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Southern gothic fiction from rhetorx1

Slidshare on Southern Gothic Notes is here

Use this for the test!!

Please Read

Read the story here. Print a copy for class. Think about the conventions of southern gothic fiction as you read.

Reading for Tuesday

Please read the D.H. Lawrence story "The Rocking Horse Winner," on page 1 of the text. look for some of the same THEMES we have seen in the first three stories.

Please write a comment over the weekend

Attack or Defend

In A&P Sammy consistently ‘objectifies women,” that is, he turns them into objects by staring at them (the male gaze), inventing belittling nicknames, and making his own story superior to theirs. This attitude, called sexism, is inherently wrong. Stories that produce these attitudes are therefore artistically immoral and ought not be assigned in schools, where teachers have at least some responsibility to provide healthy worldviews for students. 

Watch your writing for grammar, mechanics and style. Try to make some original points. Show off a little...show how smart you are!

Paper Directions

Your work on A&P is due Friday. Use the worksheet to help you organize your character analysis.

1. Create your Google account.
2. Write your paper using Google Drive.
3. SHARE the paper with me at rhetorx1@gmail.com.

Write about a page and a half in the standard font, double spaced. Use the MLA format for a heading with no title page. Here is an example taken from the Purdue Owl.

Purpose: demonstrate to an audience of experienced readers who KNOW the story that you understand how analyze character and that you understand the conventions of literary analysis.

Dana Gioia on Chekhov

Please read the article here.

Do not be surprised if you find it difficult...it's written for a college level audience. Nonetheless, it also contains some ideas that you CAN manage, given sufficient effort.

In order to find some main ideas, read carefully and copy down (in your notebook) the sentences (or even parts of a sentence) that you think are important. Look for perhaps five or six ideas that you DO understand...don't worry about other ideas that you don't get.

Here are some questions that might help you. If you look for the answers to these questions in the essay, you may move in the direction of the important points.

1. Why is Chekhov considered an innovative artist, that is someone who altered his art form?


2. How do we know that Chekhov is considered an influential artist, someone who other artists admire so much they imitate some of his work?

3. This article is mainly about another story (The Lady with the Pet Dog), but it relates directly to Gooseberries. How so?