{"content":{"sharePage":{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"19039785","dateCreated":"1263906724","smartDate":"Jan 19, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"laurenleee","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/laurenleee","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1202793136\/laurenleee-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/kisapenglporter2009-10.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/19039785"},"dateDigested":1532169778,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Sample Passage Questions","description":"I totally came up with these on my own so if you don't get the answers, I totally understand ; )
\n
\nErosion
\nLinda Pastan
\n
\nWe are slowly
\nundermined. Grain
\nby grain. . . .
\ninch by inch. . . .
\nslippage.
\nIt happens as we watch.
\nThe waves move their long row
\nof scythes over the long beach.
\n
\nIt happens as we sleep,
\nthe way the clock's hands
\nmove continuously
\njust out of sight,
\nbut more like an hourglass
\nthan a clock,
\nfor here sand
\nis running out.
\n
\nWe wake to water.
\nImplacably lovely
\nis this view
\nthough it will swallow
\nus whole, soon
\nthere will be
\nnothing left
\nbut view.
\n
\nWe have tried a seawall.
\nWe have tried prayer.
\nWe have planted grasses
\non the bank, small tentacles
\nhooks of green that catch
\non nothing. For the wind
\ndoes its work, the water
\ndoes sure work.
\n
\nOne day the sea will simply
\ntake us. The children
\npress their faces to the glass
\nas if the windows were portholes,
\nand the house fills
\nwith animals: two dogs,
\na bird, cats\u2014we are becoming
\nan ark already.
\n
\nThe gulls will follow
\nour wake.
\nWe are made of water anyway,
\nI can feel it in the yielding
\nof your flesh, though sometimes
\nI think that you are sand,
\nmoving slowly, slowly
\nfrom under me.
\n
\nQ1: Where is the major shift?
\na. line 6
\nb. line 9
\nc. line 14
\nd. line 33
\ne. line 41
\n
\nQ2: What rhetorical strategy is exhibited in "We have planted grasses
\non the bank, small tentacles
\nhooks of green that catch
\non nothing."
\nI. personification
\nII. allusion
\nIII. metaphor
\na. I
\nb. II
\nc. III
\nd. I and II
\ne. II and III
\n
\n3. According to the lines "but more like an hourglass
\nthan a clock,
\nfor here sand
\nis running out." the author portrays time as
\na. something that can be saved
\nb. something that we lack of
\nc. something that can't be turned back
\nd. something that we're missing
\ne. something that diminishes
\n
\n
\n
\n
\nA: 1- I thought it was e, but maybe there is no shift at all? :?
\n2- I chose a because I thought tentacles catching was a personification while I saw no apparent metaphor and it wasn't alluding to anything.
\n3- e, I think the special line about time being more like an hourglass was to state that time diminishes until we have none left, like death, rather than a clock that keeps going around and around.
\n
\nSo what do you guys think?","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"19039519","dateCreated":"1263905989","smartDate":"Jan 19, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"laurenleee","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/laurenleee","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1202793136\/laurenleee-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/kisapenglporter2009-10.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/19039519"},"dateDigested":1532169778,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Feminism Essay outline: Yellow Wallpaper","description":"If we had a question that asked us to choose an essay that best portrays women of that time, I will write about Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Gilman.
\n
\nThesis: The distorted female character in Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Gilman portrays the suppressed women figure of the 19th century America.
\n
\nOutline:
\nI. Her mental illness and instability
\n-worrying about her husband's affair
\n-worrying about her baby
\n-seeing a woman inside the wallpaper
\n-extreme desire to get out of the room
\n-thinking that her husband is intentionally trapping her
\n-she wants to work and interact with the society but her husband won't let her
\n*common illness for women at that time because so many responsibilities and so many worries.
\n
\n2. The room itself
\n-barred windows= repressed freedom of women
\n-locked door= women are trapped inside the house(no work, just housework)"domestic sphere"
\n-yellow wallpaper= weird color indeed, portray that women are minority in the society just like yellow was an unique color for wallpaper?
\n
\n3. Conclusion of the story
\n-she eventually crawls over the husband= symbolically portraying women's desire to overcome the suppression by their husbands
\n-she escapes the room
\n-but she's seriously crazy at the end= the fight for freedom is that hard?
\n
\nConclusion: The female character with her mental illness, desires, and fantasy of the woman in the wallpaper, perfectly portrays the ideal 19th century woman figure. The story overall portrays 19th century women's desire to own freedom and a space in the society away from the domestic sphere and the male dominance.
