Friday, May 1, 2009

Ideas for Beloved

Place project ideas as comments here. Here is the starter list:

Narrative point-of-view; situation of narrator; narrator’s stance toward narrative
Nature of truth as revealed in the novel
Transmissibility of the truth of an experience
Fantastic, magical, or eerie elements within realistic novel
Juxtaposition of kindness and civility with savagery (other juxtapositions possible)
Parent-child relations
Nature of nature
Richly detailed scenes for comparison
Use of language in specific scenes compared (figures of speech, comparisons, imagery, style, tone)
Storytelling
Different kinds of love
Isolation and community
Embarrassment and pride
War scars
Deaths of Beloved and Kiowa
Theft
Guilt from things that have happened to characters
Dependence
Family relations

8 comments:

Katie said...

Juxtaposition of nature and weight (or lack thereof).

Josh said...

The symbolism of trees as both traumatic and fond experiences.

Kyle Benson said...
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Kyle Benson said...

how love and blame correlate in Beloved and The Things They Carried

Meg McGill said...

Sex symbolizing letting go of the past and moving on.

dhara said...

How Sethe's past is re-lived in the future but with an ironic twist.

B.Miller said...

in the metamorphosis Gregor's family is dependent on him to do everything and in Beloved Sethe becomes dependent on Denver

B.Miller said...

In Beloved and Metamorphosis loneliness appears throughout the novel