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- how old is richard in the first scene
- 4
- what is ironic about the first scene
- almost killed whole family and then mother almost kills him
- what is the most common punishmen in bb
- beating
- what are richards first words in the novel
- you shut up. bossy and mean
- "it has been said that autobiography is ____________________"
- quintessential literary genre of african american experience/"
- richard wright born and died?
- 1908-1960
- he has been called the father of
- modern african american literature
- he is finest african american ?
- novelist
- first writer to give the white community
- the reality of being black in america
- first book was called what and published in what year
- Uncle tom's children 1938
- most popular book was __________ and published in __________ and the protaganist is ____________ and is compared to what other novel that was published in 1939.
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Native Son
1940
Biggar Thomas 16
Grapes of Wrath - what novel of wrights do the boys get killed while swimming
- big boy
- richard wright was the first ?
- internationally recognized black author
- where did wright move to and why
- he moved his family to paris because of racist american society
- at 35 years or older in america a black man will?
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murder
be murdered
go insane - gertrude stein, significance in wrights life? what phrase did she create?
- lived in paris and was his friend, called him and her the best genius's in paris, coined the phrase "the lost generation"
- how did wright die
- heart attack
- in the last years of wrights life he became paranoid because of?
- afraid the government was after him because of the communist party
- what was done with wrights body and what was put in his coffin
- a copy of black boy, and cremated
- black boy was originally called and what are the two sections currently called?
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american hunger, section 1: southern nights
section 2: the horror and the glory -
not until 16 years after his death?
then 30 years later? - part two of american of hunger was published and in 1991 they were published in one novel
- mothers were preparing their sons to exist in a white mans world?
- harsh and violent world where they will always be just black boys and taught their place in society at a young age the hardest time out of everyone just surviving
- what are some themes in black boy?
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silence
being silenced
white oppression
the power of language - mark twain said?
- autobiographies are the most true but hardly true
- in response to twains thing an epigraph on black boy is?
- do i beleive him though i know he lies
- wright described and analyzed blacks as a?
- an oppressed nation
- wright said that?
- nothing comes before my art
- white people thought of blacks as?
- maids and butlers
- wright gave what book his all in case he didnt have another chance and this is why it became a runaway best seller
- native son
- in the 1930's in chicago negros lived in the northern area called the
- black belt
- according to wright the environment had what?
- everything to do with his life
- wrights father was a?
- sharecropper
- what are 5 parrallels between black boy and huck finn
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1. lighting out
2. absent/ abusive father
3. racism
4. civilizing
5. rejecting religion
6. autobiographical
7. doesnt accept society
8. young boys in south
9. no stable family
10. no stable life - what are 5 differences between huck finn and black boy
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different races
pre-civil/ post civil war
huck is told as happening/ black boy is looking back
huck doesnt want to learn/ richard is curious
huck is friendly/ richard is not - twain vs wright, what are 3 differences between the two?
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twain is satirical, and wright is straight.
twain is modern american literature. - what can we conclude from twains and wrights differences
- two people can have same beleifs in different time period and yet address the problem differently
- epigraph, what is the epigraph on black, and who is it quoting?
- " the meet with darkness in the daytime, and they grope at noonday as in the night..." Job
- how is the job quote appropriate and odd?
- he lost everything, and odd because it is from bible and he shuns religion in story
- what does grotesque mean, and what genre is it assosciated with? name two authors and an example from each
- mentally or physically deranged, gothic literature. O'Connor & Poe
- Farenheit 451
- because of its futuristing and unique view on censorship and books.
- Allegory
- story in which the characters the action the setting all represent abstract qualities or moral values (story in which everything is a (symbol)
- allusion and sources
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brief indirect refence to something the author assumes the reader is family with
1 bible
2 mythology
3 literature
4 history
5 pop culture - bildungsroman
- a novel depicting the spiritual growqth or education of the hero usually a young man as he faces various moral and intellectual crisis meeting different characters who are sahre different attitudes in life
- climax
- the highest point of action, the turning point, the moment of greatest intensity, the point at which you know who wins the conflict
- conflict
- the struggle between oppossing forces ____ vs _____
- criticism (literary)
- analysis or interpretation of a literary work to help the reader better understand and appreciate that work.
