Directions:
Post the answers to the following questions here. Place your response or questions to Olympia above the answers. (You are not required to comment on your peers’ response for this assignment).
Discussion Questions
1. Setting: the story’s location in time and space.
What details about setting do you find in “Logic”? In what ways does the setting contribute to the story?
Consider the following:
a. Details indicating the time period of the story—season, era. (One such detail is in chapter 32.)
b. A change of terrain occurs in Chapter 32? How does this change affect the characters? What are the differences between one world and the other?
c. What do you know about the place? Is this factor relevant?
d. Gender roles indicate setting.
e. Do you see any inconsistencies or violations in setting?
f. What is the atmosphere? That is, what is the overall environment like, mentally as well as physically?
2. Plot: What happens in the story?
Briefly state the line of development. Is this story a rough-and-tumble thriller? Or is the development more subtle? Which scenes would you call most important and why?
3. Characterization.
Who are the characters? Are any of the characters flat or round? Static or developing?
Terms:
Flat – one-dimensional
Round – fully described
Static – a character that undergoes no essential change
Developing – experiences some substantial change in personal outlook or philosophy.
Is there an antagonist, someone definitely at odds with the central character?
Or there any stock characters (characters in stereotyped roles; for instance, the strong, silent sheriff; the innocent and helpless young person)?
4. Conflict
What is the struggle?
What are the 3 classic struggles we learned in high school?
5. Language
What symbols are used? How do we know they are symbols? What do they symbolize? Consider images in passages that contribute to the sense of the story.
Does the language, diction (word choice) remind you of a “kind” of writing?
What are examples of imagery (language that appeals to your senses)?
Choose two of your favorite phrases or sections, or respond to why you could not “see” things because of the language—were you indifferent?
How is language “misused” and to what effect?
One reviewer described Vernon’s novel “Logic” as a blues song. What do you think he meant? To really answer this correctly you should do an internet search on “the blues aesthetic,” and “Albert Murray + blues”
Vernon refers to a blues singer Robert Johnson on page 60. Below is a song by Johnson.
Kindhearted Woman Blues (take 1)
I got a kindhearted woman
do anything in this world for me
I got a kindhearted woman
do anything in this world for me
But these evil-hearted women
man, they will not let me be
I love my baby
my baby don't love me
I love my baby, ooh
my baby don't love me
But I really love that woman
can't stand to leave her be
Ain't but the one thing
makes Mister Johnson drink
I's worried about how you treat me, baby
I begin to think
Oh babe, my life don't feel the same Yo breaks my heart
When you call Mister So-and-So's name
(Break with guitar solo)
She's a kindhearted woman
she studies evil all the time
She's a kindhearted woman
she studies evil all the time
You well's to kill me
As to have it on your mind
6. What is the significance of the Anne Frank quote “Go outside, Laugh, and take a breath of fresh air,” a voice cries within me”?
Friday, October 12, 2007
Monday, October 8, 2007
Sanavieai Brazeal
Corona (Discussion)
On the first mention of Corona, I automatically pictured a cold beverage meant for partying and having a good time. Imagine my surprise to know that Corona in context is meant as a halo of light shining down to give peace. In this featured piece, we encounter a man and a little girl who find out that they can help each other. They gain peace and a sense of understanding of how to deal with their pain. Music helps them both to do that. It helps to cope with whatever is going on in their lives. Music has an undercurrent of subliminal messages that translate beauty, peace, and justice. It helps us release what burdens may hinder us from healing our innermost wounds.
The main characters in the reading face different aspects of pain and find their own way of handling it. Music gives them a window of escape to erase the pain at that moment. Buddy is in the hospital with an injury and the little girl wants to kill herself. They face the conflict of unburdening each other’s pain and to make it better. They both have heard a Bryan Faust song and the little girl gives a very descriptive thought of the song. I especially enjoyed when she said, “I think Faust’s music is so alive! But with life the way it should be. Not without pain, but with pain contained, ordered, given form and meaning, so that it’s almost all right again.” This made me realize that sometimes music can take us away when we need to release heavy labors.
My mother always said that I was a different type of child. I was always singing and dancing to all types of music. Growing up around my grandparents, I was able to hear different types of music and to broaden my horizons. While I attended school, I was picked on for listening to “White People” music. One day after school, I asked my mother why were people so mean and hateful. She told me that people fear the unknown and things that are different. My mother explained to me that people in society want to stay a certain way and constantly resist change. As I grew older, I understood what she was trying to tell me. She prepared me for ignorant people who believe that if you are a certain color, you must listen to one type of music. Well the world met its match with me! I love jazz, rhythm and blues, rock, soul, reggae, opera, and sometimes a little rap.
Researchers Rentfrow and Gosling addressed music influence as very important in everyday lives. They stated that people experience music in everyday life giving aspect of all human cultures, and has been associated with particular emotion regulation and coping. They emphasize the fact that music, in any of its widely different forms and contents, can evoke powerful emotional reactions in people. (British Journal of Psychology May 2007)
Reference: Can traits explain how people use music in everyday life?
British Journal of Psychology 98.2 (May 2007) Magazine/ Journal
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic and Adrian Furnham
Corona (Discussion)
On the first mention of Corona, I automatically pictured a cold beverage meant for partying and having a good time. Imagine my surprise to know that Corona in context is meant as a halo of light shining down to give peace. In this featured piece, we encounter a man and a little girl who find out that they can help each other. They gain peace and a sense of understanding of how to deal with their pain. Music helps them both to do that. It helps to cope with whatever is going on in their lives. Music has an undercurrent of subliminal messages that translate beauty, peace, and justice. It helps us release what burdens may hinder us from healing our innermost wounds.
The main characters in the reading face different aspects of pain and find their own way of handling it. Music gives them a window of escape to erase the pain at that moment. Buddy is in the hospital with an injury and the little girl wants to kill herself. They face the conflict of unburdening each other’s pain and to make it better. They both have heard a Bryan Faust song and the little girl gives a very descriptive thought of the song. I especially enjoyed when she said, “I think Faust’s music is so alive! But with life the way it should be. Not without pain, but with pain contained, ordered, given form and meaning, so that it’s almost all right again.” This made me realize that sometimes music can take us away when we need to release heavy labors.
My mother always said that I was a different type of child. I was always singing and dancing to all types of music. Growing up around my grandparents, I was able to hear different types of music and to broaden my horizons. While I attended school, I was picked on for listening to “White People” music. One day after school, I asked my mother why were people so mean and hateful. She told me that people fear the unknown and things that are different. My mother explained to me that people in society want to stay a certain way and constantly resist change. As I grew older, I understood what she was trying to tell me. She prepared me for ignorant people who believe that if you are a certain color, you must listen to one type of music. Well the world met its match with me! I love jazz, rhythm and blues, rock, soul, reggae, opera, and sometimes a little rap.
Researchers Rentfrow and Gosling addressed music influence as very important in everyday lives. They stated that people experience music in everyday life giving aspect of all human cultures, and has been associated with particular emotion regulation and coping. They emphasize the fact that music, in any of its widely different forms and contents, can evoke powerful emotional reactions in people. (British Journal of Psychology May 2007)
Reference: Can traits explain how people use music in everyday life?
British Journal of Psychology 98.2 (May 2007) Magazine/ Journal
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic and Adrian Furnham
Thursday, October 4, 2007
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