Review for exam on Dec. 14 - Short Story

The Shawl - poetic writing/purpose of shawl/emotion/tone invoked by Ozick

The Life You Save May Be Your Own - Characters not being self-aware/ See themselves as the ideal but it does not match reality/ ordinary gestures as symbols

Hills Like White Elephants- sparse dialogue - why? setting as symbols

Pit and Pendulum - symbol of hell/ use of fiction to make comment on human condition

The Veldt - Critique on technology through futuristic setting/ allusion to Wendy/Peter - Use of foreshadowing - three signs of story's end (wallet/scarf/screams)

Surrender - first person point of view of child - how one perceives event.

Make-up Do -Now's

"A man can be destroyed but not defeated."
- Ernest Hemingway

What does the quote mean? Explain fully.

"There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same."
- Norman Mailer

What does the quote mean and how does it connect to the excerpt from "Stay Alive, My Son"?

Thoreau - Blog 5

What is the difference between wanting to live and wanting to live deliberately? Is it possible, as Thoreau states, to find out you have not lived, and that there are parts of the human experience that have nothing to do with living? Think deeply.