Books Flashcards
Modern black author, teacher
James Baldwin
Go tell it on the mountain
Notes of a native son
Who were the main characters of Don Quixote?
Don Quixote
Sancho Panza
Rocinante
Dapple
Dulcinea del Toboso
What was the Algonquin Round Table?
1919-1929 Algonquin Hotel
Formerly the Vicious Circle
NYC writers, critics and actors
Ruth Hale - woman’s rights writer
Robert Benchley- grandpa to Peter
Who wrote Don Quixote?
Miguel de Cervantes
What are the modern sailing books and who wrote them?
Sailing a serious ocean
Sailing to the edge of time
John Kretschmer
What was the book about the black guy in LA who ran a farm in his house?
The Sellout - Paul Beatty
When was Don Quixote written?
1605-1615
Who wrote “Remains of the Day”?
Kazuo Ishiguro
Who wrote “Unbearable lightness of being”?
Mila Kundera (1929- )
Who wrote the Goldfinch?
Donna Tartt
Book about modern layers of society, jealosy
Caste, Isabel Wilkerson
What else did Mila Kundera write?
Book of laughter and forgetting
William Faulkner
1897-1962
The Sound and the Fury
Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged
Fountainhead
Albert Camus - most famous book
The Stranger
Who wrote “The Color Purple”
Alice Walker, 1944-
Mark Twain
1835-1910
Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
1813
Moby Dick
Herman Melville
1851
Jane Austen - books
Mansfield Park
Pride and Prejudice
Sense and Sensibility
Couples should improve/ educate each other
Characters from Pride and Prejudice
Elizabeth Bennet
Jane Bennet
Mr Darcy
Mr Wickham
Jane Austen - life
1787-1817
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott, 1868
Compare Little Women to Pride and Prejudice
Both have strong protagonists
P&P is more about women not being bound by class
Little Women is about women not being bound by gender roles
Count of Monte Cristo author
Alexandre Dumas
1844
Main Characters from Moby Dick
Ishmael - Author
Captain Ahab
Queequeg
Starbuck
Stubb
Ship - Pequod
Theme of Moby DIck
Man cannot completely conquer nature
Revenge can consume you
Limits of knowledge-Melville knows lots, but the whale still wins
Characters from Sound and Fury
Quentin
Jason
Caddie
Benjy
Dilsey
Theme of Sound and Fury
Time is circular - like Arrival
Some characters hate time
Dilsey and Benjy are free of it
Dilsey is spiritual
Benjy doesn’t understand time.
Main characters from Sense and Sensibility
Elinor Dashwood
Marianne Dashwood
Edward Ferrars
John Willoughby
Haiku Structure
three lines
Syllables = 575
Which Sense and Sensibility character do you identify with?
Edward Ferrars- soft spoken, conversation > money
Where does the title for Sense amd Sensibility come from?
Sense = Elinor - good sense, practical Sensibility = Marianne (more passionate, optimistic
Sense and Sensibility
Head and heart
Neither on its own is perfect
Balance is the key
Jane Austen inspiration
She almost inherited Stoneleigh Abbey from a relation who had no spouse and children
She oscillated between wealth and poverty.
Grew up with status but not wealth
Girls from Little Women
Jo March
Beth March
Meg March
Amy March
Marmee
One hundred years of solitude
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
1967
The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K Le Guin
1969
Who wrote Midnight’s Children?
Salman Rushdie
Who wrote Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy?
Douglas Adams
Main character from HG2G?
Arthur Dent
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë 1847
Written as Currer Bell
Gender and Class
Pride and Prejudice vs
Jane Eyre
Approach / Characters
PP-funny, intelligent, beautiful characters, romcom archetype
JE- dramatic, plain characters,
Pride and Prejudice vs Jane Eyre themes
PP- status / wealth
JE- status / wealth AND gender/feminism
Departure
Abfahrt
A question
Eine Frage
Main characters from To Kill a Mockingbird
Scout, Jem, Atticus Finch
Boo Radley, Tom Robinson
Two aspects of Dickens’ strategy
1) address social ills
2) build empathy for low status characters who suffer the social ills.
Did Dickens spend more effort on defining problems or solutions?
All defining problems/questions, no effort on solutions.
Significance of the title “To Kill a Mockingbird”
End of innocence- Scout, Boo Radley, Tom Robinson
Common threads between Apocalypse Now and Heart of Darkness
VERY similar
A) Kurtz and his MO
B) harlequin and Dennis Hopper
