The Yellow Wallpaper Information for March 9th

The in class essay (midterm) will be on March 9th and will be on "The Yellow Wallpaper". The link below will give you access to a number of articles on the story. As I said you can have your text book with you on the day of the test but no other outside texts. Take some time to look through some of the articles to get a better sense of what the story is about.

http://www.literaryhistory.com/19thC/Gilman.htm

Have a good weekend.

Prof. O'Connell

Nawabdin

This is a favorite short story of mine because it addresses issues of choice and trust. We see Nawabdin, a dishonest man himself in his cheating of the electric company, get cheated by a man on the side of the road. It brings up issues of honesty and whether there different types of "lying" and whether cheating a major company is any different from cheating a man.

I would guess most of us would not feel bad if we got away with not paying our Verizon phone bill for a month but would feel bad about cheating the deli you get coffee from each morning. What is the difference? Clearly a company like Verizon is a faceless corporation that makes billions of dollars a year while the people that own the deli have the same struggles as you and me.

Here a few links related to the story:


http://may-on-the-short-story.blogspot.com/2009/02/nawabdin-electrician-slumdog.html

This link allows you to listen to the author read the story:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=101484912

Second Essay due Wed Feb 23

Prof. O'Connell

"A & P" by John Updike

We will go over Updike's story today in class so I wanted to post some links.


Here is a page with a link to many Updike articles:


http://www.literaryhistory.com/20thC/Updike.htm


Here is a blog entry about Updike's portrayal of women:


http://jmrlblog.wordpress.com/2011/01/21/nobody-belongs-to-us-except-in-memory-john-updike/



The second essay will be assigned today and is due Wed Feb 23. Here is a link to a database that is very easy to search for outside sources related to literature. Simply enter the author's name in the search bar and it will show you plenty of articles related to that author's work. You will just have to find the articles/journals/critical response that works with YOUR THESIS!


http://www.literaryhistory.com/index.htm

Some Links on Grace

http://www2.sunysuffolk.edu/lewiss/Oconnor.htm

http://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plan/flannery-oconnors-good-man-hard-find-whos-real-misfit

http://hubpages.com/hub/The-Concept-of-Grace-in-A-Goodman-is-Hard-to-Find

http://www.cord.edu/faculty/steinwan/nv13_pence.htm

Some Thoughts on "A Good Man is Hard to Find"

"All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal."

"The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it."

-Flannery O'Connor (the author of "A Good Man is Hard to Find")

Can a person as evil as The Misfit be graceful?

How do you define grace?

Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been

Here is some of the back story for story we went over in class today:
http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/predators/schmid/oates_9.html

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,834699,00.html

Prof. O'Connell

Syllabus

2/9 W Innocence and Experience (438),Where Are You Going, Where Have You been (474),  Read A Good Man is Hard to Find (1185)

2/14 M A Good Man is Hard to Find (1185), Read A &P (496)

2/16 W ASSIGN SECOND ESSAY, A & P (496), Read Handout (Nawabdin)

2/21 M ***NO CLASS*** President’s Day,

2/23 W SECOND ESSAY DUE (NO LATE PAPERS!), Nawabdin, Read Women and Men (712-714)

2/28 M Women and Men (712-714), Read Hills Like White Elephants (733)

3/2 W  Hills Like White Elephants (733), Read The Yellow Wallpaper (721)

3/7 M  The Yellow Wallpaper (721), WITHDRAWAL DATE IS FRIDAY 3/11

3/9 W In class essay on The Yellow Wallpaper (NO MAKE UPS!), Read If Shakespeare Had A Sister (849)

3/14 M  The Hours (Film)

3/16 W  The Hours (Film), Read Culture and Identity (938-940)

3/21 M Culture and Identity (938-940) Read Desiree’s Baby (947)

3/23 W Desiree’s Baby (947), Read Everyday Use (978) for next class

3/28 M Everyday Use (978),Read The Handsomest Drowned Man In the World (968)

3/30 W Assign Research Paper (Topic due Monday 4/4), The Handsomest Drowned Man In the World (968), Read Learning to Read and Write (1077)

4/4 M BRING IN RESEARCH PAPER TOPICS!!!, Learning to Read and Write (1077), Read Workers (1066)

4/6 W Workers (1066), Read The Things They Carried (1172)

4/11 M The Things They Carried (1172)

4/13 W Group Work With Poetry

4/18 M Group Work With Poetry

4/20 W Research Paper Due