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Some connections

Some connections. Death of a Salesman. Goal . Find connections to our previous study of Whose Reality . Explain to your partner . What is gap?. What stops us? Where does pressure come from?. Pick the VALUE of the text.

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Some connections

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  1. Some connections Death of a Salesman

  2. Goal • Find connections to our previous study of Whose Reality

  3. Explain to your partner

  4. What is gap? • What stops us? • Where does pressure come from?

  5. Pick the VALUE of the text • Linda (resigned): Well, you’ll just have to take a rest, Willy, you can’t continue this way. • Willy: I just got back from Florida. • Linda: But you didn’t rest your mind. Your mind is overactive, and the mind is what counts, dear. • Madness posing as sanity “continuous random traumas”

  6. Pick the VALUE of the text • Willy: the street is lined with cars. There’s not a breath of fresh air in the neighbourhood. The grass don’t grow anymore, you can’t raise a carrot in the backyard. They should’ve had a law against apartment houses. Remember those two beautiful elm trees out there? When I and Biff hung the swing between them? • What is authentic can be swamped by what is artificial.

  7. Pick the VALUE of the text • Linda: … I think if he finds himself, then you’ll both be happier and not fight anymore. • Willy: Not finding yourself at the age of 34 is a disgrace. • “We have fantasy and delusional versions of individuality but do we have the stomach for the real thing?”

  8. Pick the VALUE of the text • Biff: I don’t know – I don’t know what I’m supposed to want. • Biff: There’s nothing more inspiring or – beautiful than the sight of a mare and a new colt… I’ve always made a point of not wasting my life, and everytime I come back here I know that all I’ve done is to waste my life. • “children learn that crazy is normal” • “We may learn the line ‘unto thine own self be true’, but we also learn about the disaster we invite when this advice from Shakespeare is put into practice.”

  9. Example from the text of each?

  10. Plan it • PROMPT: The society we live in informs our reality • Must use one of the big ideas from the concept map. • Must be a speech to an audience of your choice. • Must use ideas from Death of a Salesman. • Stuck for an idea? You’re a managing director who must fire 15 employees assembled before you. • OR • You’re an employee being fired with 15 others by the boss in front of you. • GOOD LUCK!

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