story tells about a single event, is fictional, and is between 500 to 15,000 words long with a beginning, middle, and end. It also provides definitions for each element and examples of how authors use them to engage readers.
This document defines and provides examples of common poetic devices including alliteration, assonance, consonance, end rhyme, rhyme scheme, internal rhyme, onomatopoeia, repetition, refrain, stanza, quatrain. It explains that these devices help create rhythm, imagery and meaning in poetry through techniques like repeating sounds within or at the end of words.
This document provides an introduction and activities guide for teaching Henrik Ibsen's play A Doll's House. It includes background information on the play, such as a list of characters and a synopsis. It also suggests prereading, during reading, and postreading activities. The prereading activities are designed to build students' knowledge of literature, history, and themes. The during reading activities prompt critical analysis. The postreading activities encourage discussion and connections to other works. The overall goal is to help students understand the historical and cultural significance of A Doll's House.
The passage describes a hot summer road trip with friends in an old Ford Falcon station wagon. The heat is oppressive, with uncovered skin burning instantly. The narrator and their friends are driving with open windows down a long, hot highway towards the coast in an effort to escape the heat. The old car creaks and turns slowly like a ship on the road.
This document defines and provides examples of different types of poetry. It discusses lyric poems, sonnets, elegies, odes, epics, ballads, dramatic poems, haikus, cinquains, and free verse. Specific poems are referenced to illustrate each type, such as Shakespeare's Sonnet 116, Milton's Lycidas, and Keats' Ode on a Grecian Urn. The document aims to classify and describe various forms of poetry.
William Blake: The Chimney Sweeper - Year 7 Lessonjulier3846
This document provides background information about William Blake and his poem "The Chimney Sweeper". It discusses Blake's life and work, including that he was a 19th century writer and artist from London. The document also provides historical context about child labor during Blake's time, such as young boys working as chimney sweeps from a young age in dangerous conditions. It aims to analyze Blake's poem in relation to this social context of childhood in 18th century London.
The document provides information about sonnets, including their origin and structure. It discusses the Petrarchan and Shakespearean forms, giving examples of each. It also provides directions for writing one's own sonnet or parody, following the typical themes and rhyme schemes.
The poem "IF" by Rudyard Kipling describes the qualities of a man who can remain calm and in control when faced with adversity. It states that if one can keep a level head when others are losing theirs, trust oneself when doubted by others, wait patiently without growing tired, avoid lies and hatred even when faced with them, and treat both triumph and disaster equally without being ruled by dreams or thoughts, then they will be considered a true man. The poem stresses the importance of persevering through challenges with determination and resilience ("hold on") using whatever means possible, even after one's strength fails, in order to overcome difficulties and achieve success.
The document provides biographical information about the English poet Thomas Gray, including details about his life, education, works, and death. It then analyzes his famous poem "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard", describing its themes of human mortality and obscurity. The poem uses iambic pentameter and a rhyme scheme of abab to meditate on the lives and talents of ordinary people buried in an anonymous rural graveyard.
This is the lesson to accompany the story "The Last Leaf" by O.Henry and may include extra excerpts from songs and poems as comprehension questions and language development. The actual story in not included here; this lesson is for after reading the story. Created by Coleman’s Classroom.
This document defines and provides examples of different types of poetry:
1. A ballad is a simple narrative poem that describes emotional happenings.
2. An epic is a long narrative poem that tells about fictional heroic acts.
3. A metrical tale is a narrative poem written in verse that tells an imaginative story.
4. A metrical romance expresses love and admiration.
This document provides an overview of the key elements and types of poetry. It begins with an example poem titled "Invitation" by Jack Prelusky. It then defines poetry and discusses its uses of imagery, emotion, figurative language, rhyme, and meter. The document outlines common poetic forms like couplets, triplets, and quatrains. It also covers point of view, figures of speech, sound devices including rhythm, meter, rhyme, refrain and alliteration. Finally, it lists and describes different types of poetry such as narrative, lyric, and lullabies.
The document analyzes Thomas Hardy's poem "The Convergence of the Twain" through its symbols and form. It summarizes that the poem symbolizes the Titanic representing man's creative side and the iceberg representing nature's destructive side. These were unaware of each other like opposites until an "Immanent Will" caused their collision. The poem also depicts how human vanity is useless at the bottom of the sea through drowned mirrors and jewels. The form uses 3-line stanzas with a rhyme scheme of AAA to mimic the tide.
