English Dork Club (survival) 2014
Wednesday, January 14, 2015
Identity promt rough
In a well organized well written essay explore the idea of identity in the Virgin Suicides and Never Let Me Go. Do others create our identity? Or do we create our own using the people around us as a guide?
my prompt
In a well written, well organized, and well constructed essay explore what motivates the characters to continue living the lives they are forced to live instead of trying to escape or just committing suicide like the Lisbon sisters using Never Let Me Go and Handmaid's Tale and/or Virgin Suicides.
a very rough draft
In a detailed, well organized and concise essay explore what it means to live, and what it means to be alive using Never Let Me Go and another book from the semester.
a rough prompt
My prompt is super rough but here it goes.
In a detailed, well organized, and concise essay, explore the value of the human life, both literal and figuratively, in the books we have read this semester. Investigate self worth, who determines value, and how they determine value? What gives someone the right to decide someone else's worth? Slavery?
In a detailed, well organized, and concise essay, explore the value of the human life, both literal and figuratively, in the books we have read this semester. Investigate self worth, who determines value, and how they determine value? What gives someone the right to decide someone else's worth? Slavery?
Prompt
My prompt is similar to Talias because mine is also about the past.
In a well written and well organized essay, explore how the telling of the past affects the narrators ability to live in the present and move forward in the future in Never Let Me Go and another book read this semester.
I was thinking of doing the Goon Squad because it was the book I enjoyed the most but then again it's the only book that moves forward in time, not backwards, so that's my problem.
In a well written and well organized essay, explore how the telling of the past affects the narrators ability to live in the present and move forward in the future in Never Let Me Go and another book read this semester.
I was thinking of doing the Goon Squad because it was the book I enjoyed the most but then again it's the only book that moves forward in time, not backwards, so that's my problem.
Tuesday, January 13, 2015
Prompts?
I'm not exactly sure if this is what I will end up writing about as I am still interested in the past and the fake life they are living and would like to incorporate that somehow, but here is one prompt I am considering writing about.
In a well thought out and well constructed essay, explain how being classified as un-human has effect the characters and their outcomes in Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro and any other book we have explored this semester.
I just thought of this one so this could be another prompt but I'm not sure:
....explain how a characters acceptance or denial of the past has shaped their future (whether it be their actions or emotions) by exploring Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro and another book from this semester.
Thoughts: I don't think I will fully be able to answer this until the end of the book, but I find the idea of how they measure a soul interesting. Also is a soul almost an illusion/myth/lie (similar to how we were talking about love) and what gives someone the right to classify someone as having a soul or not.
Side-note: It is interesting how Hailsham which seems to be the ultimate form of deception in this book (if I am going off that idea) was just destroyed.
In a well thought out and well constructed essay, explain how being classified as un-human has effect the characters and their outcomes in Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro and any other book we have explored this semester.
I just thought of this one so this could be another prompt but I'm not sure:
....explain how a characters acceptance or denial of the past has shaped their future (whether it be their actions or emotions) by exploring Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro and another book from this semester.
Thoughts: I don't think I will fully be able to answer this until the end of the book, but I find the idea of how they measure a soul interesting. Also is a soul almost an illusion/myth/lie (similar to how we were talking about love) and what gives someone the right to classify someone as having a soul or not.
Side-note: It is interesting how Hailsham which seems to be the ultimate form of deception in this book (if I am going off that idea) was just destroyed.
Prompts
So I have been thinking about what prompt I would write about at the end of this book for a while, and I keep going back to the names. I came up with one in class about names, and it's growing on me. I actually like it. I haven't quite figured out how I will support this idea or write about it, but i'm up for a challenge soon here is my prompt:
In a well organized, well constructed, and well supported essay, explain how the effect of names in Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro and Rebecca by Daphne de Maurier, show how the names of the characters effect the hierarchy of them in these two books.
Another one I was thinking about was:
In a well organized, well constructed, and well supported essay, explain how the past effects the present life for characters like Kathy H. in Never Let Me Go and The Boys in The Virgin Suicides.
In a well organized, well constructed, and well supported essay, explain how the effect of names in Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro and Rebecca by Daphne de Maurier, show how the names of the characters effect the hierarchy of them in these two books.
Another one I was thinking about was:
In a well organized, well constructed, and well supported essay, explain how the past effects the present life for characters like Kathy H. in Never Let Me Go and The Boys in The Virgin Suicides.
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