AK Independent Novel Analysis by https://padlet.com/katie_mastroianni/AKNotesFromUnderground Alex Kinnaman - Notes From Underground en-us 2018-03-08 19:41:20 UTC 2018-05-14 15:44:18 UTC hello@padlet.com Fyodor Dostoevsky 1754651 https://padlet.com/katie_mastroianni/AKNotesFromUnderground/wish/241055414 Fyodor Dostoevsky published his novel, Notes From Underground, in January 1864, 10 years after his release from Siberian exile, where he was told he would be executed shortly previously. The novel serves as a diary exemplar of, 'the underground people', on the fringes of society, with the diary serving as the microcosm of that, through the voice and musings of a sick, spiteful, 'underground man'.]]> 2018-03-12 18:31:03 UTC https://padlet.com/katie_mastroianni/AKNotesFromUnderground/wish/241055414 Is he or she believable? 1754651 https://padlet.com/katie_mastroianni/AKNotesFromUnderground/wish/241067593 The narrator and main character throughout the novel, Notes From Underground, by Fyodor Dostoevsky, remains unnamed, and is thus collectively referred to as, 'the underground man'. The novel begins with the narrator describing himself to be said, "I am a sick man... I am a spiteful man.". And the narrator is very believable in this claim as he goes on to elaborate as to why he is sick, and why he is spiteful, and why he may even enjoy the products being sadistic pleasantries.]]> 2018-03-12 18:50:02 UTC https://padlet.com/katie_mastroianni/AKNotesFromUnderground/wish/241067593 Does the narrator have access to all characters' thoughts (omniscient) or only one (limited)? 1754651 https://padlet.com/katie_mastroianni/AKNotesFromUnderground/wish/248174619 Throughout the novel, Notes From Underground, by Fyodor Dostoevsky, the narrator encompasses the entirety of a singular individual atleast in regards to the consciousness of that individual. It is told from that perspective as well; stream of consciousness, as the narrator manifests itself in the thoughts and ramblings of the character, 'the underground man'.]]> 2018-04-03 15:45:19 UTC https://padlet.com/katie_mastroianni/AKNotesFromUnderground/wish/248174619 How does the narrator's perspective affect the novel? 1754651 https://padlet.com/katie_mastroianni/AKNotesFromUnderground/wish/248179227 The narrators perspective throughout the novel, Notes From Underground, by Fyodor Dosotevsky, guides the entire structure of the the way in which the novel's story is told, as it is narrated entirely from a stream of consciousness perspective of the main character. It determines the way in which the world will be perceived by the character, and thus how it will be transmitted to the reader. It filters all of reality through a single lens by which the character develops themselves.]]> 2018-04-03 15:53:34 UTC https://padlet.com/katie_mastroianni/AKNotesFromUnderground/wish/248179227 How does the author flesh out a character that you have identified with or are intrigued by? 1754651 https://padlet.com/katie_mastroianni/AKNotesFromUnderground/wish/248188016 In the novel, Notes From Underground, by Fyodor Dostoevsky, the character of, 'The Underground Man', through a continuous stream of consciousness, reveals to the reader what it is that composes his character. This character is intriguing, namely due to what he reveals, and how, what he reveals, can be juxtaposed to that which he perceives as outside of himself. And through his prose, flesh out his character, as filtered from within himself, but ultimately drawn from each other perspective.]]> 2018-04-03 16:10:20 UTC https://padlet.com/katie_mastroianni/AKNotesFromUnderground/wish/248188016 What has the author done to create your understanding of that character? 1754651 https://padlet.com/katie_mastroianni/AKNotesFromUnderground/wish/248188118 In the novel, Notes From Underground, by Fyodor Dostoevsky, the author quite literally, in a rather pedagogic manner, tells the reader who and what, the narrator is, or at least claims to be. So the understanding is developed in the prose of the narrator, who retains the position of that character. This is done for example as he presents a situation, and simply tells the reader, how he has decided he has, and will continue to, respond behaviorally and cognitively to that situation.]]