Assignment 1
After reading the story above, please submit a detailed analysis for the following questions in full sentences. Please use quotes from the story to support your analysis.
Write a theme statement for the story and support with at least one example from the story.
Provide at least two examples of foreshadowing found at the beginning of the story and explain how this works with the ending;
Provide an explanation of what the “shining houses” symbolize and the author’s intent in the title of the story;
Explain the type irony used by the author in the description of the men working in their yards Saturday and Sunday and how it serves the purpose of the story.
Keep in mind the four rules of a theme, and the definitions of “foreshadowing,” “symbol,” and “irony” from your “Short-Story Notes.”
Assignment 2
In “On the Rainy River,” we are introduced to the narrator (Tim) who receives notification that he has been drafted into the Vietnam War. He seriously considers fleeing to Canada in order to escape this “death sentence”; he is ethically against this war and cannot comprehend fighting for a cause in which he does not believe. He describes his moral dilemma in great detail before eventually choosing not to run away and instead join the war.
O’Brien writes, “It was a kind of schizophrenia. A moral split. I couldn’t make up my mind. I feared the war, yes, but I also feared exile. I was afraid of walking away from my own life, my friends and family, my whole history, everything that mattered to me. I feared losing the respect of my parents. I feared the law. I feared ridicule and censure.”
He later says, “I would go to the war—I would kill and maybe die—because I was embarrassed not to…I was a coward. I went to the war.”
In a one-page detailed, argumentative response, defend, challenge, or qualify O’Brien’s idea that he was a “coward” for participating in (i.e. killing others & risking his own life) a war that he didn’t believe in.
Defend = agree with
Challenge = disagree with
Qualify = agree with to an extent
Assignment 3
Construct a thematic statement which comes to terms with the central meaning of the text. With direct reference to the text, write a paragraph indicating how you arrived at your theme.
Record the protagonist’s goal and the central internal conflict in the novel, then create a plot diagram. Your diagram should include ten events which are accompanied by a brief explanation of how the event functions in regard to the main conflict, and your theme. Submit your work to the novel dropbox “Internal Conflict and Plot Analysis.”
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