English Lang/Lit LPs

Independent Lesson 11: Guiding questions How is the imagination of the reader important in creating meaning?  Jeanette Winterson's work plays with the reader's imagination intentionally leaving things for the reader to latch on to without having a definitive purpose for them. You could say that it makes some point about the reader, but I'd argue that it mainly just makes the story's message more subjective and personal, allowing for people to take away what they will from a work. Can texts be influenced by the identity of the reader? And can the identity of the reader be influenced by texts? Absolutely, Deuteronomy in Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is all about how stories are incredibly subjective, I agree, who the reader is influences what they take away from a work. To the second point, I agree again, if we engage with the ideas in work it can influence us very easily. Whatever we learn from any media changes us and our ideas, exposure to any idea does the same. How ...

  INDEPENDENT LESSON 10: EXODUS QUESTIONS What are the similarities between the events of this chapter and the book of the Bible with the same name? Jeanette is an orphan, like Moses, but more importantly, there is a reference to the children of Israel leaving Egypt in Exodus. Jeanette contrasts her own feeling of being out of her comfort zone with the Israelis leaving Egypt. Jeanette frames her own life experiences through what she knows and her world up and till then, i.e. religion and the bible. Elsie Norris is an important character in the novel, what impression do you get of her on her first introduction? (p23) A bit odd, but friendly and generally a nice person. Differs from the church on a few things and tends to have her own opinions even if she is a very religious person. What does the episode with Jeanette's temporary deafness reveal about her mother and the church in general? Which members of the church are exceptions? Jeanette's mother and the church are too zealous...