> 2018-04-03 16:10:32 UTC https://padlet.com/katie_mastroianni/AKNotesFromUnderground/wish/248188118 What are the moments that define that character you have connected to? 1754651 https://padlet.com/katie_mastroianni/AKNotesFromUnderground/wish/248188228 In the novel, Notes From Underground, by Fyodor Dostoevsky, the moments which define this character are found in those which he himself presents to the reader. And from those moments, provides an analysis in regards to his behavioral and cognitive reaction to, or interaction with that specific moment. Furthermore, he analyses how others would behaviorally and cognitively react to, or interact with that same specific moment, and from there draws a relational contrast between the two, allowing for further characterization and one that is more meaningful anyways because it is oriented within what we have agreed to be important within reality, as we all must participate within it.]]> 2018-04-03 16:10:50 UTC https://padlet.com/katie_mastroianni/AKNotesFromUnderground/wish/248188228 Why do you think that his character resonates with you? 1754651 https://padlet.com/katie_mastroianni/AKNotesFromUnderground/wish/248188286 In the novel, Notes From Underground, by Fyodor Dostoevsky, the narrator resonated with me because I find many of the things that he places within his prose, things which I have often found myself observing in other people, and thinking about myself as well. Albeit he presents in a more spiteful and emotionally charged manner, and one even more developed than mine, albeit in perhaps another direction, I find relation in the ideas which are shared. So it was similar lines of thinking which allowed the character to resonate with me.]]> 2018-04-03 16:11:00 UTC https://padlet.com/katie_mastroianni/AKNotesFromUnderground/wish/248188286 How fast or slow is the plot moving and how does that impact your enjoyment of the story? 1754651 https://padlet.com/katie_mastroianni/AKNotesFromUnderground/wish/248188359 In the novel, Notes From Underground, by Fyodor Dostoevsky, the plot is hardly even a plot, more just the musings of the symbolic manifestation of those who live on the 'fringe' and those people assuredly exist. Although, if we were to consider the development of the character, form his prose, which is evident, as the plot, then I would say the plot is moving rather slowly, although I would also say if it was moving any faster, then the meaning contained therein would have much greater potential to be lost. Tough ideas are presented, and while from an entertainment perspective it may not be optimal, if one is looking for intellectual nourishment, it can easily be found there, although such requires serious work on the ideas presented.]]> 2018-04-03 16:11:12 UTC https://padlet.com/katie_mastroianni/AKNotesFromUnderground/wish/248188359 How does the author move time forward? 1754651 https://padlet.com/katie_mastroianni/AKNotesFromUnderground/wish/248189206 In the novel, Notes From Underground, by Fyodor Dostoevsky, time is moved forward in the development of the character, which stated above, largely serves as the plot. We can sense time has moved forward when the ideas presented have changed, when the behaviors in reaction to, or in interaction with, a certain situation, have changed, although they are never dramatic. So time moves at the speed of thought, and more specifically, at the speed by which it finds itself capable of changing behavior; slow.]]> 2018-04-03 16:13:16 UTC https://padlet.com/katie_mastroianni/AKNotesFromUnderground/wish/248189206 Are there flashbacks? How does that work? 1754651 https://padlet.com/katie_mastroianni/AKNotesFromUnderground/wish/248189299 In the novel, Notes From Underground, by Fyodor Dostoevsky, there are flashbacks, although perhaps not in the psychosis like sense. More in the sense that the narrator reflects on events in his past, and uses those memories as a platform of analysis by which his character may be developed.]]> 2018-04-03 16:13:28 UTC https://padlet.com/katie_mastroianni/AKNotesFromUnderground/wish/248189299 Does the central character change and grow? 1754651 https://padlet.com/katie_mastroianni/AKNotesFromUnderground/wish/248189416 In the novel, Notes From Underground, by Fyodor Dostoevsky, the central character is in a constant state of change as the ideas he presents, are analyzed in real time, by him, and with that comes the development of his character. Not only in that we become more knowledgeable about how he sees the world, but he as well, with the development of such knowledge being the product of that.]]