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Short Works

Short Works. Final Exam Review. What do I remind you of?. Remember: Margaret Atwood’s “Bread”. She uses the 2 nd person point of view to make us think about a piece of bread. We put ourselves into each scenario.

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Short Works

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  1. Short Works Final Exam Review

  2. What do I remind you of?

  3. Remember: Margaret Atwood’s “Bread” • She uses the 2nd person point of view to make us think about a piece of bread. • We put ourselves into each scenario. • She dupes us. She tricks us into imagining what is not there. That is what a writer does.

  4. Who do I remind you of?

  5. What do I remind you of?

  6. Remember: Seamus Heaney’s “Digging” • The speaker is a writer • He relies on an extended metaphor: digging = writing • Poem features three generations • Grandfather • Father • Son – has great pride in their hard work and will honor them in his writing

  7. Remember: Andrea Levy’s “Loose Change” . • The narrator and Laylor, a homeless refugee from Uzbekistan, meet in the National Portrait Gallery. • Laylor likes this picture.

  8. This is where Laylor and her brother will sleep.

  9. Why doesn’t the narrator take them home with her? What makes this a difficult choice? • She is a single parent. • She has a daughter to worry about. • It is bitter cold, outside. • She remembers her own grandmother was an immigrant.

  10. What do I remind you of?

  11. Remember Shareen Pandit’s “She Shall Not Be Moved” • Why does the narrator have such an uncomfortable ride on this crowded bus? • Somali mother with child in pram and toddler • Racist older white women on bus seated in pram area • Unsympathetic bus drive • Narrator has her own daughter with her and no additional bus fare

  12. Who am I?

  13. Remember: Chimamanda Adichie’s “The Danger of a Single Story” All of these presented to her the danger of a single story: • The books she read as a child featured British schoolchildren • Her family’s servant Fide as only poor • Her college roomate assumed that she had no knowledge of the modern world • Her college student’s assumptions about Nigerian fathers

  14. What do I remind you of? • The Marketplace in Jos, Nigeria

  15. Remember: Chimamanda Adichie’s“A Private Experience” • Chika is protected by a Hausa Muslim woman during a riot. The woman, who remains unnamed, guides her into an empty store. • Chika learns that although the Hausas who are violently rioting do not represent all of their people. • The woman is peaceful. She is gentle. She gives Chika her scarf to help her stop the bleeding. • These two women share the same suffering: they are both missing a loved one in the riot.

  16. How to Paint Sunlight Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  17. all you have to do is conceive of the whole world and all humanity as a kind of art work a site-specific art work an art project of the god of light the whole earth and all that's in it to be painted with light

  18. What should we take away from Ferlinghetti’s “Instructions to Painters and Poets”? • Look within yourself to find the truest light. • You must shine light into the dark corners and shadows. • Paint and do what you love. • Be original. Shine your light.

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