Approaches to Literature week five

Vocabulary

ant: people

accountant

meaning: someone whose job is to keep the financial records of a business or person

Example: She has qualified as an accountant.

applicant

meaning: someone who formally asks for something (such as a job or admission to a college

Example: Here's a job applicant with an excellent track record.

attendant

meaning: an assistant or servant

Example: If you cross his palm with silver the car park attendant

can always find you a place, even when the sign says full up.

protestant

meaning: one who makes or enters a protest

Example: If you cross his palm with silver the car park can protestant always find you a place, even when the sign says full up.

ist: people

artist

meaning: a person who creates art

Example: He is a great artist.

omni: all

omnipresent

meaning: present in all places at all times

Example: The price of the omnipresent crisp golden loaf seemed to epitomize the rising cost of living and the shortage of cash in consumers pockets.

omnipotent

meaning: having complete or unlimited power

Example: He is an omnipotent bureaucrat.

omniscient

meaning: knowing everything ,having unlimited understanding or knowledge

Example: Christians believe that God is omniscient.

spect: to look

perspective

meaning: the state of one's ideas, the facts known to one, etc., in having a meaningful interrelationship

Example: You have to live here a few years to see local conditions in perspective.

spectator

meaning: a person who watches an event, show, game, activity, etc., often as part of an audience

Example: We mustn't stand by as a spectator.

e: out

epistolary

meaning: written in the form of a series of letters

Example: Celie's growth can also be shown from the epistolary

Form.

Phrase

be ashamed of

meaning: guilt or sorrow because of something done

Example: I felt incredibly ashamed of myself for getting so angry.

Narration

It is the use of—or the particularly chosen methodology or process (also called the narrative mode) of using—a written or spoken commentary to convey a story to an audience. Narration encompasses a set of techniques through which the creator of the story presents their story, including:

Narrative point of view: the perspective (or type of personal or non-personal "lens") through which a story is communicated

Narrative voice: the format (or type presentational form) through which a story is communicated

Narrative time: the placement of the story's time-frame in the past, the present, or the future

Third person

Third-person narration provides the greatest flexibility to the author and thus is the most commonly used narrative mode in literature. In the third-person narrative mode, each and every character is referred to by the narrator as "he", "she", "it", or "they", but never as "I" or "we" (first-person), or "you" (second-person). In third-person narrative, it is clear that the narrator is an unspecified entity or uninvolved person who conveys the story and is not a character of any kind within the story.

Additional Supplement

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance--James Madison

KNOWLEDGE WILL FOREVER GOVERN IGNORANCE; AND A PEOPLE WHO MEAN TO BE THEIR OWN GOVERNORS MUST ARM THEMSELVES WITH THE POWER WHICH KNOWLEDGE GIVES

Building knowledge: For some people it is a passing interest, for others it is a hobby, while for some it is an obsession. Regardless of where you stand on the spectrum, chances are that from time-to-time you look to learn something new. Luckily, for all of us there are a series of websites that can help us learn a thing or two about… well, anything. You are likely find an answer at one of these websites no matter what your interest or need is.

3C: computer, communication, consumer

People worldwide have enjoyed improved living standards over the last four decades. At the same time, demand for digital multimedia products has been growing rapidly, with the focus shifting to 3C- (computing, communication, and consumer) and IA- (information application) related products.

WASP: White Anglo-Saxon Protestant

It is an informal, sometimes disparaging term for a group of high-status and influential White Americans of English Protestant ancestry. The term applies to a group who control disproportionate financial, political and social power in the United States. It describes a group whose family education, elite connections, status and wealth allow them a degree of opportunity held by few others.

Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.--Mark Twain

Humankind is the only creature on this planet that is capable of feeling shame and embarrassment. Not only that, but as Twain believes, humankind is the only creature that actually does things that are shameful and embarrassing. Other animals have an excuse: quite simply, they don't know any better. A lion kills an antelope, not because it enjoys seeing the antelope suffer, but because it is hungry and wants meat. We humans, on the other hand, commit acts all the time fully knowing the consequences of our actions. We kill others knowing full well that they, like ourselves, are capable of feeling pain and fear. We kill others because they are different from us or because we want their money. If we really want to act like we are superior to the other animals on this Earth, we should really know better by now. 

Novel

A rose for Emily

It is a short story by American author William Faulkner first published in April 30, 1930 issue of The Forum. The story takes place in Faulkner's fictional city, Jefferson, Mississippi, in the fictional county of Yoknapatawpha County. It was Faulkner's first short story published in a national magazine.

Emily Grierson, last member of an aristocratic Southern family, is raised by her widowed father, whose death reinforces her isolation from the community. When Northern laborer Homer Barron comes to town, Emily takes an interest in him despite his lower social standing. The towns efforts to prevent the match fail. Her arrogant cousins come to town, and Emily buys arsenic.

Homer disappears and Emily becomes a recluse. When she dies, a man's skeleton is found on a bed in Emily's upstairs room next to an indented pillow and a long gray hair.