> 2018-04-03 16:13:40 UTC https://padlet.com/katie_mastroianni/AKNotesFromUnderground/wish/248189416 Trace them throughout the text. 1754651 https://padlet.com/katie_mastroianni/AKNotesFromUnderground/wish/248189609 In the novel, Notes From Underground, by Fyodor Dostoevsky, the character is perfectly one dimensional, yet at the same time causes within the reader contradictory reactions. In part 1 of the novel, he speaks of what an 'acutely conscious' man is, and why such a man exists. And what the antithesis of that is, and why that exists. And while we may agree with his ideas, his actions are deplorable. And so the action precipitates the consequence, but the consequence is what is worth paying attention to. Or is it? First he is just consequence, then he is action, and we are forced to identify and assign value to both.]]> 2018-04-03 16:14:10 UTC https://padlet.com/katie_mastroianni/AKNotesFromUnderground/wish/248189609 What role does the central conflict play in those changes? 1754651 https://padlet.com/katie_mastroianni/AKNotesFromUnderground/wish/248189733 In the novel, Notes From Underground, by Fyodor Dostoevsky, the central conflict, being that of the one playing out in prose before the reader, within the mind of the narrator, is the cause of any potential change at all; self actualization. It is that process which governs an intelligent being's ability to develop themselves, and it is the process which plays out on the page in front of the reader, through the narrators stream of consciousness, and thus is what serves to cause any sort of change in the individual at all.]]> 2018-04-03 16:14:29 UTC https://padlet.com/katie_mastroianni/AKNotesFromUnderground/wish/248189733 Are there any passages that astounded you with their beauty or truth or just got you thinking? Analyze one or more of those. Look at what the author did and think about why it resonated with you. 1754651 https://padlet.com/katie_mastroianni/AKNotesFromUnderground/wish/248189792 "There in its nasty, stinking, underground home our insulted, crushed and ridiculed mouse promptly becomes absorbed in cold, malignant and, above all, everlasting spite. For forty years together it will remember its injury down to the smallest, most ignominious details, and every time will add, of itself, details still more ignominious, spitefully teasing and tormenting itself with its own imagination. It will itself be ashamed of its imaginings, but yet it will recall it all, it will go over and over every detail, it will invent unheard of things against itself, pretending that those things might happen, and will forgive nothing. " 

This passage astounded me with it's truth, specifically in that I myself in the mouse. And the way in which he describes the processes the mouse is required to engage in, which are no doubt counter productive behaviors, but yet ones recognized as compulsory, I could relate to perfectly. We fear the unknown vehemently; the border between order and chaos, and rightly so, but we are required to live there, and perhaps even there is an enjoyment in it; the imperfect is our paradise.
]]> 2018-04-03 16:14:40 UTC https://padlet.com/katie_mastroianni/AKNotesFromUnderground/wish/248189792 A connection with another book or your own experience: Explain the connection in detail. 1754651 https://padlet.com/katie_mastroianni/AKNotesFromUnderground/wish/248190616 To refer to the first passage analyzed, the description of the mouse is a perfect description of how my anxiety prefers to manifest itself within me. And considering it is being written about at that time, perhaps it could be thought of as a common description. "It will invent unheard of things against itself, pretending that those things might happen, and will forgive nothing."]]> 2018-04-03 16:16:39 UTC https://padlet.com/katie_mastroianni/AKNotesFromUnderground/wish/248190616 A connection to something we read or discussed as a class. 1754651 https://padlet.com/katie_mastroianni/AKNotesFromUnderground/wish/248190842 Crime and Punishment would be a connection, same author, same sort of psychological exploration, and each of the main characters designed to serve as the distilled synecdoche for, in crime and punishment's case, men of self-proclaimed moral superiority, and in Notes From Underground’s case, those on the fringe.]]