- denouement
- the unravelling or resolution of the plot
- didactic
- attempting to teach a moral or lesson
- doppelganger
- double character who shares anothers manifest or suppresed traits; pair of persons - one whom is flesh the other is spirit
- epigraph
- quotation or motto at the beginning of a book or chapter
- episodic
- a structure of loosely connected adventures or incidence - each one more or less contained - involving a central group of characters
- exposition
- background information or introductory info. (Where and how)
- foreshadowing
- a hint/clue of what is to come - 2 parts
- genre
- literary type, category or classification
- imagery
- concrete details that appeal to the senses
- initiation
- the process of growing up - the movement from ignorance to knowledge - unawareness to awareness - innocence to to experience (who, when, what realization)
- literal
- exact or actual meaning
- magic realism
- mixture or realism or fantasy; magical, yet seems like normal occurance to characters
- microcosm
- small world representative of the world at large
- mood
- the atmosphere or the work
- motif
- recurring element that grows and develops throughout a work
- utopia
- perfect society
- naturalism
- the belif that one's life is controlled by twho uncontrollable forces; heredity and environment.
- paradox
- apparent contradiciton that is nevertheless true
- persona
- voice or mask through which the author speaks
- picaresque novel
- a novel that deals with loosely connected comic adventures that deal with a rogue, naive, innocent hero as he travels from place to place
- plot
- sotry line; series of events (a sentence)
- point of view
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perspective from which the story is told: person - 1st or 3rd
omniscient - knos many characters thoughts and feeling
lmtd. omiscient - only know ones thoughts/ feelings
dramatic/objective - knowing no ones thoughts
stream of consciousness - extreme limited
direct address - directly to reader - protagonist
- main character
- quest
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long, hazardous journey in search of something precious
-precious object to be found
-long journey to find it
-a hero
-series of tests in which unworthy are screened out and hero is revealed
-guardian of object who must be overcome
-helpers who assist a hero - realism
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a way of presenting life that emphasizes ordinary people in everyday experiences
(holding mirror to society) - regionalist
- an author who writes about a specific geographic area
- romanticism
- opposite realism; represents life as we would like it to be, rather than life as it is (exotic setting, wish, fullfillment, dream)
- satire
- form of persuasion using techniques such as humor, exaggeration, flws in people, society institutions to bring about a change
- setting
- time and place
- structure
- pattern of organization - 2 q's - how many parst, whats the relationship between them
- stle
- author's distinctive use of language
- symobol
- something concrete that represents something absract
- theme
- main idea (always sentence)
- tone
- speaker/author's attitude towards characters
- verisimilitude
- giving the appearance of truth or reality
- vernacular
- the common, everyday language of the people in a time and particular place
- ethereal
- heavenly, celestial
- pall
- something that covers especially with drkness or gloom
- expiation
- make amends for
- erudite
- showing profound knowledge
- scurrilous
- obscene, indecent
- portent
- an omen
- torpid
- sluggish
- austerity
- severe manners in life
- bane
- fatal injury
- deleterious
- harmful effect
- sedulous
- constant in effort or application
- asperity
- roughness or hoarseness
- propensity
- tendency
- misanthropy
- hatred of humankind
- machination
- act of plotting
- choleric
- bad tempered
- vicissitude
- change or variation
- obeisance
- gesture of the body such as a curtsy
- probity
- uprightness, integrity
- consternation
- state of paralyzing dismay
- apotheosized
- glorify, exalt
- escutcheon
- shield displaying coat of arms
- Purloined Letter and Cask of Amontiallado
- 1840's
- Scarlet Letter
- 1850
- Chosen
- 1967
- Huck Finn
- 1885
- Crucible
- 1953
- Joy Luck Club
- 1989
- Of Mice and Men
- 1937
- Catchher in the Rye
- 1951
- Bless Me Ultima
- 1972
- A Lost Lady
- 1922
