REVIEW OF WORKS STUDIED
F I C T I O N , P L AY & P O E T R Y
THE OUTSIDERS
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Author: S.E. Hinton
1967; Tulsa, Oklahoma
Ponyboy Curtis, a fourteen-year-old boy
Sodapop “Soda” and Darryl “Darry,”, his brothers
Johnny Cade,
Dallas “Dally” Winston
Keith “Two-Bit” Mathews
Steve Randle, the Greasers, poor kids from the East Side of town who are
friends of the Curtis brothers
Bob Sheldon
Randy Anderson
Sherri “Cherry” Valance, the Socs, rich kids from the West Side of town
Themes: bridging the gap between rich and poor, honor among the lawless,
and the retention of innocence
PAPER CLIPS
• Middle schools students in Whitwell,
Tennessee collect paper clips
• Monument to Holocaust victims of Nazi
Germany
• 30 million paper clips collected
ONE SURVIVOR REMEMBERS
• 1995 documentary about Gerda
Weissmann
• journey of survival and remembering
both before and after the war
THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK
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Play by Goodrich & Hackett
June 12, 1942-August 1, 1944, Amsterdam
Anne Frank, a teenage Jewish girl
Margot Frank, her older sister
Otto Frank, their father
Edith Frank-Holländer, their mother
Mr. Van Daan, Otto’s business associate
Mrs. Van Daan, Van Daan’s wife
Peter Van Daan, their son
Albert Dussel, a dentist
March, 1945; Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, near Hanover,
Germany
FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON
• Daniel Keyes
• Charlie Gordon, Dr. Strauss, Prof. Nemur, Algernon, Alice
Kinnian, Burt, Fay, Fanny, Rose, Matt, Norma, Gimpy
• Mistreatment of the mentally disabled, tension between
intellect and emotion, persistence of the past in the present
THE HUNGER GAMES
• Suzanne Collins
• Katniss Everdeen, Peeta, Gale, Prim, K’s mom, Haymitch,
Cinna, President Snow, Rue, Cato, Glimmer, Effie, Foxface
• Inequality b/w rich & poor, suffering as entertainment, the
importance of appearance
“DUST OF SNOW”
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Robert Frost
1923
an uplifting moment in an otherwise bad day
Hope
• The speaker happily and quickly decides that the day is saved because
of a dust of snow falling on him or her. He or she no longer thinks the
day is a loss, but instead has hope that the day can be salvaged.
• ƒPerspective
• The speaker’s perspective is changed by a small event. Perhaps the
poem implies that we can either think positively or negatively about
events, depending on our perspectives and points of view. Perhaps the
speaker thinks we should maintain a positive perspective on life in
general.
“THE CHARIOT”
• Emily Dickinson
• 1890
• “Because I could not stop for Death,/ he kindly stopped for
me”
• Liminality; life passing you by; memories of a life lived
“GRANT WOOD: AMERICAN GOTHIC”
• Jane Yolen
• 2001
• We define too much by what people own or possess: “Do
not dwell on the fork”
• We should dwell not on our possessions but see what our
possessions say to others about who we are.
• Happiness should depend on our inner goodness, faith, &
integrity, not on what we own.
• *Period 8- Skip this slide
“ABANDONED FARMHOUSE”
• Ted Kooser
• 1980
• The characters, who are present only through their material
possessions and surroundings, are revealed to the reader
through a close reading of all they've left behind.
• failure, abandonment and different ways of seeing
• "money was scarce"
“MOTHER TO SON”
Langston Hughes
1922
Harlem Renaissance (1918-1937)
The extended metaphor compares the mother’s life to a
staircase.
• The line “Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair” begins and
ends the poem.
• Endurance in life
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“THE RED WHEELBARROW”
• William Carlos Williams
• 1925
• "So much depends upon" the wheelbarrow in its service not
only through the centuries, but as a form whose
components are indispensable to the functioning of a highly
industrialized civilization.
• A contrast between the latest advances in machine
technology and the continuing but overlooked importance
of elementary machines.
• A preservation of nature which is destroyed by
modernization and machination.
“A POISON TREE”
William Blake
1794
Vengeful and sinister act of deceit
holding a grudge (suppressed anger left unchecked) can be
fatal to the self as well as the object of wrath
• When the speaker "tells" his wrath, it "ends," but when he
"tells it not," his anger "grows.“
• His anger becomes a living entity that he "waters" and
"suns" with "tears" and "wiles," and making it to grow
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“THE LOTTERY”
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Shirley Jackson
1948
Tessie Hutchinson, a housewife
Bill Hutchinson, her husband, a farmer
Bill, Jr., ,
Old Man Warner, an elderly villager, the embodiment of rigid
tradition
“Lottery in June, corn be heavy soon.”- fertility ritual; sacrifice is
necessary to ensure sufficient food for the village
Tradition & sheer inertia cause citizens to uphold illogical habits
Nazis in World War II
McCarthyism
The Salem Witch Trials