This document outlines the schedule and activities for a class. It includes an icebreaker activity, check-in, discussion of rhetorical truth, analysis of The Hunger Games film and short story, and an activity where students work in pairs to explain allegories. For homework, students are assigned readings on judging rhetoric and asked to post questions and a practice analysis on Tumblr.
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Susana Trillo Rodriguez de la Vega
Professor Kiefer
English Writing 301
15 Sep. 2014
Cultural Studies
When talking about literature most of the times we think in works like The Divine Comedy, or Don Quixote (Gardner, 170). We look for a good plot containing conflict, complications, rising actions, climax and falling action. Further, we expect to find at least a protagonist and an antagonist. Finally, we expect a thorough description of the setting. We then analyze or criticize the work using all these components. But what happens if a text doesn’t have all these components? Cultural critics try to broaden the canon by analyzing all texts; rather than, only traditional literary objects (Gardner, 171).
Tiny Giants: 101 Stories Under 101Words by Jason Sinclair Long contain one hundred one mini stories. These stories don’t have the traditional literary objects we are used to find in a story. In fact, at first some of them might feel as if they were taken from another, more traditional story. One of the stories is titled The Innocent Man and following the title the story is only composed by one sentence. This sentence reads “Cornered, he lashed out, becoming the monster for which they searched.” (Long, 78). And even if we cannot find many of the traditional literary objects like climax or even a setting, we can interpret so much of this powerful sentence.
To start with the title The Innocent Man prepare us to expect the story to be about a man that is facing some kind of conflict. It can be that he committed a crime, or that he is being accused of something he didn’t do, or that he is feeling guilty of something. Then, the first word “Cornered” denotes that he is feeling trapped. Following “he lashes out” from here we now know that he is responding to the feeling of being trapped. Finally “becoming the monster for which they searched.” This last part explains so much. We see how this man starting being innocent, but as he felt cornered there was nothing else for him to do but to become what everyone else thought of him.
Long´s words are so powerful because in just one sentence there is so much meaning. Further, many people can relate to them. No one is born guilty, or as monster, but sometimes life doesn’t give you any choice but to become one. There is nothing different in the genes of a criminal; in fact, the only difference is the situations that he had to face. Long’s stories might at first sight look like incomplete stories lacking components, but when analyzing them you realize that every word has a deep meaning.
Works cited
Gardner, Janet E. Reading and Writing About Literature: A Portable Guide, 3rd Edition. New York: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2013. Print.
Long, Jason Sinclair. Tiny Giants: 101 Stories Under 101 Words. Sacramento: Ad Lumen Press, 2014. Print.
Stanicia Boatner
ENGWR 301
Professor Christian Kiefer
15 September 2014
Cultural Studies
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3. Icebreaker
It’s week four… hopefully we’re starting to
know each other. So here’s how this will
work. We’re going to start with someone.
That person will say his or her
name, then the next person will say the
first person’s name and their own name…
until we go all the way around the room
back to the last person who will say
everyone’s name.
If you need help, ask a classmate to
assist.
4. Check in
With any luck, I will have your papers
back to you this time next week. I had a
bit of a “fail” moment this week end.
When you get your papers back you’ll
get your grade to this point. That means
that any problems with Tumblr or the
forums need to be sorted out by the end
of this week. NO EXCEPTIONS.
If you need to talk to me about either of
those things, see me after class.
5. Rhetorical Truth
An interesting factor to consider in
rhetorical analysis is “truth.” As we talked
about earlier in the term, “rhetoric” is
often used in popular media as a sort of
synonym for “lying.”
But rhetoric, dating back to our close
personal friend Aristotle, was about
moving toward the truth. For Aristotle, in
all his Greek wisdom, said:
6. “Rhetoric is useful because things
that are true and things that are just
have a natural tendency to prevail
over their opposites, so that if the
decisions of judges are not what
they aught to be, the defeat must
be due to the speakers
themselves, and they must be
blamed accordingly.”
-Aristotle, Rhetoric
7. Join that belief with this.
Robert L. Scott argues that truth is not a
central, objective set of facts but that truth is based
on the situation at hand (e.g. rhetorical). Scott goes
as far as stating that if a man believes in an ultimate
truth and argues it, he is only fooling himself by
convincing himself of one argument among many
possible options. Ultimately, truth is relative to
situated experiences, and rhetoric is necessary to
give meaning to individual circumstance.
