1. Announcement that there will be a short fiction test on Friday, covering the stories and terms listed on the original unit hand-out:
https://docs.google.com/document/edit?id=1qGF4z5ioTQBDpk7PkY7KkYPmCHyYgkpF-JXmmKqVFwo&hl=en&authkey=CO3izJUB&pli=1#
2. We looked specifically at "plot" as an indication of the sub-terms for many of the literary terms, and briefly connected particular elements to earlier stories as well as to "A Devoted Son."
3. We began a hand-out of study questions for this story, but it is mostly homework.
Thus, FOR TOMORROW
Complete the study questions provided in class. (If you are catching up from an absence, they are re-printed at the end of this post).
LOOKING AHEAD TO THURSDAY
Personal essay must be typed and with you in class in order to get completion points.
Printing Requirements
Simple heading (single-space)
Prompt typed out in full and bolded (single-space)
Double-space the actual essay
Word count: highlight the essay only, so that you get an accurate count
Classwork/Homework for Tuesday--due Wednesday, Oct. 6 Anita Desai's "A Devoted Son"
1. SETTING—Describe the setting briefly (where/when/significant details), but then look at the implications of the setting. Think of the setting in India vs. a similar story set in, say, New York or Seattle
2. CONFLICT—
a) List three things about which Rakesh and Varma come to disagree.
b) How do these disagreements reflect the central conflict of the story?
c) Is the central conflict a struggle between two traditions or between a tradition and itself (that is, two different ways of carrying out a tradition).
3. CHARACTER TRAIT—
a) Do you think Rakesh’s behavior is truly devoted? Explain.
b) What does this story suggest about the relationship between devotion and compassion?
4. STATIC/DYNAMIC CHARACTER—Answer ALL FOUR of the questions in the Literary Analysis section on p. 1283. For the third question , use a chart format, and then summarize what you find.
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