• Innocence

• Gender Roles

• Power Dynamics

• Marriage

• Family

• Reputation

• Secrets

• Money

• Inheritance

• Manipulation

• Trauma

Themes:

• Relationships with unequal power dynamics often end up falling apart

• A capitalist and patriarchal society affects gender roles and power dynamics within a family

For example, a brave character might have a cowardly foil to make their courage stand out more.

• First paragraph

• Hook

• Introduce the text: title/author/date

• Brief Summary

• Thesis statement (claim)

• Do not open with grandiose assertion

• don't start with a question

Body Paragraph Tips:

• T: Clear topic sentence that connects your claim and also lays out what the focus of your body paragraph will be (which stylistic device, etc)

• E: Introduce/incoorperate the evidence

• A: Analysis, must identify the stylistic device right after, and how it works

• L: Concluding sentence, begin with transition word

Conclusion Tips:

• Restate thesis (reword) + or new more developed thesis

• Summarize key points

• Offer a final insight

• connect to author's purpose/larger implications

includes:

• the setting

• props

• lighting

• costumes

• makeup

• actors movement/positioning

all about how these elements work together to create mood, meaning, and a visual story.

in one shot:

• props

• set design

• costume

• makeup

• color

• lighting

• blocking

• framing

• lenses

• sound

• frame rate

• music

• the lines in the windows

• the disparities

• size of them

• their reality

• what on the other side

• light vs dark motif

"indian" motif

speaking in english

• symbol of success and class

  
  

stairs

• up vs down

  
  

smell

• what people smell like

• smelling the same

• reader must read through to understand and create curiosity

line break

• is the point where a poet ends one line and begins another

caesure = pause between a line

• forces the reader to pause

meter

• rhythmic pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem (aka. beat)

free verse

• poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter

end rhyme

• comes at the end of the line

internal rhyme

• embedded within a line

• internal rhyme scheme - within a stanza

anaphora vs epistrophe

• word or phrase repeated..

• anaphora = beginning of the line repeated

• epistrophe = end of the line repeated

• any scene w dene and uncle is a flashback

Chapter 3, Apr 9:

• Alcatraz - notorious prison - max security

• native American activists occupied Alcatraz for 19 months (1969-1971)

• it is isolated from modern facilities

• inadequate water

• unemployment

• no healthcare

• no educational facilities

• population has always been dependent on others

Chapter 16, Apr 30:

• motif; gentrification: page 215

  • "to cater to all the hipsters and artists who hover and buzz around oakland like flies, americas white suburban vanilla youth, searching for some invisible thing oakland might give them, street cred or inner city inspiration"

• motif; itching: page 218

  • "there was only the open, living wound, and it itched somewhere on your body at all times... if you drank enough you didn't scratch at night"