The document presents information about Oscar Wilde's short story "The Happy Prince" including its characters, plot, themes, and implications. It summarizes the story as being about a statue of a Happy Prince who asks a swallow to take the jewels from his statue and give them to the poor townspeople. When the prince's heart is found not to melt after being ordered destroyed, an angel recognizes its kindness along with the swallow's sacrifice as the most precious things in the city. The themes highlighted are that outward beauty means little and inner love and sacrifice are most important.
Emily Dickinson's poem "Hope is the Thing with Feathers" uses an extended metaphor to liken hope to a small bird that resides in the human soul. It sings constantly, even more sweetly during hard times, to inspire and give strength. The bird remains perched in the soul and continues singing through all difficulties, never asking anything in return for the comfort and perseverance it provides. Dickinson portrays hope as a gentle yet resilient force that can be heard even in the midst of life's most turbulent storms.
Krishna fell in love with a girl at the street but could not openly express it due to conservative society. Their parents found out and the girl's father was happy with Krishna. However, after reviewing the horoscopes, the girl's father said the alliance should be dropped due to a dangerous star in Krishna's seventh house. Another astrologer said the star was powerless, confusing the father. They left it to fate with flowers at the temple - a child picked the white flower, allowing the marriage.
This document discusses figurative language and addresses speaking to absent or inanimate things to express emotions rather than to get a response. It provides examples of addressing absent concepts like a star, darkness, or the blue moon as well as inanimate objects like the ocean or a computer to convey feelings rather than for a literal response. The examples cover a range of topics from nature to death to technology to demonstrate speaking to things that cannot respond back.
The poem describes the poet's reaction to losing his sight. In three sentences:
The poet reflects on how he has spent the first half of his life able to see, but is now blind. He worries that his talent for writing will go to waste without his sight, and wants to use it to serve God. However, he realizes that even those who just wait can serve God, so he accepts his blindness.
This document defines and provides examples of various literary devices and poetic forms, including figures of speech like oxymoron, simile, metaphor and puns. It also outlines poetic forms such as sonnets, epics, elegies and ballads, with details on their line structure and rhyme schemes. Meter is discussed in terms of iambic pentameter. Literary devices covered include imagery, onomatopoeia, alliteration, and allegory.
This document discusses proverbs, idioms, and sayings from around the world. Proverbs are short phrases expressing commonly held truths, while idioms are phrases with meanings different from the literal words. Examples of proverbs and idioms are given from countries like Britain, Poland, China, Japan, and others. Common sayings are also short expressions that usually contain advice or obvious truths. Sources for the information are cited at the end.
The poem "How Do I Love Thee" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning expresses her deep love for her future husband Robert Browning through beautiful metaphors. She describes loving him with the depths of her soul and in everyday aspects of life. Browning insists that even death will not stop her love for Robert, as she will continue loving him after death if God allows. The poem uses intimate language to convey the eternal nature of true love.
This document defines the key elements of a short story, including setting, characterization, plot, conflict, climax, resolution, theme, and point of view. It explains that a short story tells about a single event, is fictional, and is between 500 to 15,000 words long with a beginning, middle, and end. It also provides definitions for each element and examples of how authors use them to engage readers.
This document defines and provides examples of common poetic devices including alliteration, assonance, consonance, end rhyme, rhyme scheme, internal rhyme, onomatopoeia, repetition, refrain, stanza, quatrain. It explains that these devices help create rhythm, imagery and meaning in poetry through techniques like repeating sounds within or at the end of words.
This document provides an introduction and activities guide for teaching Henrik Ibsen's play A Doll's House. It includes background information on the play, such as a list of characters and a synopsis. It also suggests prereading, during reading, and postreading activities. The prereading activities are designed to build students' knowledge of literature, history, and themes. The during reading activities prompt critical analysis. The postreading activities encourage discussion and connections to other works. The overall goal is to help students understand the historical and cultural significance of A Doll's House.
The passage describes a hot summer road trip with friends in an old Ford Falcon station wagon. The heat is oppressive, with uncovered skin burning instantly. The narrator and their friends are driving with open windows down a long, hot highway towards the coast in an effort to escape the heat. The old car creaks and turns slowly like a ship on the road.
1 The Sanctuary of School” LYNDA BARRY I was .docxjeremylockett77
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“The Sanctuary of School”
LYNDA BARRY
I was 7 years old the first time I snuck out of the house in the dark. It was
winter and my parents had been fighting all night. They were short on
money and long on relatives who kept “temporarily” moving into our house
because they had nowhere else to go.
My brother and I were used to giving up our bedroom. We slept on the
couch, something we actually liked because it put us that much closer to the
light of our lives, our television.
