Wednesday, December 12, 2007

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.

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