For the past two weeks, we have practiced analytical thinking and howprewriting can help us develop papers. There is obviously a connection between prewriting and analysis: analysis finds and organizes details so that you can make meaning from them, and prewriting generates and organizes ideas (details) that can help develop an answer to a question that forms a paper. In other words, analysis and prewritingwork hand-in-hand: analysis is the thinking method and prewritinghelps begin communicating the thinking.
When reading a piece of literature, the use of language develops the meaning. Hence, the words and images are the details that develop the literary elements (plot, character, theme, setting, irony, point of view, symbols). Analyzing the details of a literary piece is vital to understanding it. Based on this, using prewriting can help us identify and organize these details to begin writing a paper.
To provide you more practice in analysis and prewriting, please complete the following activity:
When reading a piece of literature, the use of language develops the meaning. Hence, the words and images are the details that develop the literary elements (plot, character, theme, setting, irony, point of view, symbols). Analyzing the details of a literary piece is vital to understanding it. Based on this, using prewriting can help us identify and organize these details to begin writing a paper.
To provide you more practice in analysis and prewriting, please complete the following activity:
- Choose one of the two short stories ("The Tell-Tale Heart" or "The Model Millionaire").
- Choose one of the thesis statements on the Short Story Analysis Paper assignment sheet.
- Using one of our prewriting techniques and our analytical method, go through the story you have chosen and list at least five specific, significant details that develop the thesis. For example, if you choose the thesis on symbols in "The Tell-Tale Heart", you need to find at least five specific details connected to that thesis. In other words, "symbol" is your pattern or category--what details belong to this pattern? Provide the precise wording from the story, along with the page number where the detail was found.
- When you're finished, ask any questions that you need answered to help you better understand analysis or prewriting.
"The Tell-tale Heart"
ReplyDeleteThesis Statement: Although the narrator of Poe's "The Tell-tale Heart" attempts to convenience the reader of his sanity,his narration and actions show otherwise.
1. " I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth, I heard many things in hell" (pg1)
2." I foamed, I raved, I swore, I swung the chair upon which I had been sitting" (pg 5)
3." I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before i killed him." (pg 1)
4." for it was not the old man that vexed me but his Evil Eye" (pg1)
5. "Villains! I shrieked, 'dissemble no more! I admit the deed! - tear up the planks! here, here! - it is the beating of his hideous heart. (pg5)
2. Is prewriting necessary each time you write a paper?
I chose to use the story “A Tell Tale Heart” and the thesis statement “Although the narrator of Poe’s “The Tell Tale Heart” attempts to convince us of his sanity, his narration and actions show otherwise.”
ReplyDelete1) “The disease had sharpened my senses – not destroyed – not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell.” Pg.1
2) “I undid it just so much that a single a single thin rat fell upon the vulture eye. And this I did for seven long nights – very night just at midnight – but I found the eye was closed; and so it was impossible to do the work; for it was not the old man who vexed me, but his Evil Eye.” Pg.1-2
3) “I kept quite still and said nothing. For a whole hour I did not move a muscle, and in the mean time I did not hear him lie down. He was still sitting up in the bed listening; - just as I have done, night after night, hearkening to the death watches in the wall.”pg.2
4) “It was open – wide, wide open – and I grew furious as I gazed upon it. I saw it with perfect distinctness – all dull blue, with a hideous veil over it that chilled the very marrow in my bones; but I could see nothing else of the old man’s face or person: for I had directed the ray as if by instinct, precisely upon the damned spot. And had I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over acuteness of the senses?” Pg. 3
5) “I led them, at length, to his chamber. I showed them his treasures, secure, undisturbed. In the enthusiasm if my confidence, I brought chairs into the room, and desired them here to rest from their fatigues, while I myself, in the wild audacity of my perfect triumph, placed my own seat upon the very spot beneath which reposed the corpse of the victim” Pg.4
6) “Anything was more tolerable than this derision! I could bear those hypocritical smiles no longer! I felt that I must scream or die! And now – again! – hark! Louder! Louder! Louder! ‘Villains! I shrieked, ‘dissemble no more! I admit the dead! – tear up the planks! Here, here! – it is the beating of his hideous heart’! Pg. 4
The above sentences show how the narrators actions are quite insane even though he sees then as very cunning and clear minded decisions.
