https://padlet.com/esanders34390/urskoke0dpyl , en-us 2018-03-21 16:19:37 UTC 2023-01-31 04:52:14 UTC hello@padlet.com esanders34390 https://padlet.com/esanders34390/urskoke0dpyl/wish/244618532 by Joan Didion 
BIG IDEAS:
Joan is describing how America in 1967 is an example of a setting where things are falling apart. 
In the second paragraph the author describes how everything was lined up for society to flourish. But then she goes on the describe how society has done the opposite. 
She chooses to mimic the style of William B. Yeats' poem "The Second Coming" 
"A sign on Haight Street, San Francisco:
Last Easter Day
My Christopher Robin wandered away.
He called April 10th
But he hasn’t called since
He said he was coming home
But he hasn’t shown.
If you see him on Haight
Please tell him not to wait
I need him now
I don’t care how
If he needs the bread
I’ll send it ahead.
If there’s hope
Please write me a note
If he’s still there
Tell him how much I care
Where he’s at I need to know
For I really love him so!
Deeply,
Marla" 
This emulates the style, as well as the content of things falling apart. She then chooses to pull a situation where she notices someone close to her who is shooting cocaine, also highlighting the relevance of Yeats' poem in her life. ]]> 2018-03-21 16:25:58 UTC https://padlet.com/esanders34390/urskoke0dpyl/wish/244618532 sborgelt22781 https://padlet.com/esanders34390/urskoke0dpyl/wish/244619479 2018-03-21 16:27:47 UTC https://padlet.com/esanders34390/urskoke0dpyl/wish/244619479 sborgelt22781 https://padlet.com/esanders34390/urskoke0dpyl/wish/244626983 -America in 1967
-Market was steady and society was thriving: so there should not have been a second coming
-The author's center of life breaks in the hands of the second coming.
-Relates to Yeats poem that "anarchy is lost upon the world" and "ceremony of innocence is drowned".
-Faith and hope of her society had been lost and turned into hatred and destruction as seen in Didion's first paragraph.]]> 2018-03-21 16:41:17 UTC https://padlet.com/esanders34390/urskoke0dpyl/wish/244626983 esanders34390 https://padlet.com/esanders34390/urskoke0dpyl/wish/244967559 h]]> 2018-03-22 13:10:03 UTC https://padlet.com/esanders34390/urskoke0dpyl/wish/244967559 pdale63240 https://padlet.com/esanders34390/urskoke0dpyl/wish/245075368 2018-03-22 15:51:58 UTC https://padlet.com/esanders34390/urskoke0dpyl/wish/245075368 pdale63240 https://padlet.com/esanders34390/urskoke0dpyl/wish/245088513 Sydney Borgelt, Presley Dale, Kimberly Harris, Evan Henley, 
Elizabeth Sanders, Trey Smith]]> 2018-03-22 16:11:11 UTC https://padlet.com/esanders34390/urskoke0dpyl/wish/245088513 rsmith48741 https://padlet.com/esanders34390/urskoke0dpyl/wish/245088584 Joan Didion speaks on America in 1967 and the issues that existed within the nation. In relation to the first sentence, "The center was not holding" (Didion 1). Didion is speaking on the relationship between the American people and the slow fall to a crisis that we as a nation are approaching. ]]> 2018-03-22 16:11:18 UTC https://padlet.com/esanders34390/urskoke0dpyl/wish/245088584 pdale63240 https://padlet.com/esanders34390/urskoke0dpyl/wish/245089275 In the original poem "The Second Coming," Yeat's described a second coming of darkness and destruction after World War l. In Didion's essay, she set her second coming in 1967 America where hopes and dreams were crumbling. In "Things Fall Apart," Achebe 's describes Okonkwo's second coming as that of his exile and life falling apart, compiled with the arrival of the missionaries that essentially contradicted everything Okonkwo believed. ]]> 2018-03-22 16:12:25 UTC https://padlet.com/esanders34390/urskoke0dpyl/wish/245089275 ehenley30602 https://padlet.com/esanders34390/urskoke0dpyl/wish/245091059 The relationship of the structures between the two writings, is content based. The first part of both of them begins by describing tragedy and the bad things that are occurring. For example, in "The Second Coming", it talks about a falcon not being able to hear the falconer, and in "Slouching Towards Bethlehem", it talks about how her "Christopher Robin wandered away." This shows that bad things are happening in both poems. After it talks about positive things happening. In "The Second Coming", it says "A shape with lion body and the head of a man...". This means that God is being glorified and seen in a magnificent light in which his is holy. In "Slouching Towards Bethlehem", It says "For I really love him so!" This shows that even though things have been going bad, she still has mercy and loves him wherever he is and whatever he is doing.]]> 2018-03-22 16:14:49 UTC https://padlet.com/esanders34390/urskoke0dpyl/wish/245091059 kharris58871 https://padlet.com/esanders34390/urskoke0dpyl/wish/245095831 The difference is their point of view's. They each had a personal view of how things fell apart and the process of which they fell apart. Didion took Yeats poem and changed the setting so that it would fit her life. Didion went into more depth about how even though the USA is filled with many opportunities, "It was not a country in open revolution. It was not a country under enemy siege. It was the United States of
America in the year 1967, and the market was steady and the GNP high..."(Didion 2), things still found a way to fall apart whereas Yeats was a more broad explanation of things falling apart. ]]> 2018-03-22 16:22:37 UTC https://padlet.com/esanders34390/urskoke0dpyl/wish/245095831 pdale63240 https://padlet.com/esanders34390/urskoke0dpyl/wish/245097216 2018-03-22 16:25:01 UTC https://padlet.com/esanders34390/urskoke0dpyl/wish/245097216