Final ExamNovels Review

10th Grade

May 28-May 31

How do I write a critical lens essay? Interpret or explain what you think the quote means.

Then, pick TWO books (underline titles) that support what you said the quote means. [Don’t forget the authors!!!].

Agree or disagree with your interpretation of the quote.

Choose supporting examples that are literary terms and elements (themes, conflicts, POV, setting, etc.) that best help you prove your opinion of the quote.

Use your examples to prove your interpretation of the quote. YOU MUST HAVE TWO EXAMPLES PER BOOK!!!

BE SPECIFIC WITH SPECIFIC DETAILS FROM THE NOVEL, PLAY, OR MEMOIR!!!

REMEMBER: SPECIFIC DETAILS….SPECIFIC DETAILS…SPECIFIC DETAILS from each work.

Night, Elie WieselSetting Point of View Characters Conflicts Themes

WWII

Sighet, Transylvania

Auschwitz, Poland [concentration/extermination camp]

Buna [sub-camp of A.]

Gleiwitz, Poland [sub-camp of A.]

Buchenwald, Poland [concentration camp]

First person

Controlled language allows events to speak for themselves and is in sharp contrast to the reality about which it speaks.

Wiesel waited 10 years before writing Night.

Eliezer Wiesel: narrator, 14

Chlomo Wiesel: his dad, well respected in Jewish community

Eliezer’s mother

Tzipora: E’s sister

Moche the Beadle: Elie’s religious teacher

Martha: servant of Wiesels

Mdme Schaechter: prophet = screams about fire.

Man v. Man: Rabbi El.’s son leaves him to ensure his own survival

Bread thrown on the train pits each man vs. the other

Man v. Self: Elie losing his faith in God

Man v. Society: Mosche warns them that they are in mortal danger. They ignore him, and face the conditions in the camps.

Faith is important in times of desolation.

Extreme hatred, if unchecked, can result in horror.

If good people stand by and do nothing, evils will abound.

Others?

Characters, continued

Dr. Mengele: Nazi, decides who lives and who dies at their camp.

Stein of Antwerp: wife Reisal is related to Mrs. Weisel

Juliek: plays the violin

Franek: another prisoner

Yossi and Tibi: brothers

Idek: Jewish man in charge of their block/ whips Elie for seeing him doing something he shouldn’t have been doing.

Akiba Drumer: prisoner

Zalman: prisoner

Rabbi Eliahou: very religious / well loved / son abandons him during the run to Gleiwitz.

Meir Katz:

Night: Symbols

Fire: Madame Sch. screams that she sees flames and death. It symbolizes their fate once they arrive in the concentration camp. They must work in order to avoid the flames of death.

Night = darkness. This novel is a period of darkness, not only for Elie but also for all the Jews.

Nazis: symbolize the hatred of one group of people toward another.

Moshe the Beadle symbolizes unused knowledge.

Mr. Wiesel: symbolizes Ellie’s will to live. When he dies, Ellie’s will is broken.

Themes, more

Maintaining faith in a benevolent God is difficult to do in times of continued tragedy.

People turn on each other when they, themselves, are abused.

Lord of the Flies, William GoldingSetting Characters Conflicts Symbols Themes

WWII

Deserted, idyllic island

In the Pacific Ocean

Point of View

Third Person, omniscient narrator

Foreshadowing

Simon’s convo w/ pig’s head = his death

Rocks & Roger

Ralph

Piggy

Simon

Sam ’N Eric

Percival

Henry

Jack

Roger

Bill

Robert

Maurice

The Little ’uns

Birthmark Boy

Naval officer

Parachutist

Man v. Man

Man v. Self

Man v. Society

Man v. Nature

Piggy’s glasses: intelligence

The conch: order /power / civilization

The island: Eden / perfect place

Face Paint: hides faces to allow for savagery

The Beast: fear / themselves

Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely:

Jack gains power, then steals fire & P’s glasses, beats a kid randomly, and sets fire to the island to hunt down & kill Ralph.

At his heart, man is a beast.

The boys have everything they need to survive and have fun. Yet they still have the same problems the adults have. Others?

The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, William ShakespeareSetting Characters Conflicts Symbols ThemesRome

44BC

Point of View

It’s a play; there isn’t one

Characters:

Soothsayer: warns JC of death on 3/15/44

Artemidorus: teacher/ writes warning letter.

Caesar: wants to be emperor.

Antony: loyal friend of JC/ turns crowd vs. B and starts a war.

Calpurnia: JC’s wife/ has dream of JCs death

Brutus: becomes leader of conspirators/ wants to kill JC b/c he fears JC will become a dictator.

Portia: B’s wife/ to prove her worth, stabs self in leg/ kill self by swallowing hot coals.

Cassius: despises JC/ leader of the conspiracy, convinces Brutus to join.

Casca: stabs JC 1st

Man v. Man

Conspirators kill Caesar before he gains too much power.

Man v. Self: Brutus: should I kill Caesar or not?

Man v. Society

weather

Portents and omens

Eagles replaced by crows before battles at end

The will: deception used by Antony to sway the crowd away from Brutus.

Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely:

Antony, Octavius & Lepidus create a hit list of 300 Romans

Language/Words have the power to manipulate and/or inspire.

Antony’s funeral oration

Don’t be mindless sheep. Think about what leaders are saying and why they are saying it.

Others?

Themes, continued

Power can go to one’s head: Antony takes power and abuses it with JC’s will/ also he makes a “hit list” of people to kill once the conspirators have left and he, Octavius, and Lepidus have formed the 2nd Triumvirate.

The Color of Water, James McBrideSetting Point of View Characters Conflicts Themes

New York: Brooklyn, Queens

Virginia

Kentucky (summers / James “bad” period to stay w/ his sister Jack)

Oberlin, Ohio

Wilmington, Delaware

First person (2 narrator)

Andrew Dennis McBride: 1st husband

TatehMamehSamDee Dee

Chicken Man: his death spurs James to get back on the “right track”

James McBride: main character/ narrator

Ruth McBrideJordan

Hunter Jordan: 2nd husband

Peter: her 1st boyfriend

Frances: childhood friend

Man vs. self: James struggles to identify who he is /Ruth changes who she is when she moves to NY

Man vs. Man: Ruth vs. her dad who sexually molests her.

Finding yourself through mistakes, struggles and hardships.Ex: James questions the color difference b/t himself and his mother so he doesn’t understand who he is when he is younger, but eventually he investigates his mother’s past and discovers who she is

Themes continued

When Ruth married her first husband, her family disowned her. So she had to find her own path through life with her husband and children

She also changes her religion to one that is more relevant to her and her new life.

Symbols

Color: what color is God? Is he black or white? The minister says he’s all colors / James’s brother then says he’s gray/ James’s mother says God is the color of water = water has no color.

Bicycle: her way of grieving/ escape from grief after husband dies. James is embarrassed b/c it showed she was different from others.

Names (changing them): change of identity. Rachel when in U.S. / Ruth when she moved to N.Y.

Foreshadowing

Ruth’s feelings for her father are cold, we find out it’s b/c he molested her.