Quotation for new term
- I am treating you as my friend asking you share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to share my future pluses.
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- I am treating you as my friend asking you share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to share my future pluses.
This is our last week of blogging. Your first assignment is to evaluate your blogging experience (discuss who made the most relevant posts, who gave good comments, your least favorite topic etc. - just don't bash anyone)
Assignment number two - I've already discussed it in class. Find some Pride and Prejudice fan fiction. A good place to start will be fanfic.net. Find a story you like (suitable for class) Tell why you like it and then link to it. Then read someone else's choice and review it in the comments of their post.
Discuss "The Paperhanger". The Harrikin is a recurring setting in Gay's work. The Nashville Scene describes it :
The Harrikin was once replete with mining towns and mining money, but when the ore was all extracted, “the people left like the Maya abandoning their cities to build other cities…, [and] the Harrikin grew wild. Trees sprouted up through the works of man. Kudzu and wild grapevines climbed the machinery until ultimately these machines seemed some curious hybrid of earth and steel.” When a massive tornado—thought to be a hurricane, or “harrikin,” by locals—ripped through a few years later, it upturned houses and trees and dirt roads, leaving behind a tangled maze.
What do you think the Harrikin symbolizes? Also What did you get out of the story?
For your second post, write two sentences using words from unit 12.
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