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Battle Royal By: Ralph Ellison
Characters: • Narrator o African American boy whose speech at his graduation got picked to perform at a gathering of the town’s leading white citizens. • Grandpa o Appears at the beginning and end of the story o Very quiet and meek o Before death, declared himself a traitor and a spy • Nude Dancer o An exotic dancer at the gathering. o Brought out the disgustingness of the crowd, and also the young boys. • Superintendent o Superintendent of the narrator’s school. o Chose the narrator to give to give the speech o Presented the calfskin briefcase with the scholarship to the narrator. Plot:
Story about an African American boy whose speech from graduation is chosen to present it in front of a gathering of the town’s leading white citizens. But before he gives a speech, little does the boy know that first him and a bunch of other African American boys have to be the nights entertainment as well and under go mean and harsh activities such as a “Battle Royal” with blindfolds on, in which the white men get to wail and beat the children up. Another activity such as a rug being put on the stage with gold coins on it, but little do the boys know that the rug is electric. In the end, the narrator gets to give his speech and after, gets a thunderous applause and a scholarship to the state college of Negroes.
Themes: • Racism o Throughout the story Racism is strewn about. An all white gathering with African American boys as the cruel entertainment The crowd laughing when the narrator brings up the idea of social equality and social responsibility The phrase “nigger” being used casually. • Grandpa o Appears at the beginning and end of the story. o Before he dies at the beginning declares himself a spy and traitor. o Representing racism.
Plot Summary This story, set after Miss Emily Grierson's death, tells about her strange life as an outcast in her small Southern town. We learn that her father was very strict, and she never left the house after he died. No man was interested in her except Homer Barron, who disappears midway through the story. Everyone thinks that he left Emily, but we find out that she killed them. The story ends with a cryptic scene of people finally entering her house and finding his dead body decaying in her bed.
Theme: Death plays a major part in A Rose for Emily. Emily's father's death caused her issue with men and attachment. This led to her murdering Homer Barron, perhaps because she was afraid he might leave. Gender roles is another theme, with examples of the men in the town allowing her house to smell etc because she was a woman. Her hair plays a part, being described like the hair of an active man. Her hair is also found lying on the pillowcase next to Homer Barron's corpse.
Characters: • Jane: the protagonist of the story. Goes crazy. • John: her husband. Prescribes Jane the rest treatment. • Jennie: John’s sister, who stays with them to take care of Jane and the baby.
Themes • Female repression and subordination • Gender roles • The importance of individual expression and thought
Plot: Jane and John move to the countryside to allow Jane some time to rest. She has recently had a baby and we are led to believe she may be suffering from post-partum depression or psychosis. John, who is also her doctor, prescribes the rest treatment. This entails resting all day with no exercise or drawing, reading, or writing. Jane is left alone with her thoughts all day, which only increases her neurotic tendencies. The room she is staying in has very ugly yellow wallpaper and when she examines itt closely she starts to see patterns. Eventually she starts seeing a creeping woman in the wallpaper who is trapped behind bars. Before they leave the house, she locks herself in the room and starts tearing at the wallpaper, determined to help the woman escape from her prison. As the “woman” escapes from behind the wallpaper, Jane becomes the woman. John unlocks the room and finds her crawling around the room on her hands and knees and he faints. She continues to crawl around the room, crawling over his body each time she passes.
Important Quotes: “I don’t like to look out of the windows even—there are so many of those creeping women, and they creep so fast. I wonder if they all come out of that wall-paper as I did?”
This is the point in the story during which the reader realizes that Jane and the woman behind the wallpaper are now the same person.
“Life is very much more exciting now than it used to be. You see I have something more to expect, to look forward to, to watch. I really do eat better, and am more quiet than I was.”
At this point in the story, Jane has completed the transformation from rational thought to insanity. We learn that even though she considers herself better, she is exactly the opposite.
Main Characters: Miss Emily Grierson MAIN character Kills Homer Barron Never leaves house Has issues with separation Homer Barron Love interest of Emily Killed by Emily Corpse is left on her bed Emily's Father Kept her an old maid Protective- thought she was better than all the men Colonel Sartoris Allowed Emily's taxes to be unpaid Based on Faulkner's great grandfather
Hills Like White Elephants By: Ernest Hemingway Characters: The American The Girl The Bartender Plot: The story starts outside of the station at a table waiting for a train. The train will take them to Madrid spain. The American and the Girl are talking and drinking and the American says that he wants the Girl “jig” to have an operation. We have discussed this in class and have found that the operation is an abortion but the American never does say that it is actually an abortion. The setting is one side of them is dead and desolate area and the other is luscious and fertile land. The Girl “jig” says that the hills look like white elephants, which are considered hard to keep expensive objects. So the American never really does explain what the operation but says that it is minor and knows lots of people who have had it before and are happy. He is not forcing the operation on her and he says that he truly does care for her and later the American takes their bags to the platform for the train. Thematic Connection: For the thematic connection for the Hills like white elephants, I connected the short story to the Scarlet letter. I compared the unborn baby that jig has to pearl. I made this connection because these two people are in similar situations. The unborn baby’s father does not want to keep the baby and wants jig to get an abortion. Dimmsdale the father of pearl did not want to reveal himself as the father. Both fathers didn’t want to deal with the child and they each had their own way of approaching the situation that they were in.
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Battle Royal
By: Ralph Ellison
Characters:
• Narrator
o African American boy whose speech at his graduation got picked to perform at a gathering of the town’s leading white citizens.