*paraphrased from the Wikipedia summary of “On Viewing
Rhetoric as Epistemic”
8. So, basically…
Rhetoric itself is a tool, but the
presumed ends of the tool is to find and
explicate “truth,” because as Aristotle
claims truth will win out over lies (it’s
more solid) and as Scott says, truth is
situated rhetorically, so we need to see
the situation and the circumstances that
surround a “truth.”
Crazy, right?
That’s the basis for our legal system.
9. Law and the Hunger Games
So for today, I had you read this piece
about The Hunger Games movie.
I’d like to talk about the movie itself, but I
also hope you did a little bit of critical
analysis of the article/the site housing it.
Just incase you didn’t…
10.
11. The source…
Part of this exercise was to look at this
particular source and to consider its
motivations.
The Western Center for Journalism is
headed by a man named Floyd Brown.
You might have heard of “Citizens United,”
which Brown is part of, and you may know
a little bit about this Tea Party thing he’s
dabbled a bit with.
Do you see any perhaps biased positions
taken in the analysis of the movie?
13. the Hunger Games
And now, then, let’s actually look at The
Hunger Games.
It shares something of its origin with a
short story by Shirley Jackson entitled
“The Lottery.” In said story, everyone in a
village of 300 must draw a slip from a
large communal bucket; the person with
the marked slip must be stoned to death.
The ritual is meant to insure a good
harvest, and is repeated each year (in
“The Lottery” universe)
14. What, then…
…are we to make of a story like this?
Jackson related that after the publication of
“the Lottery” she received letters with one of
three sorts of response:
1) Curiosity about where such a lottery ever
happened or could be seen
2) Anger at the use of the subject matter
3) Desire to know “What it means”
The Hunger Games also bears a striking
resemblance to the Japanese novel/movie
Battle Royale, where school kids are forced to
fight to the death.
15. New tropes to consider
As we enter into the discussion of The
Hunger Games, remember everything
we’ve talked about so far in terms of
rhetoric. But today, I want to add three
more concepts to your toolset:
Simile, Metaphor & Allegory
16. Simile
A simile is a comparison that uses the
word “like” or “as” (e.g. “I got them moves
like Jagger.”)
These are actually quite commonplace in
everyday English. If you look at your text
messages right now (well, don’t– but if you
did), you would probably find at least one
example of a simile in a recent
conversation.
They’re commonplace, like dandelions in
spring grass.
17. Metaphor
A metaphor is a comparison that doesn’t
use like or as. (e.g. “Life is a highway.”)
Metaphors are also quite common in
conversational English, as we as humans
like to compare things to other things.
Just as our ancestors told stories to teach
us right from wrong, we too depend on
the use of comparisons and contrasts to
keep us from simply describing
everything we see in strictly empirical
terms.
18. Allegory
An allegory is a story or other piece of
writing which contains people, places and
ideas that are meant to indicate something
else. Think of them sort of an extended
metaphor, or a written large extended case
of symbolism.
One of the most famous allegories in literary
and rhetorical history is Plato’s Allegory of the
Cave, which is a story about a man who lives
his life in a cave and is then blinded by the
light when taken outside– but the allegory is
really about how those who are deceived react
to the truth.
19.
20. Sooooo…
I’m just going to let you in on the secret that
The Hunger Games, like “The Lottery” is an
allegory. :)
In it you have poor people and rich
people, set apart in zones. You have pairs of
children chosen from the poor zones and set
to fight against each other to the death in a
woodland massacre, so that the winner can
take food and riches home to their zone.
What might this be meant to serve as an
allegory for?
21. Activity
Here’s what I’d like you to do. Let’s pair up
for this. I want you to think of something
both of you know that is allegorical (a
story, a TV show, a song…whatever you
can think of). Then I want you to explain
how the allegory works.
In a few minutes, you’ll share with all of us.
22. Homework
Read “Judging Rhetoric” by Booth. It’s on
Niihka under resources.
In-class we will watch a video and talk about the
rhetorical risks and rewards of live television.
Tumblr question: what questions do you have
about the inquiry 2 assignment?
Tumblr prompt: I’ve posted 3 videos on my
Tumblr. Pick one, watch it, then write a short
practice rhetorical analysis of it.