Sometimes, I am afraid of hearing people saying with proud: "Such was me. I will not change my true self for anyone, anything." To some extent, this spirit is a virtue that shall be remembered by all of us. But in most cases, you'd better think it over.
'Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of my tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.'Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, frustrated college professor. In love with his landlady's twelve-year-old daughter Lolita, he'll do anything to possess her. Unable and unwilling to stop himself, he is prepared to commit any crime to get what he wants.Is he in love or insane? A silver-tongued poet or a pervert? A tortured soul or a monster? Or is he all of these? .
Sometimes, I am afraid of hearing people saying with proud: "Such was me. I will not change my true self for anyone, anything." To some extent, this spirit is a virtue that shall be remembered by all of us. But in most cases, you'd better think it over.
'Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of my tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.'Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, frustrated college professor. In love with his landlady's twelve-year-old daughter Lolita, he'll do anything to possess her. Unable and unwilling to stop himself, he is prepared to commit any crime to get what he wants.Is he in love or insane? A silver-tongued poet or a pervert? A tortured soul or a monster? Or is he all of these? .
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Dubliners is a collection of fifteen short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914.[1] They form a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century.
The stories were written when Irish nationalism was at its peak, and a search for a national identity and purpose was raging; at a crossroads of history and culture, Ireland was jolted by various converging ideas and influences. They centre on Joyce's idea of an epiphany: a moment where a character experiences a life-changing self-understanding or illumination. Many of the characters in Dubliners later appear in minor roles in Joyce's novel Ulysses.[2] The initial stories in the collection are narrated by child protagonists, and as the stories continue, they deal with the lives and concerns of progressively older people. This is in line with Joyce's tripartite division of the collection into childhood, adolescence and maturity.
Questions for Responding to Fiction in English 2328Use these q.docxcatheryncouper
Questions for Responding to Fiction in English 2328
Use these questions below to guide you as you complete your reading responses for short stories (fiction). I suggest that you choose only a few questions to answer in your response--but make the response a paragraph--don't number your responses. You will probably notice that some of the questions are similar and that some of the responses may overlap--that's fine. Your response should reflect your own thoughts and analysis of the story. Your response to each story should be at least 200 words (but will probably be longer) and should show that you have read the story carefully. You should mention the names of characters, details from the story that support your response, incidents in the story that affect your reading of it, etc. You must use quotations from the stories in your responses.
1. What did you like about the story? What did you dislike? Why?
2. Who is your favorite character? Is he or she like you in any way? Would you make the same decisions (or react in the same ways) in the same situations as this character? Why or why not? Which characters remind you of people you know?
3. What did you learn about American history, society, art, literature, philosophy, science (etc.) from this story? What research might you do to help you understand the story better?
4. What did you learn about life from the story?
5. In what ways do you identify with the story?
6. How would you describe the writer's style or voice? Style includes use of irony, symbolism, figurative language, point of view, etc.
Here's an interesting checklist of literary style that you might find helpful: Checklist: Elements of Literary Style
7. What are your favorite sentences, passages, words, etc. from the story? Explain your choice.
8. What would you tell a friend about this story?
9. Who would you recommend this story to and why?
10. What value does this story have for you?
11. What connections do you find between the life of the author and his or her work?
12. What questions did you have after you finished the story?
13. What words did you look up?
1st story: Two Kinds by Amy Tan
My mother believed you could be anything you wanted to be in America. You could open a restaurant. You could work for the government and get good retirement. You could buy a house with almost no money down. You could become rich. You could become instantly famous. "Of course, you can be a prodigy, too," my mother told me when I was nine. "You can be best anything. What does Auntie Lindo know? Her daughter, she is only best tricky." America was where all my mother's hopes lay. She had come to San Francisco in 1949 after losing everything in China: her mother and father, her home, her first husband, and two daughters, twin baby girls.
But she never looked back with regret. Things could get better in so many ways.
We didn't immediately pick the right kind of prodigy. At first my mother thought I could be a Chinese
Shirley Temple ...
Research Paper Choose two short stories you have studied.docxeleanorg1
Research Paper
Choose two short stories you have studied from the syllabus
Write a thesis/take a stance that establishes a comparison between both
items chosen
Complete a Formal Outline of your paper.
Write your research paper and prove your thesis in a minimum of six pages
Complete a Cover Page and a Works Cited page
Ensure your paper follows an essay format by having a thesis, topic
sentences, paragraphs, sufficient supporting ideas, an Introduction, and a
Conclusion
Throughout your paper (and not just in the Introduction and Conclusion),
include in your analysis both evidence from the stories chosen, as well as
from academically credible research sources
Complete your research using at least one library book and at least four
library database sources (only one Internet source will be accepted)
Your research must consist of material that enables you to prove a point
raised about a story and/or or an author being analyzed
o (You cannot research and cite random topics such as “the effects of
divorce” because your protagonist is suffering the effects of a
divorce. However, if you are writing about a historical topic such as a
war, you must cite research to prove that the story or poem
accurately depicts this war.)
