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.

Sunday, April 3, 2011

Anna- Roy-4/4

I noticed that both Roy and Rushdie have employed the tactic of false suspense. With Rushdie we wait until halfway through the book for the main character to be born. While we wait we are given a whole bunch of lead up, then it happens like nothing. In Roy's book, we are waiting too. We are waiting and waiting foremost for Sophie Mol to arrive (pg. 157) We already know she will arrive and she will die from very beginning of the book. Kind of like we know Saleem will be born on the stroke of midnight from his first page. In Roy's we are also waiting for the forbidden love.
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