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READING:
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4. What is the significance of Sarat’s changing of her own name when she’s a girl? How does that sense of agency and identity develop as she gets older? How does her having a twin sister fit into your understanding of her independence and actions?
5. The novel presents many different laws, agencies, and other government entities for the future America. Which did you find to be most plausible, including as sources for political conflict that would escalate into war? Are any similar to real-life policies as you’re reading about them today?
6. Describe the dynamic of the Chestnut family, parents and children. What’s similar and what’s different about domestic life in their world versus today’s and during the time of the first Civil War?
7. How pervasive is the allegiance to the Free Southern State where the Chestnuts live and throughout the cordoned region? What threats do those who disagree with the cause face?
Definitions:
Nonlinear narrative, disjointed narrative or disrupted narrative is a narrative technique, sometimes used in literature, film, hypertext websites and other narratives, where events are portrayed, for example out of chronological order, or in other ways where the narrative does not follow the direct causality pattern of the events featured, such as parallel distinctive plot lines, dream immersions or narrating another story inside the main plot-line. It is often used to mimic the structure and recall of human memory, but has been applied for other reasons as well.
Metafiction is a literary device used self-consciously and systematically to draw attention to a work's status as an artifact. It poses questions about the relationship between fiction and reality, usually using irony and self-reflection. It can be compared to presentational theatre, which does not let the audience forget it is viewing a play; metafiction forces readers to be aware that they are reading a fictional work.
Intertextuality is the shaping of a text's meaning by another text. Intertextual figures include:allusion, quotation, calque, plagiarism, translation, pastiche and parody.[1][2][3] Intertextuality is a literary device that creates an ‘interrelationship between texts’ and generates related understanding in separate works (“Intertextuality”, 2015). These references are made to influence that reader and add layers of depth to a text, based on the readers’ prior knowledge and understanding. Intertextuality is a literary discourse strategy (Gadavanij, n.d.) utilised by writers in novels, poetry, theatre and even in non-written texts (such as performances and digital media). Examples of intertextuality are an author’s borrowing and transformation of a prior text, and a reader’s referencing of one text in reading another.
Intertextuality does not require citing or referencing punctuation (such as quotation marks) and is often mistaken for plagiarism (Ivanic, 1998). Intertextuality can be produced in texts using a variety of functions including allusion, quotation and referencing (Hebel, 1989). However, intertextuality is not always intentional and can be utilised inadvertently. As philosopher William Irwin wrote, the term “has come to have almost as many meanings as users, from those faithful to Kristeva’s original vision to those who simply use it as a stylish way of talking about allusion andinfluence.
WRITING ASSIGNMENT:
Your assignment:
Write a short story of at least 5 pages that:
1. Has a historical background of your choice--
2. Explores multiple narrative lines
a. traditional 3rd person narrative
b. possible prologue from narrator telling the story about the protagonist
c. Intertextuality:
Evidence paragraphs or sections--quotes, interviews, newspaper clippings, historical facts, documents, etc.
Definitions:
Nonlinear narrative, disjointed narrative or disrupted narrative is a narrative technique, sometimes used in literature, film, hypertext websites and other narratives, where events are portrayed, for example out of chronological order, or in other ways where the narrative does not follow the direct causality pattern of the events featured, such as parallel distinctive plot lines, dream immersions or narrating another story inside the main plot-line. It is often used to mimic the structure and recall of human memory, but has been applied for other reasons as well.
Metafiction is a literary device used self-consciously and systematically to draw attention to a work's status as an artifact. It poses questions about the relationship between fiction and reality, usually using irony and self-reflection. It can be compared to presentational theatre, which does not let the audience forget it is viewing a play; metafiction forces readers to be aware that they are reading a fictional work.
Intertextuality is the shaping of a text's meaning by another text. Intertextual figures include:allusion, quotation, calque, plagiarism, translation, pastiche and parody.[1][2][3] Intertextuality is a literary device that creates an ‘interrelationship between texts’ and generates related understanding in separate works (“Intertextuality”, 2015). These references are made to influence that reader and add layers of depth to a text, based on the readers’ prior knowledge and understanding. Intertextuality is a literary discourse strategy (Gadavanij, n.d.) utilised by writers in novels, poetry, theatre and even in non-written texts (such as performances and digital media). Examples of intertextuality are an author’s borrowing and transformation of a prior text, and a reader’s referencing of one text in reading another.