\n
\nDo you guys think there's any more symbolism in this story? or anything that I got wrong? : )","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"19010739","dateCreated":"1263818097","smartDate":"Jan 18, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"jshen123","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/jshen123","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/kisapenglporter2009-10.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/19010739"},"dateDigested":1532169778,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Great Gatsby","description":"Interpretation of green light other than american dream and money. ?","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"19001203","dateCreated":"1263767840","smartDate":"Jan 17, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"brians10","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/brians10","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/kisapenglporter2009-10.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/19001203"},"dateDigested":1532169778,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Frankenstein","description":"Can Frankenstein possibly represent something in the society? If yes, what?","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"19010719","body":"revenge is not a fruitful choice. by achieving it, one may feel a temporary joy, but the process will likely destroy him\/her first.","dateCreated":"1263817919","smartDate":"Jan 18, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"jshen123","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/jshen123","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}}],"more":0}]},{"id":"18993663","dateCreated":"1263719296","smartDate":"Jan 17, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"sarahjang","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/sarahjang","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1222755549\/sarahjang-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/kisapenglporter2009-10.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/18993663"},"dateDigested":1532169780,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Feminism","description":"We read a lot of books regarding feminism this semester. I can definitely remember the Yellow Wall Paper and Roselily. Can you guys think of any other stories with feminist criticism?","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"18993835","body":"Jung-Ah..
\nI love talking about feminism!! I actually wrote our Frankenstein persuasive essay on feminism. I found many connections with Pandora, the first mortal woman in Greek myth, to the influential female characters. Not only does this book show the society's repression against female power but it portrays that hidden women power; Elizabeth's power to persuade Victor to come home, the creature's desire for a female partner etc.","dateCreated":"1263722218","smartDate":"Jan 17, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"jjlee","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/jjlee","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"18994035","body":"Unlearning to Not Speak Marge Piercy
\nThere are still others.
\n
\nWould you consider After Dark or Wuthering Heights to be feminist?","dateCreated":"1263727320","smartDate":"Jan 17, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"lporter","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/lporter","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"18994795","body":"I'd say After Dark and Wuthering Heights were both feminist, in a way. I read both books and their approach seem to be quite different. After Dark, for instance, expressed how the society focuses so much on the beauty of women and not so much on their abilities to live their lives. Also, Wuthering Heights also had the impression of women not being able to have much of a choice in their families.","dateCreated":"1263738123","smartDate":"Jan 17, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"michelleli","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/michelleli","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"19001735","body":"I agree Michelle! After Dark definitely portrays feminist ideals. I think this can be seen through the comparison of Mari with her beautiful older sister. Mari has dreams for herself, but she goes unnoticed besides her breathtaking sister just because she is not as physically "perfect".","dateCreated":"1263769663","smartDate":"Jan 17, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"jenniferp22","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/jenniferp22","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}}],"more":0}]},{"id":"18993325","dateCreated":"1263713499","smartDate":"Jan 16, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"yura","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/yura","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/kisapenglporter2009-10.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/18993325"},"dateDigested":1532169780,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"After Dark","description":"It seems like in After Dark there are two different stories going on: one about Mari and the other about the business man who harmed the Chinese prostitute. What's the purpose of this?","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"18994087","body":"Probably, the author is trying to state that two completely distinct, or even incongruous events might happen in such a confined area. And in some occasions, those might be connected by a sheer thread, such as Mari. The only part that Eri's story and the business man's story is Mari.","dateCreated":"1263728383","smartDate":"Jan 17, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"primal91","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/primal91","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"18994891","body":"I think part of the message is the idea that we live in such a small world. The two different stories somehow connect as the characters almost meet each other, unknowing of what the other person's life is like. Also, Murakami may have wanted to emphasize the importance of time. Even in such a short length of time, so much could happen. One story wasn't enough.","dateCreated":"1263739156","smartDate":"Jan 17, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"michelleli","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/michelleli","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"19036867","body":"By intertwining these two stories in After Dark, I see a mosaic of the lives in the dark. In other words, it sets up a comparison. While some people are discovering friends, some are abusing others. But all of this happens under the same night and like Michelle says, "We live in such a small world".","dateCreated":"1263884673","smartDate":"Jan 18, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"jesyun","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/jesyun","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}}],"more":0}]},{"id":"18993321","dateCreated":"1263713433","smartDate":"Jan 16, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"yura","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/yura","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/kisapenglporter2009-10.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/18993321"},"dateDigested":1532169780,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Omelas","description":"How does our happiness and the happiness of people in Omelas differ?","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"18993657","body":"Hi, Yura:)