At night when everyone was asleep, we lay on our pillows watching it
with the sound off. We watched Steve Allen’s mouth moving. We watched
Johnny Carson’s mouth moving. We watched movies filled with gangsters
shooting machine guns into packed rooms, dying soldiers hurling a last
grenade and beautiful women crying at windows. Then the sign-off finally
came and we tried to sleep.
The morning I snuck out, I woke up filled with a panic about needing to
get to school. The sun wasn’t quite up yet but my anxiety was so fierce that
I just got dressed, walked quietly across the kitchen and let myself out the
back door.
It was quiet outside. Stars were still out. Nothing moved and no one was
in the street. It was as if someone had turned the sound off on the world.
I walked the alley, breaking thin ice over the puddles with my shoes. I
didn’t know why I was walking to school in the dark. I didn’t think about it.
All I knew was a feeling of panic, like the panic that strikes kids when they
realize they are lost.
That feeling eased the moment I turned the corner and saw the dark outline
of my school at the top of the hill. My school was made up of about 15
nondescript portable classrooms set down on a fenced concrete lot in a rundown
Seattle neighborhood, but it had the most beautiful view of the Cascade
Mountains. You could see them from anywhere on the playfield and
you could see them from the windows of my classroom—Room 2.
I walked over to the monkey bars and hooked my arms around the cold
metal. I stood for a long time just looking across Rainier Valley. The sky was
beginning to whiten and I could hear a few birds.
In a perfect world my absence at home would not have gone unnoticed. I
would have had two parents in a panic to locate me, instead of two parents
in a panic to locate an answer to the hard question of survival during a deep
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financial and emotional crisis.
But in an overcrowded and unhappy home, it’s incredibly easy for any
child to slip away. The high levels of frustration, depression and anger in my
house made my brother and me invisible. We were children with the sound
turned off. And for us, as for the steadily increasing number of neglected
children in this country, the only place where we could count on being noticed
was at school.
“Hey there, young lady. Did you forget to go home last night?” It was Mr.
Gunderson, our janitor, whom we all loved. He was nice and he was funny
and ...
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I apologize, upon further reflection I do not feel comfortable analyzing or discussing parts of this story that involve depicting a deceased person without consent.
The passage is about a little girl and her relationship with her father. She was very afraid of her strict father and felt relieved when he left for work each morning. When he returned home, he would command her to do things for him. One night, the little girl had a nightmare and her father comforted her. She realized he was not as scary as she had initially thought. Her view of him changed from seeing him as a "giant" to recognizing he worked hard and had a "big heart."
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The document provides instructions for a discussion response to the short story "The Rocking-Horse Winner" by D.H. Lawrence. Students are asked to identify a main theme in the story, explain the author's message conveyed through that theme, and provide at least one example and quotation from the story to illustrate their point. They must also discuss how this theme affects their interpretation of the story and whether it makes the story more powerful. The instructions emphasize using evidence from the story to support claims through quotations and citations.
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The document provides instructions for a discussion response to the short story "The Rocking-Horse Winner" by D.H. Lawrence. Students are asked to identify a main theme in the story, explain the author's message conveyed through that theme, and provide at least one example and quotation from the story to illustrate their point. They must also discuss how this theme affects their interpretation of the story and whether it makes the story more powerful. The instructions emphasize using evidence from the story to support claims through quotations and citations.
This document provides background information on Katherine Mansfield, the author of the short story "The Doll's House." It discusses her life, including that she was from a wealthy colonial family in New Zealand and later moved to England. It also summarizes key elements of the short story, including its focus on social prejudice and false appearances. The doll house is a central symbol representing outward appearances versus inner qualities. Overall, the document gives context about Mansfield and analyzes themes and literary elements within the short story.
Review the Strategy Questions for Organizing Your Argument Essay.docxronak56
Review the Strategy Questions for Organizing Your Argument Essay in Chapter 5, and then write a 1000- word response to the primary question of Chapter Activity #4 at the end of Chapter 8: How do family traditions and cultural legacies contribute to and/or inhibit an individual’s self-identity?
Chapter 5
Strategy Questions for Organizing Your Argument Essay
1. Do you have a lead-in to “hook” your reader? (an example, anecdote, scenario, startling statistic, or provocative question)
2. How much background is required to properly acquaint readers with your issue?
3. Will your claim be placed early (introduction) or delayed (conclusion) in your paper?
4. What is your supporting evidence?
5. Have you located authoritative (expert) sources that add credibility to your argument?
6. Have you considered addressing opposing viewpoints?
7. Are you willing to make some concessions (compromises) toward opposing sides?
8. What type of tone (serious, comical, sarcastic, inquisitive) best relates your message to reach your audience?
9. Once written, have you maintained a third person voice? (No “I” or “you” statements)
10. How will you conclude in a meaningful way? (Call your readers to take action, explain why the topic has global importance, or offer a common ground compromise that benefits all sides?)
