Short Works 10R Final Exam Review

What do I remind you of?

Remember: Margaret Atwood’s “Bread” She uses the 2 nd person point of view to make us think about a piece of bread. We put ourselves into each scenario. She dupes us. She tricks us into imagining what is not there. That is what a writer does.

Who do I remind you of?

Remember: Andrea Levy’s “Loose Change” The narrator and Laylor, a homeless refugee from Uzbekistan, meet in the National Portrait Gallery. Laylor and her brother have been sleeping outside the museum in Trafalgar Square.

Why doesn’t the narrator take them home with her? What makes this a difficult choice? She is a single parent. She has a daughter to worry about. It is bitter cold outside. She remembers her own grandmother was an immigrant.

What does this remind you of? A crowd gathered along the Thames River

Remember: Andrea Levy’s autobiographical essay “This is My England” Identity is central to this essay. What makes identity a complex issue for the author? How does her British upbringing and Jamaican heritage form her idenitity as an adult?

What do I remind you of?

Remember Shareen Pandit’s “She Shall Not Be Moved” Why does the narrator have such an uncomfortable ride on this crowded bus? – Somali mother with child in pram and toddler – Racist older white women on bus seated in pram area – Unsympathetic bus drive – Narrator has her own daughter with her and no additional bus fare

Remember Shareen Pandit’s “She Shall Not Be Moved” The narrator’s defensive tone in the opening paragraphs, where she lists all of her reasons/excuses for keeping silent, tells us that she is still troubled by this event and that she must have regrets about not speaking up in defense of the Somali mother. Before exiting the bus, the Somali mother yells to the bus driver that he is a slave.

Who am I?

Remember: Chimamanda Adichie’s “The Danger of a Single Story” All of these presented to her the danger of a single story: -The books she read as a child featured British schoolchildren -Her family’s servant Fide as only poor -Her college roomate assumed that she had no knowledge of the modern world -Her college student’s assumptions about Nigerian fathers

Adichie bases her story “Private Experience” on the street riots that took place in Jos, Nigeria in 2010.

Remember: Chimamanda Adichie’s “Private Experience” -The narrator, a Christian Igbo, is helped by a Hasua Mulsim woman during a street riot that breaks out in the marketplace. -Her story shares the message of her TED Talk. -The Hausa woman is peaceful; she shows no animosity towards Chika, unlike the Hausas who cause the riot. -Chika and the woman belong to enemy groups, but share a common bond during the riot: both are worried about a loved one lost in the riot. -Chika lies in order to get the woman to take her medical advice.

What do I remind you of?

The speaker is a writer. He relies on an extended metaphor: digging = writing Poem features three generations –Grandfather –Father –Son – The son is the speaker; he has great pride in his father and grandfather’s hard work and will honor them in his writing. Remember: Seamus Heaney’s “Digging ”

What do I remind you of?

The first person speaker is an unbiased mirror. A woman looks into this mirror daily. This woman prefers the “lies” generated by gentle lighting. This woman is terrified of turning old and ugly, like “a terrible fish”. Remember: Sylvia Plath’s “Mirror”

What do I remind you of?

In each stanza, the speaker shares the many questions people have asked him about cutting his braids. Each question reveals how Native Americans are stereotyped. Remember: Sherman Alexie’s “Good Hair”

What do I remind you of?

The speaker is depressed about his overeating, sleeping, and anger; he wishes that he could reach out tenderly to a woman he loves. The “heavy bear” is used as an extended metaphor for the speaker’s body, his physical appetites and his aggression. The speaker suggests that urban life brings out the aggressive bear in every man. Remember: Delmore Scwartz’ “The Heavy Bear Who Goes With Me”