Make an awesome presentationA lot of learning went on this week. When reflecting on the past few days, I realized that I may not have been directing taught very much, but I was pushed in a direction by Mr. S that allowed me to continue to learn on my own.
The bulk of the week was used to finish up our What Is Literature presentations, but of course we had reading time and our creative writings too. The main thing Isra and I had to work on was answering our “big question” and answering the “so what?” question on our project. The easiest BQ was our fantasy question: “What are the elements of fantasy?” But for humor it was a little more complicated. Basically, our question was asking how humor contributes the the significance of the story. We really had to think about this one. To me, and Isra, I think, humor is used for a couple of things: make difficult topics easier to express, create a really deep emotion, and prove sometime of truth about society. On of our stories, “Rape Fantasies” really shows the first one. Rape is obviously awful, but the story talks about it in a humorous way and makes the reader reflect on it more. I think literature in the most basic sense, is works that continue to be relevant and memorable. Pride and Prejudice is still super relevant right now even though it was written 200 years ago. And in 200 years if Harry Potter is relevant, people will be calling it literature too. BUT the reason that these stories stay relevant is because they contain the elements of fiction. They don’t have to have all of them, but some. A lot of powerful pieces of work contain most of them. It’s how the author uses these elements to make the reader think, feel, and keep them intrigued. All the elements make it memorable!
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Josephine
10/25/2016 06:11:03 am
Hi Sela,
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