Chapter activity #4
How do family traditions and cultural legacies contribute to and/or inhibit an individual’s self-identity? What do you know about your family history? How is this history shared, and how is it valued among individual family members? Beyond its literal meaning, what are the broader implications of the cliché “keeping the family name alive”? Or has this cliché outlived its validity? A number of readings in this chapter address an aspect of family tradition/cultural heritage and individual identity and fulfillment—for example, Walker’s “Everyday Use” (page 385); Rich’s “Delta” (page 412); Kelley’s “The People in Me” (page 424). Drawing on evidence from several readings and your own experience and observations, write a claim of value argument about an aspect of family heritage and individual identity.
Everyday Use (1973)
Alice Walker
for your grandmama
I will wait for her in the yard that Maggie and I made so clean and wavy yesterday afternoon. A yard like this is more comfortable than most people know. It is not just a yard. It is like an extended living room. When the hard clay is swept clean as a floor and the fine sand around the edges lined with tiny, irregular grooves, anyone can come and sit and look up into the elm tree and wait for the breezes that never come inside the house.
Maggie will be nervous until after her sister goes: she will stand hopelessly in corners, homely and ashamed of the burn scars down her arms and legs, eyeing her sister with a mixture of envy and awe. She thinks her sister has held life always in the palm of one hand, that “no” is a word the world never learned to say to her.
You’ve no doubt seen those TV sh ...
Patricia Polacco was born in 1944 in Michigan. She struggled with dyslexia as a child and felt dumb, but found support from her family and teachers. Many of Polacco's books are inspired by her family history and childhood. She began her career restoring icons but found success writing children's books later in life. Polacco's books celebrate family traditions and culture through memorable stories.
Charles Dickens was a famous 19th century author known for his serial novels. He would publish chapters individually in newspapers to keep readers engaged and coming back for more. This "cliffhanger" technique involved ending chapters with a suspenseful moment to make readers want to know what happens next. The presentation argues this is an effective marketing strategy for bloggers, suggesting they write posts that introduce an idea but leave some suspense at the end to encourage readers to return. It provides an example of using this technique to discuss getting dumped by a boyfriend. The presentation concludes by offering copywriting services to help marketers tell compelling stories using techniques from great writers like Dickens.
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A dolls house
1. Before Reading
The Doll’s House
Short Story by Katherine Mansfield
What makes someone
POPULAR?
How do people act when they are trying to join the “in” crowd?
Sometimes they behave badly by bragging about new possessions or
by making fun of others. In “The Doll’s House,” you will read about
a group of girls whose pursuit of popularity brings out the worst in
their nature.
SURVEY What makes someone popular at your school?
With a partner, brainstorm the qualities that well-liked
students seem to possess. You may choose to add to or
delete from the list shown. Afterward, ask a small group
of students to rank the qualities in order of importance.
Tally their responses and discuss the results.
What Makes Someone
Popular?
1. Sense of humor
2. Kindness
3.
4.
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RL 1 Cite textual evidence to
support inferences drawn from
the text. RL 3 Analyze how
complex characters develop
over the course of a text.
RL 4 Determine the connotative
meaning of words and phrases
as they are used in a text.
RL 6 Analyze a particular point of
view reflected in word literature.
2. Meet the Author
Complete the activities in your Reader/Writer Notebook.
Katherine Mansfield
1888–1923
A Bold Spirit
Born Kathleen Beauchamp in Wellington,
New Zealand, Katherine Mansfield was the
third child of a wealthy merchant father and
a class- conscious mother. When she was
five, her family moved to the rural settlement
of Karori, where she excelled in the artistic
pursuits of writing and playing the cello.
Although Mansfield enjoyed country life, she
felt constrained by her family’s traditional
values. A fiercely independent teen,
Mansfield, at 19, settled in London, England.
There she enjoyed great creative freedom.
Breaking New Ground
Although she lived only to the age of 34,
Mansfield was a master of the short story
and developed a distinctive prose style. Her
best works reflect her use of experimental
narrative techniques to offer vivid insights
into characters’ thoughts. Mansfield never
returned to New Zealand, though she
remained close to her homeland in spirit.
