Shirley Jackson

From the themes we discussed, craft a statement (thesis) that best sums up for you what "The Lottery" addresses. Then write a sentence or two for each of the following literary elements that explains how Jackson manipulates these elements to support your thesis. Remember to include direct evidence from the text for each of these literary "tools" as well.

characters
setting/ time
plot/ conflict/ structure
point of view/ narrator
language/ detail/ word choice
symbols
irony

Please respond to your exploration of PEN.

Type up your best a la Ezra Pound poem(s) for tomorrow (Friday).

Haroun vocabulary test will be on Monday.

"Human beings understand themselves and shape their futures by arguing and challenging and questioning and saying the unsayable, not by bowing the knee whether to gods or to men."
--Salman Rushdie from "In Good Faith"

Please post a comment in response to this quote by Rushdie.



Berkeley Repertory Theatre's production of Haroun & The Sea Of Stories.

Finish Haroun for Monday. Continue to work on your self-portrait box.

Ryan MacPherson, left, with Heather Buck in the title role of City Opera's Haroun and the Sea of Stories.

Read pages 129 through 156 tonight. Finish Haroun for Monday.

Your self-portrait box will be due next Thursday, September 24th.

This is a picture of Salman Rushdie.

Read pages 97 through 126 in Haroun for Thursday.

The hoopoe!

Read pages 63-93 in Haroun.

"What's the use of stories that aren't even true?"

Read pages 31 through 60.

TRUTH?