Monday: Quiz on THE LOTTERY!
Tuesday: Quiz on THE PEDESTRIAN!
How should I study for these quizzes?
- Read and re-read each of the short stories. Look for characters, plot conflicts, setting, resolution, etc.
- Look for symbols: people, places or things that are meant to REPRESENT something else.
- After learning about theme in class, as well as listening to WHY each author may have written what they had written, come up with possible themes for each story.
Examples?
Symbol: In The Declaration, Anna's journal does NOT represent "a place to write her feelings." That is what a journal IS. Anna's journal DOES represent HOPE, or FREEDOM, or REBELLION.
Theme: Children are necessary.
A theme from The Declaration is "Children are necessary." This is a theme because Gemma Malley paints a picture of a world without children. Anna is a surplus who has no right to exist in the world in which she lives. In this world without children, there are no new ideas, no new blood, and everyone is complacent. The characters in the book are listless and dull, and never put any effort into anything, because, in the end, "it didn't really matter." Without the crazy, funny, innocent, sneaky, emotional outbursts from children, from babies to young adulthood, the world is truly a different place - and not a positive place. Children are needed to give purpose to adulthood.
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