• Grandpa
o Appears at the beginning and end of the story
o Very quiet and meek
o Before death, declared himself a traitor and a spy
• Nude Dancer
o An exotic dancer at the gathering.
o Brought out the disgustingness of the crowd, and also the young boys.
• Superintendent
o Superintendent of the narrator’s school.
o Chose the narrator to give to give the speech
o Presented the calfskin briefcase with the scholarship to the narrator.
Plot:
Story about an African American boy whose speech from graduation is chosen to present it in front of a gathering of the town’s leading white citizens. But before he gives a speech, little does the boy know that first him and a bunch of other African American boys have to be the nights entertainment as well and under go mean and harsh activities such as a “Battle Royal” with blindfolds on, in which the white men get to wail and beat the children up. Another activity such as a rug being put on the stage with gold coins on it, but little do the boys know that the rug is electric. In the end, the narrator gets to give his speech and after, gets a thunderous applause and a scholarship to the state college of Negroes.
Themes:
• Racism
o Throughout the story Racism is strewn about.
An all white gathering with African American boys as the cruel entertainment
The crowd laughing when the narrator brings up the idea of social equality and social responsibility
The phrase “nigger” being used casually.
• Grandpa
o Appears at the beginning and end of the story.
o Before he dies at the beginning declares himself a spy and traitor.
o Representing racism.
A Rose for Emily
By William Faulkner
Plot Summary
This story, set after Miss Emily Grierson's death, tells about her strange life as an outcast in her small Southern town. We learn that her father was very strict, and she never left the house after he died. No man was interested in her except Homer Barron, who disappears midway through the story. Everyone thinks that he left Emily, but we find out that she killed them. The story ends with a cryptic scene of people finally entering her house and finding his dead body decaying in her bed.
Theme:
Death plays a major part in A Rose for Emily. Emily's father's death caused her issue with men and attachment. This led to her murdering Homer Barron, perhaps because she was afraid he might leave. Gender roles is another theme, with examples of the men in the town allowing her house to smell etc because she was a woman. Her hair plays a part, being described like the hair of an active man. Her hair is also found lying on the pillowcase next to Homer Barron's corpse.
Characters:
• Jane: the protagonist of the story. Goes crazy.
• John: her husband. Prescribes Jane the rest treatment.
• Jennie: John’s sister, who stays with them to take care of Jane and the baby.
Themes
• Female repression and subordination
• Gender roles
• The importance of individual expression and thought
Plot:
Jane and John move to the countryside to allow Jane some time to rest. She has recently had a baby and we are led to believe she may be suffering from post-partum depression or psychosis. John, who is also her doctor, prescribes the rest treatment. This entails resting all day with no exercise or drawing, reading, or writing. Jane is left alone with her thoughts all day, which only increases her neurotic tendencies. The room she is staying in has very ugly yellow wallpaper and when she examines itt closely she starts to see patterns. Eventually she starts seeing a creeping woman in the wallpaper who is trapped behind bars. Before they leave the house, she locks herself in the room and starts tearing at the wallpaper, determined to help the woman escape from her prison. As the “woman” escapes from behind the wallpaper, Jane becomes the woman. John unlocks the room and finds her crawling around the room on her hands and knees and he faints. She continues to crawl around the room, crawling over his body each time she passes.
Important Quotes:
“I don’t like to look out of the windows even—there are so many of those creeping women, and they creep so fast. I wonder if they all come out of that wall-paper as I did?”
This is the point in the story during which the reader realizes that Jane and the woman behind the wallpaper are now the same person.
“Life is very much more exciting now than it used to be. You see I have something more to expect, to look forward to, to watch. I really do eat better, and am more quiet than I was.”
At this point in the story, Jane has completed the transformation from rational thought to insanity. We learn that even though she considers herself better, she is exactly the opposite.
Addition to A Rose for Emily:
Main Characters:
Miss Emily Grierson
MAIN character
Kills Homer Barron
Never leaves house
Has issues with separation
Homer Barron
Love interest of Emily
Killed by Emily
Corpse is left on her bed
Emily's Father
Kept her an old maid
Protective- thought she was better than all the men
Colonel Sartoris
Allowed Emily's taxes to be unpaid
Based on Faulkner's great grandfather
By:Matt Nelson
Hills Like White Elephants
By: Ernest Hemingway
Characters:
The American
The Girl
The Bartender
Plot:
The story starts outside of the station at a table waiting for a train. The train will take them to Madrid spain. The American and the Girl are talking and drinking and the American says that he wants the Girl “jig” to have an operation. We have discussed this in class and have found that the operation is an abortion but the American never does say that it is actually an abortion. The setting is one side of them is dead and desolate area and the other is luscious and fertile land. The Girl “jig” says that the hills look like white elephants, which are considered hard to keep expensive objects. So the American never really does explain what the operation but says that it is minor and knows lots of people who have had it before and are happy. He is not forcing the operation on her and he says that he truly does care for her and later the American takes their bags to the platform for the train.
Thematic Connection:
For the thematic connection for the Hills like white elephants, I connected the short story to the Scarlet letter. I compared the unborn baby that jig has to pearl. I made this connection because these two people are in similar situations. The unborn baby’s father does not want to keep the baby and wants jig to get an abortion. Dimmsdale the father of pearl did not want to reveal himself as the father. Both fathers didn’t want to deal with the child and they each had their own way of approaching the situation that they were in.
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