- Catch 22
- 1961
- Black Boy
- 1945
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(Author, Culter, Paraphrase, Meaning of Ending, Theme, Key Lit Term & Why)
The Cask Of Amontillado - Edgar Allen Poe, He's finishing up the story of a 50-yr old crime, latin for "Rest in Peace", he let the victim rest, but he cant
- (Author, Culter, Paraphrase, Meaning of Ending, Theme, Key Lit Term & Why) Purloined Letter
- Edgar Allen Poe, Dupin and sidekick talking about relationship w/ Minister D. and how he would recognize "MS", Reference to Theyestes & Atrius, They used tyo be brothers but are now enemies
- (Author, Culter, Paraphrase, Meaning of Ending, Theme, Key Lit Term & Why) Scarlet Letter
- Nathaniel Hawthorne, Puritanism, Describing Hester's tombstone, On a black background, the letter "A", Hester was honored for her "A" even thouh she was shameful, Sinners who confess can be rendered, Allegory- Everything symbolized something
- (Author, Culter, Paraphrase, Meaning of Ending, Theme, Key Lit Term & Why) Lost lady
- Willa Cather, Aristocraticin, ed elliot is talking to niel about what became of mf, ed elliot says " i knew you's feel that way", MF got what she wanted & died happily Nielwas happy for her, the past days were good, but are gone now, epigraph- the "come my carriage" statement showed the thme of the book- how the good old ways were dying
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(Author, Culter, Paraphrase, Meaning of Ending, Theme, Key Lit Term
& Why) Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck, traveling hard, lennie had just been shot & the ranch heads were standing around when george and candy walked off, Carlson says "what the hell's eating those two", why cant society value Lenny and George why cant they understand friendship, friendship is the most important dream, motif- lennie killing
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(Author, Culter, Paraphrase, Meaning of Ending, Theme, Key Lit Term
& Why)Catcher in the Rye - J.D Salinger, middle class new yourk boy, The rain falls and holden realizes that he misses his family, dont ever tell anyone anything because then you start missing everybody, holden found what he was looking for throughout the whole book., sometime what your looking for is right in front of you, POV- stream of conciousness
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(Author, Culter, Paraphrase, Meaning of Ending, Theme, Key Lit Term
& Why)Crucible - Arthur Miller, Puritan, John proctor is going to the gallous, the drums beat louder and a new sun is shone, although her husband died, a new day was dawning for Elizabeth,
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(Author, Culter, Paraphrase, Meaning of Ending, Theme, Key Lit Term
& Why) The Chosen - Chaim Potok, Jewish, danny walks away from malter house, his shoes tapped on the sidewalk as he turned the corner, Danny going into a new life, free from chosen life, tapping of shoes common in book- so danny is different but himself, Theme: the destiny chosen for you is not what you have to chose, didactic- constantly teaching reader about judaism.
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(Author, Culter, Paraphrase, Meaning of Ending, Theme, Key Lit Term
& Why) Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan, Chinese American, girls are watching polaroid develop and see their mother in them, "we have our mother's facial features, and realize we have accomplished her wish.", through the novel the mothers wished the best for their daughters, the daughters are their mothers, structure- the whole novel rotates around to each mother and daugher in four parts. There were dour mothers, four daughter, and four stopries per pair.
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(Author, Culter, Paraphrase, Meaning of Ending, Theme, Key Lit Term
& Why) Bless Me ultima - Rudolfo Anaya, Chicano, he goes to bury ultima's potions, Tony's destiny was whatever he chose, not what was chosen for him, I buried ultima under the tree tonite, Magic Realism
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(Author, Culter, Paraphrase, Meaning of Ending, Theme, Key Lit Term
& Why)Black Boy - Richard Wright, Post-Civil War Richard is liteing out,"the territory from which i sprung was the one i fled", the way he was raised didnt form who he was, be yourself, white superior vs. black lesser