ASSIGNMENT
• Read "Love and Hate” 556-58
• Read Hurston, "Sweat” 569-78 and do
reading log
• Work on your paper—listen to my
comments
SONNY’S BLUES
QUESTIONS FOR LATER
• What conflicts might be resolved? What conflicts aren’t?
• Setting: what role does culture/environment play in shaping
the two brothers? Why different from each other?
• Does the story offer any explanation for Sonny's addiction?
• Why 1st POV?
• What about his students?
CONFLICTS
• Write a list of 2-3 conflicts you remember.
• Internal
• External
• Setting
ANY TO ADD?
• Share your list of conflicts with 1-2 people
around you.
• Any more you can come up with together?
POINTING PG. 461
• What phrase standouts out to you from this section?
What moved you or resonated with you? Mark them
in your text or jot them down.
• When we stop, share your points with the class
Pentecostal style.
• Rules: You don’t have to share. You can go as many
times as you want to. You don’t have to explain why
you picked it, just say it. No one gets exclusive rights
to a line—if someone has already said it but you
connect with it, that’s fine.
WRITE ABOUT A LINE
• Write about a line you pointed to or someone
else pointed to, or another one entirely.
• Why is it important to the story’s meaning or
puzzling for you. This doesn’t need to be
polished up at all, but I do want you to do
some serious writing here.
• Just write that line at the top of your page and
go.
SHARE WRITING IN GROUPS.
• Please read you short piece to others in your
group rather than tell about it—it actually
more efficient to share this way and a more
useful way of learning about your strengths as
a writer.
• So don’t let anybody in your group get away
with not reading.
QUESTIONS FOR NOW
• What conflicts might be resolved? What conflicts aren’t?
• Setting: what role does culture/environment play in shaping
the two brothers? Why different from each other?
• Does the story offer any explanation for Sonny's addiction?
• Why 1st POV?
• What about his students?
ASSIGNMENT
• Read "Love and Hate” 556-58
• Read Hurston, "Sweat” 569-78 and do
reading log
• Work on your paper—listen to my
comments