Format your Formal Outline, Cover Page, and Research Paper using the
MLA format
Format the in-text citations used and the Works Cited page using the MLA
format
Complete and submit with your paper the following:
o Research Paper Cover Page
o Research Paper Formal Outline
o Research Paper (with the Works Cited page at the end)
Note: Your page count (of six pages) does not include the
Cover Page, Formal Outline, or the Works Cited page
Research Paper Strategies
As you complete your research paper, please note the strategies below that are useful in
helping you create a thorough and well-organized paper.
1.
After rereading the two stories chosen, decide on what they have in common and on what literary
techniques and/or literary criticism studied in class applies to both stories.
2.
For example, if you were completing an analysis of O’Brien’s “How to Tell a True War Story”
and Hemingway’s “Soldier’s Home,” you can have a thesis such as this:
The plots and characters of O’Brien’s “How to Tell a True War Story and Hemingway’s
“Soldier’s Home” tell the truth about the realities of war and its consequences making these
works open to Biographical, Historical, and Psychological Criticisms.
In this thesis, you have accomplished the following:
You have identified the stories and the authors
You have established the literary techniques and criticisms you will be using in your
analysis
You have indicated what you plan to prove—the authors’ use of these techniques to make
a point/send a message/give their stories purpose
3.
Next, you need to decide how to organize your paper.
Because you have ide.
1. How to use semi colons
The semi colon looks like this ;
It can be used in a number of ways
– all of which can help improve your
sentence structure and raise your
mark
2. This is the easier way of using semi colons -
to separate long items in a list – in other
words: items made up of several words
When the police searched Paula’s room
they were surprised by what they found:
a pristine collection of Superman comics
from 1955; a flick-knife once owned by
James Dean; a detailed map of the
Moscow underground system.
3. • Of course, shorter items in a list are separated
by commas.
• However, semi colons are used to separate
longer items for the sake of clarity – so you can
differentiate between the individual items.
• Sometimes, those items have commas in them.
• For example: The drawers held many secrets:
her grandmothers diary, still holding faded
pressed flowers; an album of photographs
dating back to the childhood holidays that she
had spent in Paris with her mother, father and
brother; a collection of theatre programmes
dating from November 1963 to June 1968.
4. This is the trickier use of the semi
colon - to separate two related
parts of a sentence
• The dark house seemed to beckon them
in; it was as if they were being hypnotised
and couldn’t resist.
If you think about it, the sentence almost takes a
different direction when the semi colon is used. You’d
not be wrong to use a full stop (or in certain cases, a
connective), but the semi colon allows you to vary your
sentence structure and impress the examiners.
5. Here are another couple of
examples
• Lewis stood up and praised the virtues of
the humble pasty; however, he was also
fond of Gregg’s sausage rolls, known to
his friends as Sunderland dummies.
• Anna sat on her bed and thought over
what had happened; after a day like this,
she wished she had someone sympathetic
to talk to instead of her bitch of a sister.
6. Place semi colons correctly in the following sentences
• She stood up and addressed the jury: “If you recall,
Ms Thompson said it was dark when she looked out
of the window however, she seems to have
forgotten that the clocks changed on Saturday…”
• Edging my way into the cave, I was struck by the
powerful odour of pickled almonds smothering the
stench of the rotting seaweed still clinging onto the
rocks it reminded me of the hospital ward in which I
had spent hours of my childhood while my father
was recovering from his motorbike accident.
• When I grow up, I want to be the man with the plan
the guy who wears the white hat the enigmatic
stranger the one who steals your heart the hero
respected by everyone I meet. Of course, I also
want to be rich!
7. Answers…
• She stood up and addressed the jury: “If you recall,
Ms Thompson said it was dark when she looked out
of the window; however, she seems to have
forgotten that the clocks changed on Saturday…”
• Edging my way into the cave, I was struck by the
powerful odour of pickled almonds smothering the
stench of the rotting seaweed still clinging onto the
rocks; it reminded me of the hospital ward in which I
had spent hours of my childhood while my father
was recovering from his motorbike accident.
• When I grow up, I want to be the man with the plan;
the guy who wears the white hat; the enigmatic
stranger; the one who steals your heart; the hero
respected by everyone he meets. Of course, I also
want to be rich!