Study Review for English 2100.docx

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Study Review for English 2100

The Other Wife1.Colette/ French/ 20thCentury2.

Alice, Marc, Marcs Ex Wife3.Seaside Restaurant

4.S: Alice and Marc see Marcs ex wife at a restaurant.While dining, they try to ignore Marcs ex, but the exs

peaceful demeanor has Alice wondering if her marriage is

a sound one.

Oysters

1.Chekhov/ Russian/19thCentury2.Child Narrator, Father3.Street Corner, Moscow4.S: the Father and his son are starving but the father cannot

will himself to beg for alms. Finally, it is the narrator that

comes out to the strangers, but the strangers are wealthy

and only feed the narrator because it amuses them.

Fishhawk

1.Confucius/ Chinese/ 1000- B.C2.Woman3.Stream4.S: This poem suggests that a woman is going through a

hopeless marriage or is experiencing a love that is

dwindling. This is Chinese Anthropology and is one of the

first documented works in Chinese culture.

Plums Are Falling1. Confucius/ Chinese/ 1stCentury2. S: Ripe Plums signify the passing of time. Presents the

theme of marriage. Less plums fall the older the tree gets.The overall theme of this poem is that it is better to get

married at a younger age because the older you get the

less plums there are and the quality of them diminishes.

Dead Roe Deer

1. Confucius/ Chinese/ 1000 B.C


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2. Woman, Man, Dead Deer3. S: Led astray by a gentleman. The theme that the woman

compared to the dead deer suggests that she is

uncomfortable with her domestic situation. Presents the

theme of unhappiness.Boat of Cypress

1. Shinh Ching/ Chinese/ 1stCentury2. Illustrates the authors emotions- drifting, restless, and

uneasy speaker is a helpless lady forced to remarry by

family after husbands death.

Gilgamesh

1. 600 B.C.2. Gilgamesh, Enkidu, Shamhat, UtnapishtimThe Metamorphosis1.Franz Kafka/ German/ 20thCentury2.Gregor Samsa, Grete Samsa, the father, the mother, the

charwoman, the office manager, the boarders, the maid

3.Apartment, Lofts4.S: Gregor, a traveling salesman wakes up to find himself

an insect. Throughout the beginning of the reading he is

experiencing his physical changes and cannot complete

daily tasks. In the beginning he attempts to avoid his

family and office manager. They believe he has become ill

and are wondering why he hasnt come into work.He

engages in physical confrontations with his family through

his frustration. His family is so repulsed by his image that

he crawls into his room, reflects on how his family feels

about him, and dies. After his death, the family lives a

much better life. They take trolley rides to the countryside,

they upgrade their apartment, they fire the people that tookcare of Gregor, and the Grete regains her strength and

beauty back in which she considers marriage.

Soldiers Home

1.Hemmingway/American/20thCentury2.Harold Krebs, Helen Krebs, Mother, and Father


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3.1919, the End of WWI4.S: Reading is about a soldier returning from home going

through the struggle adjusting to home life. Hemingway

illustrates the physical and mental adjustments Harold

Krebs undergoes. Krebs has lost his ambition in life andhis ability to connect with society. These are all direct

results of the traumatic stress he endured while overseas.

Lanval

1.Marie de France/ French/ 12thCentury2.Lanval, King Arthor, the Queen, and the Lady3.Lanval is a handsome knight that is disrespected amongst

the other nights of the round table. He is not helped by the

King or his fellowship and is very lonely. One day he iswalking in the countryside by a stream and two ladies

approach him. They say that their mistress is waiting for

him. He meets the Lady and she continues to have a

relationship with him in her tent as long as he keeps it a

secret. If he keeps it a secret she will grant him with

expensive clothes and gifts and he can give as much as he

wants. The queen spots Lanval one day and tries to put

sexual advances towards. He denies everything and she is

disrespected and embarrassed. She tells the King lies

saying she advanced on her. He is furious and sentences

him to trail. The Barons that make up his jury say that if is

loved one can come out and prove herself he can be set

free. The Lady shows up and Lanval is free. They both

ride out into the sunset of Avalon.

Laustic

1.Marie de France/ French/ 12thcentury2.Nightingale, the neighbors wife, the husband3.St. Malo4.S: Two knights lived by each other. One knight falls in

love with his neighbors wife. The wife loves the knight

because he is close by. They are never able to meet


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because of the wifes husband. At night, they both wake

up and they are able to speak from each others windows.

