(MOSTLY) AMERICAN MODERNISM by Karin Larsen https://padlet.com/kari8128/khvfyg7kj7jw Summaries and comments by 2.a en-us 2017-05-10 08:26:34 UTC 2017-05-10 09:23:48 UTC hello@padlet.com MODERNISM kari8128 https://padlet.com/kari8128/khvfyg7kj7jw/wish/170948483 It is impossible to tell exactly when a literary period began and when it ended. This is because of the many influences from history, science, politics, psychology etc. as well as from other literary periods (which also cannot be defined precisely). In addition, literary theorists usually disagree on the definition of a particular literary period. Finally, literary periods differ from one country to another.
American and British Modernism is often defined as a literary period that began around 1900 and ended around 1939 (the beginning of World War I). Authors were influenced by the atrocities of World War I, The Great Depression (which started with the Wall Street Crash in 1929), changes in society such as women's right to vote as well as the rise of fascism and communism.
This lead to disillusionment and pessimism, a break with tradition and a focus on the individual as well as on class, gender and race relations. 

]]> 2017-05-10 08:33:08 UTC https://padlet.com/kari8128/khvfyg7kj7jw/wish/170948483 Indian camp https://padlet.com/kari8128/khvfyg7kj7jw/wish/170948629 Hanan og Melodi

''Indian Camp'' is a short-story written by Ernest Hemingway in 1921. 

Nick is a young boy accompanying his father and his uncle George to an Indian camp on the other side of a
lake. Nicks father is a doctor, and the reason why they are visiting this Indian camp, is because the father is
summoned by the Indians to
help a young woman who’s been in labor for 2 days, still unable to deliver her
baby. When the father arrives, she is lying in a bottom bunk; her husband, who cut his foot badly with an
axe three days before, is lying in the bunk bed above her. The doctor performs a cesarean on the woman
with his jackknife, delivers the baby, and sews up the woman’s incision. After the improvised surgery, Nick’s
father looks into the top bunk and discovers that the young Indian husband, who listened to his wife
screaming during her labor pains and during her cesarean, has cut his throat. The violence and pain of the
birth contrast sharply with the ease of the suicide of the pregnant woman's husband, brought on by her
screams, and introduces Nick to the realities of birth and death.


]]> 2017-05-10 08:33:59 UTC https://padlet.com/kari8128/khvfyg7kj7jw/wish/170948629 The Great Gatsby https://padlet.com/kari8128/khvfyg7kj7jw/wish/170951768 Bonnie & Sebastian
Summary of chapter 1: Were introduced to the protagonist of the story, Nick, with a little anecdote about privilege. He lives on Long Island in a small and cheap rented house. He lives in very nice neighborhood. He talks about his first acquaintance with Gatsby's mansion and his general neighborhood. 

He goes to visit his cousin, Daisy, and her husband Tom, who Nick has known in college. They live across the courtesy bay. Tom and his family was enormously wealthy and Tom and Daisy live in a "white palace". 

When Nick he sees that Tom has changed since college and has become an even more brutish man. They talk about the house and Tom establishes himself as the alpha. They go to a room a he meets miss Baker. Throughout the evening they talk about Gatsby and they go to eat dinner on the porch. Daisy is taunting her husband by calling him "hulking". He has hurt her finger sometime earlier.

Modernist features:
Focus on the upper class society. Focus on the removing the curtain from the upper class lives (disillusionment). There is pessimistic tendency.]]> 2017-05-10 08:50:32 UTC https://padlet.com/kari8128/khvfyg7kj7jw/wish/170951768 The Duchess and the Jeweler https://padlet.com/kari8128/khvfyg7kj7jw/wish/170952476 Mie & Vanessa
This story is about the jeweler (Oliver Bacon) og the duchess. The duchess invites Oliver, who is a rich man, to diner, because wants to sell him some fake pearls and promise him her daughter to make him say yes without checking the quality of the pearls. She has a gambling problem, and she wants to hide it from her husband.  Oliver knows, that the pearls are fake, but he buys them anyways, because he want the duchess daughter, Diana. The jeweler and the duchess have something in common because they both miss something in life, and they help each other achieve it. Oliver needs acces to the upper class and the duchess needs money, so they simply exchange with each other. Oliver's ambition is to become part of the upper class, and he achieves that by marrying Diana. The story is about two selfish people who help each other achieve their short term goals.  ]]> 2017-05-10 08:54:05 UTC https://padlet.com/kari8128/khvfyg7kj7jw/wish/170952476 The Lottery https://padlet.com/kari8128/khvfyg7kj7jw/wish/170953579 Esin & Jonatan

Summary: 
On a warm day in late June the 27th, to be exact, villagers gather in the square to participate in a lottery run by Mr. Summers, who officiates at all the big civic events. The children arrive first and begin collecting stones until their parents call them to order. Mrs. Hutchinson arrives late and chats briefly with her friend, Mrs. Delacroix.
Mr. Summers calls each head of the household who was always a grown man, forward to a black wooden box, where each selects a slip of paper. Once the men have chosen, Mr. Summers allows everyone to open the paper and see who has been selected. It is Bill Hutchinson. His wife immediately starts protesting – so we get the sense that they're not about to win a couple million dollars.
There are five people total in the Hutchinson family. Mr. Summers places five slips of paper into the box and each member of the family draws. Tess (Mrs. Hutchinson) draws a slip of paper with a big black dot in the center which is not good. The villagers advance on her, and it becomes crystal clear what the prize for the lottery really is. Its a stoning and Tess protests in vain as the villagers attack her.

The lottery is written by Shirley Jackson, in 1948. Jackson who lived in North Bennington, Vermont, wrote the story on a warm june day after running errands. The idea come to her while she was pushing her daughter up some hill in her stroller. She chose a nameless little village to show, in 
microcosm, how the forces of belligerence, persecution, and vindictiveness are, in mankind, endless and traditional and that their targets are chosen without reason.”
]]> 2017-05-10 08:59:55 UTC https://padlet.com/kari8128/khvfyg7kj7jw/wish/170953579 The Vigilante -John Steinbeck. https://padlet.com/kari8128/khvfyg7kj7jw/wish/170954727 Simone.

It is a short story about Mike who takes part in a lynching of a black man. The setting is in a small town, first we meet Mike at the end of the Lynching, the black man has been strung up and people are now trying to set him on fire. 
Mike is feeling a bit empty, as if all the excitement is now gone and he wants to relive it so he goes to a bar nearby, hoping to find someone who was not there that he can tell the story to. Sadly for him there is only the bartender but the two of them quickly gets to talking about the events of the night. 

The ending takes place on their way home where they talk about how it felt to take part of the lynching and the bartender starts to wonder what kind of man he might have been and the discuss it black people can be viewed as friends or not. When Mike gets home his wife thinks he has been with another woman, the look on his face is one of satisfaction.

In this story there is focus on race relations, gender relations, individualism and the lives of the lower class.]]> 2017-05-10 09:06:43 UTC https://padlet.com/kari8128/khvfyg7kj7jw/wish/170954727