McDougal Littell : LITERATURE

UNIT 5. Why Write?

Author’s Pur-pose

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Author’s Pur-pose

The writer’s reason for crafting a particular work (can be known by the phrases the author uses)

to inform, to entertain, to persuade, to express thoughts or feelings, to teach the reader

Ex) To alarm the reader use statistics to describe a disas-ter

Author’s Per-spectiveThe unique combination of ideas, values, and beliefs that

influences the way a writer looks at a topic (can be known by the words and phrases the author use, or is

shown in direct sentences)Journals and reports do not intentionally broadcast

their values (Journalists: ONLY report FACTS)

Essays and speeches: express their beliefs in a subtle way

ELEMENTS OF LITERATURE

• Tone: expression of the writer’s attitude toward a subject

• Diction=Syntax: word choice and the arrangement of those words

• Classification: sort ideas or ob-jects into groups that share com-mon characteristics

ELEMENTS OF LITERATURE

• Monitoring: check your under-standing as you read and adjust-ing the reading strategies to im-prove comprehension

• Imagery: words or phrases that recreate sensory experiences

Sujin •NonfictionEun-Seo •MediaDo-

hyun •FictionMin-jung •Poetry

TABLE OF CONTENTS

NONFICTIONNNNNTHE PLOT AGAINST PEOPLE

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• Story style: Essay• Author: Russell Baker

Inanimate Objects

The Ultimate Goal: To RESIST man and to defeat hu-

man Those that

break down

Those that get

lost

Those that don’t work

• Break down at the moment when it is most needed• Ex) automobile breaks down in the street intersection dur-

ing the rush hour / when fully loaded with luggage on a family trip

• Creates maximum misery, inconvenience, frustration and irritability

• (washing machines, lawn mowers, tape recorders etc.)

Those that break down

• Objects have developed a secret method of locomotion able to hide away from the sight of a human

• Raises the owner’s blood pressure • Ex) Women’s wallet get lost and then found under a couch six

or seven rooms away• (wallets, keys, pliers etc.)

Those that get lost

• Work once, usually for the first few hours after being brought home, and then never work again

• Defeated man by making man never to expect any-thing of them

• Ex) We do not expect the toy train to work after it has stopped working

• (barometers, toy trains, flashlights, lighters etc.)Things that don’t work de-feated

man by making them give up, whereas things that break

down and get lost has made man aspire

Those that don’t work

Humorous Essay?

Complicated words and sentence structure (suitable for a scientific paper)

subject matter is related to our everyday lives.

This contrast between his elevated style and the everyday topic

creates a humorous tone

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News Reports

• Reliability and usefulness

About Twister Tendencies

News Reports

• Credibility– the believability and trustworthiness of

source and report

Questions to ask about…

•News outlet, anchor, field•Purpose, fact, statistics•Sources, expertsNews Report

•Which URL?•The webmaster•Purpose and detail•Date, time, source, facts, linksWeb Report

News Report

• Comprehension– Summarize and clarify

• Media Literacy– Analyze credibility–Make judgements– Compare types of sources– Compare credibility

FICTIONNNNNNNAND OF CLAY ARE WE CREATED

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AUTHOR: Isabel Allende• Writes about PASSIONATE LIVES• Born in a Chilean family w/ political

ties• 1970s Exile into U.S."Allende can spin a funny, sensual yarn, but she can

also use her narrative skills to remind us that parallel to our placid and comfortable existence is another, invisible universe, one where poverty, misery and torture are all too real."

-Patricia Hart, The Nation

PLOT

• Narrator is Rolf Carle’s lover and companion, telling her & Rolf’s own experience of saving the girl

• Geologists, aware of the coming vol-canic eruption, set up seismological equipment

• Inhabitants under the volcanic area did not believe the geologists and did not want to change their lives.

PLOT

• ERUPTION• Rolf tried to rescue Azucena, mean-

ing Lily.• Azucena could not breathe or move

in the mud.• Rolf’s lover, the narrator, in vain

asked high officials for help.

PLOT

• As Rolf sang an Austrian song, he remembered his sore experience of being led by the Russians and his brutal father.

• He suddenly remembered his sister Katherena whom he had abandoned and felt love for Azucena.

PLOT

• President of Republic promises Rolf that Azucena will be saved; indeed, she is.

• As her life fades away, Rolf feels pri-mal love for Azucena, more than for his own family or even the narrator.

• Rolf and the narrator often goes to place where they found Azucena and feels the footage.

Geologists predict the volcanic erup-

tion

ERUPTION

Rolf&Narrator’s endless efforts to

save Azucena

Dramatic finding of Azucena

Rolf’s remem-brance of his past

Praying for Azu-cena’s peaceful

death

Rolf&Narrator’s normal life

AUTHOR’S PURPOSE

• Allende was inspired by a TV news about Omaira Sanchez.

I was finally able to decipher the message in those intense black eyes: patience, courage, resignation, dignity in the face of death

(Quote by Allende, when her daughter died)

try and communicate the meaning of Azucena's life and death

we are all forced to confrontour own suffering and the way

that we have repressed it in our lives

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Peruvian child

• By Pat Mora

Pat Mora

Pat Mora• A Chicana author

known primarily for her poetry and chil-dren’s books.

• Cultural preserva-tionist

She whispered to the doll with no face,Smoothed the red and blue scrapsOf cloth on the path, ironed them with her hand,Wrapped and re-wrapped the doll, hairMud-tangled as the child’s, and the dog’sAnd the llama’s that followed the child’sSmall bare feet after she bundled the dollIn the striped manta on her backDescriptive language

Peruvian ChildStill in the middle of my path is the ChildWith no smile who stared at us. Her eyesEven then the eyes of women who sell chickensAnd onions in outdoor markets. The womenWho stare at us as if we are guards.

Mood : fear

The matted group stood by the edge of the springWatching us drink clear, holy water of the Inca,A fountain of youth, our guide said.We wanted, as usual, to hold a picture Of the child in a white border, not to hold herMud-crusted hands or feet or face,Not to hold her, the child in our arms.

Figurative language

irony

Analysis

Fear of unknown

Mood : anxiety & dissonance

Rhyme : syncopated to use percussionist’s terminology

Theme : the idea of the open-minded person that all the people are the same but there are certain cultural barriers that we must be willing to cross in order to appreciate, realize, or digest this.

Analysis

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