The lady with the dog

It is a short story by Anton Chekhov first published in 1899. It tells the story of an adulterous affair between a Russian banker and a young lady he meets while vacationing in Yalta. The story comprises four parts: part I describes the initial meeting in Yalta, part II the consummation of the affair and the remaining time in Yalta, part III Gurov's return to Moscow and his visit to Anna's town, and part IV Anna's visits to Moscow. Vladimir Nabokov declared that it was one of the greatest short stories ever written.

The way Through the woods

It is a crime novel by Colin Dexter, the tenth novel in the Inspector Morse series. It received the Gold Dagger Award in 1992. The plot deals with the search for a beautiful young Swedish woman who went missing a year earlier. An anonymous riddle, in the form of a five-stanza poem, is sent to the police and the case is reopened. The police ask The Times for help with the poem. Morse and Sergeant Lewis are put in charge of the new investigation. The novel was adapted for television in 1995: see The Way Through the Woods (TV), as an episode of the Inspector Morse series. 

The joy Luck club

It is a best-selling novel written by Amy Tan. It focuses on four Chinese American immigrant families in San Francisco who start a club known as The Joy Luck Club, playing the Chinese game of mahjong for money while feasting on a variety of foods. The book is structured somewhat like a mahjong game, with four parts divided into four sections to create sixteen chapters. The three mothers and four daughters (one mother, Suyuan Woo, dies before the novel opens) share stories about their lives in the form of vignettes. Each part is preceded by a parable relating to the game. In 1993, the novel was adapted into a feature film directed by Wayne Wang and starring Ming-Na, Lauren Tom, Tamlyn Tomita, France Nguyen, Rosalind Chao, Kieu Chinh, Tsai Chin, Lisa Lu, and Vivian Wu. The screenplay was written by the author Amy Tan along with Ronald Bass. The novel was also adapted into a play, by Susan Kim, which premiered at Pan Asian Repertory Theatre in New York.

Frankenstein

It is a novel written by the English author Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley that tells the story of a young science student Victor Frankenstein, who creates a grotesque but sentient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was 18, and the first edition of the novel was published anonymously in London in 1818, when she was 20. Shelley's name first appeared on the second edition, published in France in 1823.

Movie

The Reader

It is a novel by German law professor and judge Bernhard Schlink, published in Germany in 1995 and in the United States in 1997. The story is a parable, dealing with the difficulties post-war German generations have had comprehending the Holocaust; Ruth Franklin writes that it was aimed specifically at the generation Bertolt Brecht called the Nachgeborenen, those who came after. Like other novels in the genre of Vergangenheitsbewältigung, the struggle to come to terms with the past, The Reader explores how the post-war generations should approach the generation that took part in, or witnessed, the atrocities. These are the questions at the heart of Holocaust literature in the late 20th and early 21st century, as the victims and witnesses die and living memory fades.

Finding Forrester

It is a 2000 American drama film written by Mike Rich and directed by Gus Van Sant. An African-American teenager, Jamal Wallace (Rob Brown), is invited to attend a prestigious private high school. By chance, Jamal befriends a reclusive writer, William Forrester (Sean Connery), through whom he refines his talent for writing and comes to terms with his identity. Anna Paquin, F. Murray Abraham, Michael Pitt, Glenn Fitzgerald, April Grace and Busta Rhymes star in supporting roles. Although the film is not based on a true story, film critics have compared the character portrayed by Connery with real life writer J.D. Salinger.Connery later acknowledged that the inspiration for his role was indeed Salinger.

Christian vs. Catholic

Similar: Both groups believe that there is only one God, who is three-in-one ("Trinity"): Father, Son and Holy Spirit. And both agree that Jesus is God the Son in human flesh. They also agree that God is rightly angry with people for not treating him or other people as they should. After we die God will bring everybody back to life and then judge them, and the judgement we deserve is to be punished forever because of the way we’ve lived. But both Catholics and Christians believe that Jesus came to earth to sort out that problem by paying the punishment for us when he died on the Cross, and by coming back to life two days later.

Difference: One of the most important disagreements is about how we can actually be accepted by God. Christians believe that if someone has faith in Jesus - if they trust him with their lives and follow him - then they are made totally acceptable to God because of Jesus'death (Romans 3:23-26). The Bible says that this happens"apart from works"(Romans 4:6). In other words, it doesn't depend on how good a life we live but only on our trust in Jesus. If we follow Jesus, we are guaranteed a place in Heaven when we die (Luke 23:43). Catholics, on the other hand, believe that our acceptance by God does depend partly on the life that we've lived. If we're not good enough, we won't make it to Heaven.

Christians believe that it's in the Bible that God speaks to us to tell us about himself and how he wants us to live. Catholics believe that he also speaks through the teachings of the Catholic church and the Pope. But Jesus said that only the Bible is the word of God, not the additional teachings of religious leaders (Mark 7:1-13).