1. Makeup quiz: Go to vocabulary.com and take vocabulary quiz for today's date if you want a higher test score
2. Register for Scholastic Art and Writing contest:
https://www.artandwriting.org/what-we-do/the-awards/how-to-enter/
3. Think, Pair, Share: Mudbound Discussion questions. Post a reply in comments. Be sure to list names of partners for credit.
- 3. Who gets to speak and who is silent or silenced is a central theme, the silencing of Ronsel being the most literal and brutal example. Discuss the ways in which this theme plays out for the other characters. For instance, how does Laura's silence about her unhappiness on the farm affect her and her marriage? What are the consequences of Jamie's inability to speak to his family about the horrors he experienced in the war? How does speaking or not speaking confer power or take it away?
- 4. The story is narrated by two farmers, two wives and mothers, and two soldiers. Compare and contrast the ways in which these parallel characters, black and white, view and experience the world.
- 5. What is the significance of the title? In what ways are each of the characters bound—by the land, by circumstance, by tradition, by the law, by their own limitations? How much of this binding is inescapable and how much is self-imposed? Which characters are most successful in freeing themselves from what binds them?
4. Read over two articles on using multiple point of view in fiction:
https://www.nownovel.com/blog/points-of-view-8-tips/
https://www.tckpublishing.com/how-to-write-from-multiple-viewpoints-headhopping/
Multiple Storylines
Not all books have a single narrative running through them, after all. Many popular novels take a “two lines, no waiting” approach to their storytelling, alternating between two or more story lines that occur simultaneously but don’t truly overlap until much later in the book.Consider the always-popular example of the police detective and the private investigator each investigating seemingly unrelated crimes, only to discover that they’re working the same case in the third act. Or look to classic “pursuit narratives,” like Inspector Javert tracking down Jean Valjean in Les Miserables or Chigurh pursuing Moss in No Country for Old Men.
These separate story lines are clearly linked to each other, yet it is their separation that creates the tension and intrigue in their respective books. Adding additional perspectives lets you weave story lines together in intricate patterns and to later join them together for maximum dramatic impact.
5. Research; Work on your padlet (your historical research) for your short story and post URL for class participation credit on blog
6. Writing: Work on Mudbound short story
HMWK: Read to pg. 184 for Thursday
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ReplyDeleteIt creates tension between Laura and her husband, because she’s unhappy with her life and now she can’t be herself completely. Jamie’s family can’t fully understand him and what he went through due to his PTSD. People speak to literally voice themselves, and when they cannot speak it takes away their vocal opinions, thoughts, and personality. The soldiers and women feel silenced because they can’t speak about their experience at war, and the women feel silenced because they were living in a time full of sexism. Also, the black characters feel silenced because they’re on a farm and they work for the white man. The title indicates that the story takes place on a farm and they are found to the farm where they stay.
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ReplyDelete3. It creates a larger divide and rift in their relationship, which allows for more build up of secrets and distrust. It also gives Laura power. The consequences result in him experiencing PTSD. There's always power in the voice depending on how you use it, but there's also a certain power in silence.
4. The opposing sides have different perspectives in life based upon the differences they interfere with daily.
5. The significance of the title is that it explains being bound by the "mud" or metaphorically speaking, the land and earth. Henry is bound by a deep desire for his own land; whereas, Hap is bound by necessity. Hap is in a situation that is inescapable, but Henry is under the circumstances of self-imposition. Laura is more successful in freeing herself from the land.
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ReplyDelete3. Florence has to be quiet when Pappy harasses her. Hap tries to be silent when Doctor Turpin "fixes" his knee. Laura's silence both undermines her marriage in the long run but stops divorce in the short run. Jamie's inability to speak of the horrors he experienced in the war keeps, at least part of him, confined. Speaking confers power in instances when Laura speaks up against her husband and when Hap convinces Florence of something, but speaking retracts power when Henry tells Hap he needs to rent one of the McAllan's mules.
ReplyDelete4. These parallel characters experience the world in many different worlds. The two soldiers have to live with the horrible memories of the wars they fought in and the gruesome things they've seen. The two wives/mothers see the world in a different way from them, their main worry about their children and housewife duties. The farmers are different, one has to raise his family which happens to be of color, which makes them a target for discrimination. The other farmer is white and while he also has to worry about feeding his family, he does not have to worry about people harassing him for his skin color.
4. The significance of the title is the name Laura gives the farm she is taken to; mud is also characteristic of the setting and Laura feels involuntarily bound to it. Henry is bound to his desire to be a farmer. Laura is bound to Henry. Amanda Leigh and Isabelle are bound to their mother. Hap and his family are bound to their farmland and to each other. The only inescapable bounding is between the children and their parents, other than that, the binds are arbitrary. Laura is able to, at times, free herself from her bond to Henry by challenging him. Hap and his family are able to resist being bound to their land by investing in a mule and attempting to resist renting from their landlord.
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Interestingly every character that has a voice to tell the story has no voice in the story. For example Laura who talks about the invisibility she experiences in her marriage. Or Jamie's silence from the experiences in the war. Or even Ronsel's silence from having to bite his tongue as a black man in the Delta.
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Often times even though these characters are of a different race they seem to understand one another. Jamie and Ronsle are even able to build a friendship off of it. As well Laura begins to depend on Florence despite the fact she doesn't call her her friend.
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Mudbound is a representation of being stuck in the dirt. No matter how the characters try to get away they find themselves back where they started. Not necessarily physically but mentally, ideologically, and emotionally. Pappy will literally be apart of Mudbound forever. As well Laura will literally always have a reminder of the happening on Mudbound.