Intertextuality does not require citing or referencing punctuation (such as quotation marks) and is often mistaken for plagiarism (Ivanic, 1998). Intertextuality can be produced in texts using a variety of functions including allusion, quotation and referencing (Hebel, 1989). However, intertextuality is not always intentional and can be utilised inadvertently. As philosopher William Irwin wrote, the term “has come to have almost as many meanings as users, from those faithful to Kristeva’s original vision to those who simply use it as a stylish way of talking about allusion andinfluence.
WRITING ASSIGNMENT:
Your assignment:
Write a short story of at least 5 pages that:
1. Has a historical background of your choice--
2. Explores multiple narrative lines
a. traditional 3rd person narrative
b. possible prologue from narrator telling the story about the protagonist
c. Intertextuality:
Evidence paragraphs or sections--quotes, interviews, newspaper clippings, historical facts, documents, etc.
4. Sarat's changing of her name is symbolic of her embrace of the violent world around her, as the narrator contemplates: "the new name had a bite to it," rather than ending with a "fading ahh that disappeared into the air. Sarat snapped shut like a bear trap" (Akkad 12). Sarat's changing of her name also gives her a sense of identity-- she selected the name and she chose to keep it. As Sarat gets older, that sense of agency and identity transforms into independence, peril, and importance. Having a twin sister who isolates and criticizes her causes her to further develop a sense of independence and uniqueness. It also explains why she's more drawn to playing outside and getting dirty, so as to contrast the behavior of her sister.
ReplyDelete5. We found the law banning the use of fossil fuels to be most plausible, both due to the amount of the US covered by water in the novel due to global warming and to real contemporary efforts to move away from fossil fuels. The formation of the “Free Southern States” is also plausible, as the current political antagonism between the North and South corroborate, and it also would be a definite source of conflict and war, as the text states: “the South… decided to wage war again, to sever itself from the Union rather than stop using… fuel” (Akkad 23).
6. Benjamin is the man of the house who seeks work and opportunities. Simon aspires to embody his father and take on some of his responsibilities, but he’s still young and “his inability to complete these responsibilities gnawed at him” (Akkad 41). The twin sisters have a conflicting dynamic characterized by polar personalities and looks-- Sarat acts more boyish and disregards makeup, while Dana holds a high regard for beauty and materialism. The mother deeply loves her husband and the children who she has to support by herself. It’s similar to how men tend to be the heads of families today and the extraordinary number of single moms, however, the families themselves are more isolated from the outside world and other members of the community. They are also much more likely to get torn apart due to war.
7. The Free Southern State is not as pervasive near the Chestnut’s home itself, but within the state of Louisiana as a whole, it is very controlling and restrictive. The Free Southern State aggressively opposes northerners and traitors and they show no sympathy towards family who hope to escape the violence of the war. This explains the field commanders attitude toward Martina when he asks: “ ‘my men kill Northerners and traitors… which of those is your husband?’ ” (Akkad 47).
Jenna, Isobel, and Pahz
Delete4. The significance of Sarat changing her name as a young girl shows her developing her own sense of personality and character. Her personality develops more thoroughly as she ages, and blossoms into a young tomboy with lots of creativity and energy. Since her and her twin sister differ so much in actions and personality it individualizes Sarat as a person.
ReplyDelete5. One of the more plausible laws of the novel is rations to the refugees because it shows support towards the people of America.
6. The Chestnuts family includes Sarat and her twin sister Dana, their older brother Simon, and the mother Martina because their father passed in a terrorist bombing a few years prior. The family went from nuclear to single-parent. Single-parent homes are very common in modern day; however, in the novel Martina was a single parent due to unforeseen circumstances, and she had to endure more than the average mother, immersed in war and death, despair and tragedy.
7. The allegiance of the Southern state is very pervasive where the Chestnuts live and beyond, with various forms of propaganda and advertisement. Those who disagree face the chance of coming into harms way or even death.
4. What is the significance of Sarat’s changing of her own name when she’s a girl? How does that sense of agency and identity develop as she gets older? How does her having a twin sister fit into your understanding of her independence and actions?
ReplyDelete- It gives her a sense of agency and identity which grows as she grows, and her having a twin fits into my understanding of her independence and actions because she is such the opposite of her sister that it gives her distinction and individualism.
5. The novel presents many different laws, agencies, and other government entities for the future America. Which did you find to be most plausible, including as sources for political conflict that would escalate into war? Are any similar to real-life policies as you’re reading about them today?
-I'm not sure if it was a law, but the separation of the free south from the north seems to be the most plausible to me because it has always been something that has occurred. The south and the north are very different and always have been in terms of politics, environment, social, etc. and so that separation of the two is bound to happen and even did already happen in the past. I know that the policy they have of oil being illegal could tie into some laws that reduce oil use for the benefit of the environment.
