Jonathan Fitzgerald

Setting and Mood in 'The Lottery'“The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson 1. What do you think of when you think of the lottery?  * Setting can best be defined as:  A. The emotional effect or feeling that a text creates in a reader.B. The physical location, time, and social environment in which a story takes place.C. The background information that is important to a text.D. The hints or clues within a story that help readers determine what will happen next or at the end...

Walking on the White BeachOn the white beach, ground-up coral and broken bones, a group of the children are walking. They must have been swimming, they’re still wet and glistening. They should be more careful: who knows what may infest the lagoon? But they’re unwary; unlike Snowman, who won’t dip a toe in there even at night, when the sun can’t get at him. Revision: especially at night. He watches them with envy, or is it nostalgia? It can’t be that: he never s...

Part 1: A feminist reading(https://www.fulltextarchive.com/pdfs/Heart-of-Darkness.pdf) Write an entry in your reader's notebook analyzing Heart of Darkness from a feminist viewpoint. Be sure to make use of feminist critical vocabulary and to include three examples from the novel (quotations and/or paraphrases with citations) to illustrate your point. For length, consider my Freudian analysis to be a model, so 250 words is a good guide. Write an entry in your reader's notebook analyz...