Tuesday, April 22.. Porter Power Point and intro material for "Weatherall" essay

Due Friday, April 25: comma assessment.
In class: review of Katherine Ann Porter's short story "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall" as preparation for writing on Wednesday and Thursday.
This is a Power Point. I cannot put this on the blog, but can copy it onto your thumb drive.

Directions for in class writing assignment on "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall"

“The Jilting of Granny Weatheall” by Katherine Ann Porter.     Essay instructions.  Due at the end of class on Thursday, April 24 at the close of class.

One of techniques employed in Modernist literature is stream of consciousness.  As a review, this technique is primarily associated with the modernist movement and is a form of interior monologue characterized by perceptions or impressions, thoughts incited by outside sensory stimuli, and fragments of random, disconnected thoughts.  Both T.S. Eliot’s poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” and Katherine Ann Porter’s short story “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall” use the technique to allow the reader a journey to see into these protagonists’ minds. Both Prufrock’s immediate fear of making a marriage proposal and his tormented personal life are revealed by using the stream of consciousness technique with figurative language devices such as allusion, personification and imagery, so as to create a complex character. Similarly, Granny Weatherall’s life is unveiled.

Your assignment: Please respond to the following in a well-written essay of three paragraphs of a minimum of 300 words. That is approximately 2 full pages.  How does Porter employ the technique of stream of consciousness to develop the complex character of Granny Weatherall?

Details.  MLA heading.

               Introductory sentence that has a clearly-stated thesis

               Textual evidence.  (try to weave some of this in)

         

       Before you begin writing, create an outline.  Ask yourself what kind of person Granny was. Decide on 4- 5 points within the story that show Granny’s life. For each find phrases, words or a sentence that illustrate an aspect of Granny’s character.

Remember that you must make a statement, prove it and then state why it is significant in terms of the thesis statement in your introduction.