READ THIS: PRESENTATIONS

PRESENTATIONS: please take these seriously: they are an important part of your participation in the class. Your job when you present is to lead the discussion on the reading for that day. You may bring in some research, but most of all, you should be very well-prepared with insights, interpretations, and questions about the reading at hand. You may want to begin by summarizing the progress of the plot represented by the excerpt assigned on that day. Then you should have passages picked out for the class to discuss. You may want to be ready, also, with the posts for the day (you can copy and paste them and print them out). The purpose of the presentation is to give more responsibility to the classmembers and de-center the discussion a little bit (although I will still chime in). Here are your assignments, mostly random. 1. Wed. 3/30 Small Things, 84-147, Eidia. 2. 4/4 Small Things, 148-225, Hannah. 3. 4/6 Small Things, ending, Anna. 4. 4/11 Ondaatje, Dan. 5. 4/13 Mukherjee, Michael. 6. 4/18 Poppies, 3-87, Karol. 7. 4/20 Poppies, 88-156, Jason. 8. 4/25 Poppies, 157-226, Joe. 9. 4/27, Poppies, 227-342, Will. 10. 5/2 Poppies, 343-446, Rachel. 11. 5/4 Poppies, finish, Jane.

Monday, March 7, 2011

Michael rUSHdie---------

The passage beginning on page 411 starting with "futility of statistics" captures my attention in the way the narration of a tv show or a movie might. maybe a documentary, where the narrator insists that no words can describe the number in the migration to india. The rhythm is maintains a sort of domino effect in which with a list of a question  effectively being answered one after the other. Saleem speaks in a sort of thrid person when mention the buddha man-dog beast, my favorite line is "the buddha was not the only one who did what he was told" because i would consider the buddha to be one who does the opposite which i feel points out the humourous contradiction of calling himself the buddha in the section, it shows the absurd and  holy as rushdie does throught most of the novel.
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