The Horror of a Frozen Death

English 3318 students:

Happy Halloween! It is very fitting that we will explore the horror of nature's extremes this week in Jack London's "To Build a Fire."

Before midnight on Friday, November 4, please publish a comment of at least two well-developed paragraphs about the characterization of "the man," who is the nameless protagonist of "To Build a Fire." Explain how his obliviousness to danger evokes dread and fear in readers, quoting and citing the story in your comment.

After you publish your comment, please reply in one well-developed paragraph to at least one of the other students' comments.

Thank you,

Dr. Kornasky

 

The Lovers and the Lady in Black

 

         

English 3318 students:

In Chapters I through XVI (the summer at Grand Isle part) of The Awakening, three unnamed characters, the two young lovers and the lady in black, appear repeatedly nearby the protagonist, Edna Pontellier. What do you think these three characters represent? 

Before midnight on Friday, October 28th, please submit a comment of at least two well-developed paragraphs about the meaning of each one of their four appearances in these chapters.

After you post your comment, please reply in one well-developed paragraph to at least one of the other students' comments.

Thank you,
Dr. K

Music in The Awakening

 

English 3318 students:

For your Friday, October 21, blog, please submit a comment of at least two well-developed paragraphs in which you discuss the meaning of music on pp. 567-569 (the last couple of pages of Chapter IX) and at the top of p. 580 (the last couple of paragraphs of Chapter XIV) of The Awakening. What is the biological effect of music in these moments in the novel? In your comment, quote from these pages to support your interpretation, and parenthetically cite the page of each quote you use.

At the end of your comment, please explain which of your favorite songs makes you feel the same way that Edna does in this part of the novel. 

After you post your comment, please reply in one well-developed paragraph to one of the other students' comments.

Sincerely,
Dr. K

Surviving Nature's Forces

                            

                                        Crane--Looking at Us from Out of the Past

English 3318 students:

For our Week 7 blog, please publish a comment of about 500 words before Friday, October 7, at midnight, about Stephen Crane's depiction of nature vs. humankind in "The Open Boat." Before you compose your comment, please be sure to watch Paul Auster's interview about his recent biography of Crane (the one that is also linked in Saturday's class announcement on Blackboard): 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HoSfBpGhEE&t=1s

After you publish your comment, please reply to one of the other students' comments. 

Thank you,

Dr. K