Lit Anal "The Tortilla Curtain" Remixed

Mind Map, Literature Analysis Book Notes

Literature Analysis Notes.

The Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle
• Delaney Mossbacher-lives in Attoyo Blanco Estates. Shows he’s wealthy (California)
-He hits a Mexican with his car
• Mexicans name-Candido Rincon
-Has a car with bottles and newspapers he was taking to the recycling center
• Use of imagery: “red-flecked eyes, the rictos of the mouth, rotten teeth ad incongruous shock of gray in the heavy black brush of the mustache.”
• Delaney’s thoughts when he hit the Mexican were of his car and insurance.
-Shows how careless he was of hitting a Mexican
• Told his wife no to worry because “it was just a Mexican.”
• Shows how less of feelings he has for Mexicans. Thought of him less of a person and frowns upon him.
• The Mexican did not want to be taken to the hospital-why?
• Candido explains how much pain he is in and explains the details and his point of view of the accident.
• The man just gave him $20
• His wife uses that money to buy supplies to help her husband.
• She tries to sneak away to the labor exchange, but Candido will not let her go.
• He explains his experience of working there: Imagery and time
• From this it shows how they are struggling with their living situations and with money
• Delaney goes to ta meeting to bring up the issue of the coyotes
• Shows how careless and selfish he is also
• Candido ends up working at the labor exchange
• Shows their struggle
• Candido describes his past
• He was successful
• Married “Resurrection” and 20 years old and was old sister to  of his wife now
• She cheats on him and he becomes a drunk: falling point in his life
• America is surprised to see an American woman trying to find work
• This shows much of what the society may be like
• The state of Candidos and America’s struggle was trying to go to the U.S.
• They paid a “coyote” to pass them and once they did a group of Mexicans attacked them and took everything and were sent back to Mexico
• Teenagers destroy the camp they live in
• Delaney and his wife view shows how they are very worried of the smallest things
• Candido and his wife move under an overpass where they are hidden
• He is not able to find a job and they cannot get food: shows how the society is in the struggle for a Mexican
• Candidos wife is pregnant and begins to work as a maid
• Candido also finds himself a job and they begin to do good: Can relate to someone who is struggling
• Delaney’s wife is concerned with how the neighborhood looks with the homeless living under the overpass: shows how looks are important to them
• They move again and live in a cardboard: imagery
• They are not able to find themselves a steady job: Their experience is like a rollercoaster
• There is a flood when Candido goes to look for a job and his wife dies in the flood
• Delaney saves his baby
Literary elements:
• Imagery
• Indirect and Direct characterization
• Hyperboles
• Similes
• Metaphors
 

Socratic Seminar Notes

• Adults can still learn from playing.
• Kids can use their imagination but as adults, your ego seems to grow larger.
• As children, we are fearless to do anything.

*Learning from a mistake may be a good way to learn something.

• Free play makes up your creativity.
• Free play would be just like free learning.
• Play is something you would do with a passion.

Habits:

• Nowadays, nobody really has the guts to ask why so thats why students don't really understand.
• Some students get fed up with school so later they don't want to learn.
• We don't learn what we want to learn

1. How can these concepts enhance your learning as you arrive at a moment when grades no longer matter?
-- In my opinion, these concepts enhance my learning as I arrive at a moment when grades no longer matter because it gives me motivation to learn about something I actually want to learn about. This gives me the opportunity to open up to creativity and do things that I have not experienced with before. This gives me the desire to actually want to learn since I'll be interested in whatever it is that I want to learn about.

2. How can these concepts enhance your ability to master content for the AP exam and other hurdles you have yet to leap?

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3.How can you use these concepts to collaborate with and inspire others, to improve the information exchange and overall value of your learning network?

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Remixing Literature Book

Passionate Shepherd to His Love by Christopher Marlowe

• Dramatic Situation- Narrated by a male and the poem seems to take place in a nature like place.
• Structure of the Poem- The author of the poem lists many reasons to why the girl should be with him. First he begins to try and tell her about how he is hoping she'll come to him so that they will be able to enjoy the beauty of nature together then he begins to try and convince her about his love for her and lastly he says how everyone will welcome her when she receives the love he offers her.
• Theme of the poem- The theme would be "convincing a loved one to love him back" for the reason that throughout the poem that is all he is doing.
• Grammar and Meaning-

A gown made of the finest wool

Which from our pretty lambs we pull;
Images and Figures of Speech- I can feel the love that the author has for her as well as hear everything he is describing to her that they can be doing if she becomes his.
Important Words- 
Then live with me and be my love.
Tone- The tone would be both sincere and passionate towards the woman.
Literary Techniques- 
Apostrophe: 
Come live with me and be my love,
Imagery:
And we will sit upon the rocks, 
Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks, 
By shallow rivers to whose falls 
Melodious birds sing madrigals.
 
