Horrifying lists of text book is wasting a time of student in school, Francine Prose complained about teaching standers in today's school and college. Recently, I read prose article "I Know Why The Caged Bird Cannot Read", Where she is arguing on a effectiveness of any texts book that are highly available in schools and college. In her article, she said that future generation in in danger. The way of teaching and available text book are leading the future of today's kids towards doom. It seems difficult to find out that school student is learning literature because this generations school children are unknown about real text book; real literature. It makes her shock that society is admiring Montel Williams and Ricki Lake instead of Dante and
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Prose Narrative Criticism: "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" and "Greasy Lake"
Studies in Literature
Kathleen Lohr
August 25, 2012
Prose Narrative Criticism While reading any composition of literature, the reader must address how they will connect with the text. To do this, the reader considers different forms of literary criticism. There are an abundance of approaches to literary criticism. For the purposes of looking at "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" byRobert Louis Stevenson and "Greasy Lake" by T.C. Boyle, the narratological approach will be used here. The narratological critical approach to assessing literature expects that the audience reads to "understand how events are constructed and through what point...show more content... Many musicians wrote songs about doing drugs such as cocaine in the 1980's. In "Greasy Lake", the narrator describes himself and his friends as "dangerous characters, wearing torn up leather jackets, slouched around with toothpicks in our mouths, sniffing glue and ether, and what somebody said was cocaine" (Boyle, 1981). These events are accurate to the time period, which shaped the characters and events in "Greasy Lake". A noteworthy theme of "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" is the natural duality of human beings. Dr. Jekyll is in a constant struggle to conceal Mr. Hyde from the world because he considers him to be indecent and capable of evil. Throughout thenovella we are lead to believe that Mr. Hyde is some sort of deranged killer who has fled London after murdering a man. It isn't until the final chapter that the reader learns from a note from Dr. Jekyll that Mr. Hyde is a persona of Jekyll. Jekyll claims that he allowed himself to become Hyde when he felt unacceptable impulses. This allowed him to act, free of morals, and later return to being the respectable Dr. Jekyll. This arrangement didn't hurt his reputation, and satisfied his darker half. Therefore, he would drink a self–created potion to become Hyde whenever he wanted to. Dr. Jekyll clearly had two personalities that were battling to be dominant. The theme of human duality is represented in the upstanding, well liked
In Francine Prose's "I Know Why the Caged Bird Cannot Read: How American High School Students Learn to Loathe Literature", the author is trying to explain why high school students are not asked to read more quality pieces of literature now a days. In my opinion I agree with Prose because I think the texts we read in high school are not challenging and not a lot of students enjoy the readings because they cannot relate. Prose uses the rhetorical strategy of degrading the books high school students are reading and she uses her own personal experiences to support her argument. Throughout the essay, Prose argues that literatures in high schools are dumbing down the English curriculum. She says books that are "chosen for students to read are...show more content...
She does not understand why the older and well–known authors are not being read in high school. Prose uses a personal experience from her son's sophomore English class. He had to read a "weeper and former bestseller by Judith Guest" (424), about a dysfunctional family dealing with a teenage son's suicide attempt. "No instructor has ever asked my sons to read Alice Munro, who writes so lucidly and beautifully about the hypersensitivity that makes adolescence a hell,"(424). She again mentions books she approves of that should be read in English classes. Another big point in Prose's essay is the assignments associated with high school literature. She argues that teachers make students write around the books and not about the books they read. "No wonder students are rarely asked to consider what was actually written by these hopeless racists and sociopaths. Instead, they're told to write around the book, or, better yet, write their own books," (430). The assignments that teachers give these days are nto about the book or the story itself. They usually ask the student to rewrite the ending, or ask what the student would do if they were in the same situation as the character. Prose argues that high school students are seen as having the same experience as some of the characters they read about, such as Jay Gatsby in The Great Gatsby. "And is it any wonder that
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As we all know, novels are written works of literature from time to time. There are countless novels that are made day by day but only a few are published. Novels may contain ideas, truths, beliefs, facts, and opinions. These are the essence that people have gathered their thoughts and compiled it into a single book. Novels are also an essence of entertainment that people can enjoy depending in their taste. There are also novels that are called light novels because they are novels that teenagers are entertained by it.
By definition, a novel is any relatively long piece of written narrative fiction, normally in prose, and typically published book. The novel at present makes use of a literary prose style. The prose style and its development novels today was encouraged by innovations in printing, and it was introduced during 15th century...show more content...
There are also critics that are very hard to convince them with your hard work novel. You need to have your own personal guidelines as you progress through novel creation, notes so that you can use it to reference your strengths and weakness. Though no matter how hard we try to create a story, it is just hard to convince everyone from reading your entire novel due to the idea of different tastes among people. As for the basics, one should know his or her genre, the target audience, and its theme. Though it is still quite difficult after knowing the basics of creating a novel so here is an accordance of making a good
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Lanark: Prose Commentary 1 Lanark Prose Commentary Retno Widyanti This extract from Lanark ,written by Alasdair Gray, is a highly evocative piece of narrative prose. Set within a church in Lenzies, Glasgow, the excerpt illustrates the loss of love and theloss of self–belief which are inextricably intertwined for the character Duncan Thaw. Writtenin a post–modern style, it is also representative of the subjectivity of perception and its abilityto change with the passage of time. Duncan is forced to reflect upon his experiences as he isvisited by haunting representations of his past, in the form of two characters: Marjory and theunnamed man.The extract begins by immediately evoking a sense of atmosphere: ВµThe afternoon...show more content... His silence breaks the rhythm of conversation, and his slow reply is dispirited В± ВіIВ¶m trying to show more air and light.Вґ Of course, the man, his insensibility and insensitivity to the artist, the artistВ¶s intention, and theartistВ¶s art emphasised through repetition, gives Duncan an empty response: ВіSo you are. Soyou are.Вґ His impudent confidence is evident in his audible ВµhummingВ¶, which is placed incontrast to ThawВ¶s silent self–doubt. ВіYouВ¶re nearly finished.Вґ His tone is one of certainty; hissentence is a statement, rather than a question. The man is so sure of himself that he feelssuperior even to the artist of the work he is making a reference to В± even though the artistdenies that the work is finished, his reply is definite В± ВµIt looks finishedǦ В± and hisscathingly sarcastic referral to his eye as ВµuntutoredВ¶ is insulting, as he is completelydismissive of the worth of DuncanВ¶s job as an artist: ВіThen what will you do. Teach?ВґThe manВ¶s false modesty evidently injures DuncanВ¶s confidence as an artist; that Duncanindicates parts of his artwork to be repainted is an indication of his insecurity. Thaw is clearlyshaken; he cannot match the manВ¶s arrogant tone. Instead, he Вµ[turns] around and [pretends]to workВ¶. This can be taken in both a metaphorical sense and a literal sense; as Duncan
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