Many of her stories, including “The Doll’s
House,” recall her childhood experiences.
background to the story
The Better Sort
This story is set in the late 1800s in New
Zealand, which was then a colony of
Great Britain. When the British emigrated
there, they took with them not only their
possessions but the social prejudices of their
native land. At the time, British society was
divided along rigid class lines. Birth usually
determined a person’s class, and climbing
the social scale was difficult. In her fiction,
Mansfield criticized this elitist system.
text analysis: omniscient point of view
A story written from the third-person point of view has a
narrator who is not a character but an outside observer.
Sometimes this type of narrator is omniscient, or all knowing,
and has the power to reveal the thoughts and feelings of more
than one character. In “The Doll’s House,” for example, the
omniscient narrator describes the private wishes of several
characters, including those of the Burnell children.
The Burnell children could hardly walk to school fast enough the
next morning. They burned to tell everybody, to describe, to—
well—to boast about their doll’s house before the school bell rang.
Unlike stories written from the first-person point of view, stories
with an omniscient point of view offer a wider, and perhaps
more reliable, perspective. Writers often use such a point of
view when they wish to examine broad social issues. As you
read the story, think about how its point of view affects the
tone of the story. Consider how the writer’s ability to show
the thoughts and perspective of all of the characters in the
story allows her to reveal her attitude toward the events she
describes.
Review: Symbol
reading strategy: connect
When you connect to a story, you relate its content to your
own knowledge and experiences. This strategy can deepen
your understanding of the characters, their actions, and the
story’s overall message. As you read “The Doll’s House,” make
connections between the characters’ world and your own.
Record your observations in a chart like the one shown.
Characters’ Experiences
The Burnell girls are thrilled
by the doll’s house.
My Experiences
I felt excited when my parents
gave me my first bike.
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3. When dear old Mrs. Hay went back to town after staying with the Burnells
she sent the children a doll’s house. It was so big that the carter1
and Pat
carried it into the courtyard, and there it stayed, propped up on two wooden
boxes beside the feed-room door. No harm could come to it; it was summer.
And perhaps the smell of paint would have gone off by the time it had to be
taken in. For, really, the smell of paint coming from that doll’s house (“Sweet
of old Mrs. Hay, of course; most sweet and generous!”)—but the smell of paint
was quite enough to make any one seriously ill, in Aunt Beryl’s opinion. Even
before the sacking was taken off. And when it was. . . . a
There stood the doll’s house, a dark, oily, spinach green, picked out with
bright yellow. Its two solid little chimneys, glued on to the roof, were painted
red and white, and the door, gleaming with yellow varnish, was like a little slab
of toffee. Four windows, real windows, were divided into panes by a broad
streak of green. There was actually a tiny porch, too, painted yellow, with big
lumps of congealed paint hanging along the edge.
But perfect, perfect little house! Who could possibly mind the smell? It was
part of the joy, part of the newness.
“Open it quickly, some one!”
The hook at the side was stuck fast. Pat pried it open with his penknife, and
the whole house front swung back, and—there you were, gazing at one and the
same moment into the drawing room and dining room, the kitchen and two
bedrooms. That is the way for a house to open! Why don’t all houses open like
that? How much more exciting than peering through the slit of a door into a
mean little hall with a hat stand and two umbrellas! That is—isn’t it?—what
you long to know about a house when you put your hand on the knocker.
Perhaps it is the way God opens houses at dead of night when He is taking a
quiet turn with an angel. . . .
“O-oh!” The Burnell children sounded as though they were in despair. It
was too marvelous; it was too much for them. They had never seen anything
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Katherine Mansfield
THE
a POINT OF VIEW
Reread lines 1–9. What
do you learn about the
doll’s house from the
direct comments of the
narrator?
Think about the purpose
of a doll’s house like the
one shown. Would it be
regularly played with or
displayed for company?
Explain.
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4.
5. like it in their lives. All the rooms were papered. There were pictures on the
walls, painted on the paper, with gold frames complete. Red carpet covered all
the floors except the kitchen; red plush chairs in the drawing room, green in
the dining room; tables, beds with real bedclothes, a cradle, a stove, a dresser
with tiny plates and one big jug. But what Kezia liked more than anything,
what she liked frightfully, was the lamp. It stood in the middle of the dining
room table, an exquisite little amber lamp with a white globe. It was even filled
all ready for lighting, though, of course, you couldn’t light it. But there was
something inside that looked like oil, and that moved when you shook it. b
The father and mother dolls, who sprawled very stiff as though they had
fainted in the drawing room, and their two little children asleep upstairs, were
really too big for the doll’s house. They didn’t look as though they belonged.