7) How are you suppose to identify the symbols in both short stories and determine there connection to the stories plot.
I choose "The Tell-tale Heart"
ReplyDeleteThesis Statement: Although the narrator of Poe's "The Tell-tale Heart" tries to convenience the reader of his sanity, his narration and actions show otherwise.
1. I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth, I heard many things in hell. pg1
2. I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him. pg 1
3. for it was not the old man that vexed me but his Evil Eye. pg1
4. I foamed, I raved, I swore, I swung the chair upon which I had been sitting. pg 5
5. Villains! I shrieked, 'dissemble no more! I admit the deed! - tear up the planks! here, here! - it is the beating of his hideous heart. pg5
I chose to use the story " Model Millionaire"
ReplyDeleteThesis Statement: Oscar Wilde's "the Model Millionaire" uses its protagonist, Hughie, to show that a person's worth is found within.
1)"Laura adored him, and he was ready to kiss her shoe-strings. They were the handsomest couple in London, and had not a penny-piece between them." PG1
2)"However, after he got to know Hughie better, he liked him quite as much for his bright buoyant spirits and his generous reckless nature" PG1
3)"'Poor old chap! said Hughie, 'how miserable he looks! But I suppose, to you painters, his face is his fortune?'" PG2
4)"'he wants it more than I do, but it means no hansoms for a fortnight;' and he walked across the studio and slipped the sovereign into the beggar's hand." PG3
5)"Poor old wretch! I wish I could do something for him. I think it is dreadful that any one should be so miserable. I have got heaps of old clothes at home - do you think he would care for any of them? Why, his rags were falling to bits.'" PG3
- should all papers have some sort of prewriting?
1. The Tell-tale Heart
ReplyDelete2. Although the narrator of poe’s “The Tell-tale Heart” attempts to convince the reader of his sanity, his narration and actions show otherwise.
3. In the short story it says “the disease had sharpen my senses not destroyed not dulled them” 1st paragraph
4. “I heard all things in heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell. 1st paragraph
5. “Now this is the point. You fancy me mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me” 3rd paragraph
6. “And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over acuteness of the senses. 10th paragraph
7. “ If you still think me mad, you will think so no longer when I describe the wise precautions I took for the concealment of the body” 12th paragraph.
Oscar Wilde shows very well that a person’s worth is found within themselves. One of the ways that that Oscar Wilde is that when Hughie gives the money to the Baron Hausberg the Baron tries to get all the information that he can about Hughie so that he can find a way to repay him. This is showing that just because the Baron is rich does not mean that he won’t repay the debt that he felt is owed to Hughie for the generosity that he showed to him. Also even though Hughie is extremely poor in his own right he was willing to try and help out someone who seemed less fortunate then he did. Along with showing the better sides of Hughie and the Baron it also shows a darker side in Alan. The way this shows a darker side in Alan is because as soon as Hughie tells him that he gave the Baron money he instantly began to mock him and tell him that he will never see that money again. This brings out the darker side in Alan because he believes that the Baron is of a higher class then Hughie and would never pay him back the sovereign that he gave him. Another thing that shows how Alan the artist really is would be when he says “I can understand your kissing a pretty model, but your giving a sovereign to an ugly one - by Jove, no!” showing that he only really understands of doing nice things to the good looking and the rich and that he couldn’t understand being nice to someone who isn’t. Also another part showing how someone can show what their worth really is would be Laura Merton’s father would only allow them to marry if Hughie was able to come up with ten thousand pounds of his own. The Colonel didn’t see, to care for the type of person that Hughie was only about how much money he had.