The husband soon grows angry with the wifes

disappearance in the night. She claims she wakes up so

she can listen to the nightengales song. The husbandcommands his servants to capture the bird and they bring

it to him alive. When the wife asks for the bird, he kills the

bird in front of her and throws it onto her gown. The wife

grows with sadness because she knows she will not be

able to see her love anymore. She instructs the servant to

take the dead bird to her love next door. The knight

receives the gift and becomes sad. He puts the bird in a

small coffin and carries it around for the rest of his life.Hills Like White Elephants

1.Hemmingway/American/20thCentury2.Daru- Schoolmaster, Balducci- the man who leads the

Arab up the hill to Daru, the Arab- prisoner of Balducci.

3.Takes place during the Algerian War4.S: Balducci leads an Arab prisoner to Daru. The prisoner

has been accused of murdering his cousin. Balducci has

orders to drop off the prisoner to Daru and then Daru is

responsible for taking to the police station 20 km away.

Daru refuses because he believes it is dishonorable and

Balducci agrees. Balducci says that in war men must be

prepared to do whatever it takes to win and leaves angry.

Daru helps the prisoner out with directions, food, and

money. In the end, the prisoner decides that his fate is in

imprisonment and marches to the police station.

Girl

1.Jamaica Kincaid/ Jamaican/2.Mother and Daughter3.House, Personal Conversation4.S: A reading about a Mother giving her daughter advice on

living a life of womanhood. It includes demanding

command on being a lady, cooking, and cleaning. It


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focuses on all domestic issues include with being a

domesticated woman.

Diary of a Madman1.Lu Xun/ Chinese/ 20thCentury2.Narrator, Young Boy, Madman, Important Politician,

Elder Brother

3.The story begins with the narrator's visit to a pair ofbrothers who were close friends of his during his

school years. The older brother informs him that the

younger one suffered from a mental illness but got

better and took a job in another city. During the time of

his illness the brother kept a diary that the narrator is

allowed to read. This is the "madman's diary" and itstext constitutes the bulk of the story. The diary tells of

the protagonist's growing obsession with the

cannibalism which he believes is routinely practiced by

those around him. He is convinced that sooner or later

he will be eaten. As his paranoia increases, and with it

his sense that cannibalism is widespread and prevalent

even within his family, he despairs of saving himself.

The diary ends with a poignant plea to "save thechildren."

Song of Roland

Notes from Underground

1.Dostoevsky/ Russian/ 19thcentury2.Underground Man, Liza, Simonov, Zverkov, Ferfichkin,

Trudolyubov, Apollon, Anton, the Officer

3.St. Petersberg, Russia4.UM consists of confessions in which he is alienated from

society. It is divided into two sections. First one is

Underground, explores his antagonistic position toward

society. UM believes that mans primary desire is to

exercise his free will. He lists his imperfections and the

flaws of his society. The second part is Apropos of the


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Wet Snow, is takes place twenty years before the first

section. The second piece talks about UM and his

interactions with other individuals in society. He cannot

interact with other people due to his alienation. He obesses

whether he should yield walking in front of an officer inthe park. He invites himself to a party in which he was not

invited and embarrasses himself. He attempts to rescue a

young prostitute. He insults Liza. Hurt and confused, she

leaves him in his apartment. Dostoevsky suggests that the

Underground Man just decides to stop writing.

A Story About the Body

1.Robert Hass/American/ 20th-21stCentury2.Young Composer (male), Painter (female)3.Artists Colony4.S: A young composer admiring a young painter. He is

very fond of her works and he is attracter to her physical

presence. One night after a concert he tells her that she

would like to have him. She agrees and she shares the

information of her having no breasts. He is immediately

appalled and walks home alone. He wakes up in the

morning to find out that there is a bowl of dead bees

covered in rose petals.

Kathasaritsagara

Things Fall Apart

The Cherry Orchard

Oedipus, the King

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2. Oedipus, Jocasta, Creon, Laruis

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The Guest1. Albert Camus/ Algerian/ 20thCentury2.

258 (Theres a certain Slant of Light)

1.Dickinson/American/ 19thCentury


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2.Oppressive, incomplete nature of religion3.S: In this poem, Dickinson seems to be pointing out that

while organized religion praises God, it does little to

answer questions about God.

303 (The Soul selects her own Society)449 (I Died for Beauty)

632 (The Brain is wider than the Sky)

Name Two Titles by Chekhov

Name 3 French AuthorsColette, de France, and

Name 3 Titles from the Classic of Poetry

Name 3 Works that Existed Before Christ

List the titles of 2 prose poems

Name the Work the excerpt is from:

Would you please please please please please stop talking?The Soul selects her own SocietyThe Pacification of the Primitive Tribes of Lower NigerRoland is Good, Oliver is WiseSave the Children

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