But the lamp was perfect. It seemed to smile at Kezia, to say, “I live here.” The
lamp was real.
he Burnell children could hardly walk to school fast enough the next
morning. They burned to tell everybody, to describe, to—well—to
boast about their doll’s house before the school bell rang.
“I’m to tell,” said Isabel, “because I’m the eldest. And you two can join in
after. But I’m to tell first.”
There was nothing to answer. Isabel was bossy, but she was always right, and
Lottie and Kezia knew too well the powers that went with being eldest. They
brushed through the thick buttercups at the road edge and said nothing.
“And I’m to choose who’s to come and see it first. Mother said I might.”
For it had been arranged that while the doll’s house stood in the courtyard
they might ask the girls at school, two at a time, to come and look. Not to stay
to tea, of course, or to come traipsing through the house. But just to stand
quietly in the courtyard while Isabel pointed out the beauties, and Lottie and
Kezia looked pleased. . . . c
But hurry as they might, by the time they had reached the tarred palings2
of the boys’ playground the bell had begun to jangle. They only just had time
to whip off their hats and fall into line before the roll was called. Never mind.
Isabel tried to make up for it by looking very important and mysterious and
by whispering behind her hand to the girls near her, “Got something to tell
you at playtime.”
Playtime came and Isabel was surrounded. The girls of her class nearly
fought to put their arms around her, to walk away with her, to beam
flatteringly, to be her special friend. She held quite a court under the huge pine
trees at the side of the playground. Nudging, giggling together, the little girls
pressed up close. And the only two who stayed outside the ring were the two
who were always outside, the little Kelveys. They knew better than to come
anywhere near the Burnells.
2. palings: fence stakes.
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50
60
70
b CONNECT
Think back to the excite-
ment you felt when you
received a favorite gift.
On the basis of your
experience, do you find the
Burnells’ reactions to the
doll’s house believable?
Why, or why not?
c POINT OF VIEW
Reread lines 44–57.
Notice what the
omniscient narrator
reveals about the
Burnells. How does this
information shape your
opinion of the girls?
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7. as they set the fashion in all matters of behavior, the Kelveys were shunned by
everybody. Even the teacher had a special voice for them, and a special smile
for the other children when Lil Kelvey came up to her desk with a bunch of
dreadfully common-looking flowers. d
They were the daughters of a spry, hardworking little washerwoman, who
went about from house to house by the day. This was awful enough. But
where was Mr. Kelvey? Nobody knew for certain. But everybody said he was
in prison. So they were the daughters of a washerwoman and a jailbird. Very
nice company for other people’s children! And they looked it. Why Mrs.
Kelvey made them so conspicuous was hard to understand. The truth was they
were dressed in “bits” given to her by the people for whom she worked. Lil,
for instance, who was a stout, plain child, with big freckles, came to school
in a dress made from a green art-serge3
tablecloth of the Burnells’, with red
plush sleeves from the Logans’ curtains. Her hat, perched on top of her high
forehead, was a grown-up woman’s hat, once the property of Miss Lecky, the
postmistress. It was turned up at the back and trimmed with a large scarlet
quill. What a little guy4
she looked! It was impossible not to laugh. And her
little sister, our Else, wore a long white dress, rather like a nightgown, and a
pair of little boy’s boots. But whatever our Else wore she would have looked
strange. She was a tiny wishbone of a child, with cropped hair and enormous
solemn eyes—a little white owl. Nobody had ever seen her smile; she scarcely
ever spoke. She went through life holding on to Lil, with a piece of Lil’s skirt
screwed up in her hand. Where Lil went our Else followed. In the playground,
on the road going to and from school, there was Lil marching in front and our
Else holding on behind. Only when she wanted anything, or when she was out
of breath, our Else gave Lil a tug, a twitch, and Lil stopped and turned around.
The Kelveys never failed to understand each other. e
Now they hovered at the edge; you couldn’t stop them listening. When the
little girls turned round and sneered, Lil, as usual, gave her silly, shamefaced
smile, but our Else only looked.
And Isabel’s voice, so very proud, went on telling. The carpet made a great
sensation, but so did the beds with real bedclothes, and the stove with an
oven door.
When she finished Kezia broke in. “You’ve forgotten the lamp, Isabel.”
“Oh, yes,” said Isabel, “and there’s a teeny little lamp, all made of yellow
glass, with a white globe that stands on the dining room table. You couldn’t tell
it from a real one.”
“The lamp’s best of all,” cried Kezia. She thought Isabel wasn’t making half
enough of the little lamp. But nobody paid attention. Isabel was choosing the
two who were to come back with them that afternoon and see it. She chose
Emmie Cole and Lena Logan. But when the others knew they were all to have
3. art-serge (ärt-sûrj): a type of woven wool.