ReplyDeleteBy Steven Foulkrod
The cunning protagonist Hughie Erskine, of "The Model Millionaire," portrays an array of attributes through out the storyline. We reveal shortly into the story the fact about Hughie's unprosperous wealth. Hughie's enchanting personality and cunning looks draw people in, though these accomplishments mean little without wealth. Hughie "had every accomplishment except that of making money,"(pg. 1) including a stunning girl. The girls father, a colonel took a liking for Hughie early on. However, due to his pennyless state the colonel would not hear of an engagement. Furthermore declaring to Hughie, to come back with 10,000 pounds of his own. Sadly, this shows the importance of ones possessions while lifting the bright attributes of Hughie's personality.
ReplyDeleteOscar Wilde uses an eminent artist to portray the interesting and pleasurable aspects of Hughie. At first the writer develops features artists look for in a friend, or a person to talk to. He then compares this to Hughie while giving him some advantage in the points of Beauty and dimming in intellectual repose. In time however, Trevor the artist "liked him quite as much for his bright buoyant spirits and his generous reckless nature."(pg. 1) While engaging in conversation Hughie also voices his thoughts on modeling, and the beggars pay. He invites the idea of a model getting percentages for "they work quite as hard as you do,"(pg. 2) speaking towards an artist. As Hughie is left alone with the beggar he shows his kindness, and parts of that enticing personality. He digs for the little change he has to his name. Sacrificing a small portion of personal pleasure in the nights to come, Hughie "slipped the sovereign into the beggar's hand."(pg. 3) From here the author presents the ideals of being rewarded for such kind deeds and pleasant accompany.
Currently i have no questions about my prewriting, or analysis. I am very confident that i have everything i need to write the paper in terms of details. Now it's just time to put some confident writing on paper, and formulate from there.
1. "The Tell-tale Heart"
ReplyDelete2. Thesis: “Although the narrator of Poe’s “The Tell-tale Heart” attempts to convince the reader of his sanity, his narration and actions show otherwise.”
3. 1.) “For his gold I had no desire. I think it was his eye! yes, it was this! He had the eye of a vulture - a pale blue eye, with a film over it. Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold; and so by degrees - very gradually - I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever.” (pg1)
2.) “Yes, he was stone, stone dead. I placed my hand upon the heart and held it there many minutes. There was no pulsation. He was stone dead. His eye would trouble me no more.” (pg 3)
3.) “The night waned; and I worked hastily, but in silence. First of all I dismembered the corpse. I cut off the head and the arms and the legs.” (pg4)
4.) “I foamed - I raved - I swore! I swung the chair upon which I had been sitting, and grated it upon the boards, but the noise arose over all and continually increased. It grew louder - louder - louder!” (pg5)
5.) “'Villains!' I shrieked, 'dissemble no more! I admit the deed! - tear up the planks! here, here! - it is the beating of his hideous heart!'” (pg5)
Each of these quote show how the narrator tries to convince the reader he is perfectly fine, but what he does to the old man and how he acts when the officers show up, tell us something completely different.
4. When prewriting what would be a good method to use while organizing and developing a good paper?
1. "The Tell-tale Heart"
ReplyDelete2. Thesis: “Although the narrator of Poe’s “The Tell-tale Heart” attempts to convince the reader of his sanity, his narration and actions show otherwise.”
3.
- “For his gold I had no desire. I think it was his eye! yes, it was this! He had the eye of a vulture - a pale blue eye, with a film over it. Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold; and so by degrees - very gradually - I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever.” (pg1)
-“Yes, he was stone, stone dead. I placed my hand upon the heart and held it there many minutes. There was no pulsation. He was stone dead. His eye would trouble me no more.” (pg 3)
-“The night waned; and I worked hastily, but in silence. First of all I dismembered the corpse. I cut off the head and the arms and the legs.” (pg4)
-“I foamed - I raved - I swore! I swung the chair upon which I had been sitting, and grated it upon the boards, but the noise arose over all and continually increased. It grew
- “'Villains!' I shrieked, 'dissemble no more! I admit the deed! - tear up the planks! here, here! - it is the beating of his hideous heart!'” (pg5)