Biography
Journal
- What aspect of modern life do you see portrayed in this story?
About
- Written in 1973
- Based on the writing of William James and Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov
- Won the Locus and Hugo awards in 1974
- Originally published in New Dimensions, a science fiction anthology and then republished by Le Guin in The Wind's Twelve Quarters in 1975
Summary
Questions?
- Why do you think the characters in this story are so underwritten?
- Why is it important for them to remain nameless/faceless?
Analysis
Relations To Modern Times
- Penn St. Sex Scandel
- Lawyers who will take on any case for $$$$
- Nike/Apple/etc labor practices
Characters
Symbolism
Gender
Point of View
Irony
Ending
Adaptations
- YA novels The Giver and Matched are probably loosely based on this story
Wordle
Bibliography
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Point of view has been a major factor of discussion in a number of stories we have read (The Yellow Wallpaper,Garden of Forking Paths, The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, A Rose For Emily) so far this semester. Write a paper where you engage with how point of view influences our close reading in the course so far. How does whoa writer decides the story's point of view will be from affect what "version" of the story you hear? A side issue you might want to deal with is how narrator credibility influences how point of view affects how we close read for what an author is trying to convey in a story.
An issue we have seen a lot this semester is how "mob mentalities" play out in the various stories we have read. We have seen this in Young Goodman Brown, The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, Harrison Bergeron, A Rose For Emily, and The Yellow Wallpaper. Write a paper where you engage with the symbolic nature of mob mentalities. What is the significance of mobs in the stories? What is being conveyed symbolically by them?
An issue we have seen a lot this semester is how "mob mentalities" play out in the various stories we have read. We have seen this in Young Goodman Brown, The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, Harrison Bergeron, A Rose For Emily, and The Yellow Wallpaper. Write a paper where you engage with the symbolic nature of mob mentalities. What is the significance of mobs in the stories? What is being conveyed symbolically by them?
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