6. Describe the dynamic of the Chestnut family, parents and children. What’s similar and what’s different about domestic life in their world versus today’s and during the time of the first Civil War?
- The dynamic of the Chestnut family is a mother, a father, a son, and two twin daughters. The mother cooks, cleans, and tends to the children, but also seems to be the one who makes decisions, while the father is of course the one who has to go out for work, but he is more so the heart of the home. It is typical for the mother to cook, clean, and ten to the children as such from the time of the Civil War to now, but I feel like the mothers aggressiveness with the fathers sort of calmness is what draws the distinction.
7. How pervasive is the allegiance to the Free Southern State where the Chestnuts live and throughout the cordoned region? What threats do those who disagree with the cause face?
-The allegiance is highly pervasive being that if you were a southerner you should be loyal to the south, and if you were a southerner the north would look down upon you anyway, and if you disagreed with the cause you would likely be looked at as a traitor and would likely be punished, maybe with jail time.
4) Sarat changing her own name shows so that it was one that expresses strength "the new name had a bite to it" (12). This being another difference between her and her sister. While they may be twins Sarat tries her hardest to separate herself from her sister.
ReplyDelete5) The government system put in place to control crossing the border into the United States reminded us a lot of the immigration policy of the US "I'm only going to a government office".
6) Interestingly the family seems to be like any struggling family now, in search of some Ideal American Dream "cool in the summer, cool in the winter" (21). They have this life their all hoping for the North ideal life, and working to get it.
7) There’s an apparent fear of aligning oneself with the North when living in the South and vice versa. “Don’t tell them nothing about doing any work for the Free Southerners”(19)
Alquasia and Jesziah
ReplyDelete4.
ReplyDeleteShe changes her name to express herself more, and separate herself from her twin. She is growing and developing a sense of self, and working toward gaining independence from her twin. Not only this, but she wanted to have a more edgy name. Instead of it being unimportant and just fading away with the letter 'a,' she added a t.
5.
The government agency that I found most plausible in the novel is the split between the North and South. I thought this because, there's always been a divide between the two. It could also be a conflict that may lead to war because it was in the past, during the civil war.
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The Chestnut family's dynamic is different than most family dynamics today, and during the times of the first civil war. The mother cooks, cleans, and tends to the children, while the father goes to work. This was the typical family situation in the 20th century, but it the novel the mother in a sense runs the home. She is the "pants," of the family. When the father dies she becomes a single mother. This relates more to a modern family dynamic, because there are a lot of single mother families now.
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The allegiance is quite persuasive to the free southern region. They influence them with the social norm that you should be loyal to where you're from. For example, Northerners are loyal to the North, as Southerners to the South. They are harsh and do not serve any sympathy. If you're caught as a traitor you could be killed.
4. Sarat's changing her name shows how she is different. It allows her to express herself. It separates her from her twin sister. It shows her independence. The ending of her name no longer fades away.
ReplyDelete5. Most of the laws in the book relate to similar laws that we have today. I find the law in which there is border control plausible.
6.The family dynamic of the Chestnut family is different from how family dynamics are today. Their mom does all of the household work while the father works and of course the children would go to school. Today family dynamics aren't the same. Everyone usually does housework and some families take turns with certain chores, and both the mother and father work while the children are at school.
7. They make the people feel as if the side they are on meaning the north or south is the side they have to be loyal to. They can't switch sides and it is not right if they switch sides.
1- The significance of Sarat changing her name at a young age shows how much dominance she has over herself and how confident she is in the things that she wants or believes in. She changed her name because she liked how unique the sound it made was. She didn't like Sarah because it was too soft, and known-it didn't represent her and who she was a person.
ReplyDelete2- I see most of the laws that they have in this futuristic book in our society. I see that they have a handle on border control, but with the border control that reminds me of the civil war time, where they separated the south from the north. I find that the most plausible.
3- The dynamic of the Chestnut family was a two parent family, which in this time and day is different because of the single parents and all that has happened with the "we’re strong regardless of who we have by our side" epidemic that has been trending recently. A whole happily family is kind of rare in this day. Soon, into the story the mother becomes the backbone, or at least she became the backbone when her husband dies.
4-The allegiance is highly pervasive when you think about how loyal the south has to stay to the south. In this book, it could be life threatening to be in the south and disagree with their rules. You could be shunned upon and it could be fatal.