> 2018-04-03 16:17:11 UTC https://padlet.com/katie_mastroianni/AKNotesFromUnderground/wish/248190842 How does the author's use of the elements of fiction (exposition, inciting incident, conflict, rising action, turning point, etc.) keep you turning the page? 1754651 https://padlet.com/katie_mastroianni/AKNotesFromUnderground/wish/248190959 Oh boy does he use these or what! Such a page turner this one is! As if there isn't fear in every one. Fear that perhaps he will say it, that it, which will force my existence into the rubble to which I'm sure is barely worth even standing upon. And it's there, because I've felt it before, I suppose it is only a matter of time? Anyways there is little plot, although you could consider exposition in the beginning line, "I am a sick man... I am a spiteful man."]]> 2018-04-03 16:17:28 UTC https://padlet.com/katie_mastroianni/AKNotesFromUnderground/wish/248190959 Is the book to inform, explain, or argue a point of view? 1754651 https://padlet.com/katie_mastroianni/AKNotesFromUnderground/wish/248191516 It is to inform, of the mans life, and his opinions about the world, but less so seen as opinions and more as tautologies. And so in that sense, arguing a point of view, because he is telling the truth and if one believes that truth to not be so, well then that is where an argument between points of view would occur. The most advantageous advantage of man is that of free will.]]> 2018-04-03 16:18:42 UTC https://padlet.com/katie_mastroianni/AKNotesFromUnderground/wish/248191516 How do you know? 1754651 https://padlet.com/katie_mastroianni/AKNotesFromUnderground/wish/248191558 I basically explained it above, but because he presents a set of opinions, although from his perspective, tautologies. And from there a perspective about the world is formulated and thus argued. But this is all done in a pedagogic format, which makes it seem informing. I would highly recommend it as Hunter S. Thompson had said, "I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.".]]> 2018-04-03 16:18:47 UTC https://padlet.com/katie_mastroianni/AKNotesFromUnderground/wish/248191558 A connection to something we read or discussed as a class. 1754651 https://padlet.com/katie_mastroianni/AKNotesFromUnderground/wish/248192006 Looking at the poem, Mushrooms, By Sylvia Plath, the 'Underground Man', would be a truffle.]]> 2018-04-03 16:19:47 UTC https://padlet.com/katie_mastroianni/AKNotesFromUnderground/wish/248192006 A connection to something we read or discussed as a class. 1754651 https://padlet.com/katie_mastroianni/AKNotesFromUnderground/wish/248192103 In the novel, Notes From Underground, by Fyodor Dostoevsky,]]> 2018-04-03 16:19:58 UTC https://padlet.com/katie_mastroianni/AKNotesFromUnderground/wish/248192103 A connection with another book or your own experience: Explain the connection in detail. 1754651 https://padlet.com/katie_mastroianni/AKNotesFromUnderground/wish/248192244 Graduating high school; I am a mouse confronted by a wall designed for a bull. And so your solution may be to simply find a vine and climb up, which seems reasonable. Until one realizes that even the vine is imaginary.]]> 2018-04-03 16:20:15 UTC https://padlet.com/katie_mastroianni/AKNotesFromUnderground/wish/248192244 A connection with another book or your own experience: Explain the connection in detail. 1754651 https://padlet.com/katie_mastroianni/AKNotesFromUnderground/wish/248192369 You ask too much of me.]]> 2018-04-03 16:20:31 UTC https://padlet.com/katie_mastroianni/AKNotesFromUnderground/wish/248192369 Are there any passages that astounded you with their beauty or truth or just got you thinking? Analyze one or more of those. Look at what the author did and think about why it resonated with you. 1754651 https://padlet.com/katie_mastroianni/AKNotesFromUnderground/wish/248192872 In the novel, Notes From Underground, by Fyodor Dostoevsky,]]> 2018-04-03 16:21:34 UTC https://padlet.com/katie_mastroianni/AKNotesFromUnderground/wish/248192872 Are there any passages that astounded you with their beauty or truth or just got you thinking? Analyze one or more of those. Look at what the author did and think about why it resonated with you. 1754651 https://padlet.com/katie_mastroianni/AKNotesFromUnderground/wish/254659381 In the novel, Notes From Underground, by Fyodor Dostoevsky,]]> 2018-04-24 02:11:11 UTC https://padlet.com/katie_mastroianni/AKNotesFromUnderground/wish/254659381