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JC2 LITERARY EPILOGUE

A NEW SYLLABUS, A NEW HOPE

Please be seated in 6 groups

• f 5 members.

Each group should have a mix

• f at least 2 Lit classes.

JC2 LITERARY EPILOGUE

The Flow

Objectives 5 min Question Exchange 15 min Discussion + Outline 30 min Answer Exchange 10 min The Best Present 20 min

Objective 1

Make an informed personal, critical response to the text

• Break down a challenging question into

RELEVANT concerns and methods

• Construct an original THESIS that

captures the text’s purpose

Objective 2

Develop a seamless, coherent and sophisticated argument

• Write clear TOPIC SENTENCES with

the concerns / purpose / ‘why’ in mind

• Arrange them in a SEQUENCE that

builds towards your thesis

Objective 3

Analyse writers’ methods and effects relevant to the question

• For (a), select relevant methods and key

evidence with DISCRIMINATION

• For (b), identify and engage the passage

through detailed CLOSE ANALYSIS

Question Exchange

• Q1. Age - Confined relationships
• Q2. Age - Ch 31: social roles / values
• Q3. Age - Ch 14: art and culture
• Q4. All My Sons - A family’s struggles
• Q5. All My Sons - Grief and mourning
• Q6. All My Sons - Act 3: self-denial

Analysis Steps

TOPIC / TRIGGER Character, concern or method / effect? FILL IN THE GAPS Identify relevant concerns / methods. EVIDENCE Key episodes / scenes? Key lines?

Huh? Whazzat? Ahh!

Don’t panic. Use the METHODS and CONCERNS you know. Choose wisely.

Remember that Old New York, bildungsroman, idealism, social responsibility, family are never far away. Same for the ironic narrator, visions, narrative / dramatic structure, tragedy, pathos, setting...

Cheat Code Q1-2

• Q1. Society: (i) Social code that ‘denies humanity’; (ii) dull, uniform social

customs; (iii) rigid social expectations - of who to marry; (iv) surveillance and scrutiny. Relationships: (i) Archer-Ellen as ‘smothered’ by social duty and obligation; (ii) Archer-May as confined, artificial, lifeless; (iii) Beauforts / Wellands as pragmatic, convenient; (iv) not necessarily romantic relationships!

• Q2. Social roles: Archer’s marital obligation to May; to forsake the ‘wild
• ats; to relinquish his ‘freedom’; contrast to Archer’s determination to join

Ellen in Washington and Japan after. Social values: deceit, lies and the hieroglyphic world; tolerance / contempt towards philandering; Archer’s double standards; ‘habit and honour and all the old decencies that he and his people had always believed in’.

Cheat Code Q3-4

• Q3. Art: Winsett’s literary failure and the need to ‘abandon his real calling’

for reality / a wage; the role of Winsett in Archer’s development Culture: the absence of ‘old European tradition’, Old New York likened to ‘a deserted house’; Archer’s desire to ‘emigrate’ out of his ‘smaller box, with a more monotonous pattern’ for colour, art, Ellen...

• Q4. Sentimental: negation of play’s social message? Emotion and catharsis

as the centre of the play’s effects A family’s struggles: conflict and tension within the Keller household; Mother’s self-alienation, father-son tension, Larry’s ‘disappearance’ and the ruptures it causes, the strain in the Keller-Deever relation

Cheat Code Q5-6

• Q5. No triumph: Keller’s suicide as a rupture, not a resolution; Chris’s

fallibility as a hero; collective denial / guilt of the family; Deevers Grief and mourning: no easy message on social responsibility, the damage caused by Chris / Larry’s ideals, Mother’s ‘mourning’ over Larry and then Keller, denial of Larry’s death returns to haunt them; Jim and Sue as embodiments of failed idealism

• Q6. Self-denial: Jim’s emphasis on compromising on one’s own beliefs and

values; to live ‘dishonestly’ for the sake of family; parallel between Jim (good husband) and Chris (good son) drawn by Miller

ANSWER EXCHANGE

Age group to go on diplomatic mission to AMS group Build bilateral ties by paying respective dues: AMS share

JC2 LITERARY EPILOGUE

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JC2 LITERARY EPILOGUE