Hi all,

As promised, here’s the details for the reading I mentioned in our last class.

Wednesday, May 22

erica kaufman & Simone White

8PM @ The Poetry Project

($7 for students–bring an ID)

erica kaufman is the author of the full-length poetry collection Censory Impulse (Factory School 2009). Excerpts from her long poem, INSTANT CLASSIC are available in chapbook form from Least Weasel and Belladonna*. kaufman is the co-editor of NO GENDER: Reflections on the Life and Work of kari edwards. Poetry and prose can be found in Rain Taxi, Aufgabe, Bombay Gin, Verse, The Poetry Project Newsletter, and Jacket2. kaufman prides herself as having Simone White as her BFF4E.

Simone White was born in 1972 in Middletown, Connecticut and grew up in Philadelphia. Her most recent chapbook is Unrest (Ugly Duckling Presse, Dossier Series, 2013). She is also the author of House Envy of All of the World (Factory School, 2010) and Dolly (Q Ave Press, curated by Ross Gay, with the paintings of Kim Thomas), and her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Brooklyn Rail, The Claudius App, Aufgabe and The Recluse among other places. erica kaufman is her BFF.

1) What type of attribute can we give the protagonist in the Tattooer and why? (support using text)

2) In Kafka’s the metamorphosis why is it important that we hear what the protagonist is thinking and trying to communicate?

1) In The Metamorphosis by Kafka, Who is the hero and why? Use the reading to prove your argument.

2) Why does Lu Xun end Diary of a Madman with ” Save the children” ?

1.In Drown by Junot Diaz, How does the event in the story between Yunior and Beto effect the characters moving forward?

2 If it was you in either shoes of Yunior of Beto how would you react according to your own belief and culture?

1. In The Garden of Forking Paths by Jorge Luis Borges, does the narrator, Yu Tsun believe in fate, or destiny? If so, please you evidence from the text.

2. In Drown by Junot Diaz, would you say that Yunior’s interactions with Beto were purely romantic? Please explain using evidence from the text.

1. what is your definition of a “hero”? choose one character from any of the readings and using quotes, explain what makes this character and why.

2. In “Drown”, what is Yunior drowning in and why? Use quotes to support your answer.

In “In Camera” by Nawal El Saadawi, What does author want to convey through Leila’s experience?

In “Notes of a Native Son”, do you believe James Baldwin agree with his step father’s idea of racial discrimination? What’s his idea about it?

1. In “Diary of a Madman,” what is the main issue Lu Xun wants to explore? Why does Lu Xun talk about cannibalism?
2. In The Metamorphosis, Why Kafka writes through Gregor’s point of view? How does this Gregor’s point of view affect readers’ understanding of the story?

1. In the A Room of One’s Own, Virginia woolf’s thought still apply present? why or why not? fully explain.

2. In the Metamorphosis, if Gregor were changed his body but he can speak and talk with others then the story totally different? why Kafka designed Gregor cannnot speak? fully explain.

1.How does Kincaid create conflict or tension in “Girl”?
2. What did Kafka try to express through the metamorphosis of Gregor? Explain an underlying theme within the text using quotes as support