Blog #5

Blog Entry #5

Discuss at least one of the potential paper topics at the bottom of the Literary Analysis assignment description.

For this blog, you will need to comment on at least two of the blog entries of your classmates

 

Possible Topics:

1.  Discuss the symbolism of the wallpaper in Charlotte Perkins Gilman “The Yellow Wallpaper.”

2. Why does Charlotte Perkins Gilman choose to tell “The Yellow Wallpaper” from the point of view of an unreliable narrator? How would the story be different if it were told by John?

3. Is John a villain in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper”?

4. Discuss the symbolism of the gun in Richard Wright's story "The Man Who Was Almost a Man."

5. In Richard Wright's "The Man Who Was Almost a Man," is Dave ready to be a man? Does he understand what being a man is?

6. Discuss what you believe to be Richard Wright's purpose in using dialect in "The Man Who Was Almost a Man."

7. In Ernest Hemingway's "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber," does Margot intentionally murder Francis? Does it matter?

8. Discuss how Hemingway treats the characters of Francis and Wilson differently in light of his "hero code" in "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber."

9. Discuss the meaning of the title in Ernest Hemingway's "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber."

10.   Discuss how Hulga is defined by her disability in Flannery O'Connor's "Good Country People."

11.    Explain the role of Mrs. Hopewell and the relationship with her daughter in Flannery O'Connor's "Good Country People."

12.    Discuss the symbolism of names in Flannery O'Connor's "Good Country People."

13.    Choose your own topic. If you decide to choose your own topic, it may center around one, two, three, or even all of the works as long as it is primarily about one of the works you read for class. (This means that you could even compare one of the stories to something else you have read, as long as the primary focus is the work from class.) If you decide to create your own topic, you must get your topic approved.

Chose

5.         In Richard Wright's "The Man Who Was Almost a Man," is Dave ready to be a man? Does he understand what being a man is?

I feel that he does not understand what being a man is because he is still rebelling against his parents. One must mature, whether you are a boy or a girl, before you can be considered a man or woman.  In this story he even plays around with a gun and has to learn horrible mistakes for going against his parents form: buying it to shooting it and killing a cow in the field where he worked. Not only were his parents upset but so was his boss at this point. One thing to remember and learn as a child is that what things you do wrong hurt more than just yourself, it hurts your family and everyone else around you in some way. And once you have learned that and grown out of your childish ways will you be considered a man or woman.