One of my favorite passages in all of literature is Puck’s speech at the end of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. After he has caused all the mischief and conflict that drove the play, he apologizes to the audience–sort of. Actually, he suggests how the audience should think of all the things that have just occurred [...]
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Upon finishing the book, please write a 300 word article considering the question, “What are your feelings about this book?” It’s a generic question, I realize, but I leave it frustratingly generic in order to allow you maximum flexibility in how you respond.
Please look back to the chapters you’ve read most recently, or even further [...]
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Hopefully my pattern for this book won’t get too repetitive to be effective, but for chapter three I’d like you to continue picking out important passages and commenting on them. I think it helps us keep our conversations rooted in the text, as well as give you essentially an endless source of writing prompts. In [...]
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Having read the first chapter of Of Mice and Men and discussed it through both the reading of each other’s blogs and an almost circle discussion, we move to chapter two (pp. 17-37). Before I tell you what I’d like you to do to respond to chapter 2, I’d like to remind you of two [...]
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These are what I consider to be important lines from the first chapter of Of Mice and Men. In later chapters, I will expect you to pick out the important lines to discuss in your blogs. In this case, please choose as many of these lines (or ones you’ve identified from your own reading) [...]
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When we read stories — especially those from Faulkner — we talked about how a writer loads every detail into it with the most specific intentions. While he was talking about short stories, I think Of Mice and Men (and really, any truly great novel) does the same thing. Each detail, each descriptive point, is [...]
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Of Mice & Men Worth It
