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Wednesday, April 23, 2014
HOD and Research Paper Idea
1.) "Black rags were wound round their loins and the short ends behind waggled to and fro like tails...; each had an iron collar on his neck..." (pg.81)
In this paragraph I plan to talk about how Conrad compared them to dogs. The way he calls the compares the rags they were given to tails and calls the shackles collars make the Africans appear to be more animal-like than human.
2.) "I don't think a single one of them had any clear idea of time...Certainly they had brought with them rotten hippo-meat, which couldn't have lasted very long anyway..." (pg.115)
Here Conrad makes the Cannibals seem incompetent. What person has no idea of time? By mentioning the fact that all they had to eat was rotten hippo-meat shows that they aren't intelligent enough to find anything else. They just eat what is placed in front of them like animals at a zoo.
3.) "His hand roamed feebly amongst these papers. I was struck by the fire of his eyes and the composed languor of his expression." (pg.141)
This quote is about a pilgrim. By using the word roamed Conrad made even the pilgrims appear to be like animals. He could have easily used walked or jogged or numerous words but he chose to use roamed which means he saw this man as a wild eyed and untamed beast, not a human. "The fire of his eyes" proves this point.
A topic I was thinking about doing for my research paper was smoking and specifically second hand smoke and the effect it has on people around you.For this I would interview my grandma who has smoked since she was 12, maybe I could talk about how back in her day it was considered a good thing to smoke. I'm not quite sure how I could write 15 pages about this though. Another idea I had was to talk about tanning and skin cancer although it was just a thought and I do not have an interviewer for this. I was considering elaborating on my effects of tanning paper I did earlier on in the year.
Wednesday, April 16, 2014
Monday, April 7, 2014
3 stories through a gender lens
Looking at it it through a gender lens, the three characters in the stories "Rufus at the Door", "Agatha McGee and the St. Isidore Seven", and "Dodger" take on different gender roles than are expected. In the two stories Rufus and Agatha McGee, the women take on more masculine characteristics. Both taking control of their situations and holding power over male figures with their bold and confident attitudes. In the story Dodger, the man in the story takes on feminine characteristics, almost appearing gay at some points with the way he acts and what he says about the other boy in the story named Dodger. All of these characters portray traits that aren't usually played by their typical gender, making them different and dynamic in the stories.