A. Read Chapter 13: Setting and the excerpt from Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis before completing this entry.
1. Explain your understanding of the time period and geographical location of Persepolis, along with the social/political/economic situations that help create the context for the story. Feel free to do some research if that helps. What overall mood is created, and how does it change? (min 300 words)
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2.The excerpt from Persepolis is especially interesting in terms of setting because of the way Satrapi’s visual rendering of the characters and the rest of the frames surrounding them interact with the mood created by the story’s historical and geographical context. Post a message about how these visual elements contribute to setting; specific questions you may want to consider include (min 300 words)
- What visual elements help establish the harsh, restrictive nature of the setting?
- How are Marji and the “guardians of the revolution” drawn differently?
- What is the significance of the dark background in panels 2-4?
B. Submit your response paper (300-500 words) to T.C. Boyle’s “Greasy Lake” or Katherine Mansfield’s “Miss Brill” following the guidelines for response papers from this handout. Please note that “Greasy Lake” includes a scene of attempted rape and other depictions of violence. This assignment should be 12 pt Times New Roman.
As you write, keep in mind the following key goals of a response paper:
- To begin with a strong reaction or question about this story.
- To use the rest of the paper to explore the initial reaction or answer the initial question.
- To include plenty of examples and quotes from the story to develop and support your ideas.
- To end with your primary point about the story.
C.
1. The title of “Accident”[http://www.somanybooks.org/eng102/Accident.pdf] suggests that the story’s conflict will be related to the physical and perhaps emotional clash between the people involved in the accident.
- How does the narrator explain and perhaps invent reasons for potential antagonism between “you” and the three teenagers?
- How do you interpret the narrator’s unexpected change in attitude halfway through the story?
- Is the story primarily about the literal car accident, or is it more about something else?
2. “Accident” uses the second person point of view, which is fairly rare. Who does “you” seem to refer to in this story? How does having the events described as happening to “you” affect your experience of reading the story? (min 200 words)
3. Arguably, the primary conflict in “Barn Burning” [http://faculty.weber.edu/jyoung/english%206710/barn%20burning.pdf] is Sarty’s interior struggle to break free from his father’s worldview/influence. (min 200 words)
- What are some passages where that conflict becomes particularly evident?
- Based on the ending of the story and the hints we get about Sarty’s future from the narrator, is Sarty successful in becoming a different sort of man than his father?
- Is the father just a bad guy, or is there more to him? If the latter, what makes him complex or interesting?
4.“Barn Burning” is told primarily from the third person limited omniscient perspective. Describe this narrator: What attitude does he/she seem to have towards Sarty and the events of the story? What sorts of things does he/she know? What are the limits of his/her omniscience? In contrast, the sections in italics are first person, told from Sarty’s point of view. What do we learn about him from them? What does the combination of these two points of view add to the story? (min 200 words)
