Questions After 10/15 in ENGL 190

I want to thank everyone for a thorough review session.  If you have questions between now and Wednesday, please let me know.  I will be on email!

Here are a few more questions for your journals.  I am also sending you a copy of our next assignment.  We will go over it on the 29th, before Mike Maggio arrives for his lecture on Fiction and Satire.

-- Expand on one of the points made in class discussion last night.  

-- Discuss Dee in "Everyday Use" and/or Arnold Friend in "Where Are You Going..." as antagonists.

-- What role does Maggie play in "Everyday Use"?  Why?

-- Do you think that Dee learns from the events of "Everyday Use"?  Why?  Why not?

-- Is the narrator fair to her daughter(s)?  Why?  Why not?

-- Discuss the ending of "Today's Demon: Magic."

-- How does Lynda Barry's artwork contribute to her story?

-- How does her text contribute to the story?

-- We haven't discussed setting much.  Which role does setting (time/place) play in a short story of your choice?  We don't really know where "Today's Demon: Magic" was set although we know when it was set.  How does this make a difference in your reading of the story?

-- How does our current understanding of brain development affect the way that we look at stories like "The House on Mango Street," "The Red Convertible," "Today's Demon: Magic," or "Everyday Use"?  How does our understanding of brain development get in our way of reading these stories?

-- How would you adapt one of our short stories to the stage?

-- What would a novel or short story based on Fences or A Doll House add to our understanding of the characters and their situations?

-- Here is a video of a storyteller telling "Coyote and Eagle Visit the Land of the Dead":  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0qGxVx8OpY

What does this video add to our understanding of the story and of oral culture?

-- What do folktales add to ENGL 190?

-- What does graphic fiction add?

-- What does literary fiction add?