https://padlet.com/brandon_161241/oeknep5s5rf4 Brandon Charbonneau P3 en-us 2018-04-25 06:58:22 UTC 2018-04-25 07:56:22 UTC hello@padlet.com brandon_161241 https://padlet.com/brandon_161241/oeknep5s5rf4/wish/255113340 By: John Updike]]> 2018-04-25 07:04:26 UTC https://padlet.com/brandon_161241/oeknep5s5rf4/wish/255113340 brandon_161241 https://padlet.com/brandon_161241/oeknep5s5rf4/wish/255113439 John is an American writer of short stories, novels, and poetry. He is well known for his description of "small-town/middle class life". He graduated from Harvard University in 1954, and then became a columnist with "The New Yorker" magazine. Updike brought upon a new perspective of life to the middle class American through his work, one that will not be forgotten. "Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them."

]]> 2018-04-25 07:04:55 UTC https://padlet.com/brandon_161241/oeknep5s5rf4/wish/255113439 brandon_161241 https://padlet.com/brandon_161241/oeknep5s5rf4/wish/255116585 Setting: Updike uses this method to create an image of the Protagonist's work environment/setting.
"Pearl Avenue runs past the high-school lot, Bends with the trolley tracks, and stops,"

Behavior: Updike uses this method to give us a view at the protagonist's life current day, after his fame and glory.

"He never learned a trade, he just sells gas, Checks oil, and changes flats. Once in a while,]]> 2018-04-25 07:20:15 UTC https://padlet.com/brandon_161241/oeknep5s5rf4/wish/255116585 brandon_161241 https://padlet.com/brandon_161241/oeknep5s5rf4/wish/255118509 The discontentment shown throughout the poem isn't told in a first person view from the protagonist himself. It is told through the narrators description of who the protagonist once was, and who he is now.

Before
"Once Flick played for the high-school team. He was good: in fact, the best"
"In '46 He bucketed three hundred ninety points, A country record still."

Discontent
"As a gag, he dribbles around an inner tube,"
"Grease-gray and kind of coiled, he plays pinball,Smokes those thin cigars, nurses lemon phosphates."

]]> 2018-04-25 07:30:30 UTC https://padlet.com/brandon_161241/oeknep5s5rf4/wish/255118509 brandon_161241 https://padlet.com/brandon_161241/oeknep5s5rf4/wish/255120182 Personification: Updike uses this to give inanimate object human characteristics.
"Pearl Avenue RUNS past the high-school lot, BENDS with the trolley tracks, and stops, cut off"

Simile:
"His hands were like wild birds"


]]> 2018-04-25 07:39:37 UTC https://padlet.com/brandon_161241/oeknep5s5rf4/wish/255120182 brandon_161241 https://padlet.com/brandon_161241/oeknep5s5rf4/wish/255122301 The protagonist in the poem and the protagonist in Death of a Salesman, deem to have some similarities, but differ drastically.

Comparisons:
Both "Flick" and "Willy" have had their worlds spun, and their lives have drastically changed for the worse. 

Contrast:
Flick, a once phenomenal athlete now works at a gas station with no ambition and drive in his life.

Willy, once a career salesman who had been fired spends his time trying to improve his and his families lives by trying to dig himself out of a hole.]]> 2018-04-25 07:51:58 UTC https://padlet.com/brandon_161241/oeknep5s5rf4/wish/255122301