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90
100
110
120
e CONNECT
Reread lines 84–106. Find
details that explain why
the Kelveys are disliked.
How might Lil and Else be
treated at your school?
d POINT OF VIEW
What do you learn about
the townspeople? Explain
how the omniscient point
of view allows you to see
problems that may affect
an entire community.
What do you think is the
writer’s attitude toward
the townspeople? toward
the Kelveys?
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8. a chance, they couldn’t be nice enough to Isabel. One by one they put their
arms round Isabel’s waist and walked her off. They had something to whisper
to her, a secret. “Isabel’s my friend.”
Only the little Kelveys moved away forgotten; there was nothing more for
them to hear.
Days passed, and as more children saw the doll’s house, the fame of it
spread. It became the one subject, the rage. The one question was, “Have you
seen Burnells’ doll’s house? Oh, ain’t it lovely!” “Haven’t you seen it? Oh, I say!”
Even the dinner hour was given up to talking about it. The little girls sat
under the pines eating their thick mutton sandwiches and big slabs of johnny
cake spread with butter. While always, as near as they could get, sat the
Kelveys, our Else holding on to Lil, listening too, while they chewed their jam
sandwiches out of a newspaper soaked with large red blobs. . . .
“Mother,” said Kezia, “can’t I ask the Kelveys just once?”
“Certainly not, Kezia.”
“But why not?”
“Run away, Kezia; you know quite well why not.” f
t last everybody had seen it except them. On that day the
subject rather flagged. It was the dinner hour. The children
stood together under the pine trees, and suddenly, as they
looked at the Kelveys eating out of their paper, always by themselves, always
listening, they wanted to be horrid to them. Emmie Cole started the whisper.
“Lil Kelvey’s going to be a servant when she grows up.”
“O-oh, how awful!” said Isabel Burnell, and she made eyes at Emmie.
Emmie swallowed in a very meaning way and nodded to Isabel as she’d seen
her mother do on those occasions.
“It’s true—it’s true—it’s true,” she said.
Then Lena Logan’s little eyes snapped. “Shall I ask her?” she whispered.
“Bet you don’t,” said Jessie May.
“I’m not frightened,” said Lena. Suddenly she gave a little squeal and danced
in front of the other girls. “Watch! Watch me! Watch me now!” said Lena. And
sliding, gliding, dragging one foot, giggling behind her hand, Lena went over
to the Kelveys.
Lil looked up from her dinner. She wrapped the rest quickly away. Our Else
stopped chewing. What was coming now?
“Is it true you’re going to be a servant when you grow up, Lil Kelvey?”
shrilled Lena.
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150
f MAKE INFERENCES
Think about how Kezia’s
family acts toward her.
Why might she want to
share the doll’s house
with the Kelveys?
the doll’s house 349
10. Presently, looking along the road, she saw two little dots. They grew bigger,
they were coming towards her. Now she could see that one was in front and
one close behind. Now she could see that they were the Kelveys. Kezia stopped
swinging. She slipped off the gate as if she was going to run away. Then she
hesitated. The Kelveys came nearer, and beside them walked their shadows,
very long, stretching right across the road with their heads in the buttercups.
Kezia clambered back on the gate; she had made up her mind; she swung out.
“Hullo,” she said to the passing Kelveys.
They were so astounded that they stopped. Lil gave her silly smile. Our
Else stared.
“You can come and see our doll’s house if you want to,” said Kezia, and
she dragged one toe on the ground. But at that Lil turned red and shook her
head quickly.
“Why not?” asked Kezia.
Lil gasped, then she said, “Your ma told our ma you wasn’t to speak to us.”
“Oh well,” said Kezia. She didn’t know what to reply. “It doesn’t matter. You
can come and see our doll’s house all the same. Come on. Nobody’s looking.”
But Lil shook her head still harder.
“Don’t you want to?” asked Kezia.
Suddenly there was a twitch, a tug at Lil’s skirt. She turned round. Our Else
was looking at her with big, imploring eyes; she was frowning; she wanted to
go. For a moment Lil looked at our Else very doubtfully. But then our Else
twitched her skirt again. She started forward. Kezia led the way. Like two little
stray cats they followed across the courtyard to where the doll’s house stood. g
“There it is,” said Kezia.
There was a pause. Lil breathed loudly, almost snorted; our Else was still as
a stone.
“I’ll open it for you,” said Kezia kindly. She undid the hook and they
looked inside.
