Reading material is in order from 1-18
6: William Faulkners “A Rose for Emily” and R-E-S-P-E-C-T
A Friendly Reminder: For your answers/responses throughout this semester, please use only complete and grammatically correct sentences, as emphasized earlier. Remember: an important element of writing lucidly (and grammatically correctly) is incorporating your quotations into larger sentence structures. Many of you are doing this properly; some of you are not (and losing points as a result). Also, you must cite ONLY our course texts or else you will receive a zero for this assignment.
Fiction:
Hey, ENG 141 W2–Do you like solving mysteries? If so, then you should love this weeks short story selection.
In William Faulkners “A Rose for Emily,” which must be accessed through the link posted in Unit 6, the narrative stance is collective first person (“we”), as if a group of townspeople could speak en masse.
1) How does the use of this collective first person narrator help to create the mystery of what happens in the Grierson house? (Before you answer this, please be sure you understand the main, horrific event of what happens there.) Quote and cite at least three specific moments in the textbook to support your assertion.
2) How is this story on some level about the new replacing the old? Directly quote and cite at least three DIFFERENT specific moments (not the same moments you used for the first question) in the textbook to persuade your readers that you’re right.
3) Besides Homer, what other charactersor larger forcesare in conflict with Emily? Directly quote and cite at least three DIFFERENT specific moments (not the same moments you used for the first two questions) in the textbook to persuade your readers that you’re right.
In short, you must directly quote and cite nine different specific lines/moments to receive full credit for the Fiction portion of this weeks coursework.
As always, please be sure to cite specific lines (using MLA style) and incorporate properly formatted in-text citations after each allusion to the story. Finally, create a Works Cited page entry at the end of your Discussion Board post for full credit.
Here is how your Works Cited page entry should look for this story:
Faulkner, William. A Rose for Emily. Literature: Reading, Reacting, Writing. Edited by Laurie G. Kirszner and Stephen R. Mandell, portable 10th ed., e-book, Cengage Learning, 2024, pp. 166-174.
Poetry/Song Lyrics:
Respecting “Respect” in Retrospect!
Another friendly reminder: When we refer to a poem’s or song’s title, we put it in quotation marks (not italics), just as we do with the titles of short stories.
A little backstory for this assignment: Ive been thinking of Beyonc lately. I keep thinking of her Grammy-winning Cowboy Carter album and some of the intriguing (and oftentimes bold) artistic choices she made while making it. As you may know, Beyoncs nickname among her fan base is Queen Bey (or Queen B). That in turn got me thinking about another one of our American queens: Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul.
Aretha Franklins most famous song, Respect, is a classic for very good reasons, but many listeners do not realize this is a cover version of someone elses song. The original version was by Otis Redding. [Im sure some of you are familiar with his song called “(Sittin’ on) The Dock of the Bay.”]
It should be noted that Otis Redding’s original song is often interpreted as a cry of the disenfranchised, a request to be noticed and to be respected. A few (not all) music historians consider the Redding version an artifact of the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s. Whereas ostensibly it is directed to a woman, if you listen closely to the lyrics, is the “entity” he’s trying to convince actually the society at large? Consider that as you listen to his version. Furthermore, in this vein, is Aretha Franklins version directed to just one man, or is about something larger? Or both? Why or why not?
Taking all this into consideration, here is the question you must answer:
Taking all this into consideration, here is the question you must answer:
How does
of the song inspire such a different interpretation than
?
Some suggestions to get you started: This is definitely a comparison/contrast question. Use that strategy, which you examined in English Composition I. You might note that Otis never mentions “kisses,” although they are important in Aretha’s version. Also, when Franklin sings “TCB,” that means “Taking Care of Business.” You should also pay careful attention to the final lines of both versions.
Finally, please cite both YouTube videos properly, using MLA formatting. You can find the guidelines for citing online videos on page 28 of this document:
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Guidelines you need to go by feed back that you need to pay attention too
I really appreciate the connections you make here, but they need to be supported more.
For example, when you write this:
I feel that Connies wardrobe transformation when going for the evening outing alludes to the fairy tale of Cinderella. This is supported by Line 5, which states “her mouth which was pale, but bright and pink on these evenings out” (Kirszner & Mandell 448).
You never quite make clear the connection between the Cinderella story and the quoted line. How does “her mouth which was pale, but bright and pink on these evenings out” refer back to Cinderella? You have to clarify that for the reader.
Also, in the example above (and throughout the reaction), you should not italicize the quoted parts. Use normal font (not italicized). Also in the example above and throughout this post, you must cite the author (in this case, Oates), not the editors of the anthology. Hence your citation should say this:
(Oates 448).
Another piece of advice that you should adhere to for the rest of the semester: Never repeat the questions in this forum. Everyone who is reading your reaction already knows the questions (and just answered them themselves). This relates to lucidity and trusting the readers’ intelligence. Learn to segue between your thoughts without the abrupt appearance of repeating the instructor’s questions. That will make for smoother writing and a better reading experience.
Your comparison between teens 60 years ago and now is terrific. Great job there.
For the final question, though, you were supposed to discuss two lines from the poem, not the story.
Finally, be sure that your original posts in the future are at least 500 words, not counting the citations at the end and the repeated questions (which, as mentioned, you should never do). 500 words is good for an entire week’s worth of a college course, and it will give you more room to develop things like the connection between Cinderella and the story, as mentioned above.
But there is one major issue: Unfortunately, you are citing lines from “Cathedral” that do not exist. As the Discussion Board Rubric states, a response will earn a zero for the following:
The response has quoted a line or cited a moment that does not exist in the work of literature being examined.
Please email me to let me know where the following lines exist on the pages you cited:
I didnt think I had anything in common with a blind man (Carver 26)
It was really something (Carver 28)
Because all your quotations are accurate when discussing “Greasy Lake,” I have cut you a break with the grade this time. But please know that this should never happen again. Of course, if I have missed these lines somewhere and they exist on the pages you cited (or anywhere in the story for that matter), please direct me to where they are and I will happily revisit this grade.
Other than that, though, please be very careful when quoting. The basic rules of using quote marks: the writer may not change anything when he or she is putting another writer’s words between quote marks, unless they indicate they did so with squared-off brackets for reasons of clarity.