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Discussion 7 Assignment

This discussion post has four parts. For full credit, you must respond substantively to all four questions

1. Post at least one question/point in response to Lecture 7.
2. Post at least two questions about any stories you’ve read in this unit?
3. Recommend any story in this unit to our colleagues and say why you recommend it.
4. What is the most important thing you’ve learned in this course?

Lecture 7 :https://web.microsoftstream.com/video/fe0dc822-ccb…

(The Discussion Assignment is due tomorrow at 11:59pm ET so start this immediately)

Peer responses

respond to each of the two students and use 150-200 words when responding. Start of by saying (Hello name)

Desirae

• • Post at least one question/point in response to Lecture 7.

Based off the lecture by Doctor Melander from this week. I have an
overall question. Why did people in small towns live in quiet
desperation? Is this because they did not think they could do better for
themselves? Were they held back by societal status?

• • Post at least two questions about any stories you’ve read in this unit?

1. Were there a lot of communities with widowed women that did not
   remarry like the one Kate Choplin grew up in during the late 1800’s and
   early 1900’s?
2. Was it typical in that time for people to just leave their babies
   at other people’s doorsteps? What could be the reason for this
   rationalization?

• • Recommend any story in this unit to our colleagues and say why you recommend it.

I would recommend reading ‘A Rose for Emily’ by William Faulkner. I
always enjoy a good mystery with a fun twist at the end. We had the
pleasure of reading about the life that people judged Emily for and felt
sorry for her downfalls. Little did they know that she kept to herself
so much because she was keeping a body preserved in an upstairs bedroom.
Faulkner knows how to get the mind wandering when his stories are
completed. In the last paragraph we found out how ‘crazy’ Emily really
was and it inspired thoughtful thinking about who the body could be as
well as how that person died.

• • What is the most important thing you’ve learned in this course?

Something important that I have learned from this course is that
American Literature has a lot of history attached to it. We read through
the emotions of writers going through certain time era’s throughout
history since the 1800’s. I learned that seeing history through
someone’s writing can bring a new perspective to certain situations. For
example, during week 5 we read through Black American Literature. This
taught me that when these people were dealing with racism they were only
allowed to suffer in silence and lived in absolute fear. They taught me
not just facts about the situations but also how it affected them
mentally and emotionally.

Tamara

Post at least one question/point in response to Lecture 7.

1). After
reviewing Don W. Melander’s lecture video, “Modern American Fiction:
Thumbnail sketches and commentaries,” one of the key points in which he
discussed is how greed, money, social status as well as betrayal’s
became more prominent in Modern American Fiction Literature.

Post at least two questions about any stories you’ve read in this unit?

2). In
Sherwood Anderson’s poem, “Hands” in the book, “Grotesque,” I wonder if
Sherwood was reflecting upon himself when he writes, “One runs from tree
to tree over the frosted ground, picking the gnarled, twisted apples
and filling his pockets with them?” I also wonder if Anderson is
referring to the apple tree as if the apples were people when he writes,
“On the trees are only a few gnarled apples that the pickers have
rejected?”

Recommend any story in this unit to our colleagues and say why you recommend it.

3).
Although the poem and writer seem rather dismal, I would highly
recommend reading the poem, “Howl,” by Allen Ginsberg. However, I would
not necessarily recommend this particular piece of poetry for youth due
to the fact that its content is not only dark, but very twisted! Hence,
after reading this piece of work, I am inclined to believe that I will
never think or feel the same again in regards to my own personal
sprtituality! My reasoning for recommending this particular piece of
work is that I feel it would be helpful to an audience in which might be
struggling with past trauma or unadressed torments of the past in
general. For those of us who have lost hope, faith, and have struggled
to find our inner strength and spirituailty or for those of us who might
have found our spirituality and lost it altogether. Heed the fair
warning! This poem is deep!

What is the most important thing you’ve learned in this course?

4). To
sum it all up, the most important thing in which I have learned
throughout this course is how much literature and writing has evolved
over time. Whereas, artists and poets today are able to voice their
creative expression without the shallow limitations and judgements in
which artists seemed to have faced in the past. I would also like to add
that any type of literature in general can be very political whether we
realize it or not!

Response Essay

Write a three–paragraph (2 pages)
critical essay on the story you liked the most, the story that spoke
the most meaningfully to you. In this essay, talk about:

• The way the story is set up
• Point of view (first-person, unreliable narrator, center-of-consciousness)
• How tensions are developed and resolved (or not)
• What the turning point is
• How the story culminates, its endgame
• What the reader goes on with after reading the story, that is, why it is meaningful to you

Please submit assignment by Sunday at 11:59 p.m. EST

• If
  an essay is below standard (below a “C”) in terms of content, style,
  and punctuation, you will have to rewrite it to receive a grade, so be
  sure not to submit first drafts.
• Acceptable
  essays will graded “B” if they meet the demands of the assignment, “A”
  if they both meet the demands of the assignment and teach me something,
  and “C” if they are minimally satisfactory.
• You
  may rewrite C- and B-level essays (except for the final essay), but if
  your essays progress in quality, you will earn a final grade based on
  improvement rather than an average of all assignments (of course, if you
  work is “upand-down,” your final grade will be more of an average
  grade).

Pages to help you with Discussion Assignment and Essay

Volume 2

• William Dean Howells, “Editha,” pp. 314–326
• Ambrose Bierce, “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,” pp. 326–338
• Sarah Orne Jewett, “A White Heron,” pp. 432–441
• Kate Chopin, “Desiree’s Baby,” pp. 441–446
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wall–Paper” and “Why I Wrote ‘The Yellow Walpaper’,” pp. 479–524
• Edith Wharton, pp. 524–526, “Roman Fever,” pp. 540–549
• Stephen Crane, “The Open Boat,” pp. 611–631
• Jack London, “To Build a Fire,” pp. 639–652
• Willa Cather, “Neighbor Rosicky,” pp. 691–714
• Sherwood Anderson, “Hands,” pp. 761–767
• Scott Fitzgerald, pp. 973–975, “Babylon Revisited,” pp. 991–1005
• William Faulkner, “A Rose for Emily,” pp. 1005–1015
• Ernest Hemingway, “Hills Like White Elephants,” pp. 1030–1036
• John Steinbeck, “The Chrysanthemums,” pp. 1044–1053
• John Cheever, “The Swimmer,” pp. 1182–1191
• Flannery O’Connor, “Good Country People,” pp. 1366–1392
• John Updike, “Separating,” pp. 1450–1460
• Philip Roth, “Defender of the Faith,” pp. 1460–1483
• Thomas Pynchon, “Entropy,” pp. 1519–1531
• Raymond Carver, “Cathedral,” pp. 1531–1543
• Maxine Hong Kingston, “No Name Woman,” pp. 1543–1553
• Leslie Marmon Silko, “Lullaby,” pp. 1579–1587
• Sandra Cisneros, “Woman Hollering Creek,” pp. 1613–1622
• Louis Erdrich, pp. 1622–1624, “Fleur,” pp. 1626–1635
• George Saunders, “CivilWarLand in Bad Decline,” pp. 1664–1677
• Jhumpa Lahiri, “Sexy,” pp. 1691–1708
• Junot Diaz, “Drown,” pp. 1708–1716