\nAbout the happiness, my personal opinion is that our happiness and theirs aren't that different. I think the point of the story is that though some of us live a rather comfortable and easy life, there are those who suffer for our happiness, like the child who was locked in Omelas. Just like we have the third world nations suffering from poverty, the little kid represents the victims of society\/","dateCreated":"1263719050","smartDate":"Jan 17, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"sarahjang","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/sarahjang","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1222755549\/sarahjang-lg.jpg"}},{"id":"18994055","body":"Ooh. . . happiness would be a good thematic question, particularly when also considering After Dark and Frankenstein. Yura, thank you.","dateCreated":"1263727771","smartDate":"Jan 17, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"lporter","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/lporter","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"18994127","body":"I'm trying to distort your question by stating that they are apparently same. We and the people of Omelas find happiness of many over misfortune of one justified, when it isn't. Diffusion of responsibility: the more we have, the lesser my guilt is. Probably, one difference between them and us is that we don't live off other's mishaps. We tend to find our own happiness, not the one that is granted by the God, in exchange of other's.","dateCreated":"1263728987","smartDate":"Jan 17, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"primal91","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/primal91","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"18995351","body":"The happiness of the people of Omelas is a SIMULACRUM of our happiness. The people of Omelas get their happiness from the suffering and sadness of that one little boy. Likewise, we experience happiness, many times, thanks to the suffering and misfortune of others in the world.","dateCreated":"1263743031","smartDate":"Jan 17, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"anniexbananie","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/anniexbananie","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}}],"more":0}]},{"id":"18993311","dateCreated":"1263713088","smartDate":"Jan 16, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"yura","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/yura","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/kisapenglporter2009-10.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/18993311"},"dateDigested":1532169781,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Theme: Story of an Hour","description":"I just finished reading "The Story of an Hour" but I'm having trouble grasping the theme in this story. Can anybody help me with this?","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"18994275","body":"A major theme in the story is oppression of women. When she learns that her husband has died, she repeats that she is "free."","dateCreated":"1263731472","smartDate":"Jan 17, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"jasoncho92","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/jasoncho92","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}}],"more":0}]},{"id":"18993107","dateCreated":"1263709191","smartDate":"Jan 16, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"laurenleee","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/laurenleee","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1202793136\/laurenleee-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/kisapenglporter2009-10.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/18993107"},"dateDigested":1532169781,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Synoasthesia ","description":"What exactly is this?","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"18993673","body":"1. A condition in which one type of stimulation evokes the sensation of another, as when the hearing of a sound produces the visualization of a color.
\n2. A sensation felt in one part of the body as a result of stimulus applied to another, as in referred pain.","dateCreated":"1263719522","smartDate":"Jan 17, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"sarahjang","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/sarahjang","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1222755549\/sarahjang-lg.jpg"}},{"id":"18994049","body":"But the literary definition is more the first one.
\n
\n"The scent of roses rang through the garden like a bell."
\n
\nRay Bradbury used synaethesia.","dateCreated":"1263727670","smartDate":"Jan 17, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"lporter","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/lporter","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}}],"more":0}]},{"id":"18993103","dateCreated":"1263709093","smartDate":"Jan 16, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"laurenleee","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/laurenleee","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1202793136\/laurenleee-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/kisapenglporter2009-10.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/18993103"},"dateDigested":1532169781,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"The Story of an Hour","description":"What's the meaning of this story?","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"18993313","body":"Hi Lauren,
\nthis story, in my opinion, is basically delivering the effect of happiness. At the beginning of the story, Josephine doesn't want to tell her sister about her husband's death because her sister has heart problems and she doesn't want to shock her. Yet, when her sister does find out about the death she isn't shocked, but rather happy to have found freedom and to start a new life. Nonetheless, this excitement stirs her heart disease and causes her death.
\n
\nI think the author is trying to show that happiness can be equally harmful to the heart as negative emotions.","dateCreated":"1263713215","smartDate":"Jan 16, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"yura","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/yura","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"19001057","body":"
\nThis story is like the epitome of irony. It's also not when you read it from a feminist point of view. I thought this was a story related to feminism. The want of freedom and rights was so huge that it actually was greater than the love of the husbands.","dateCreated":"1263767332","smartDate":"Jan 17, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"syclair","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/syclair","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"19009333","body":"I think the story is trying to show how people's happiness can change people's lives significantly. Typically, a wife would not be happy with her husband's death, but the character here did. So it really depends on people. I think the title was very interesting too. I would actually title it as the woman finds happiness at last! or something, but instead it was "The Story of an Hour" because her happiness only lasted for an hour ironically and unfortunately.","dateCreated":"1263807527","smartDate":"Jan 18, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"lindsaylee","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/lindsaylee","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"19037043","body":"When I read the story, I thought Chopin was trying to tell us about women and marriage. The wife is happy that her husband is dead because that means she is free from being repressed by her husband (like what syclair had mentioned). I think that the heart condition mentioned in the beginning relates to the stress and hardship she had had living with her husband. When her husband returns home safely, the wife died from her heart condition (which shows that she can no longer live under her husband). Chopin is trying to show how women felt living under men.","dateCreated":"1263885767","smartDate":"Jan 18, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"lydiak","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/lydiak","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1202793136\/lydiak-lg.jpg"}}],"more":0}]}],"more":true},"comments":[]},"http":{"code":200,"status":"OK"},"redirectUrl":null,"javascript":null,"notices":{"warning":[],"error":[],"info":[],"success":[]}}