Sonnet 31 by Sir Philip Sidney
Dramatic Situation- The speaker is only one and he is a male trying to find out if women are the same in the moon.
Structure- The poem by Sidney is structured like a Sonnet and in each part of the poem he asks the moon different questions about women because of a rejection.
Theme of the poem-  The theme of the poem would be love because it is about how he still loves a woman even though she doesn't love him back.
Grammar and Meaning- 

Are beauties there as proud as here they be?
Do they above love to be loved, and yet
Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess?
Do they call virtue there ungratefulness?
Images and Figures of Speech- The feeling of this poem becomes the depression of the character in it.
Important Words- 

Then, even of fellowship, O Moon, tell me
Is constant love deemed there but want of wit?
Are beauties there as proud as here they be?
Tone- The tone the author has in this poem would be a tone of depression, disappointment, and resentment.
Literary Techniques-
Apostrophe: 
Then, even of fellowship, O Moon, tell me Is constant love deemed there but want of wit? Are beauties there as proud as here they be?
Personification:
That busy archer his sharp arrow tries?




 

Literature Analysis #5

Literature Analysis #5

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

*Briefly summarize the novel you read.

The novel begins with Nick at West Egg in Long Island where all the wealthy people live. He lives next to the most known guy in New York, a guy named Jay Gatsby. Anyways, he goes to see his cousin Daisy, her husband Tom Buchanan, and Jordan. Nick finds Jay Gatsby very interesting when he first sees him, to the point that he really wants to talk to him. He also finds out that Tom has a lover named Myrtle who is married to Wilson. The day comes when he actually does talk to Gatsby and him, Daisy, Tom, and Jordan all begin to hang out more and go to all of Gatsby's parties. Little by little, Gatsby and Nick become really close, so close that he tells him about his love story with Daisy. Daisy and Gatsby have also become so close that it seems like the love they once had for each other is coming back. Tom soon becomes suspicious of their relationship and begins to accuse Gatsby of many things, they get in an argument. Daisy and Gatsby leave and while she's driving she accidentally runs over Myrtle. When Wilson finds out it was Gatsby, he decides to murder him and then kills himself. They make a funeral for Gatsby and then Nick decides to leave West Egg,

*Theme of the novel.

The theme of The Great Gatsby would be impossible love and the ranking of social classes. Impossible love is shown throughout this novel because Gatsby is deeply in love with Daisy but having Tom Buchanan in the way, their love cannot happen. On the other hand, the ranking of social classes is shown because Gatsby lied about his life so that Daisy will fall in love with him all over again and he will be able to meet her parents requirements since before he didn't and Tom did.

*Describe the author's tone.

The author's tone in The Great Gatsby would be a tone of confusion or better said, contradiction. At times Nick will admire Gatsby for all the luxuries he has and for the guy being but at the same time he really doesn't like the way he is a lot of the times and everything he has. Nick really does not know what he thinks of Gatsby.

*Describe five literary elements/techniques you observed that strengthened your understanding of the theme and/or your sense of the tone.
Flashback: The author of the novel tends to alternate the story from present to past and it is an element that strengthens the understanding of the theme because it shows why Gatsby is so in love with Daisy.
Antagonist: Tom Buchanan I would consider to be the antagonist. By him being the antagonist, the theme of the novel is better understood because he is one of the reasons why Gatsby and Daisy are not able to be together which is what Gatsby really wants.
Setting: F. Scott Fitzgerald made this novel take place in West Egg and East Egg so ti strengthen the readers better understanding of the them because each of those places represents two different social statuses in which the characters belong to.
Archetypes: In the novel, Fitzgerald describes Daisy like if she was a young girl while her being an actual mother and Myrtle is more described as an older woman, woman like figure, when she isn't a mother.
Symbolism: The novel has different types of symbolism. One example would be the weather, as the weather changes, the mood of each character seems to change which ends up giving understanding to the authors tone.