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re: Readers of the OT - Help me pick out the novel for my research paper
Posted on 8/18/22 at 10:40 am to fr33manator
Posted on 8/18/22 at 10:40 am to fr33manator
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The Jungle and Anna Karenina
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Posted on 8/18/22 at 10:42 am to jgoodw318
quote:Gotta be BRCC, yeah?
This is a English 102 level class
Posted on 8/18/22 at 10:44 am to jgoodw318
RBoC is easy, straightforward, and achievable A if you do your part
Posted on 8/18/22 at 10:48 am to jgoodw318
Slaughter House 5 is the best book on that list. But your reading list tells me you’re pretty young and it can be kind of… out there. Is having to write a book report gonna make you hate the assigned book? It would have for me when I was young.
Hemingway is great too, and a lot more straightforward.
Stay away from Great Expectations AT ALL COSTS!
Hemingway is great too, and a lot more straightforward.
Stay away from Great Expectations AT ALL COSTS!
Posted on 8/18/22 at 10:56 am to jgoodw318
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Tess of the D’Urbervilles- Thomas Hardy
Read this one and discuss how you read it in Bane-voice the whole time.
Posted on 8/18/22 at 11:05 am to jgoodw318
The Jungle. Easy read, lots of clear symbolism.
My credentials: College English professor. But definitely not yours with a book list like that.
Also, frick Virginia Woolf.
My credentials: College English professor. But definitely not yours with a book list like that.
Also, frick Virginia Woolf.
Posted on 8/18/22 at 11:05 am to thenza
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your reading list tells me you’re pretty young
You would be wrong in your assessment. I am far from young and going back to school after being out for a while. I was an idiot in my youth. Enjoyed the college part of college, not the school part - which is the reason I am now taking this course. I enjoy reading, but only about stuff that interests me. Reading the "classics" has never really been my thing. But I am doing what I can to make the grades necessary to complete my degree with a high GPA so I can get into the graduate program I am planning on attending. In order to do that in this course, I need to find a novel that would keep me interested and not turn into a slog.
Posted on 8/18/22 at 11:07 am to jgoodw318
Kite runner was quite a good read
Posted on 8/18/22 at 11:11 am to Slingscode
I'd pick the Red Badge of Courage.
Posted on 8/18/22 at 11:11 am to jgoodw318
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I need to find a novel that would keep me interested and not turn into a slog.
Then go with FWTBT or the Jungle.
Anything by a Russian author is pretty much like walking through Siberia. As Russia is vast, so are her writers.
Posted on 8/18/22 at 11:12 am to jgoodw318
quote:This. My fave classic novel to this day.
Jane Eyre- Charlotte Bronte
Posted on 8/18/22 at 11:12 am to jgoodw318
Slaughterhouse Five. No question.
Posted on 8/18/22 at 11:14 am to jgoodw318
quote:if you want to be graded on the good side of the curve for an easy A+
Readers of the OT - Help me pick out the novel for my research paper
‘The 1619 Project’
This post was edited on 8/18/22 at 11:14 am
Posted on 8/18/22 at 11:17 am to jgoodw318
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This is a English 102 level class I am not really sure what the actual research is supposed to be on as of now. I know that I am supposed to pick one of the novel's, read it before week 10, and the research paper will be based on the book.
I teach 102. Not sure if you’re at LSU or a CC. If LSU, I’d be surprised if it’s supposed to be a simple literary analysis essay. Universities are typically more focused on rhetoric and composition, which is a more broad view of how academic writing functions across the disciplines. It prepares you to be a writer as you progress through your coursework outside of the English department.
If CC, then it’s probably an essay that asks you to analyze or situate the novel in some kind of historical, socio, or theoretical context. Might have to analyze via a lens like postmodernism or something. It’s an antiquated view of composition, but it’ll help with Lit courses.
Posted on 8/18/22 at 11:26 am to jgoodw318
Posted on 8/18/22 at 11:27 am to jgoodw318
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For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
Discuss in great detail how that hack Ernie plagiarized Metallica.
Posted on 8/18/22 at 11:30 am to jgoodw318
The Kite Runner
Posted on 8/18/22 at 11:31 am to jgoodw318
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For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut Jr
Either of these
Go to the library and use the Novels for Students series - should be in the reference section (in Dewey decimal the 813s/LC PN3385) - it will help you write your paper - you may need to use other sources but those books will help you get started with themes and context and stuff like that
Posted on 8/18/22 at 11:33 am to jgoodw318
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For Whom the Bell Tolls- Ernest Hemingway
Slaughterhouse-Five- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The Bell Jar- Sylvia Plath
The Jungle- Upton Sinclair
Those would be my top four in order.
Tolls is pretty straight forward about a soldier in the Spanish Civil War (drawn from Hemmingway's experience as a reporter covering the war).
Slaughterhouse is about an American POW that survives the firebombing of Dresden (based on Vonnegut's real life experience). It has some sci-fi elements (time travel and aliens), but I have always felt these are a symbol of mental health issues from PTSD.
Bell Jar, as has already been mentioned, is a semi-autobiographical novel about the authors mental health issues.
The Jungle is often called the Uncle Tom's Cabin of wage slaves. It deals with the meat packing industry and how it uses immigrants as the employee base and keeps them in poverty, etc.
Posted on 8/18/22 at 11:35 am to jgoodw318
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The Jungle- Upton Sinclair
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