Second Reader's Notebook Entry--DUE FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6th by 11:59 on Turnitin.com
Answer the following question in 2-3 pages:
How has your understanding of Heart of Darkness changed since you wrote your first notebook entry? Please draw from the novella, the scholarly article, and our class
discussions in your response.
This notebook falls under Category 1, option C.
Answer the following question in 2-3 pages:
How has your understanding of Heart of Darkness changed since you wrote your first notebook entry? Please draw from the novella, the scholarly article, and our class
discussions in your response.
This notebook falls under Category 1, option C.
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Guided Reading Questions for “Colonizers, Cannibals, and the Horror of Good Intentions in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness”
*NOTE: these questions are not assigned, meaning I will not be collecting your answers to them. They are only meant as a way to check if you understand the big ideas of the article. I would recommend you write down notes on each question as a means for preparing for discussion.
1. According to the author, what is the relationship between Self and Other? How are Self and Other connected to Imperialism?
2. What does the “imaginary” colonialist text do? What does the “symbolic” colonialist text do?
3. According to the author where do Heart of Darkness and Marlow fall in the two kinds of colonialist texts? (Imaginary and Symbolic)
4. According to the author, why does Marlow seem so confused all the time (why are there all those binary oppositions that get blurred)?
5. What are the author’s ideas about Marlow’s opinion on women?
6. What is the author arguing about Marlow’s accusations that the natives are cannibals? What’s the impact of that accusation?
7. What does the author think about Kurtz’s last words, “The horror, the horror”?
8. What would you say are the major points in this article?
*NOTE: these questions are not assigned, meaning I will not be collecting your answers to them. They are only meant as a way to check if you understand the big ideas of the article. I would recommend you write down notes on each question as a means for preparing for discussion.
1. According to the author, what is the relationship between Self and Other? How are Self and Other connected to Imperialism?
2. What does the “imaginary” colonialist text do? What does the “symbolic” colonialist text do?
3. According to the author where do Heart of Darkness and Marlow fall in the two kinds of colonialist texts? (Imaginary and Symbolic)
4. According to the author, why does Marlow seem so confused all the time (why are there all those binary oppositions that get blurred)?
5. What are the author’s ideas about Marlow’s opinion on women?
6. What is the author arguing about Marlow’s accusations that the natives are cannibals? What’s the impact of that accusation?
7. What does the author think about Kurtz’s last words, “The horror, the horror”?
8. What would you say are the major points in this article?
Reader’s Notebook Entry--DUE SUNDAY, FEBRUARY Ist by 11:59 PM on Turnitin.com
Use Reader Response theory to complete an entry to this book. Notebook type is Category 1, option A: “respond to the text.” Remember, Reader Response theory allows readers to do any combination of the following:
a. Connect the literature to your life
b. Connect the literature to current events
c. Discuss how the literature makes you feel
d. Compare/contrast the literature to the way you view the world
Make sure your notebook entry is text-based, focused, and analytic (meaning, it can’t read like a summary of the book; instead, have a focal point and go deep).
Use Reader Response theory to complete an entry to this book. Notebook type is Category 1, option A: “respond to the text.” Remember, Reader Response theory allows readers to do any combination of the following:
a. Connect the literature to your life
b. Connect the literature to current events
c. Discuss how the literature makes you feel
d. Compare/contrast the literature to the way you view the world
Make sure your notebook entry is text-based, focused, and analytic (meaning, it can’t read like a summary of the book; instead, have a focal point and go deep).
Discussion Prep
If you would like to take time to prepare for discussion, some of our questions will fall around the following topics or ideas:
Characterization (natives vs. Europeans)
Symbols (people and places)
Applying the Post-Colonial Lens
Women in HOD
If you would like to take time to prepare for discussion, some of our questions will fall around the following topics or ideas:
Characterization (natives vs. Europeans)
Symbols (people and places)
Applying the Post-Colonial Lens
Women in HOD