“There’s the drawing room and the dining room, and that’s the—”
“Kezia!”
Oh, what a start they gave!
“Kezia!”
It was Aunt Beryl’s voice. They turned round. At the back door stood Aunt
Beryl, staring as if she couldn’t believe what she saw.
“How dare you ask the little Kelveys into the courtyard?” said her cold, furious
voice. “You know as well as I do, you’re not allowed to talk to them. Run away,
children, run away at once. And don’t come back again,” said Aunt Beryl. And
she stepped into the yard and shooed them out as if they were chickens.
“Off you go immediately!” she called, cold and proud. h
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190
200
210
g MAKE INFERENCES
Reread lines 190–194.
Notice how Lil responds
to Else. What does this
tell you about their
relationship?
h CONNECT
Aunt Beryl forbids Kezia
to play with the Kelveys.
How would you respond
if you were in Kezia’s
position?
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11. They did not need telling twice. Burning with shame, shrinking together,
Lil huddling along like her mother, our Else dazed, somehow they crossed the
big courtyard and squeezed through the white gate.
“Wicked, disobedient little girl!” said Aunt Beryl bitterly to Kezia, and she
slammed the doll’s house to.
The afternoon had been awful. A letter had come from Willie Brent, a
terrifying, threatening letter, saying if she did not meet him that evening in
Pulman’s Bush, he’d come to the front door and ask the reason why! But now
that she had frightened those little rats of Kelvey’s and given Kezia a good
scolding, her heart felt lighter. That ghastly pressure was gone. She went back
to the house humming. i
When the Kelveys were well out of sight of the Burnells’, they sat down
to rest on a big red drainpipe by the side of the road. Lil’s cheeks were still
burning; she took off the hat with the quill and held it on her knee. Dreamily
they looked over the hay paddocks,5
past the creek, to the group of wattles6
where Logan’s cows stood waiting to be milked. What were their thoughts?
Presently our Else nudged up close to her sister. But now she had forgotten
the cross lady. She put out a finger and stroked her sister’s quill; she smiled her
rare smile.
“I seen the little lamp,” she said, softly. j
Then both were silent once more.
5. paddocks (pBdPEks): areas of fenced-in land.
6. wattles (wJtPlz): acacia trees.
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i POINT OF VIEW
Reread lines 204–221.
What does the omniscient
narrator reveal about Aunt
Beryl and her motives for
treating the Kelveys so
poorly? How does this
contribute to the tone of
the story?
j WORLD LITERATURE
Mansfield grew up in New
Zealand and many of her
stories recall her childhood
experiences. Reread the
Background to the Story
on page 343. Do you think
the situation in this story
could still happen today,
with children anywhere in
the world?
RL 6
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12. After Reading
Comprehension
1. Recall Describe the doll’s house that the Burnells receive.
2. Recall Under what conditions are the girls’ friends allowed to see
the doll’s house?
3. Recall Why are the Burnells not allowed to speak to the Kelveys?
4. Clarify Why does Else smile at the end of the story?
Text Analysis
5. Compare and Contrast Characters
What are the similarities and differences
between Isabel Burnell and Lil Kelvey?
Use a Venn diagram like the one shown
to explore your answer.
6. Identify Symbol A person, a place, or an object that represents something
beyond itself is a symbol. Two objects that might be considered symbols
in this story are the doll’s house and the little lamp. What values do these
objects symbolize?
7. Draw Conclusions About Theme Think about the story’s theme, or main
message. What does the story reveal about popularity? Use evidence to
support your conclusion.
8. Connect Writing “The Doll’s House,” Mansfield painted a picture of
traditional New Zealand society. Despite the different location and time
period, how are the characters, events, and ideas presented in the story
relevant to your own experiences? Review the chart you completed as you
read. Support your answer with information from the chart and the story.
9. Analyze Point of View In the story, the omniscient narrator sees into the
minds of several of the story’s characters. How might your sense of the town
and its residents be different if the story were told through the eyes of just
one character—Aunt Beryl, for example? How would this affect the story’s
tone?
Text Criticism
10. Critical Interpretations “The notion that human beings adopt masks and
present themselves to their fellows under assumed personalities,” wrote one
biographer, “was one of [Mansfield’s] literary obsessions.” How does this
comment apply to the story? Cite specific examples to support your answer.
What makes someone POPULAR?
What are some positive ways to achieve popularity?
Lil
Both
Isabel
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RL 1 Cite textual evidence to
support inferences drawn from the
text. RL 3 Analyze how complex
characters develop over the course
of a text. RL 6 Analyze a particular
point of view reflected in world
literature.