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*Laura's silence about her unhappiness in her marriage only drives her to be more unhappy as she is forced to live a farm life in which she does not want. Jamie's inability to speak to his family about the terrors of war that haunts can add to his PTSD because he is not getting help with it, and it can make him feel alone in this struggle within himself, which is probably why he found friendship in Ronsel because they both can relate via the terrors of war, although they have different colored skin. Speaking and not speaking confers power because it allows you to control your life, it allows you to control your conversations, but it can also take away power because there could be possible limitations with speaking limiting your thoughts and not speaking limiting your voice.
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*Starting off with the farmers, Henry views his land as a sense of ownership because of his grandfather telling him land is the only thing that he could actually own, while Hap is using the land he has as a means of survival, for food, for money, for shelter. Moving on to the wives and mothers, Laura is a woman who loves her children and abides by her husband despite her own feelings and wants, she speaks up for herself rarely, and would rather live her unhappy life than destroy it with speaking her mind, Florence is a strong woman, she speaks her mind, she does the hard work, she tends to the children, to her husband, she seems to be the backbone of the family, different than Laura who is more so weak and dependent. For the soldiers, I feel the only thing that separates Ronsel and Jamie is the color of their skin, Ronsel gets discriminated against for living the same life as Jamie does freely, they both experienced war and fought for their country, and so they both have similar experiences enforcing the fact that the color of the skin means nothing because relation comes in all shades and forms. This bond is also seen between the mothers and wives, as Laura was sort of dependent on Florence, but Laura still felt a sort of superiority, as she did generosity. This bond was not very prevalent in the farmers because Henry blatantly felt a superiority, as he was white, as well as the owner of the land Hap was on.
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*The significance of Mudbound as the title is that it was the name of the land, and the land is the thing that bounds everyone because they are sort of stuck in its responsibility. Henry is bound to the land because of his desire to own something, Laura is bound to the land because of her marriage to Henry, although it is not where she wants to be, Hap is bound because of survival, shelter, food, money, as is Florence, but they are also bound to the land because they are limited to where they can go because of their race, which also fits with Ronsel who is bound to the land because of his race limitations, as well as his family roots, and his friendship, which also ties into Jamie and how he is bound by family, by friendship, and by PTSD. Hap, Florence, and Ronsel's limitations are kind of inescapable at this time because of the prejudice, discrimination, and racism that is prevalent, Henry doesn't consider himself limited because of his love of land, but his love of land limits his wife Laura who doesn't share that same love, Jamie is limiting himself with his thoughts and his PTSD which is escapable if he would rely on his family for help, but he can't bring himself to it. I feel like Laura could be the most successful at freeing herself from what binds her because all she has to do is stop being dependent and subservient, and express her wants and feelings instead of remaining unhappy out of fear of the repercussions, I think that would be easier than freeing yourself of the mental disease of PTSD or the social disease of racism because they are just that, a disease, which is not easy to get rid of, specifically for the social disease of racism with the added fear of being killed or mistreated for standing up.
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ReplyDelete3) Laura is another character who is silenced in the story, as she keeps her true feelings about living on the farm and her opinions on her husband. She chooses to remain silent because she doesn't want to disrupt life and perhaps jeopardize it, but she has dreams of defying her traditional life to do what she likes. The consequences of Jamie unable to speak about his PTSD is the horror that he has to deal with internally. He struggles with this pain alone and has no one to consult with. That silence is overbearing and hard with matters such as PTSD. Speaking and not speaking give power depending on the character. Laura loses her power when she is silent because we know everything she wants when it is her perspective, but she never acts upon it. However, when she does speak up, that moment is astonishing and adds power to her voice when she finally speaks up.
ReplyDelete4) The two farmers (Henry and Hap) have different intent on the farm. Henry loves the idea of farming but manipulates the families renting a part of his land, simply for their skin color. He adores the power he has to be able to tell them what to do. However, Hap farms just to get by and is earnest in his character. The wives are very similar in thinking, but the unfortunate race division keeps them apart. They share the familiar love of a mother to their daughter, and is a peace to each other from a harder life. They both care about their children, but cannot relate past that. Laura is aware that Florence is black and therefore she cannot go past the race line. Florence is also aware of this, and acts upon these boundaries. Their silenced friendship comes off very strong when they are near each other, but the enforced racial atmosphere drives them apart. Lastly, Jamie and Ronsel have a lot in common. They are both charming young men, who recently came back from the army. They both suffered pain as a result, but once again their treatment in society is different. Jamie is still admired by many at home, while Ronsel is seen as a typical black man who deserves no respect (when in reality he is a war hero). These different worlds help draw a conclusion on how each race were perceived and treated in that time.
5) The title is named off the name Laura gave to the land she lives on. This is significant because this suggests the setting being a very important component to the story's purpose. All the main characters live and experience life with each other on that land, and their own boundaries exist on that land too. Mudbound is self imposed for those who are fortunate, who would want to live in an area like that (Henry) but the land is inescapable for those who have nothing else (Hap and Vera). This forces interaction between all of them and makes the setting become a real character that speaks a theme louder than any of the characters could do. The characters that come off as the most successful in being free in this bounded land is Henry and his father, who are free to command whatever they choose. They lack the compassion and empathy for the families working. The property they own is a symbol of their freedom, and owning land is a very important business in that time. Hap's family, for example, borrow this land from them and therefore cannot be free because they are bound to a person. To be free is to make decisions without the involvement of anyone else, especially with land. In conclusion, Mudbound is an appropriate title to describe all the major themes in the novel.
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