Lesson 11

Literary Analysis Part 4

 Writer’s Prompt:
• What are some of the ways the Party
in 1984makes itself stronger by
influencing the youth of Oceania?
Describe the behavior of the
Parsons’ children.
 Assignment
• 9/30 or 10/1 Literary Analysis Essay
due
• Read “The Three Questions” by Leo
Tolstoy (handout)
• Answer the questions with the story
and be prepared to discuss next
class.
• Read all of Part One, 1984
– Due September 30 or October 1,
2009
 “Taxi”
by Amy Lowell
• What is the poem’s subject? What
seems to be the situation in which
we find the speaker?
• How would you describe the tone of
the poem? How do the details and
the emotional impact of the
metaphors help to create the tone?
• What is the poem’s meaning or
theme? In other words, what does
the poet want us to understand?
WRITERS ON WRITING
 Author John Irving
• Irving's career began at the age of 26
with the publication of his first novel,
Setting Free the Bears. he studied
with Kurt Vonnegut at the University
of Iowa Writers' Workshop. In 1975,
Irving accepted a position as Assistant
Professor of English at Mount Holyoke
College.
• The World According to Garp
• The Cider House Rules
• A Widow for One Year
• A Prayer for Owen Meany
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“Simon Birch” (A Prayer for Owen
Meany)
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book
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