In class on Wednesday and Thursday. Yesterday you received a handout on the "Weatherall" essay. This is similar to the "Prufrock" essay from before the break. Part 3 of the New York State Regents Exam (Common Core) is the text analysis: exposition. What that means is that the students identify a central idea in the text and show how the author employs a strategy to develop the central idea. That is what this particular essay is designed to practice.
Below is a copy of yesterday's handout. The essay is due at the end of class on Thursday. You may use your class notes from Tuesday, and your "Weatheall" graphic organizer, which, of course, has the actual text. If you do not have this material, I have extra copies of the short story.
This is independent work. I am handing out a copy of the grading rubric, as well.
“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.
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