Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Class Notes 2/17

Quiz questions (answers in red)

1) Arnold Friend is...
the devil
a demon lover
the imagination
All of the Above

2) Compare Perrault and Grimm's stories of Little Red Riding Hood
Grimm's version is grotesque

3)What is the definition of grotesque?
Bizzare, gross, obsene, macabre

4) What's the difference between the endings of Joyce Carol Oates version of Where are You Going, Where Have You Been? and the film version Smooth Talk? The short story has an ominous ending that leaves it to the reader's imagination while the film extends the ending and puts a much lighter and less mysterious ending.

5) What does the girl in the Demon Lover have in common with Connie from Where are you going where have you been? They're archetypes

6) Define Archetype An original idea or person passed on from story to story
7) Who did Joyce Carol Oates dedicate her story to? Bob Dylan
8) Why did Lot's wife get turned into a pillar of salt? She looked back at the destruction of Gomorrah
9) Who said, "Tell the truth, but tell it slant" Emily Dickenson
10) Describe Death in Dickinson's poem, "Because I could not stop for death" An elegant, gentle suitor
11) Whose memory in the Brothers K had the slanting rays of sun in it? Alyosha
12) What are the difference between the brothers in the Brothers K?
Ivan is the intellectual, Dmitri is military-minded, and Alyosha is a man of faith
13) What do the brothers have in common? The Curse of Sensuality

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